WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - Tell me HOW you Write and I Will Tell you WHO you Are

Marta R. Costa-jussà, Rafael E. Banchs, Joan Codina

2010

Abstract

The main goal of this study is evaluating the feasibility of predicting the country, the age and the gender of a social network user, given his/her posts in one or several forums. The study was conducted with MySpace forums in Spanish language, aiming at classifying and extracting demographic information along with age and gender differences. The preliminary results presented and discussed here show some interesting conclusions about the possibility of inferring socio-demographic information from written material in the Web 2.0.

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in Harvard Style

R. Costa-jussà M., E. Banchs R. and Codina J. (2010). WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - Tell me HOW you Write and I Will Tell you WHO you Are . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 406-410. DOI: 10.5220/0002580504060410


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Marta R. Costa-jussà and Rafael E. Banchs and Joan Codina},
title={WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - Tell me HOW you Write and I Will Tell you WHO you Are},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={406-410},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002580504060410},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - Tell me HOW you Write and I Will Tell you WHO you Are
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - R. Costa-jussà M.
AU - E. Banchs R.
AU - Codina J.
PY - 2010
SP - 406
EP - 410
DO - 10.5220/0002580504060410