Segmenting Target Audiences: Automatic Author Profiling using Tweets: Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2015

This paper describes a methodology proposed for author profiling us- ing natural language processing and machine learning techniques. We used lexi- cal information in the learning process. For those languages without lexicons, we automatically translated them, in order to be able to use this information. Finally, we will discuss how we applied this methodology to the 3rd Author Profiling Task at PAN 2015 and we will present the results we obtained.

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