Gender difference analysis of political web forums: An experiment on an international Islamic women's forum

2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-64

  Yulei, Zhang ^a   Yan, Dang ^a   Hsinchun, Chen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature based classification; Online gender differences; Political forums

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; FEATURE-BASED CLASSIFICATION; GENDER DIFFERENCES; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; ONLINE GENDER DIFFERENCES; POLITICAL FORUMS; SOCIAL ISSUES; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB FORUMS; WRITING STYLE;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 70350046916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2009.5137272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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