A computational analysis of style, affect, and imagery in contemporary poetry

Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, CLfL 2012 - Co-located with the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 8-17

  Kao, Justine ^a   Jurafsky, Dan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONCRETES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; CONCRETE OBJECTS; HIGH QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

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