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University of Southern California

Speech Acts

Caption: The ISI study characterized online posts according a schema of speech acts. While some speech-act characterization was done by hand in this study to test the results, the ISI group has already developed effective software to accomplish the task automatically.

Credit: USC Information Sciences Institute

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