[Corpora-List] For students: "CL in Action"

Adam Kilgarriff adam at lexmasterclass.com
Thu Nov 4 09:51:10 UTC 2010


Cool!

So, what is it about 3?  (see
http://labs.buradayiz.webfactional.com/gender/query/query?words=1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)
 You must have a theory

adam

On 4 November 2010 09:23, Amaç Herdağdelen <amac at herdagdelen.com> wrote:

> Hello Erik,
>
> This is a late reply but you might also be interested in a demo application
> that we (Marco Baroni and I) put together to look at the gender differences
> in Twitter messages: http://bit.ly/twittergender
>
> We analyzed millions of tweets collected from the Twitter public timeline
> [1] and separated them into male and female subsets by using the first names
> of the Twitter users [2]. For example, if the first name of a user is
> "John", all of this user's tweets are categorized as male tweets. On the
> page, there are two simple tools that allow us to compare the gendered
> frequencies of phrases or compare the salient male and female collocates of
> a given phrase.
>
> 1. www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/~osborne/papers/socmed10.pdf
> 2. https://github.com/amacinho/Name-Gender-Guesser
>
> Best,
>
> Amaç Herdağdelen
>
>
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:02:51 +0100, Erik Fäßler <erik.faessler at uni-jena.de>
> wrote:
>
>   Hey all,
>>
>> thank you very much for all your rich contributions! I have a lot of
>> stuff now, I hope the students don't get blown away ;)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>     Erik
>>
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