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

Vlado Keselj vlado at cs.dal.ca
Thu Nov 4 18:04:42 UTC 2010


Hi,

I have tried to send this one to the list:

Jonathan Doyle and Vlado Keselj, Automatic Categorization of Author 
Gender via N-Gram Analysis. In The 6th Symposium on Natural Language 
Processing, SNLP'2005, Chiang Rai, Thailand, December 2005.

but the message is larger, than 40K so it is waiting for moderator's 
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Regards,
Vlado

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Rada Mihalcea wrote:

> 
> There are several papers that looked at automatic gender identification,
> see for instance:
> 
> M.Koppel, S. Argamon and A. Shimoni (2003), Automatically categorizing
> written texts by author gender, Literary and Linguistic Computing 17(4),
> November 2002, pp. 401-412
> 
> Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, Of Men, Women, and Computers: Data-Driven
> Gender Modeling for Improved User Interfaces, in Proceedings of the
> International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Boulder,
> Colorado, March 2007.
> 
> Arjun Mukherjee and Bing Liu. "Improving Gender Classification of Blog
> Authors." Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
> Language Processing (EMNLP-10). Oct. 9-11, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts,
> USA.
> 
> A search for "gender classification" or "gender identification" will
> most likely reveal quite a few more papers.
> 
> Rada
> 
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Diana Maynard wrote:
> 
> >I wondered that as well.
> >
> >On another note, I guess the success of it depends critically on at
> >least two things:
> >(1) how good the gender guesser is (I didn't see any statistics on that,
> >but I didn't search extensively).
> >
> >(2) (which is related) - the proportion of American names in the twitter
> >corpus (since I think the guesser used is based solely on American first
> >names) - and this could have some impact. Even the differences between
> >first name gender in the US and Britain are not insignificant.
> >
> >On a related note, has anyone done the reverse and used vocabulary
> >selection to help identify the gender of the speaker, with any success?
> >I'm sure people must have played with this idea.
> >
> >I'm interested in techniques to improve person gender recognition - in
> >my experience, using pre-built lists of male and female names and simple
> >frequency information is often not accurate enough. Again, I haven't
> >searched extensively for this, but if anyone happens to know offhand
> >about it I'd be interested.
> >Diana
> >
> >On 04/11/2010 09:51, 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
> >
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