Research Article

Improving Feature Representation Based on a Neural Network for Author Profiling in Social Media Texts

Table 15

Obtained results (accuracy, %) for age and gender classification using SVM classifier on the PAN author profiling 2016 English training corpus under 10-fold cross-validation with vectors extracted only from the training data.

Feature set Age Gender
SVM-NP SVM-WP SVM-NP SVM-WP

D2V (1-gram) 41.89 43.6875.05 73.27
D2V (1 + 2-grams) 43.0644.8476.7578.67
D2V (1 + 2 + 3-grams) 42.83 47.71 75.77 78.43