In programming, the two key concepts often surface when discussing the quality and functionality of code are syntax and semantics. While syntax refers to the structure and rules that code must adhere ...

Abstract: Human language is expressive because it is compositional: The meaning of a sentence (semantics) can be inferred from its structure (syntax). It is commonly believed that language syntax and ...

We saw that we can represent the syntax of a program as an abstract syntax tree (AST), an algebraic data type that reflects the shape of the program. Syntax is, for our purposes, the "easy" part of ...

Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Nov., 1990), pp. 429-451 (23 pages) Recently several philosophers of science have proposed what has come to be known as the semantic account of ...

Abstract: Building an abstract syntax tree is an integral part of compilers. We analyze a few of the popular techniques providing such analysis in the web environment. Based on the analysis of these ...

1 School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China 2 School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China ...

Though Chinese and English legislative language share similarities in certain aspects, they contrast most sharply in their syntactic structures and representations, owing to a number of social, ...