NIL Is not nothing: Recognition of Chinese network informal language expressions

• Main Authors: XIA, Yunqing, WONG, Kam-Fai, GAO, Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4604; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5607/viewcontent/I05_3013.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Informal language is actively used in network-mediated communication, e.g. chat room, BBS, email and text message. We refer the anomalous terms used in such context as network informal language (NIL) expressions. For example, “஧(ou3)” is used to replace “ᚒ(wo3)” in Chinese ICQ. Without unconventiona...