Sémantique formelleEn linguistique, la sémantique formelle cherche à comprendre le sens (linguistique) en construisant des modèles mathématiques précis des principes utilisés par le locuteur pour définir la relation entre des expressions en langage naturel et l’environnement supportant un discours faisant sens. Les outils mathématiques utilisés sont une combinaison de logique mathématique et de langage formel théorique, plus particulièrement de lambda-calcul typé.
Concurrency (computer science)In computer science, concurrency is the ability of different parts or units of a program, algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the outcome. This allows for parallel execution of the concurrent units, which can significantly improve overall speed of the execution in multi-processor and multi-core systems. In more technical terms, concurrency refers to the decomposability of a program, algorithm, or problem into order-independent or partially-ordered components or units of computation.
Electronic system-level design and verificationElectronic system level (ESL) design and verification is an electronic design methodology, focused on higher abstraction level concerns. The term Electronic System Level or ESL Design was first defined by Gartner Dataquest, an EDA-industry-analysis firm, on February 1, 2001. It is defined in ESL Design and Verification as: "the utilization of appropriate abstractions in order to increase comprehension about a system, and to enhance the probability of a successful implementation of functionality in a cost-effective manner.
Programmation concurrenteLa programmation concurrente est un paradigme de programmation tenant compte, dans un programme, de l'existence de plusieurs piles sémantiques qui peuvent être appelées threads, processus ou tâches. Elles sont matérialisées en machine par une pile d'exécution et un ensemble de données privées. La concurrence est indispensable lorsque l'on souhaite écrire des programmes interagissant avec le monde réel (qui est concurrent) ou tirant parti de multiples unités centrales (couplées, comme dans un système multiprocesseurs, ou distribuées, éventuellement en grille ou en grappe).
Knowledge-based systemsA knowledge-based system (KBS) is a computer program that reasons and uses a knowledge base to solve complex problems. The term is broad and refers to many different kinds of systems. The one common theme that unites all knowledge based systems is an attempt to represent knowledge explicitly and a reasoning system that allows it to derive new knowledge. Thus, a knowledge-based system has two distinguishing features: a knowledge base and an inference engine.
Statistical semanticsIn linguistics, statistical semantics applies the methods of statistics to the problem of determining the meaning of words or phrases, ideally through unsupervised learning, to a degree of precision at least sufficient for the purpose of information retrieval. The term statistical semantics was first used by Warren Weaver in his well-known paper on machine translation. He argued that word sense disambiguation for machine translation should be based on the co-occurrence frequency of the context words near a given target word.
