Abstract
Our digital resource of 88,000 anonymised French text messages, the 88milSMS corpus, and sociolinguistic questionnaire data, are available (http://88milsms.huma-num.fr). Our theoretical position and Natural Language Processing (NLP) investigation techniques, including mediated discourse analysis on SMS-writing, ‘unknown’ item classification, alignment and normalisation methods, are envisaged for future implementation in real-life applications.