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cyberguy

Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:21 pm


What Is Semantic Analysis?

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SEMANTIC ANALYSIS? is it where it check the meanings of syntactically organized  tokens?


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DemonWasp

Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:12 pm


RE:What Is Semantic Analysis?

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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis]Semantic Analysis has several different meanings. They all boil down to determining meaning (semantics) from inputs.


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btiffin

Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:19 pm


Re: What Is Semantic Analysis?

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Quick example: 

minus (-).

Does it mean unary minus -X, or binary minus, A - B when encountered?  Or do the semantics go to a much higher level and A - B kicks off a huge matrix equation?  Or perhaps it - acts as a marker in a regex range expression?

The semantics of - is actually kinda mind boggling.  ;)  The lexical analysis for - is pretty easy.  It looks like -, minus.

Cheers


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cwarrior

Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:40 am


RE:What Is Semantic Analysis?

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I think it means Analyzing people from the Middle East specially Jews.


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apomb

Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:18 am


RE:What Is Semantic Analysis?

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that last comment was neither helpful, funny, or appropriate. 

Semantic analysis with respect to computer science usually deals with parsers and compilers, such as [url=http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?p=195183#195183]this parser written by our own md. 

I came across the definition for semantic analysis while looking up exactly what a parser does while trying to understand md's post. :P