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—...

The Internet has been utilized in several real life aspects such as online searching, distance learning, and chatting. On the other hand, the Internet has been misused in communication of crime related matters. Monitoring of such communication would aid in crime detection or even crime prevention. This paper presents a text categorization approach for automatic monitoring of chat conversations ...

From the start, I was never entirely sold on the idea of Chat Circles. I very much liked how the user's avatar was a circle on the visualization plane, and how it changed to match the users activity. However, immediately my concern turned to people abusing this fact. From the looks of the prototype pictures, players chat will be displayed inside their circle. What is to stop a user from spammin...

We attack the problem of topic segmentation in the domain of Internet Relay Chat logs. In this process, we examine the previous work in text segmentation using a variety of methods. After considering the pros and cons of the methods, we employ Text Tiling, pause detection, and latent semantic analysis because they did not require the usage of large pre-tagged corpora. With these systems in plac...

The lack of visibility in text-based chat can hinder communication, especially when nonverbal cues are instrumental to the production and understanding of messages. However, communicating rich nonverbal cues such as facial expressions may be technologically more costly (e.g., demand of bandwidth for video streaming) and socially less desirable (e.g., disclosing other personal and context inform...

Situated at the crossroads of computational politics and intellectual history, article abstracted here interrogates Chat-Hi:, prototype an interactive art installation using a natural language processing model trained on large database speeches by Indian prime ministers since 1946. Machine learning (ML)–powered, Chat-Hi: generates analytically intelligible answers to viewers’ questions, such as...

This paper describes a module for the prediction of emotions in text chats in Spanish, oriented to its use in specific-domain text-to-speech systems. A general overview of the system is given, and the results of some evaluations carried out with two corpora of real chat messages are described. These results seem to indicate that this system offers a performance similar to other systems describe...