Through the Twitter glass: Detecting questions in micro-text

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-11-05, Issue , 2011, Pages 8-13

  Dent, Kyle ^a   Paul, Sharoda ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80054915449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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