You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 892-901

  Danescu Niculescu mizil, Cristian ^a   Cheng, Justin ^a   Kleinberg, Jon ^a   Lee, Lillian ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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ANALYSIS FRAMEWORKS; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; KEY DIMENSIONS; PUBLIC AWARENESS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; WORD CHOICES;

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878196051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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