For more than 50 years, linguists and computer scientists have tried to get computers to understand human language by programming semantics as software, with mixed results. Enabled by ...

Researchers in Spain have developed a tool that simplifies the use of the semantic web. The new tool, called Fortunata, can be used by developers, graphic designers and end users without an in ...

It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.

Steve Lewin-Berlin, VP of Engineering and Operations for CilkArts, has written an interesting introspective post on why using serial semantics in a natively parallel programming construct is the cat’s ...

Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time?

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...

Intuitive robot programming for non-experts will be essential to increasing automation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Programming by Demonstration (PbD) is a fast and intuitive approach ...

Probabilistic Programming Language: A specialised language that integrates probability theory into its syntax and semantics, allowing for the concise specification of complex statistical models ...