Improving gender classification of blog authors

EMNLP 2010 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 207-217

  Mukherjee, Arjun ^a   Liu, Bing ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION LEARNING; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; N-GRAMS; PART OF SPEECH; SEQUENCE PATTERN MINING; SEQUENCE PATTERNS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TRAINING DATA; VARIABLE LENGTH;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTERNET;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959669087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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