A digital culture is such a vast and complex concept that often difficult to define. However, using just definition does not answer the question: what are Internet slang? To gain deeper understanding of а culture, you need understand makes as it is. It becoming increasingly clear this area can be successfully explored only through joint efforts humanitarian, social, cultural technical scientist...

The modern language of young people is characterized by expressiveness and special coloring, widely represented slang, which the most expressive form vocabulary in linguistics. That why question using slangisms society quite relevant. purpose this research work to study term determine its place system Ukrainian English lexicon, nuances formation functioning as well peculiarities translation you...

Reminiscing about his younger self: "I mean I can't very well just 86 [in American slang, to "86" is to eject, remove, or discard someone or something, J.R.N.] this guy from my life. On the other hand, if through some as yet undeveloped technology I were to run into him today, how comfortable would I feel about lending him money, or for that matter even stepping down the street to have a beer a...

This paper addresses the issue of text normalization on non-standard Italian data. We present TweetNorm1, a system which normalizes Italian tweets in a way that the amount of microblog slang and distorted text appearance is drastically reduced and the normalized output has a much cleaner and more formal style. The paper shows that with a set of fixed language-independent rules and trained rules...

This paper is a presentation of a doctoral research in progress focused on a new genre: online encyclopaedias. The introduction to Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica Online will be followed by a presentation of wiki as a new textual genre. Wikipedia analysis will focus firstly on the investigation of the “WikiLanguage”, the language used in official encyclopaedic articles. Secondly, the “Wi...

We describe the Future Technology Workshop (FTW), a method whereby people with everyday knowledge or experience in a specific area of the use of technology (such as the use of digital cameras) envision and design the interactions between current and future technology and activity. Through a series of structured workshop sessions they collaborate to envisage future activities related to technolo...

A subjective expected utility agent is given information about the state of the world in the form of a set of possible priors. She is assumed to form her beliefs given this information. A set of priors may be updated according to Bayes’rule, prior-by-prior, upon learning that some state of the world has not obtained. In a model in which information is completely summarized by this set of priors...

This paper is devoted to investigating inventory control problems under nonstationary and uncertain demand. A belief-rule-based inventory control (BRB-IC) method is developed, which can be applied in situations where demand and demand-forecast-error (DFE) do not follow certain stochastic distribution and forecasting demand is given in single-point or interval styles. The method can assist decis...