Improving Gender Prediction of Social Media Users via Weighted Annotator Rationales

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  • Svitlana Volkova
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This paper proposes and contrastively evaluates several novel approaches to utilizing annotator rationales to improve the prediction of user gender in social media for English and Spanish. Our methods outperform state-of-the-art systems for Twitter gender prediction, and yield up to 28% error reduction relative to an otherwise identical system and training data without the use of annotator rationales.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014