%0 Conference Paper %1 mueller-2016 %A Mueller, Juergen %A Stumme, Gerd %B 5th ASE International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016), Union, NJ, USA, August 15-17, 2016. Proceedings %C New York, NY, USA %D 2016 %I ACM %K 2016 ACM ITeGPub InProceedings KDE SocInfo arXiv myown %P 47:1--47:8 %R 10.1145/2955129.2955182 %T Gender Inference using Statistical Name Characteristics in Twitter %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2955129.2955182 %X Much attention has been given to the task of gender inference of Twitter users. Although names are strong gender indicators, the names of Twitter users are rarely used as a feature; probably due to the high number of ill-formed names, which cannot be found in any name dictionary. Instead of relying solely on a name database, we propose a novel name classifier. Our approach extracts characteristics from the user names and uses those in order to assign the names to a gender. This enables us to classify international first names as well as ill-formed names. %@ 978-1-4503-4129-5

@inproceedings{mueller-2016, abstract = {Much attention has been given to the task of gender inference of Twitter users. Although names are strong gender indicators, the names of Twitter users are rarely used as a feature; probably due to the high number of ill-formed names, which cannot be found in any name dictionary. Instead of relying solely on a name database, we propose a novel name classifier. Our approach extracts characteristics from the user names and uses those in order to assign the names to a gender. This enables us to classify international first names as well as ill-formed names.}, added-at = {2018-08-30T12:22:47.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mueller, Juergen and Stumme, Gerd}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2038dca858864c36223ba0dc42a118ca4/kde-alumni}, booktitle = {5th ASE International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016), Union, NJ, USA, August 15-17, 2016. Proceedings}, doi = {10.1145/2955129.2955182}, interhash = {a6e75490c82342d6b9c0a19fcf96898e}, intrahash = {038dca858864c36223ba0dc42a118ca4}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4129-5}, keywords = {2016 ACM ITeGPub InProceedings KDE SocInfo arXiv myown}, month = aug, pages = {47:1--47:8}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2018-08-30T12:22:47.000+0200}, title = {Gender Inference using Statistical Name Characteristics in Twitter}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2955129.2955182}, year = 2016 }