Inferring gender of movie reviewers: Exploiting writing style, content and metadata

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 369-378

  Otterbacher, Jahna ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtering; Gender; Online community; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; FILTERING; GENDER; INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PERCEIVED UTILITY; SCIENTIFIC TEXTS; SOCIAL FEEDBACKS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; WRITING STYLE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

METADATA;

EID: 78651330475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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