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POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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...