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The Next 700 Semantics: A Research Challenge

Authors Shriram Krishnamurthi , Benjamin S. Lerner, Liam Elberty

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Shriram Krishnamurthi
  • Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Benjamin S. Lerner
  • Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Liam Elberty
  • Unaffiliated

Funding

This work was partially supported by the US National Science Foundation and Brown University while all authors were at Brown University.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Eugene Charniak and Kevin Knight for useful conversations. The reviewers provided useful feedback that improved the presentation.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi, Benjamin S. Lerner, and Liam Elberty. The Next 700 Semantics: A Research Challenge. In 3rd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 136, pp. 9:1-9:14, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2019.9

Abstract

Modern systems consist of large numbers of languages, frameworks, libraries, APIs, and more. Each has characteristic behavior and data. Capturing these in semantics is valuable not only for understanding them but also essential for formal treatment (such as proofs). Unfortunately, most of these systems are defined primarily through implementations, which means the semantics needs to be learned. We describe the problem of learning a semantics, provide a structuring process that is of potential value, and also outline our failed attempts at achieving this so far.

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  • Software and its engineering → General programming languages
  • Software and its engineering → Language features
  • Software and its engineering → Semantics
  • Software and its engineering → Formal language definitions
Keywords
  • Programming languages
  • desugaring
  • semantics
  • testing

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