[Bots and Gender Profiling] Human-bias in the bot-documents ?

[Oren Halvani]

Dear Author Profiling organizers,

I would like to highlight an observation I've made regarding the provided training corpus.

There are several XML files, where the contained documents represent citations from famous humans.

Here are a number of such examples, taken from the XML file "2855276210aea6dad744fdcbca0e633e.xml"

        <document><![CDATA[Money is the best deodorant. - Elizabeth Taylor]]></document>

        <document><![CDATA[So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?  Christina Aguilera]]></document>

        <document><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.]]></document>

        <document><![CDATA[Never, never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill]]></document>

        <document><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]]></document>

        <document><![CDATA[Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James]]></document>

        <document><![CDATA[A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. - Jesse Owens]]></document>

According to the "train-truth.txt", this specific XML file represents an example for a bot:

        2855276210aea6dad744fdcbca0e633e:::bot:::bot

However, the citations are from humans.

Therefore, my question: Isn't the given corpus somehow biased?

Best regards

Oren Halvani

[Francisco Rangel]

Hi Oren, how are you?

You're right, this account is automatically tweeting famous humans citations. By definition, a software that automatically republishes contents is often considered a bot.

Best regards,

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[Oren]

Hola Francisco,

>> Hi Oren, how are you?

Gracias, very fine ;-)
Hope you too...

>> By definition, a software that automatically republishes contents is often considered a bot.

OK, thank you very much for the clarification!
This simplifies the task :-)


Best regards
Oren
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