Textual signatures: Identifying text-types using latent semantic analysis to measure the cohesion of text structures

Natural Language Processing and Text Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 107-122

  McCarthy, Philip M ^a   Briner, Stephen W ^a   Rus, Vasile ^a   McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

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EID: 84890215811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-754-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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