Facebook Wants to Build a Glossary of New Slang

With the rise of social media in our everyday lives where traditional language conventions are not always used, there have been new forms of slang and internet slang coming about daily. This article shows how Facebook wants to detect the uses of slang on their website and create a dictionary to give meaning to all of these new words. This technology will attempt to predict cool slang words before they are “cool”.

Posted by Matt McLaughlin on March 11, 2016

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Slang;
Internet Language

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