Discriminating gender on Twitter

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1301-1309

  Burger, John D ^a   Henderson, John ^a   Kim, George ^a   Zarrella, Guido ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BASELINE MODELS; DATA SETS; HUMAN ASSESSMENT; LEGAL INVESTIGATION; MECHANICAL TURKS; ON-LINE CONTENTS; PERSONALIZATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICAL MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; METADATA; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053276036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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