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In this article we present a methodology for classification of text from web authors, using sociolinguistic inspired text features. The proposed methodology uses a baseline text mining based feature set, which is combined with text features that quantify results from theoretical and sociolinguistic studies. Two combination approaches were evaluated and the evaluation results indicated a significant improvement in both combination cases. For the best performing combination approach the accuracy was 84.36%, in terms of percentage of correctly classified web posts.
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Simaki, V., Aravantinou, C., Mporas, I., Megalooikonomou, V. (2015). Using Sociolinguistic Inspired Features for Gender Classification of Web Authors. In: Král, P., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_66
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