Investigating the role of emotion-based features in author gender classification of text

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8404 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2014, Pages 98-114

  Suero Montero, Calkin ^a   Munezero, Myriam ^a   Kakkonen, Tuomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

emotionbased features; gender classification; sentiment analysis; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; EMOTIONAL INFORMATION; EMOTIONBASED FEATURES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM; TEXT ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84958553722     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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