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

Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at panix.com
Fri Nov 5 21:58:55 UTC 2010


On 11/4/2010 8:33 AM, Vlado Keselj wrote:
> I have attached some of our findings in 2005.  We got ~80%
> accuracy of gender-based classification of student essays.
     I haven't read your paper yet, but I'm not sure that it's possible 
to get much more than that, for the simple reasons that (a) there is a 
certain amount of overlap of genders, and (b) linguistic expression of 
gender doesn't always match exactly with other gender features.

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				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


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