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POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 24 days ago
Breaking through the normalization barrier: a self-interpreter for f-omega
According to conventional wisdom, a self-interpreter for a strongly normalizing λ-calculus is impossible. We call this the normalization barrier. The normalization barrier stems ...
Matt Brown, Jens Palsberg
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 24 days ago
Type theory in type theory using quotient inductive types
We present an internal formalisation of dependent type theory in type theory using a special case of higher inductive types from Homotopy Type Theory which we call quotient induct...
Thorsten Altenkirch, Ambrus Kaposi
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 24 days ago
Binding as sets of scopes
Our new macro expander for Racket builds on a novel approach to hygiene. Instead of basing macro expansion on variable renamings that are mediated by expansion history, our new ex...
Matthew Flatt
PADL
2016
Springer
8 years 24 days ago
From Monads to Effects and Back
The combination of monads and effects leads to a clean and easy to reason about programming paradigm. Monadic programming is easy to reason about, but can be cumbersome, as it requ...
Niki Vazou, Daan Leijen
PADL
2016
Springer
8 years 24 days ago
Computing with Catalan Families, Generically
We describe arithmetic algorithms on a canonical number representation based on the Catalan family of combinatorial objects specified as a Haskell type class. Our algorithms work ...
Paul Tarau
PADL
2016
Springer
8 years 24 days ago
Simplifying Probabilistic Programs Using Computer Algebra
We transform probabilistic programs to run more efficiently and read more easily, by composing three semantics-preserving transformations: (1) apply the denotational semantics; (2)...
Jacques Carette, Chung-chieh Shan
PADL
2016
Springer
8 years 24 days ago
The Picat-SAT Compiler
SAT has become the backbone of many software systems. In order to make full use of the power of SAT solvers, a SAT compiler must encode domain variables and constraints into an e...
Neng-Fa Zhou, Håkan Kjellerstrand
LRE
2016
8 years 25 days ago
SICK through the SemEval glasses. Lesson learned from the evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models on full sen
Abstract This paper is an extended description of SemEval-2014 Task 1, the task on the evaluation of Compositional Distributional Semantics Models on full sentences. Systems partic...
Luisa Bentivogli, Raffaella Bernardi, Marco Marell...