Ben Verhoeven


2017

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Gender Profiling for Slovene Twitter communication: the Influence of Gender Marking, Content and Style
Ben Verhoeven | Iza Škrjanec | Senja Pollak
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing

We present results of the first gender classification experiments on Slovene text to our knowledge. Inspired by the TwiSty corpus and experiments (Verhoeven et al., 2016), we employed the Janes corpus (Erjavec et al., 2016) and its gender annotations to perform gender classification experiments on Twitter text comparing a token-based and a lemma-based approach. We find that the token-based approach (92.6% accuracy), containing gender markings related to the author, outperforms the lemma-based approach by about 5%. Especially in the lemmatized version, we also observe stylistic and content-based differences in writing between men (e.g. more profane language, numerals and beer mentions) and women (e.g. more pronouns, emoticons and character flooding). Many of our findings corroborate previous research on other languages.

2016

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TwiSty: A Multilingual Twitter Stylometry Corpus for Gender and Personality Profiling
Ben Verhoeven | Walter Daelemans | Barbara Plank
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

Personality profiling is the task of detecting personality traits of authors based on writing style. Several personality typologies exist, however, the Briggs-Myer Type Indicator (MBTI) is particularly popular in the non-scientific community, and many people use it to analyse their own personality and talk about the results online. Therefore, large amounts of self-assessed data on MBTI are readily available on social-media platforms such as Twitter. We present a novel corpus of tweets annotated with the MBTI personality type and gender of their author for six Western European languages (Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish). We outline the corpus creation and annotation, show statistics of the obtained data distributions and present first baselines on Myers-Briggs personality profiling and gender prediction for all six languages.

2015

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Detection and Fine-Grained Classification of Cyberbullying Events
Cynthia Van Hee | Els Lefever | Ben Verhoeven | Julie Mennes | Bart Desmet | Guy De Pauw | Walter Daelemans | Veronique Hoste
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

2014

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CLiPS Stylometry Investigation (CSI) corpus: A Dutch corpus for the detection of age, gender, personality, sentiment and deception in text
Ben Verhoeven | Walter Daelemans
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

We present the CLiPS Stylometry Investigation (CSI) corpus, a new Dutch corpus containing reviews and essays written by university students. It is designed to serve multiple purposes: detection of age, gender, authorship, personality, sentiment, deception, topic and genre. Another major advantage is its planned yearly expansion with each year’s new students. The corpus currently contains about 305,000 tokens spread over 749 documents. The average review length is 128 tokens; the average essay length is 1126 tokens. The corpus will be made available on the CLiPS website (www.clips.uantwerpen.be/datasets) and can freely be used for academic research purposes. An initial deception detection experiment was performed on this data. Deception detection is the task of automatically classifying a text as being either truthful or deceptive, in our case by examining the writing style of the author. This task has never been investigated for Dutch before. We performed a supervised machine learning experiment using the SVM algorithm in a 10-fold cross-validation setup. The only features were the token unigrams present in the training data. Using this simple method, we reached a state-of-the-art F-score of 72.2%.

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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA 2014)
Ben Verhoeven | Walter Daelemans | Menno van Zaanen | Gerhard van Huyssteen
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA 2014)

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Automatic Compound Processing: Compound Splitting and Semantic Analysis for Afrikaans and Dutch
Ben Verhoeven | Menno van Zaanen | Walter Daelemans | Gerhard van Huyssteen
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA 2014)

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A Taxonomy for Afrikaans and Dutch Compounds
Gerhard van Huyssteen | Ben Verhoeven
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA 2014)

2013

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More Than Only Noun-Noun Compounds: Towards an Annotation Scheme for the Semantic Modelling of Other Noun Compound Types
Ben Verhoeven | Gerhard B. van Huyssteen
Proceedings of the 9th Joint ISO - ACL SIGSEM Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation