Classification of natural language messages using a coordination game

Experimental Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Houser, Daniel ^a   Xiao, Erte ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification game; Coordination game; Experimental methods; Messages; Natural language

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551602748     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-010-9254-4     Document Type: Article

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