Language independent gender classification on Twitter

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 739-743

  Alowibdi, Jalal S ^a,b   Buy, Ugo A ^a   Yu, Philip ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Application for social network; Color based features; Language independent; Social Network

Indexed keywords

COLOR; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COLOR-BASED FEATURES; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; GENDER PREDICTIONS; HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; LEGAL INVESTIGATION; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSNS); USER'S PROFILES;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84893257250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2492632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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