markup

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Markup refers to annotations to text that are not part of the core text as such, but add formatting or meaning. The most familiar is likely to be HTML which has tags such as <em> to mean "display in italics". Semantic markup ads explcit menainsg, for example microformats are HTML classes that can enable gthe text to be interpretted by a suitable program, for example:

    <span class="givenname">Alan<\span>. <span class="familyname">Alan<\span>.

Used in Chap. 17: pages 269, 277, 279, 286