Chat mining: Predicting user and message attributes in computer-mediated communication

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1448-1466

  Kucukyilmaz, Tayfun ^a   Cambazoglu, B Barla ^b   Aykanat, Cevdet ^a   Can, Fazli ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IES Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Authorship analysis; Chat mining; Computer mediated communication; Machine learning; Stylistics; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; MESSAGE PASSING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

AUTHORSHIP ANALYSIS; CHAT MINING; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 44649163258     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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