The concept of theme and rheme we want to propose in this paper is pragmatic in two senses of the wordz the theme/ theme structure (TRS) is viewed as a strategy of communication and thus belongs to pra~natics, and it seems to offer a pragmatic solution for a problem of machine translation. The starting-point of our considerations is defined by several arEuments claiming the ne@essity to preserv...

We present an approach (and a corresponding system design) for supporting regionally bound hybrid learning communities (i.e., communities which combine traditional face-to-face elements with web based media such as online community platforms, e-mail and SMS newsletters). The goal of the example community used to illustrate the approach was to support and motivate (especially hard-to-reach under...

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We describe a broadcast scheduling system developed for a precision marketing firm specialized in location-sensitive permission-based mobile advertising using SMS (Short Message Service) text messaging. Text messages containing advertisements were sent to registered customers when they were shopping in one of two shopping centers in the vicinity of London. The ads typically contained a limited-...

The technological advances in smartphones and their widespread use has resulted in the big volume and varied types of mobile data which we have today. Location prediction through mobile data mining leverages such big data in applications such as traffic planning, location-based advertising, intelligent resource allocation; as well as in recommender services including the very popular Apple Siri...

In this paper, we propose a method for aligning text messages (entitled AlignSMS) in order to automatically build an SMS dictionary. An extract of 100 text messages from the 88milSMS corpus (Panckhurst el al., 2013, 2014) was used as an initial test. More than 90,000 authentic text messages in French were collected from the general public by a group of academics in the south of France in the co...

Finding ways to downscale microfinance is one of the current challenges facing commercial banks, especially in developing countries. As banks have a poor knowledge of microfinance, operating in this market will require capacity-building, innovative business models and new technological architectures. This paper discusses how one particular architecture – the Brazilian model of correspondent ban...

Textual Compression Based on Rules Arising from a Corpus of Text Messages The present research seeks to reduce the size of text messages on the basis of compression techniques observed mostly in a corpus of sms. This paper explains the methodology followed to establish compression rules. It then presents the 33 considered rules, and illustrates the four suggested levels of compression with two ...

As a convenient and low-cost mobile communication technology, Short Messaging Service (SMS) is experiencing very rapid growth. It is reported that 700 million mobile phone users worldwide sent 20 to 30 billion SMS messages every month in 2001. At the same time, SMS commerce applications have emerged to provide mobile users consumeroriented services. The huge SMS messaging customer base serves a...