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Key identifiers and spelling conventions in MXit-lingo as found in conversations with Dr Math

Author: Butgereit, L ; Botha, RA ; Van den Heever, M Date: Jul 2012 Different human languages look different from other human languages. To use a term from the computer industry, each human language has its own “look and feel”. European English speakers can easily recognise a phrase such as “Comment allez-vous?” ... Read more
Lucene stemmer for MXit lingo

Author: Butgereit, LL ; Botha, RA Date: Sep 2011 MXit lingo is an abbreviated form of written English used by children, teenagers and young adults when communicating using MXit as a medium over cell phones. A stemmer for MXit lingo would enable a search engine such as Lucene to index stored ... Read more
Model to identify mathematics topics in MXit lingo to provide tutors quick access to supporting documentation

Author: Butgereit, L ; Botha, RA Date: Nov 2011 Dr MathTM is a mobile, online tutoring system where learners can use MXitTM on their mobile phones to receive help with their mathematics homework from volunteer tutors. These conversations between learners and Dr Math are held in MXit lingo. ... Read more
Predictable patterns in microtext as seen in educational applications using MXit in South Africa

Author: Butgereit, LL ; Botha, RA Date: Sep 2013 In South Africa, a number of mobile chat systems are used including Google Chat, BBM (Blackberry Messenger) and Watsapp. However, the mobile chat system which is the most widely used in South Africa is MXit which boasts tens of millions of ... Read more
Prerequisites for building a computer security incident response capability

Author: Mooi, M ; Botha, RA Date: Aug 2015 There are a number of considerations before one can commence with establishing a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). This paper presents the results of a structured literature review investigating the business requirements for ... Read more
Scaling a mobile tutoring project: strategic interventions in C3TO

Author: Butgereit, LL ; Botha, RA Date: Sep 2010 Scalability is a critical characteristic for successful software solutions - especially networked software and social software. Scalability can be defined as how well the software platform which provided help to primary and secondary school ... Read more
Stop words for “Dr Math”

Author: Butgereit, L ; Botha, RA Date: May 2011 “Dr Math” is a facility where primary and secondary school pupils can use MXit on their cell phones to get help with their mathematics homework. Pupils use an abbreviated “MXit lingo” leaving out most vowels and substituting various numerals ... Read more
Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo

Author: Butgereit, LL ; Botha, RA Date: Sep 2011 N-grams are used to quantify the similarity between two documents or the similarity between two collections of words. This paper shows how N-grams of length 3 and 4 both coupled with text processing (including stop word removal and stemming ... Read more

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