ArabGend: Gender Analysis and Inference on Arabic Twitter

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00271v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 07:13:09 GMT
• Title: ArabGend: Gender Analysis and Inference on Arabic Twitter
• Authors: Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
• Abstract summary: We perform an extensive analysis of differences between male and female users on the Arabic Twitter-sphere. Along with gender analysis, we also propose a method to infer gender by utilizing usernames, profile pictures, tweets, and networks of friends. Our proposed gender inference method achieve an F1 score of 82.1%, which is 47.3% higher than majority baseline.
• Score: 8.373984536015842
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Gender analysis of Twitter can reveal important socio-cultural differences between male and female users. There has been a significant effort to analyze and automatically infer gender in the past for most widely spoken languages' content, however, to our knowledge very limited work has been done for Arabic. In this paper, we perform an extensive analysis of differences between male and female users on the Arabic Twitter-sphere. We study differences in user engagement, topics of interest, and the gender gap in professions. Along with gender analysis, we also propose a method to infer gender by utilizing usernames, profile pictures, tweets, and networks of friends. In order to do so, we manually annotated gender and locations for ~166K Twitter accounts associated with ~92K user location, which we plan to make publicly available at http://anonymous.com. Our proposed gender inference method achieve an F1 score of 82.1%, which is 47.3% higher than majority baseline. In addition, we also developed a demo and made it publicly available.

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