The linguistic correlates of conversational deception: Comparing natural language processing technologies

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 439-462

  Duran, Nicholas D ^a   Hall, Charles ^a   McCarthy, Philip M ^a   McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

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EID: 77957264233     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716410000068     Document Type: Article

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