Mobile or SMS spam is a real and growing problem primarily due to the availability of very
cheap bulk pre-pay SMS packages and the fact that SMS engenders higher response rates …

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks
covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning …

Human civilizations have performed the art of writing across continents and over different
time periods. In order to speed up the writing process, the art of shorthand (brachygraphy) …

Discourse is one of the most significant concepts of contemporary thinking in the humanities
and social sciences as it concerns the ways language mediates and shapes our interactions …

This thesis reports a study using a corpus of text messages in English (CorTxt) to explore
linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the …

Abstract Short Message Service (SMS) messages are short messages sent from one person
to another from their mobile phones. They represent a means of personal communication …

Electronic written texts used in computermediated interactions (e-mails, blogs, chats, etc)
present major deviations from the norm of the language. This paper presents an …

Cell phone text messaging users express themselves briefly and colloquially using a variety
of creative forms. We analyze a sample of creative, non-standard text message word forms …

In recent years, research in natural language processing has increasingly focused on
normalizing SMS messages. Different well-defined approaches have been proposed, but …

Author profiling is the identification of demographic features of an author by examining his
written text. Recently, it has attracted the attention of research community due to it's potential …