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What Your Username Says About You
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
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