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TEXTING STYLES AND INFORMATION CHANGE OF SMS TEXT MESSAGES IN FILIPINO

JOSEPHINE JILL T. CABATBAT

National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines–Diliman, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines

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GIOVANNI A. TAPANG

National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines–Diliman, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183113500022Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We identify the different styles of texting in Filipino short message service (SMS) texts and analyze the change in unigram and bigram frequencies due to these styles. Style preference vectors for sample texts were calculated and used to identify the style combination used by an average individual. The change in Shannon entropy of the SMS text is explained in light of a coding process.

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PACS: 89.70.Cf

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