English as a language of the Internet
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Abstract
World communication assumes contacts among representatives of different cultures, and one of these representatives may speak not a mothertongue.Nowadays, when English is considered to be an international language, the situation with two non-speakers is more widespread.English is now the dominant or official language in over 60 countries and is represented in every continent.According to the fact, it can be understood that the language is a vital means of communication for millions of people around the world.During the twentieth century, numerous technological inventions and developments, such as the telephone, fax, electronic mail, internet have facilitated communication between people from all areas of life and all of these means are functioning in English [1].The language is often said as a lingua-franca, because such countries as the USA, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zeland, South Africa and several Carribean countries use it as a mother tongue [2, p.9].-English is currently one of the most widely spoken and written languages worldwide, with some 380 million native speakers.Because a working knowledge of it is required in many fields and occupations, education ministries around the world mandate the teaching of English to at least a basic level.There are the most prominent characteristics: Three-quarters of the world's mail, telexes and cables are in English.-More than half of the world's technical and scientific periodicals are in English.-English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the world's computers.English is the language of navigation, aviation and of Christianity; it is the ecumenical language of the World Council of Churches.Five of the largest broadcasting companies in the world (CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC and CBC) broadcast in English, reaching millions and millions of people all over the world.In general, this article is dedicated to the examination of English as a language of the Internet, or more exactly a vague collection of languages called "English" because there are so many people who use it with their cultural aspects.That national language has spread over the world, and several variants such as American (US) English, Australian English exist.A great number of people whose native language isn't the same know English as a foreign language.They typically use a more or less simplified variant, e.g.excluding most of the idioms of British, American, Australian etc English.Of course, they make mistakes, and sometimes the "English" used by people as a foreign language on the Internet is almost incomprehensible to anyone else.In addition, people who use it as their native language do not know how to spell difficult words, since they basically know English as a spoken language.Four factors determine the degree to which a given language finds use on the Internet: 1.The number of users of the language;2. The extent of it's use as an official language; 3. The economic power of the language; 4. The volume of information disseminated in the language [ 3].Today, English reigns supreme in all of four aspects.It is studied as a foreign language throughout the world and employed by a majority of Internet users.The biggest part of 163 member nations of the U.N. uses English as their official language.The importance of the Internet grows rapidly in all fields of human life, including not only research and education but also marketing and trade as well as entertainment and hobbies.This implies that it
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".