Gender Classification of Weblog Authors

By Xiang Yan, Ling Yan. 2006

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Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Sentiment & Opinion Analysis

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Citations in the corpus

Women also Snowboard: Overcoming Bias in Captioning Models (2018, background): “Gender classification has also been studied in natural language processing ([41,42], [43]).”
Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations (2017, background): “For example, two early studies, Yan and Yan (2006) and Argamon et al. (2007), used machine learning to classify blogs by their authors’ genders.”
Obfuscating Gender in Social Media Writing (2016, background): “, 2015), weblogs (Mukherjee and Liu, 2010; Schler et al., 2006; Yan and Yan, 2006) and user-review sites (Johannsen et al.”
Age Prediction in Blogs: A Study of Style, Content, and Online Behavior in Pre- and Post-Social Media Generations (2011, background): “Other researchers have investigated weblogs for differences in writing style depending on gender identification (Herring and Paolillo, 2006; Yan and Yan, 2006; Nowson and Oberlander, 2006).”
Stylometric Analysis of Bloggers' Age and Gender (2009, background): “Analyses of effects of bloggers’ age and gender from weblogs have been presented by a few (Schler et al. 2006; Burger and Henderson 2006; Yan 2006 ; Argamon, Koppel and Avneri 1998; Yan and Yan 2006; Nowson and Oberlander 2006) but as per our analysis these are generally based on usage of keywords, ”
Improving Gender Classification of Blog Authors (2010, methodology): “…work has also attempted gender classification of blog authors using features such as content words, dictionary based content analysis results, POS (part-of-speech) tags and feature selection along with a supervised learning algorithm (Schler et al., 2006; Argamon et al., 2007; Yan and Yan, 2006).”
Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey (2016, methodology): “Others have created their own blog corpus from various sources including LiveJournal and Xanga (Burger and Henderson 2006; Mukherjee and Liu 2010; Nowson and Oberlander 2006; Rosenthal and McKeown 2011; Sarawgi, Gajulapalli, and Choi 2011; Yan and Yan 2006).”