Social Media is NOT that bad! The lexical quality of Social Media

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 559-562

  Rello, Luz ^a   Baeza Yates, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEXICAL QUALITIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPELLING ERRORS; STRONG CORRELATION; WEB TEXTS;

ERRORS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84890674657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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