Papers by Ni Yi Puay
Twitter Homophily: Network Based Prediction of User’s Occupation (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to predicting Twitter users' demographic attributes exploit, select, and combine various features generated from text and network to achieve the best performance. |
| Approach: | They extend existing Twitter occupational class prediction data set and exploit social network homophily to achieve competitive performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves better performance on a dataset with a small fraction of the training data. |