What’s in a name: A study of names, gender inference, and gender behavior in facebook

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

Volumn 6637 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 344-356

  Tang, Cong ^a   Ross, Keith ^b   Saxena, Nitesh ^b   Chen, Ruichuan ^c  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORECASTING;

FACEBOOK; GENDER PREDICTIONS; MAXIMUM ACCURACIES; NEW YORK CITY; ONLINE PRIVACY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85012302520     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20244-5_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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