| Challenge: | Existing systems for author profiling (AP) modeling require extensive feature engineering and testing. |
| Approach: | They propose to implement a system for author profiling (AP) modeling that reduces the complexity and time of building a sophisticated model for a number of different AP tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves comparable results to state of the art models for cross-genre gender prediction, but lags when genre of test set is different from genre of train set. |
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