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

[Matthew Purver]

perhaps the fact that people use it to form the 'love' symbol <3

try searching for 3 on twitter's search facility and you see a lot of 
things like:

   belieber_smiles @LittleGirlJBieb Thankyou <3

http://twitter.com/#search?q=3

On 04/11/2010 9:51, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <http://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 <mailto: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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Matthew Purver - http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/

Lecturer in Human Interaction
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK

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