ISAD

An Internet Slang Annotated Dictionary

This "Internet slang annotated dictionary" (ISAD) is based on a compilation of messages from Twitter and Facebook. It is not a dictionary in the true sense; several expressions are not explained and all offensive content is removed. In fact, the ISAD is aimed only to automatic detection of the posts (messages and blogs) that fall into four categories, namely posts that are aggressive, offensive, hateful, or distressed. This "Internet slang annotated dictionary" is made freely available under the aggregate of the conditions stated below:
1. The "Internet slang annotated dictionary" is available under the Commons license type CC BY-NC-SA.
2. Anyone can use it for academic, research, and educational purposes.
3. No part of the ISAD can be included in any commercial product or used for the development of commercial products without the written agreement of its authors. Its use for the development of a commercial product may be possible with permission only after the user makes a donation to a non-for-profit organization from EU.

H.N.L. Teodorescu, N. Saharia, "An Internet Slang Annotated Dictionary and Its Use in Assessing Message Attitude and Sentiments". Proc. 8th Conf. Speech Technology and Human - Computer Dialogue (SPED 2015), Bucharest, Romania, Oct 14-16, 2015, IEEE (to appear on IEEEXplorer)

Terms of Use and Warning [pdf]

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While we (the authors) have done every effort that we were able to do during the allotted time for this research, in order to produce as comprehensive and sound results as possible, this work is not yet validated by peers and the scientific community and is still work in progress, with preliminary results. In addition, the ‘category’ classification of the slang terms represents the opinion of only 3 scholars (who until now contributed to the classification).

This Internet Slang Annotated Dictionary (ISAD) is believed to be the first of its kind; therefore we have no doubt that it needs numerous corrections and refinements. We encourage everyone having an interest in this problem and suitable qualifications to contribute improving ISAD by sending us suggestions, corrections, and opinions at hteodor@etti.tuiasi.ro.

While the dictionary itself is free under the Commons license type CC BY-NC-SA, the explanations and the additional materials are copyrighted. We retain all the rights to reuse them, including in publications (papers, studies and similar articles) and we transfer no right to use them to the readers and human or machine users of these Web pages.

We have done every effort to create an ISAD that infringes no rights and that it is highly original in structure and content, beyond the meanings of terms which belong to no one, but to the Internet community. However, if anyone believes that any part of the ISAD (dictionary) infringes any rights, including copyrights, pleaseannounce us immediately. After making a fast assessment of the claim, if we believe that it is correct or partly correct, we will remove as fast as possible that part of the content.

HN Teodorescu

Please cite these pages as:
H.N.L. Teodorescu, N. Saharia, "An Internet Slang Annotated Dictionary and Its Use in Assessing Message Attitude and Sentiments". Proc. 8th Conf. Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SPED 2015), Bucharest, Romania, Oct 14-16, 2015, IEEE (to appear on IEEEXplorer)

On Copyright [pdf]

Why we believe that this ISAD is free of any copyright claims
1. Because we (N.S.) collected the slang terms ourselves, manually, on the Internet, from various sources, we believe that the list of terms we collected, per se, cannot be claimed by anyone else as copyrighted, even if accidentally two or several terms in a sequence occur in other lists: such occurrences are implied by statistical laws, according to the probability of use on the Internet of the respective terms.

2. We believe that the meaning of the words is in public domain according to the principle that concepts are common to humanity (English speaking people for English language). Whenever a slang term or symbol has a well-established, single equivalent meaning in the non-slang English, that meaning cannot be protected because meaning is concept, thus pertaining to public domain.

3. The formation of abbreviations is a procedure; consequently, it is in public domain. Therefore, no abbreviation derived through the standard abbreviation procedures can be copyrighted. This is supported by The Supreme Court of Ohio, which describes the main procedure and provides examples "An abbreviation is formed from the initial letter of each component word, e.g., NBC, IRS, CLE". [The Supreme Court of Ohio, Writing Manual, Section Thirteen: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Parenthetical References, p. 105].

4. Because the concepts, methods, procedures, and thinking processes are not copyrightable, the procedure of expanding an abbreviation to its meaning cannot be copyrightable (because it is a procedure, moreover a thinking process happening in humans' mind when they read an abbreviation). Therefore, the precise sequence of words resulting from the expansion of abbreviations frequently used cannot be copyrighted.

5. The list of most commonly abbreviated words is compiled by us (HNT with contributions by NS.) The abbreviated words behave as regular expressions and therefore abbreviations can be derived through a general mathematical procedure (concatenation only), thus being not copyrightable. The expansion of abbreviations is a replacement procedure, thus not copyrightable. When ambiguity of expansion occurs, the selection of the expansion is performed based on a language model, that is, based on the probability in English of the corresponding sequence of words (n-word), determined by us (work in progress). We use only alphanumeric symbols, so no pictorial element, which might be copyrighted, is included in our study.

However, if anyone believes that the above is not true and any explanation of the terms or any other part of the ISAD on this site is infringes any rights, we are available to analyze any claim. Your message must have in the Subject "ISAD claim".

HN Teodorescu (HNT) hteodor@etti.tuiasi.ro
N. Saharia (NS) navanathsaharia@gmail.com

References
1. Public Domain Acronym/Abbreviation Dbase. http://www.textfiles.com/humor/acronyms.txt
2. Notes on Copyright & Related Issues. Copyright © 1996 by The Geometry Center. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/events/courses/1996/cmwh/Copyright/pubdomain.html
3. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose. (work in public domain.) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402
4. Allen, F. Sturges, (Frederic Sturges), Allen's synonyms and antonyms. https://archive.org/details/cu31924055488716 ["There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the texts"]
5. https://archive.org/details/cornell&tab=about] Grady Ward, Moby Thesaurus II. Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg Release #3202.
6. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3202 (used for synonyms).
7. The Supreme Court of Ohio, Writing Manual, July 1, 2013 second edition, https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/ROD/manual.pdf
8. OpenSlang.com http://openslang.com/doku.php
9. Internet slang. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang

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Acknowledgement

We thank Mr. Arnab Mitra for help with the assessment of attitude- and sentiment-carrying words. N. Saharia acknowledges a grant from ERA MUNDUS (EMA21) cLink project with agreement no: 212-2645/100-001-EM. HNT acknowledges support from grant G4877 from the SPS Program.

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Please send your comments and proposals for the interpretation of the slang terms to both of us at htedoor@etti.tuiasi.ro & navanathsaharia@gmail.com . Your contributions will be acknowledged.