Language Matters in Twitter: A Large Scale Study

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 518-521

  Hong, Lichan ^a   Convertino, Gregorio ^a   Chi, Ed H ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

COMMUNICATION TOOLS; CROSS LANGUAGES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; HASHTAGS; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; LARGE-SCALES; S IMPLICATIONS; SOCIAL DESIGNS; SOCIAL SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85068103656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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