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- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- To: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:07:13 +0000
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> In a computing context, I've always taken 'semantics' to refer to everything 'above' the level of 'syntax', in a cheerfully hand-waving way.
>
Indeed, one the problems here is that the word has been used by computer scientists in a way that's completely different from its use in linguistics - and in the XML community, people are as likely to be linguists (linguisticists?) as computer scientists.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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