Comparing two measures for formality

FLAIRS 2013 - Proceedings of the 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 220-225

  Li, Haiying ^a   Cai, Zhiqiang ^a   Graesser, Arthur C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE COMPONENTS; F-SCORE; GENERAL LINEAR MODELING; NARRATIVITY; TEXT GENRE; WORD LEVEL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ADHESION;

EID: 84889829504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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