Butgereit, LLBotha, RA2012-04-232012-04-232011-09Butgereit, LL and Botha, RA. Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo. Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT 2011), Cape Town, South Africa, 3-5 October 2011, pp 40-48978-1-4503-0878-6http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2072221.2072227&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=76903344&CFTOKEN=61329174http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5814Copyright: 2011 ACM. This is an ABSTRACT ONLY.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 according to MXit spelling conventions) can be used to categorize very short mathematical conversations conducted in MXit lingo into broad mathematical groups such as algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. MXit lingo is an abbreviated form of written English which children, teenagers and young adults utilise when communicating using the popular MXit chat mechanism over cell phones. Conversations from the "Dr Math" project were used for this analysis. "Dr Math" is a mathematical tutoring service which links primary and secondary school pupils to tutors from local universities. The tutors assist the pupils with their mathematics homework.enMXit lingoMXit spellingN-gramsDr MathC³TOConference PresentationButgereit, L., & Botha, R. (2011). Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo. ACM. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5814Butgereit, LL, and RA Botha. "Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo." (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5814Butgereit L, Botha R, Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo; ACM; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5814 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Butgereit, LL AU - Botha, RA AB - 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 according to MXit spelling conventions) can be used to categorize very short mathematical conversations conducted in MXit lingo into broad mathematical groups such as algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. MXit lingo is an abbreviated form of written English which children, teenagers and young adults utilise when communicating using the popular MXit chat mechanism over cell phones. Conversations from the "Dr Math" project were used for this analysis. "Dr Math" is a mathematical tutoring service which links primary and secondary school pupils to tutors from local universities. The tutors assist the pupils with their mathematics homework. DA - 2011-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - MXit lingo KW - MXit spelling KW - N-grams KW - Dr Math KW - C³TO LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 978-1-4503-0878-6 T1 - Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo TI - Using N-grams to identify mathematical topics in MXit lingo UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5814 ER -