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W3C Emotion Markup Language - EmotionML

W3C has published the first public working draft of the Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML).
 
Emotion Markup Language is a language meant to express emotions in three main ways in today’s computer-based communication:
  • annotating data,
  • the recognition of emotional-based states, and
  • generating emotion-related system behavior.

According to the language authors, EmotionML can have applications in various fields like:

  • Opinion mining / sentiment analysis in Web 2.0, to automatically track customer's attitude regarding a product across blogs;
  • Affective monitoring, such as ambient assisted living applications for the elderly, fear detection for surveillance purposes, or using wearable sensors to test customer satisfaction;
  • Character design and control for games and virtual worlds;
  • Social robots, such as guide robots engaging with visitors;
  • Expressive speech synthesis, generating synthetic speech with different emotions, such as happy or sad, friendly or apologetic;
  • Emotion recognition (e.g., for spotting angry customers in speech dialog systems);
  • Support for people with disabilities, such as educational programs for people with autism.
Some examples here:

What is Functional Programming?

What is Functional Programming?

If you have been writing code for a long time with an object-oriented language (such as Java or C#) it may be difficult to imagine a different way to approach programming. Functional programming does just that. At the heart of functional programming is a new way to address a software problem- by focusing on the function decomposition of the algorithm(s). With functional programming, functions are first class citizens. If you come from the Java world, you can already appreciate the difference. In Java, the only way to express a method is as a component of a class.

Although a recent uptick in special purpose languages has gotten all the attention, functional programming is a technique and not necessarily a language. It is possible to write in a functional way with a general purpose or object-oriented language (in a later section we examine a functional example written in C#). Although it is possible, for anything significant, the lack of expressiveness quickly becomes apparent and anti-patterns start to crop up. Imagine trying to write an object-oriented program of any significant size using Java without the keywords extend or implements. These difficulties naturally lead to the need for a new language; a functional language.

via java.dzone.com

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