External News Details

• Publication: The Boston Globe
• Article URL: http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/11/03/how-twitter-language-reveals-your-gender…
• Dateline: Tuesday November 6, 2012

Simply by looking at these different rates of word usage, Schnoebelen and his colleagues, David Bamman of Carnegie Mellon University and Jacob Eisenstein (Interactive Comp) of Georgia Tech, can predict the gender of an author on Twitter with 88 percent accuracy. Source: The Boston Globe

Additional Information

Groups

College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

Categories

Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Digital Media and Entertainment

Keywords

Jacob Eisenstein; gender; Twitter; social media; language; linguistics

Status

• Created By: Michaelanne Dye
• Workflow Status: Published
• Created On: Nov 6, 2012 - 10:19am
• Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:26pm