The psychology of word use in depression forums in english and in spanish: Testing two text analytic approaches

ICWSM 2008 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 102-108

  Ramirez Esparza, R Nairan ^a   Chung, Cindy K ^b   Kacewicz, Ewa ^b   Pennebaker, James W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROACH; BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; INTERNET FORUMS; LINGUISTIC CATEGORIES; ONLINE SUPPORT; SPANISH LANGUAGE;

BULLETIN BOARDS; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84890757144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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