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. 2024 Mar 15;26:e47923. doi: 10.2196/47923

Table 3.

Top reported system performance for studies predicting the gender of Twitter users using deep learning machine learning (ML) methods. Result metrics are reflected in this table as reported in the original publications and are not comparable to each other.

Study Language ML method Reported performance



F1-score Accuracy
Ardehaly and Culotta [52], 2017 English Deep LLPa 0.96 N/Ab
Geng et al [71], 2017 English Ensemble: LDAc and CNNd N/A 0.87
Kim et al [83], 2017 English GRNNe N/A 0.68
Vijayaraghavan et al [108], 2017 English DMTf 0.89 N/A
Wang et al [111], 2017 N/A CNN 0.91 0.9
Bayot and Goncalves [55], 2017 English and Spanish CNN N/A 0.59-0.72
Bsir and Zrigui [57], 2018 Arabic GRUg N/A 0.79
Wood-Doughty et al [115], 2018 English RNNh 0.84 0.84
Bsir and Zrigui [58], 2019 Arabic BILSTMi with attention N/A 0.82
Hashempour [75], 2019 Portuguese, French, Dutch, Spanish, German, and Italian FFNNj N/A 0.84-0.86
Wang et al [112], 2019 Multilingual mmDNNk 0.92 N/A
ElSayed and Farouk [68], 2020 Egyptian and Arabic dialects Multichannel CNN-biGRUl N/A 0.84-0.91
Imuede et al [93], 2020 English DNNm N/A 0.68
Zhao et al [121], 2020 English CNN 0.80 N/A
Yang et al [117], 2021 English Ensemble: M3n and SVMo 0.95 0.94

aLLP: learning with label proportions.

bN/A: not applicable.

cLDA: latent Dirichlet allocation.

dCNN: convolutional neural network.

eGRNN: graph recurrent neural network.

fDMT: deep multimodal multitask.

gGRU: gated recurrent network.

hRNN: recurrent neural network.

iBILSTM: bidirectional long-term short-term memory.

jFFNN: feed forward neural network.

kmmDNN: multimodal deep neural network.

lbiGRU: bidirectional gated recurrent unit.

mDNN: deep neural network.

nM3: multimodal, multilingual, and multi-attribute system.

oSVM: support vector machine.