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

• Main Authors: XIA, Yunqing, WONG, GAO, Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4642; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5645/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, “偶(ou3)” is used to replace “我(wo3)” in Chinese ICQ. Without unconventiona...