Celebrity Profiling on Short Urdu Text using Twitter Followers' Feed

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11739v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:39:31 GMT
• Title: Celebrity Profiling on Short Urdu Text using Twitter Followers' Feed
• Authors: Muhammad Hamza, Rizwan Jafar,
• Abstract summary: This study applies modern machine learning and deep learning techniques to the problem of celebrity profiling in Urdu.<n>A dataset of short Urdu tweets from followers of subcontinent celebrities was collected and preprocessed.<n>The best performance was achieved for gender prediction with a cRank of 0.65 and an accuracy of 0.65, followed by moderate results for age, profession, and fame prediction.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Social media has become an essential part of the digital age, serving as a platform for communication, interaction, and information sharing. Celebrities are among the most active users and often reveal aspects of their personal and professional lives through online posts. Platforms such as Twitter provide an opportunity to analyze language and behavior for understanding demographic and social patterns. Since followers frequently share linguistic traits and interests with the celebrities they follow, textual data from followers can be used to predict celebrity demographics. However, most existing research in this field has focused on English and other high-resource languages, leaving Urdu largely unexplored. This study applies modern machine learning and deep learning techniques to the problem of celebrity profiling in Urdu. A dataset of short Urdu tweets from followers of subcontinent celebrities was collected and preprocessed. Multiple algorithms were trained and compared, including Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, Random Forests, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Long Short-Term Memory networks. The models were evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and cumulative rank (cRank). The best performance was achieved for gender prediction with a cRank of 0.65 and an accuracy of 0.65, followed by moderate results for age, profession, and fame prediction. These results demonstrate that follower-based linguistic features can be effectively leveraged using machine learning and neural approaches for demographic prediction in Urdu, a low-resource language.

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