Gender Differences in the Use of Portuguese in Social Networks - Evidence from LIWC

  • Gustavo Paiva Guedes CEFET-RJ
  • Eduardo Bezerra CEFET-RJ
  • Lilian Ferrari UFRJ
  • Fellipe Duarte UFRRJ

Abstract


This work aims at highlighting gender differences in the use of Brazilian Portuguese by users of a Brazilian social network. We perform this study by using a dictionary of a text analysis program named LIWC. Experimental results indicate that males and females differ with respect to the most used word classes. Our results are consistent with studies performed in other languages.
Keywords: Sentiment analysis, LIWC, Text Mining
Published
2016-11-08
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GUEDES, Gustavo Paiva; BEZERRA, Eduardo; FERRARI, Lilian; DUARTE, Fellipe. Gender Differences in the Use of Portuguese in Social Networks - Evidence from LIWC. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA AND THE WEB (WEBMEDIA), 22. , 2016, Teresina. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2016 . p. 339-342.

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