Choosing the Right Words: Characterizing and Reducing Error of the Word Count Approach

*SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 296-305

  Andrew Schwartz, H ^a   Eichstaedt, Johannes ^a   Dziurzynski, Lukasz ^a   Blanco, Eduardo ^b   Kern, Margaret L ^a   Ramones, Stephanie ^a   Seligman, Martin ^a   Ungar, Lyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Lymba Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FACEBOOK; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; LEXICAL AMBIGUITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; WORD FREQUENCIES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84930612773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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