The Identity of Bloggers: Openness and gender in personal weblogs

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-06-03, Issue , 2006, Pages 163-167

  Nowson, S ^a   Oberlander, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOGGERS; DICTIONARY-BASED ANALYSIS; WEBLOGS;

AUTOMATION; GLOSSARIES; LINGUISTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33747179515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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