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Explores music semantics, discussing inferences triggered by different musical elements and proposing a framework for understanding music's meaning.

Lambda Calculus and Type Safety: An Overview

Provides an overview of lambda calculus, type safety, and type inference in programming languages.

Introduction to NLP and the Course

Covers the basics of Natural Language Processing, including challenges, linguistic processing levels, and the impact of power laws.

Semantics in Computer Language Processing: Understanding Meaning

Covers the semantics of programming languages, focusing on the Add language and the role of rewriting rules and CK machines in understanding meaning.

Lexical Semantics

Explores lexical semantics, word sense, semantic relations, and WordNet, highlighting applications in language engineering and information retrieval.

Hoare Logic: Foundations and Applications

Covers Hoare Logic, its foundations, applications, and significance in program verification.

Second Order Logic: WS1S and HOL

Explores Second Order Logic, WS1S, HOL, decision procedures, atomic and composite formulas, and the combination of WS1S with MONA in HOL.

Type Rules: Progress and Preservation

Covers Amyli, a tiny functional language, type rules, and soundness.

Foundations of Software

Covers the basics of induction, syntax, abstract vs. concrete syntax, and operational semantics for Booleans.

Type Checking Lab

Focuses on implementing a type checker for Amy, covering name and type analysis, typing constraints generation, and the importance of type checking in compilation.

Regular Expressions: Basics and Applications

Introduces regular expressions, covering language sets, syntax, semantics, and limitations.

Concurrency Semantics and Verification

Explores concurrency semantics, recursive functions, loops, interleaving modeling, and interpreter verification.

Monotonicity and Semantics of Local Variables

Explores properties of relations, monotonicity, semantics of local variables, and translation in programs.

Arrays: Assignment and Comparison

Covers the semantics of array assignment and comparison in Java.

Lambda Calculus: Church Numerals

Explores Church numerals, Booleans, pairs, recursion, and behavioral equivalence in Lambda Calculus.

Omega Continuity: Galois Connection and AI Recipe

Explores Tarski's fixed point theorem, omega continuity, Galois connection, and abstract interpretation concepts.

Relational Semantics of Loops

Explores the relational semantics of loops in programs and the mathematical interpretation of loop structures.

Operational Semantics: Amyli Language

Covers the Amyli language, including abstract syntax, program representation, and operational semantics.

Loop Semantics Example

Explores loop semantics, demonstrating how to systematically compute the meaning of a while loop.

Knowledge Representation: Semantics and Data Structures

Explores knowledge representation, data structures, semantics, and the challenges of searching for data on the web.