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Clayton Fink
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 17
Citations - 525
Clayton Fink is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Microblogging. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 17 publications receiving 505 citations. Previous affiliations of Clayton Fink include Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Language Identification for Creating Language-Specific Twitter Collections
TL;DR: This work annotates and releases a large collection of tweets in nine languages, focusing on confusable languages using the Cyrillic, Arabic, and Devanagari scripts, the first publicly-available collection of LID-annotated tweets in non-Latin scripts and should become a standard evaluation set for LID systems.
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Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web
TL;DR: The underlying problems and issues central to extending information retrieval systems to handle annotations in semantic web languages are discussed and three prototype systems are described that have been implemented to explore these ideas.
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Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Latent Attribute Detection in Social Media.
TL;DR: This work examines content generated by users in addition to name morpho-phonemics to detect ethnicity and gender and presents several novel minimally-supervised models for detecting latent attributes of social media users, with a focus on ethnicity andGender.
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Inferring Gender from the Content of Tweets: A Region Specific Example
TL;DR: This paper applies supervised machine learning using features derived from the content of user tweets to train a classifier and achieves an accuracy of 80% for predicting gender, suggesting that content alone can be a good predictor of gender.
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Geolocating Blogs From Their Textual Content
TL;DR: This work detail textual geolocation techniques suitable for tagging social media data, facilitating development of geographic mashups and spatial reasoning tools.