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We report our models for detecting age, language variety, and gender from social media data in the context of the Arabic author profiling and deception detection shared task (APDA). We build simple models based on pre-trained bidirectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Chiyu Zhang , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

The need for a comprehensive study to explore various aspects of online social media has been instigated by many researchers. This paper gives an insight into the social platform, Twitter. In this present work, we have illustrated stepwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Mohammad Muzammil Khan , M. Afshar Alam

Computational social scientists often harness the Web as a "societal observatory" where data about human social behavior is collected. This data enables novel investigations of psychological, anthropological and sociological research…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Fariba Karimi , Claudia Wagner , Florian Lemmerich , Mohsen Jadidi , Markus Strohmaier

Social media and digital platforms allow us to express our opinions freely and easily to a vast number of people. In this study, we examine whether there are gender-based differences in how communication happens via Twitter in regard to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mariana Macedo , Akrati Saxena

The rapid advancement of social media enables us to analyze user opinions. In recent times, sentiment analysis has shown a prominent research gap in understanding human sentiment based on the content shared on social media. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Md Arid Hasan

In this paper we address the task of gender classification on picture sharing social media networks such as Instagram and Flickr. We aim to infer the gender of an user given only a small set of the images shared in its profile. We make the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-10-11 David Semedo , João Magalhães , Flávio Martins

Social media currently provide a window on our lives, making it possible to learn how people from different places, with different backgrounds, ages, and genders use language. In this work we exploit a newly-created Arabic dataset with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Chiyu Zhang , Arun Rajendran , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Michael Przystupa , Lyle Ungar

This study analyzes the usage of Japanese gendered language on Twitter. Starting from a collection of 408 million Japanese tweets from 2015 till 2019 and an additional sample of 2355 manually classified Twitter accounts timelines into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Tiziana Carpi , Stefano Maria Iacus

Information about gender differences in interests is necessary to disentangle the effects of discrimination and choice when gender inequalities occur, such as in employment. This article assesses gender differences in interests within the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Mike Thelwall , Emma Stuart

Social media has become an essential part of the digital age, serving as a platform for communication, interaction, and information sharing. Celebrities are among the most active users and often reveal aspects of their personal and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Muhammad Hamza , Rizwan Jafar

Transformer models have shown impressive performance on a variety of NLP tasks. Off-the-shelf, pre-trained models can be fine-tuned for specific NLP classification tasks, reducing the need for large amounts of additional training data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Maaike Burghoorn , Maaike H. T. de Boer , Stephan Raaijmakers

The digital traces we leave behind when engaging with the modern world offer an interesting lens through which we study behavioral patterns as expression of gender. Although gender differentiation has been observed in a number of settings,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ioanna Psylla , Piotr Sapiezynski , Enys Mones , Sune Lehmann

In this paper, we explore the task of gender classification using limited network data with an application to Fotolog. We take a heuristic approach to automating gender inference based on username, followers and network structure. We test…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-09 James Smith

Linguistic uncertainty is a common feature of social media discourse, yet its relationship with user engagement remains underexplored, particularly in non-English contexts. Using a dataset of 16,695 Arabic-language tweets about Lebanon…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mohamed Soufan

The importance of building sentiment analysis tools for Arabic social media has been recognized during the past couple of years, especially with the rapid increase in the number of Arabic social media users. One of the main difficulties in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Samhaa R. El-Beltagy , Talaat Khalil , Amal Halaby , Muhammad Hammad

Social media data provides propitious opportunities for public health research. However, studies suggest that disparities may exist in the representation of certain populations (e.g., people of lower socioeconomic status). To quantify and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Nina Cesare , Christan Grant , Jared B. Hawkins , John S. Brownstein , Elaine O. Nsoesie

Social media is commonly used by the public during election campaigns to express their opinions regarding different issues. Among various social media channels, Twitter provides an efficient platform for researchers and politicians to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Amir Karami , Spring B. Clark , Anderson Mackenzie , Dorathea Lee , Michael Zhu , Hannah R. Boyajieff , Bailey Goldschmidt

Sentiment analysis is a highly subjective and challenging task. Its complexity further increases when applied to the Arabic language, mainly because of the large variety of dialects that are unstandardized and widely used in the Web,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Ramy Baly , Alaa Khaddaj , Hazem Hajj , Wassim El-Hajj , Khaled Bashir Shaban

In this paper, we define the task of gender rewriting in contexts involving two users (I and/or You) - first and second grammatical persons with independent grammatical gender preferences. We focus on Arabic, a gender-marking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Bashar Alhafni , Nizar Habash , Houda Bouamor

Arabic is one of the most important and growing languages in the world. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, Arabic spoken dialects have become more in use. In this paper, we describe our approach on the NADI Shared Task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Ahmad Beltagy , Abdelrahman Wael , Omar ElSherief