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SMS4SCIENCE

Title

sms4science : An International SMS corpus for research

Abstract

In recent years, SMS communication has become a social phenomenon. Many scientific studies (in linguistics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, communication etc.) have looked into this new form of communication, but their conclusions remain partial and incomplete. Indeed, researchers lack access to the extensive databases that would allow them to study corpora based on genuine material.


The aim of the sms4science project is to contribute to the study of SMS communication and of its language. In order to reach this target, researchers from various countries are joining forces to undertake the composition, for a large number of languages, of a vast SMS corpus for scientific research.


A real network has been constituted. The Cental takes care of the connections between national partners, the cohesion of the whole and the technical aspects of data collection and processing. Each of the national projects is carried out by an academic team that has to work together with the Belgian coordinator.

UCL

Duration

  • 4 years.
  • Start: October 2007.

Researcher

Louise-Amélie Cougnon

Advisor

Prof. Cédrick Fairon,
Director of the CENTAL

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