The first section of this article describes denotational semantics developed within this framework followed by a more general computational framework.

The FictionBook format does not specify the appearance of a document; instead, it describes its structure and semantics.

SAIF is a way of thinking about producing specifications that explicitly describe the governance, conformance, compliance, and behavioral semantics that are needed to achieve computable semantic working interoperability.

Web Ontology Language (OWL) extends RDFS by adding more advanced constructs to describe semantics of RDF statements.

Generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) is a framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages.

In metadata, a data element definition is a human readable phrase or sentence associated with a data element within a data dictionary that describes the meaning or semantics of a data element.

The licensing of these interpreter and compiler programs, together with appropriate documentation describing the syntax, semantics and use of the language, is the method by which financial reward is usually sought.

Thinking in terms of automata (steps and states) can also be used to describe semantics of some programming languages.

Linguistics Markup Language (LGML) is an XML-based framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages.

Besides describing the syntax and semantics of SQLJ, which are typically given relative to JDBC, the standard also describes mechanisms to ensure binary portability of SQLJ applications, and specifies various Java packages and their contained classes.