Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, suggest that instant messaging represents “an expansive new linguistic renaissance” (story from New Scientist.)
We’ve tried seeding YooName with a list of well-known internet slang expressions such as: LOL, brb, and OMG.
YooName found 993 pages on the Internet containing lexicon (or structured repository) of Internet slang, and it collected a list of 1,718 unique expressions. Interestingly, more than a quarter of these expressions are ambiguous with other categories of words, for example brb (be right back) is also a tickers symbol, lol (laugh out loud) is a place in Papua New Guinea, and asap (as soon as possible) is also the name of a company.
We’ve updated YooName lexicon and rule system to recognize and annotate Internet slang… but because of its high ambiguity and unconventional syntax, it is very difficult to pwn!
Tags: IM, Instant messaging, Language, slang
June 1, 2008 at 3:32 pm |
Kewl!
June 1, 2008 at 5:10 pm |
<?xml version=”1.0″>
<YooName>
<ENAMEX TYPE=”misc:internet_slang”>kewl</ENAMEX>!
</YooName>
funny :)