Adapting support vector optimisation algorithms to textual gender classification
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on the problem of determining the gender of the person described in a biographical text. Since support vector machine classifiers are well suited for text classification tasks, we present a new stopping criterion for support vector optimisation algorithms tailored to this problem. This new approach exploits the geometric properties of the vector representation of such content. An experiment on a set of English and Spanish biographical articles retrieved from Wikipedia illustrates this approach and compares it to other machine learning classification algorithms. The proposed method allows real-time classification algorithm training. Moreover, these results confirm the advantage of leveraging additional gender information in strongly inflected languages, like Spanish, for this task
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