A search engine approach to estimating temporal changes in gender orientation of first names

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 199-208

  Smith, Brittany N ^a   Singh, Mamta ^a   Torvik, Vetle I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgyny; Bibliometrics; Data mining; Earch engine; Gender; Semantic orientation; Temporal prediction; Textual markers

Indexed keywords

ANDROGYNY; BIBLIOMETRICS; GENDER; SEMANTIC ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL PREDICTION; TEXTUAL MARKERS;

DATA MINING; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FORECASTING; INFORMATION SERVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84882261244     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2467696.2467720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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