The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-185

  Tan, Chenhao ^a   Lee, Lillian ^a   Pang, Bo ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPORTANT MESSAGES; MESSAGE PROPAGATION; NATURAL EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84906924460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-1017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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