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

[Yorick Wilks]

The security agencies have funded quite a bit of stuff on determining the sex of email writers automatically---I believe it works at a very high rate but I dont think they are publishing it (!).
YW

On 4 Nov 2010, at 10:04, Matthew Purver wrote:

> 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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