Gender Prediction From Tweets: Improving Neural Representations With Hand-Crafted Features

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Tekir, Selma
Sezerer, Erhan

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Author profiling is the characterization of an author through some key attributes such as gender, age, and language. In this paper, a RNN model with Attention (RNNwA) is proposed to predict the gender of a twitter user using their tweets. Both word level and tweet level attentions are utilized to learn ’where to look’. This model1 is improved by concatenating LSA-reduced n-gram features with the learned neural representation of a user. Both models are tested on three languages: English, Spanish, Arabic. The improved version of the proposed model (RNNwA + n-gram) achieves state-of-the-art performance on English and has competitive results on Spanish and Arabic.

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RNN Model, Datasets, Model architecture, Neural network-based models, Neural representations, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Machine Learning (stat.ML), Machine Learning (cs.LG), Neural network-based models, Neural representations, Statistics - Machine Learning, Datasets, Computation and Language (cs.CL), RNN Model, Model architecture

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02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

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Tekir, S., Sezerer, E., Polatbilek, O. (2019). Gender prediction from tweets: Improving neural representations with hand-crafted features. Yayın için başvurusu yapılmış metin.

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