Hello Frank, Thanks for the reference, I guess I didn't think the Dutch factor through properly! Best wishes, Rowin
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Frank Schaap Sent: 27 November 2003 11:53 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] personal homepages
Rowin A Cross wrote:
By content, do you mean subject matter rather than linguistic factors - as discussed briefly at http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/030714/030714-13.html? It would be interesting to compare 'apparent' gender as implied by content with linguistic gender (for want of a better expression), given the discussions earlier on this list about hiding or creating identities online.
This research has been implemented in the online Gender Genie, at:
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html You can feed it text and with ~70% correctness it will tell you the gender of the author of the text. I fed it 3 of my own texts and it miss-assigned one, while correctly guessing my gender from the other 2. However, it only does this with English texts. I recon the general gist of the algoritm could be translated, but you probably need to do a lot of work to actually make it work for other languages, as language is such a intricate instrument. I'm not an expert on this algoritm, but I guess it's out for the moment for analyzing Dutch websites. So, I actually relied on my own cultural and linguistic understandings of what makes Dutch masculinity and femininity, "reading" both subject matter and linguistic patterns, although it must be said, I did so very loosely and intuitively. Frank. PS this reply is given 189 feminine and 191 masculine points by the Gender Genie, barely giving me a pass on my gender ;) _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l