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ACTION SEMANTICS

Peter D. Mosses (editor, Peter D. Mosses (editor · 1994

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Action Semantics Proceedings

Peter D. Mosses, David A. Watt · 1999

Reproduction of all or part of this work is permitted for educational or research use on condition that this copyright notice is included in any copy. See back inner page for a list of recent BRICS Notes Series publications. Copies may be obtained by contacting: BRICS

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Action Semantics Modulate Action Prediction

Anne Springer, Wolfgang Prinz · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 2010

Previous studies have demonstrated that action prediction involves an internal action simulation that runs time-locked to the real action. The present study replicates and extends these findings by indicating a real-time simulation process (Graf et al., 2007), which can be differentiated from a similarity-based evaluation of internal action representations. Moreover, results showed that action semantics modulate action prediction accuracy. The semantic effect was specified by the processing of action verbs and concrete nouns (Experiment 1) and, more specifically, by the dynamics described by action verbs (Experiment 2) and the speed described by the verbs (e.g., "to catch" vs. "to grasp" vs. "to stretch"; Experiment 3). These results propose a linkage between action simulation and action semantics as two yet unrelated domains, a view that coincides with a recent notion of a close link between motor processes and the understanding of action language.

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AD Action Semantics

Peter D. Mosses · 1992

The specified action semantics for AD constructs does not always correspond exactly to the semantics described in the ADA Reference Manual. For instance, parameter passing modes are left implementation-dependent in ADA, but not in AD.

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Semantics in Action

Evelyne Viegas, Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg et al. · Text, speech and language technology · 1999

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Action semantics in PurposeNet

P. Kiran Mayee, Rajeev Sangal, Soma Paul · 2011

PurposeNet is a semantic network of artifacts and actions related to artifacts. Since man tends to classify objects and artifacts around him in terms of some primary purpose attributed to them, purpose is taken as an organizing principle for the knowledge base. Actions play a pivotal role in describing artifacts. All processes that describe an artifact, namely, its creation, utilization, maintenance, repair and so on are describable through actions. Therefore, a schema of ‘action semantics’ has been made a constituent part of PurposeNet. This paper presents the architecture of action ontology and significance of the design. Action ontology has three major components: a) semantic roles which describe the action; b) ‘precondition’, a set of criteria to be fulfilled for any action to take place and ‘post-condition’, effect of the action; c) sub-actions, a set of actions which when performed in some order - sequential or parallel lead to the action being executed.

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Unified Algebras and Action Semantics

Peter D. Mosses · DAIMI Report Series · 1988

The recently-developed framework of Unified Algebras is intended for axiomatic specification of abstract data types. In contrast, the somewhat older framework of Action Semantics (earlier known as ''Abstract Semantic Algebras'') is for denotational specification of programming languages. This paper gives an introduction to the main features of Unified Algebras and Action Semantics, and discusses the relation between them. The two frameworks both exploit nondeterministic choice in unconventional ways.

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Action Semantics in Smart Objects

Tolga Abacı, Ján Cı́ger, Daniël Thalmann · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 2005

We present a method of formal description of the action semantics in smart objects. Smart objects were primarily used for behavioral animation in the past. We demonstrate, how a formally described semantics can be used for action planning purposes by intelligent agents trying to achieve a goal. The described approach also reduces the complexity of common planning approaches by reducing the amount of information the agent has to process.

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An Introduction to Action Semantics

Peter D. Mosses · DAIMI Report Series · 1991

<p>Formal semantics is a topic of major importance in the study of programming languages. Its applications include documenting language design, establishing standards for implementations, reasoning about programs, and generating compilers.</p><p> </p><p>These notes introduce <em>action semantics</em>, a recently-developed framework for formal semantics. The primary aim of action semantics is to allow <em>useful</em> semantic descriptions of <em>realistic</em> programming languages.</p>

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