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Strategies and challenges for constructing and collecting visual corpora from image-based social media platforms 从基于图像的社交媒体平台构建和收集视觉语料库的策略与挑战

Studies in Communication Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2024.01.3881

Yuliya Samofalova

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