Automatic measurement of prepositional idea density from part-of-speech tagging

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 540-545

  Brown, Cati ^a   Snodgrass, Tony ^b   Kemper, Susan J ^b   Herman, Ruth ^b   Covington, Michael A ^b,c  

^a University of Georgia ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 48149090417     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.2.540     Document Type: Article

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