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The term “Semantics” is one of the overloaded in computer science and used in various meaning. This variety can also be observed
in database literature. In computer linguistics or web research, semantics is a component of the language which associates
words or components of a grammar with their meaning (linguistic content). In modeling and specification, semantics assigns
set-theoretic denotations to formulas in order to characterize truth. At the same time, semantics is used as the basis for
certain methods of proof (truth and proof semantics in semiotics). In programming language technology, semantics is often
used in the sense of operational semantics, i.e. consists in an interpretation of commands of a programming language by machine
operations. This widespread usage of the term “semantics” has led to very different goals, methods, and applications. Semantics
includes at the same time the interpretation of utterances, temporal, contextual, subjective and other aspects. Semantics
is either considered operationally on the basis of applications or implementations, or logically associating a database state
or a collection of database states to a truth value or pragmatically by relating utterances to the understanding of the user.
These three understandings may be mapped to each other.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2001 | 10.1007/3-540-36596-6_1 | Semantics in Databases |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
programming language,operational semantics | Programming language,Computational semantics,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Statistical semantics,Well-founded semantics,Formal semantics (linguistics),Operational semantics,Denotational semantics,Action semantics,Semantics,Database | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
3-540-00957-4 | 31 | 1.23 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Leopoldo Bertossi | 1 | 1699 | 204.01 |
Gyula O. H. Katona | 2 | 264 | 66.44 |
Klaus-dieter Schewe | 3 | 1367 | 202.78 |
Bernhard Thalheim | 4 | 1811 | 442.28 |