Gender Detection and Stylistic Differences and Similarities between Males and Females in a Dream Tales Blog

English. In this paper we present the results of a gender detection experiment carried out on a corpus we built downloading dream tales from a blog. We also highlight stylistic differences and similarities concerning lexical choices between men and women. In order to carry the experiment we built a feed-forward neural network with traditional sparse n-hot encoding using the Keras open source library.

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