Extra-linguistic constraints on stance recognition in ideological debates

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 816-821

  Hasan, Kazi Saidul ^a   Ng, Vincent ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84907335141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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