Age prediction in blogs: A study of style, content, and online behavior in pre- and post-social media generations

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 763-772

  Rosenthal, Sara ^a   McKeown, Kathleen ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOGGERS; FACEBOOK; LEXICAL CONTENT; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; SMS TEXT; SOCIAL MEDIA; WRITING STYLE;

BLOGS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; STUDENTS; TEXT MESSAGING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84859026178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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