What Your Username Says About You
Aaron Jaech, Mari Ostendorf · 2015
Usernames are ubiquitous on the Internet, and they are often suggestive of user demographics.This work looks at the degree to which gender and language can be inferred from a username alone by making use of unsupervised morphology induction to decompose usernames into sub-units.Experimental results on the two tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed morphological features compared to a character n-gram baseline.