The “little languages” approach to systems programming is flawed: inefficient, fragile, error-prone, inexpressive, and difficult to compose. A better solution is to embed task-specific sublanguages within a powerful, syntactically extensible, universal language, such as Scheme. I demonstrate two such embeddings that have been implemented in scsh, a Scheme programming environment for Unix system...

promising option for interface development because they allow us to draw on communication and interaction styles with which humans are already familiar. In this contribution, we revisit some of our past and ongoing projects to motivate an evolution of character-based presentation systems. This evolution starts from systems in which a character presents information content in the style of a TV p...

When building a linked-data dataset for humans and machines, a range of issues emerges. In this paper we discuss our findings regarding the implementation of riese (http://riese.joanneum.at), the RDFized and interlinked version of the Eurostat data. The contribution of our work is twofold: On the one hand we propose a new way of creating semantic links, labelled as User Contributed Interlinking...

state. • Action values are used to create a script prior to an episode. • Actions are selected in priority order first, action value second, from the

Using the SIOC explorer The entry page shows a list of SIOC forums in the database. In terms of SIOC each collection of posts is called a “forum”. After selecting a forum, a list of post excerpts is shown in the main column. The user can expand a specific post in order to see the full content and comments. The user can then browse posts by author or by topic or by period of time across all foru...