Dude, srsly?: The surprisingly formal nature of Twitter's language

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 244-253

  Hu, Yuheng ^a   Talamadupula, Kartik ^a   Kambhampati, Subbarao ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CONTENT SHARING; INFORMATION SHARING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LINGUISTIC STYLES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900445786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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