Inferring Gender from Names on the Web: A Comparative Evaluation of Gender Detection Methods

WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 53-54

  Karimi, Fariba ^a   Wagner, Claudia ^a   Lemmerich, Florian ^a   Jadidi, Mohsen ^a   Strohmaier, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KOBLENZ LANDAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

computational social science; discrimination on web; gender detection

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; DETECTION METHODS; DISCRIMINATION ON WEB; GENDER DETECTION; NAME BASED; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 85092381305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872518.2889385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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