Gender identification from E-mails

In this paper, we investigate the topic of gender identification for short length, multi-genre, content-free e-mails. We introduce for the first time (to our knowledge), psycholinguistic and gender-linked cues for this problem, along with traditional stylometric features. Decision tree and Support Vector Machines learning algorithms are used to identify the gender of the author of a given e-mail. The experiment results show that our approach is promising with an average accuracy of 82.2%.

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