Usernames are ubiquitous on the Internet, and they are often suggestive of user demographics. This work looks at the degree to which gender and language can be inferred from a username alone by making use of unsupervised morphology induction to decompose usernames into sub-units. Experimental results on the two tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed morphological features compared to a character n-gram baseline.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.02045,
title = {What Your Username Says About You},
author = {Aaron Jaech and Mari Ostendorf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02045},
year = {2015}
}