Agent based simulation framework for quantitative and qualitative social research: Statistics and natural language generation

Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, ESSA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 697-707

  Hassan, Samer ^a   Pavón, Juan ^a   Arroyo, Millán ^a   León, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abss; Mas; Natural language generation; Qualitative; Quantitative; Social research; Social simulation

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ABSS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; QUALITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE; SOCIAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES;

EID: 67650001051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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