Learning age and gender of blogger from stylistic variation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5909 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 205-212

  Rustagi, Mayur ^a   Prasath, R Rajendra ^a   Goswami, Sumit ^a   Sarkar, Sudeshna ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DIFFERENCES; AGE GROUPS; AVERAGE LENGTH; BLOGGERS; BLOGGING; COMBINED FEATURES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NEW CONCEPT; SAMPLE DATA;

BLOGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 76249103906     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11164-8_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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