The Lambda Calculus. Its Syntax and Semantics Henk Barendregt
Publisher: College Publications

The main idea behind these convolutions was to produce a . Dec 1, 2008 - One of the primary motivations behind SASyLF was to produce a tool which was easier to learn, had a higher level syntax (easier to read) and which gave more helpful error messages than Twelf. [13] The phrase "syntactic sugar" was also coined by Landin in 1964 to describe the surface syntax of A Programming Language (APL) which was defined semantically in terms of the applicative expressions of lambda calculus. €�Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs” by Ravi Sethi. May 6, 2013 - It allowed him to clarify his ideas about programming semantics and led to the publication of "The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions" in 1964, which showed how to translate programs into lambda calculus and defined the SECD . Apr 21, 2009 - Making this work was one of the deep insights that made a recursive syntax-semantics interface possible, because the you don't have different semantic types for things that are the same syntactic type. Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial It has a completely transparent interface between surface syntax and underlying semantic representation, including predicate-argument structure, quantification and information structure. This allows a string This allows a string diagram notation for lambda calculus that is much closer to the syntactical description than the stuff in our Rosetta Stone paper. Lambda calculus isn't much more complicated than what I showed, but it does require more than just an application context rule in its evaluation semantics. Jan 25, 2009 - I hit on the idea of making lambda a node in a string diagram, where its inputs are an antivariable and a term in which the variable is free, and its output is the same term, but in which the variable is bound. Nov 25, 2011 - Scheme has become the basis for a rich tradition of exploration into the semantics of computation, supported by the regularity of its syntax and its mechanisms for extensibility [5]. CCG relies on combinatory logic, which has the same expressive power as the lambda calculus, but builds its expressions differently. Mar 25, 2014 - Syntax describes the valid sentences of the language and how they can be constructed;; Semantics describes what those sentences are supposed to mean. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Oct 9, 2013 - I thought you might draw the arc from Lambda calculus (indeed, Church) through its variant Combinatory Logic (Schonfinkel 1924 and Haskell Curry 1927 are I guess who you have in mind in the 1920's, also perhaps Polish notation Lukasiewicz 1924) to Categorial Grammar (Lambek) to Montague to yourself and to NZ's own Max Cresswell who pretty much re-introduced lambda calculus 'undiluted' in NL semantics. €�The Lambda Calculus: Its Syntax and Semantics” by H. Aug 5, 2013 - Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars. Feb 1, 2001 - “Essentials of Programming Languages” by Daniel P.