Online ‘chat’ facilities as pedagogic tools

Co-text Loss in Textual Chat Tools

The research presented in this article investigates a problem related to the lack of understanding of messages exchanged during chat sessions. There is confusion in the majority of the textual chat tools when various people converse at the same time. Sometimes a participant does not identify the relationship of a new message with a previous one, and is unable to establish a conversation thread—...

Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat

This chapter examines the defining linguistic innovations and social motivations for one of the most popular modes of computer mediated communication: the online chat. Due to its nature of being largely synchronous, anonymous, and mainly text-based, online chat offers a social interactional environment where people can experience the feeling of making new friends or acquaintances, psychological...

Automated Speech Act Classification For Online Chat

In this paper, we present our investigation on using supervised machine learning methods to automatically classify online chat posts into speech act categories, which are semantic categories indicating speakers’ intentions. Supervised machine learning methods presuppose the existence of annotated training data based on which machine learning algorithms can be used to learn the parameters of som...

Insects as Educational Tools: An Online Course Teaching the Use of Insects as Instructional Tools

Offline Social Identity and Online Chat Partner Selection Article (accepted Version) (refereed) Social Identity and Chat Partner Selection Offline Social Identity and Online Chat Partner Selection

This study examines whether the impact of offline identities on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is stable across different social contexts or whether it depends on which identity aspect is salient. Field experiments with 206 teenagers tested the influence of gendered, ethnic, youth and personalized identities on teenagers’ chat behavior and cognitions. The findings show that offline ident...