Now We Stronger Than Ever: African-American Syntax in Twitter

EACL 2014 - 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 31-37

  Stewart, Ian ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN ENGLISH; DEMOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS; GENDER DATA; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85041946704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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