We report results of stylometric differences in blogging for gender and age group variation. The results are based on two mutually independent features. The first feature is the use of slang words which is a new concept proposed by us for Stylometric study of bloggers. Slang is a non-dictionary word that has evolved with time due to its frequent and popular usage. For the second feature, we hav...

We explore two techniques which use color to make sense of statistical text models. One method uses in-text annotations to illustrate a model’s view of particular tokens in particular documents. Another uses a high-level, “wordsas-pixels” graphic to display an entire corpus. Together, these methods offer both zoomed-in and zoomed-out perspectives into a model’s understanding of text. We show ho...

In this paper, we present a lexical resource for preprocessing of texts published in social networks. It is developed for the following languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian. The resource contains dictionaries of slang words, abbreviations, contractions, and emoticons commonly used in social networks. The dictionaries were used for preprocessing of tweets obtained from the corpus for ...