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Age Identification of Twitter Users : Classification Methods and Sociolinguistic Analysis

Simaki, Vasiliki LU ; Mporas, Iosif and Megalooikonomou, Vasileios (2018) 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 9624. p.385-395
Abstract
In this article, we address the problem of age identification of Twitter users, after their online text. We used a set of text mining, sociolinguistic-based and content-related text features, and we evaluated a number of well-known and widely used machine learning algorithms for classification, in order to examine their appropriateness on this task. The experimental results showed that Random Forest algorithm offered superior performance achieving accuracy equal to 61%. We ranked the classification features after their informativity, using the ReliefF algorithm, and we analyzed the results in terms of the sociolinguistic principles on age linguistic variation.
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Text mining, Age identification, Text classification, Computational Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics
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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II - 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II
series title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
editor
Gelbukh, Alexander
volume
9624
pages
385 - 395
publisher
Springer
conference name
17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
conference location
Konya, Turkey
conference dates
2016-04-03 - 2016-04-09
external identifiers
  • scopus:85044433086
ISBN
978-3-319-75487-1
978-3-319-75486-4
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_30
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English
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5163ea45-40d8-4baa-9004-b51a8cd3cb38
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2017-06-02 17:29:04
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  author       = {{Simaki, Vasiliki and Mporas, Iosif and Megalooikonomou, Vasileios}},
  booktitle    = {{Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing : 17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II}},
  editor       = {{Gelbukh, Alexander}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-319-75487-1}},
  keywords     = {{Text mining; Age identification; Text classification; Computational Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{385--395}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)}},
  title        = {{Age Identification of Twitter Users : Classification Methods and Sociolinguistic Analysis}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_30}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-319-75487-1_30}},
  volume       = {{9624}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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