Bracmat Programming Language Guide

97 Pages·2019·0.836 MB·

by  Bart Jongejan

Bracmat
A guided tour
Bart Jongejan
2013
The name
Applications
Core Methods
Why Bracmat?
Code examples
Documentation
Development
Download
Finale
Bracmat
(brachiat. – w. branches)
1741
Country on planet Nazar, inhabited by juniper
trees with good facilities for astronomy,
transcendental philosophy and mining.
Niels Klim, by Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754).
2013
Software for analysis and transformation of
uncharted and complex data.
Examples of Applications
HTML cleaning
validation of text corpora
extraction of tabular data from text
semantic analysis of text
automatic workflow creation
computer algebra
investigation of email chains
HTML cleaning
ensure standard header and footer
check links
add closing tags
warn if element not allowed in context
remove or translate disallowed attributes
translate deprecated elements (font, center)
remove redundant elements (small big)
Validation of text corpora
Dutch corpora (the Netherlands/Flanders):
CGN(2006), MWE (2007), D-COI (2008),
DPC (2010), Lassi (2011), SoNaR (2012)
XML wellformedness, tag usage, sampling,
visualisation for manual tasks, statistics,
tabular parts of reports.
Data extraction from text

Semantic analysis
"Skal jeg tisse mere af diabetes?"
(“Do I have to urinate more because of diabetes?”)
First: tokenizer, tagger (opennlp), parser
(mate-tools)
Then: using patterns, find relation and
concepts in parse tree. Result:
Polyuri DUE TO diabetes mellitus
Automatic Workflow Creation