Inferring gender of a Twitter user using celebrities it follows
This paper addresses the task of user gender classification in social media, with an application to Twitter. The approach automatically predicts gender by leveraging observable information such as the tweet behavior, linguistic content of the user's Twitter feed and the celebrities followed by the user. This paper first evaluates linguistic content based features using LIWC dictionary and popular neighborhood features using Wikipedia and Freebase. Then augments both features which yielded a significant increase in the accuracy for gender prediction. Results show that rich linguistic features combined with popular neighborhood prove valuables and promising for additional user classification needs.
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