(YA-, after Unix' s yacc - Yet Another compiler-compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another {Simulated Annealing} {Algorithm}". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many. In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN. [Jargon File] (1996-11-26)
