In general, the semantics of the Scala.js language are the same as Scala on the JVM. However, a few differences exist, which we mention here. Primitive data types All primitive data types work exactly as on the JVM, with the following three exceptions. Floats can behave as Doubles by default Scala.js underspecifies the behavior of Floats by default. Any Float value can be stored…
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If you are using headings (h1 to h6), you are already using something that could be called implicit sections . The outlines of the following two markup examples semantically identical: Example 1: My cool site … My cool article … … Example 2: … … … So in this very case it wouldn t matter if you explicitly add section or not: the outline (the semantic structure) would be the…
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Let’s describe some common document structures and convert them to HTML5: A weblog article In HTML4 we’d probably wrap the article in etc. Obviously we should use instead in HTML5. Title Content… A long article with subsections (like a thesis) Article Title Section Section Section Again the article would generally be wrapped in a in HTML4, and the subsections would only be…
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Semantics is the study of meaning. There are two types of meaning: conceptual meaning and associative meaning. The conceptual meaning of the word sea is something that is large, filled with saltwater, and so on. This meaning is true for everyone. The associative meaning might be pirates, shipwreck, storms, battle and so on. These associations vary from person to person. The…
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Nearly every web designer is guilty of forcing line breaks, creating tables that don t hold tabular data, and a host of other egregious HTML sins. Now that CSS is around, Molly E. Holzschlag slaps our hands and explains why we should pay attention to each element s content, not just its looks. Surely by now you ve heard or seen the term semantics being bandied about by web…
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A research initiative of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The main aim of the EoSS project is to investigate how meanings vary over space and change over time. We focus on different kinds of categories: containers (kinds of objects), colour (attributes of objects), body parts (parts of objects), and spatial relations (how objects are related to one another)…
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Taking a new approach to medieval art, Meaning in Motion reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the physical movement of objects and viewers, as well as movements of the mind, this richly illustrated collection of interdisciplinary essays explores a wide range…
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Generally speaking, in lock-free programming, there are two ways in which threads can manipulate shared memory: They can compete with each other for a resource, or they can pass information co-operatively from one thread to another. Acquire and release semantics are crucial for the latter: reliable passing of information between threads. In fact, I would venture to guess that…
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Michael Silverstein Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 1 (1972) : 349 -382 Charles Clifton, Jr. and Susan A. Duffy Annual Review of Psychology Vol. 52 (2001) : 167 -196 S Steele Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 18 (1989) : 157 -175 A K Farmer Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 14 (1985) : 25 -48 S Chung Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 16 (1987) : 179 -196 M Aronoff Annual…
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How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour, such as systemic functional…
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Phil 33401, A02—Lecture 3 notes Is Semantics Possible? I. Putnam’s criticism of traditional semantics I will begin with a discussion of Putnam’s view of the semantics of natural-kind terms, and then talk about how it bears on externalism, the latter not explicitly addressed in this paper. Putnam says a lot about the semantics of natural-kind terms—I’ll only discuss the important…
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Learn the framework. Do all the practice exam papers you can to help with timing Do the groupings answer after you have done the Power/Gender/Technology question Go through each text, noting which possible groups the text will fit in to and what linguistic features related to the groups are present. Plan your answer in a table Texts Groups Similar Linguistic Features Differences…
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The conventional linguistic theory only considers syntactic analyses. In this approach, the comprehension of syntactic elements obtained in the analysis process and their composed semantics as a whole for the sentence are overlooked. This may work to some extent for human comprehension of simple sentences. However, it is not only an incomplete process for human readers to deal…
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The term semantic pragmatic disorder has been around for nearly l5 years. Originally it was only used to describe children who were not autistic. Features it includes are:- delayed language development learning to talk by memorising phrases, instead of putting words together freely repeating phrases out of context, especially snippets remembered from television programmes…
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Without doubt you have noticed evidence of the widespread interest of teachers in general semantics. It is indicated by the number of articles appearing in professional journals, the frequent references to it in textbooks, and the popularity of lectures and of courses dealing with the subject. Successful teachers have always applied the principles of general semantics in their…
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Unfortunately, like all of the talks at Going Native 2013, it was constrained by a very tight time schedule. Fortunately for us, though, Sean Parent gave a much more thorough talk last year at C++Now called Value Semantics and Concepts-based Polymorphism. It covers the same material and will probably answer your questions. I ll take a shot at explaining anyway. Introduction…
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I will give to my business plan the same respect that merits Internet Explorer the Sixth Clojure. Node.js. PHP. Catalyst. Regex. Selenium. Javascript. LevelDB. Over the last few months, we’ve been hacking at will and having a blast. What’s more, we’ve been taking calls at strange hours from people all over the world, from Africa to Eastern Europe and Australia. Better still…
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Say the words semi-structured data and almost every technologist you talk to will think XML and not RDF. Tell one about RDF vs. XML and he ll reply, Why do I need something else? I already have XML for that! However, as a growing Semantic Web technology expert, you will patiently smirk and know that XML is simply not a substitute for RDF, and that it is very poorly…
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