Analysis of text messages in Filipino

Authors

Josephine Jill T. Cabatbat ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Nicole Valdez ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Giovanni Tapang ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of text message language in Filipino. The identified modes which are used in text messaging—rebus style, consonant skeleton style, and phonetic style—were analyzed by means of comparison of the vowel ratio and bigram frequencies of the text messages and standard written productions. Analysis of the changes in the Shannon entropy revealed that the information content of the text is not considerably changed by the process of texting.

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Issue

2009: Proceedings of the 27th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP-2009-PA-34

Section

Poster Session PA

Published

2009-10-28

How to Cite

[1]

JJT Cabatbat, N Valdez, and G Tapang, Analysis of text messages in Filipino, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 27, SPP-2009-PA-34 (2009). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2009-PA-34.