Success with style: Using writing style to predict the success of novels

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1753-1764

  Ashok, Vikas Ganjigunte ^a   Feng, Song ^a   Choi, Yejin ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITERARY WORKS; PREDICTIVE POWER; STYLOMETRY; WRITING STYLE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905684021     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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