Slang is ubiquitous on the Internet. The emergence of new social contexts like micro-blogs, question-answering forums, and social networks has enabled slang and non-standard expressions to abound on the web. Despite this, slang has been traditionally viewed as a form of non-standard language – a form of language that is not the focus of linguistic analysis and has largely been neglected. In thi...

This article explores the ways in which Asian American teenagers creatively appropriated two African American slang terms: aite and na mean. While some teens racialized slang as belonging to African Americans, other teens authenticated identities as slang speakers. Through close analysis of slang-inuse and particularly of the metapragmatic discussions such uses inspired, this article examines h...

The author analyzes medical slang in Rio de Janeiro based on the view of interactive or live metaphor proposed by such authors as Black and Ricoeur, applied to puns and other jokes from medical work, with the goal of unveiling what physicians mean by this linguistic register. The article classifies medical slang in three broad areas, pertaining to the physician's relations with professional tra...

This work attempts to report the stylistic differences in blogging for gender and age group variations using slang word co-occurrences. We have mainly focused on co-occurrence of non dictionary words across bloggers of different gender and age groups. For this analysis, we have focused on the feature use of slang words to study the stylistic variations of bloggers across various age groups and ...

We propose generative models for three types of extra-grammatical word formation phenomena abounding in English slang: Blends, Clippings, and Reduplicatives. Adopting a datadriven approach coupled with linguistic knowledge, we propose simple models with state of the art performance on human annotated gold standard datasets. Overall, our models reveal insights into the generative processes of wo...

SPADE is a research project carried out at CEFRIEL and at Politecnico di Milano with the goal of developing an environment for Software Process Analysis Design and Enactment SPADE is centered on a process modeling language called SLANG Spade LANGuage an extension of a high level Petri net no tation In SLANG tokens represent objects places are object containers and transitions are associated wit...

Email has become a fast and cheap means of online communication. The main threat to email is Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), commonly called spam email. The current work aims at identification of unigrams in more than 2700 UBE that advertise body-enhancement drugs. The identification is based on the requirement that the unigram is neither present in dictionary, nor is a slang term. The motives of...

Sentiment in social media is increasingly considered as an important resource for customer segmentation, market understanding, and tackling other socio-economic issues. However, sentiment in social media is difficult to measure since user-generated content is usually short and informal. Although many traditional sentiment analysis methods have been proposed, identifying slang sentiment words re...

The usage, derivation, and psychological, ethical, and legal aspects of slang terminology in medicine are discussed. The colloquial vocabulary is further described and a comprehensive glossary of common UK terms provided in appendix. This forms the first list of slang terms currently in use throughout the British medical establishment.