TY - GEN
T1 - Gender difference analysis of political web forums
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009
AU - Yulei, Zhang
AU - Yan, Dang
AU - Hsinchun, Chen
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - As an important type of social media, the political Web forum has become a major communication channel for people to discuss and debate political, cultural and social issues. Although the Internet has a male-dominated history, more and more women have started to share their concerns and express opinions through online discussion boards and Web forums. This paper presents an automated approach to gender difference analysis of political Web forums. The approach uses rich textual feature representation and machine learning techniques to examine the online gender differences between female and male participants on political Web forums by analyzing writing styles and topics of interest. The results of gender difference analysis performed on a large and long-standing international Islamic women's political forum are presented, showing that female and male participants have significantly different topics of interest.
AB - As an important type of social media, the political Web forum has become a major communication channel for people to discuss and debate political, cultural and social issues. Although the Internet has a male-dominated history, more and more women have started to share their concerns and express opinions through online discussion boards and Web forums. This paper presents an automated approach to gender difference analysis of political Web forums. The approach uses rich textual feature representation and machine learning techniques to examine the online gender differences between female and male participants on political Web forums by analyzing writing styles and topics of interest. The results of gender difference analysis performed on a large and long-standing international Islamic women's political forum are presented, showing that female and male participants have significantly different topics of interest.
KW - Feature-based classification
KW - Online gender differences
KW - Political forums
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U2 - 10.1109/ISI.2009.5137272
DO - 10.1109/ISI.2009.5137272
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350046916
SN - 9781424441730
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009
SP - 61
EP - 64
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009
Y2 - 8 June 2009 through 11 June 2009
ER -