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Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long

Posted by timothy on from the because-soon-enough-you'll-be-17-anyhow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Can computers pick up your age and gender from your tweets? If you want to give it a try, here's your chance: 'To develop your software for age and gender identification, we provide you with a training data set that consists of blog posts, Twitter tweets, social media texts, as well as hotel reviews.' Well, at least my paid Amazon reviews are safe for the time being..."

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  1. This is a software contest by mbone · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those puzzled by the description here, this is a software contest, with a 300 Euro prize :

    An award of 300 euros for the best performing approach to author profiling (age and gender identification) is sponsored by Atribus (Corex).