Twitter has become the de facto information sharing and communication platform. Given the factors that influence language on Twitter – size limitation as well as communication and content-sharing mechanisms – there is a continuing debate about the position of Twitter’s language in the spectrum of language on various established mediums. These include SMS and chat on the one hand (size limitatio...

Dialectal Arabic (DA) is significantly different from the Arabic language taught in schools and used in written communication and formal speech (broadcast news, religion, politics, etc.). There are many existing researches in the field of Arabic language Sentiment Analysis (SA); however, they are generally restricted to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or some dialects of economic or political inte...

This paper reports on the utilization of synchronous information and communication technologies (ICT) in the delivery of distance education at the two largest public universities in Uganda. This was an exploratory descriptive survey that aimed at establishing the emerging issues in the utilization. Applying Peter’s theory of industrialization of distance education and Moore’s theory of transact...

An important yet largely unexplored area in HCI is how gender affects trust development and performance in virtual settings. This proposed study aims to investigate whether providing social chat activities to collaborators in a social dilemma game before they collaborate via remote text chat can support trust development and performance among remote team members. This study will provide an unde...

Multi-party chat is a standard feature of popular online games and is increasingly available in collaborative learning environments, including epistemic games. However, little is known about the linguistic qualities of group conversation, especially regarding modality of communication. This paper addresses the differences between spoken and typed conversations as high school students interacted...

Generating language that reflects the temporal organization of represented knowledge requires a language generation model chat integrates contemporary theories of tense and aspect , temporal representations, and methods to plan text This paper presents a mode) that produces complex sentences that reflect temporal relations present in underlying temporal concepts The mam result of this work is t...

Scientists are ideally placed to inform, inspire and empower others in science, thus contribute towards the formation of a scientifically informed society. Despite increasing emphasis on scientists engaging Public Engagement Science, there is not enough structured spaces for practice. Social-distancing policies incurred by COVID-19 crisis have forced many PES programmes move online, incurring f...

This chapter presents a systematics of chat interaction. Online chats are advantageous sites for examining the organization of social interaction as achieved through computer-mediated communication. Chats differ from talk-in-interaction since the composition and visual inspection of text and graphical objects by any given actor is not observable by other participants. These structural constrain...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...

The CoMeRe project aims to build a kernel corpus of different computer-mediated communication (CMC) genres with interactions in French as the main language, by assembling interactions stemming from networks such as the Internet or telecommunications, as well as mono and multimodal, and synchronous and asynchronous communications. Corpora are assembled using a standard, thanks to the Text Encodi...