Do linguistic style and readability of scientific abstracts affect their virality?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 475-478

  Guerini, Marco ^a   Pepe, Alberto ^b   Lepri, Bruno ^c  

^a Trento Rise   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS-BASED; LINGUISTIC STYLES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES; TEXTUAL CONTENT;

ABSTRACTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84890696440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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