Author gender identification from text

Digital Investigation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-88

  Cheng, Na ^a   Chandramouli, R ^a   Subbalakshmi, K P ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Gender identification; Logistic regression; Psycho linguistic analysis; Support vector machine; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION; GENDER IDENTIFICATION; IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; SHORT-TEXT DOCUMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS; TEXT MINING;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 80051667271     PISSN: 17422876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diin.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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