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%T Measuring Information Propagation in Literary Social Networks
%A Sims, Matthew
%A Bamman, David
%Y Webber, Bonnie
%Y Cohn, Trevor
%Y He, Yulan
%Y Liu, Yang
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%D 2020
%8 November
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%C Online
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Markdown (Informal)

[Measuring Information Propagation in Literary Social Networks](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.47) (Sims & Bamman, EMNLP 2020)

• Measuring Information Propagation in Literary Social Networks (Sims & Bamman, EMNLP 2020)

ACL

• Matthew Sims and David Bamman. 2020. Measuring Information Propagation in Literary Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 642–652, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.