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ACL
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Spontaneous Lexicon Change
The paper argues that language change can be explained through the stochasticity observed in real-world natural language use. This thesis is demonstrated by modeling language use ...
Luc Steels, Frédéric Kaplan
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
15 years 8 months ago
New Frontiers Beyond Context-Freeness: DI-Grammars And DI-Automata
A new class of formal languages will be defined the Distributed Index Languages (DI-languages). The grammar-formalism generating the new class - the DI-grammars - cover unbound de...
Peter Staudacher
ICFP
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Fortifying macros
Existing macro systems force programmers to make a choice between clarity of specification and robustness. If they choose clarity, they must forgo validating significant parts of ...
Ryan Culpepper, Matthias Felleisen
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MST
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Selection Functions that Do Not Preserve Normality
The sequence selected from a sequence R(0)R(1) . . . by a language L is the subsequence of R that contains exactly the bits R(n + 1) such that the prefix R(0) . . . R(n) is in L. B...
Wolfgang Merkle, Jan Reimann
TOPLAS
2008
79views more  TOPLAS 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
Witnessing side effects
We present a new approach to the old problem of adding side effects to purely functional languages. Our idea is to extend the language with "witnesses," which is based o...
Tachio Terauchi, Alex Aiken