This paper is designed to investigate physicians’ opinions regarding an SMS professional medical news service in the Finnish health-care sector. A survey using SMS mobile technology was conducted on March 5, 2003. 259 out of 685 responded within 2 days, and 90% came within 6 hours after the survey was sent out. The response rate was 38%. Findings from this simple SMS survey showed that physicia...

The concept of theme and rheme we want to propose in this paper is pragmatic in two senses of the wordz the theme/ theme structure (TRS) is viewed as a strategy of communication and thus belongs to pra~natics, and it seems to offer a pragmatic solution for a problem of machine translation. The starting-point of our considerations is defined by several arEuments claiming the ne@essity to preserv...

In this paper, we propose a method for aligning text messages (entitled AlignSMS) in order to automatically build an SMS dictionary. An extract of 100 text messages from the 88milSMS corpus (Panckhurst el al., 2013, 2014) was used as an initial test. More than 90,000 authentic text messages in French were collected from the general public by a group of academics in the south of France in the co...

Finding ways to downscale microfinance is one of the current challenges facing commercial banks, especially in developing countries. As banks have a poor knowledge of microfinance, operating in this market will require capacity-building, innovative business models and new technological architectures. This paper discusses how one particular architecture – the Brazilian model of correspondent ban...

Textual Compression Based on Rules Arising from a Corpus of Text Messages The present research seeks to reduce the size of text messages on the basis of compression techniques observed mostly in a corpus of sms. This paper explains the methodology followed to establish compression rules. It then presents the 33 considered rules, and illustrates the four suggested levels of compression with two ...

As a convenient and low-cost mobile communication technology, Short Messaging Service (SMS) is experiencing very rapid growth. It is reported that 700 million mobile phone users worldwide sent 20 to 30 billion SMS messages every month in 2001. At the same time, SMS commerce applications have emerged to provide mobile users consumeroriented services. The huge SMS messaging customer base serves a...

SMS Composer and SMS Conductor are Windows applications designed to take musical advantage of both the flexibility and potential of SMS sound transformations and its current capability for real-time synthesis. SMS Composer offers a powerful compositional environment for SMS score generation, editing and synthesis. SMS Conductor is a real-time SMS controller, mainly focused on the problem of tra...

Many students have become avid texters and are seriously reinventing language to accommodate the 160character limit of short messages. They are more interested in getting their messages across and thus becoming less concerned about correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. Since texting has become a way of life of many students, it is feared that the SMS language can affect students’ written p...