MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Russian scientists have learned how to determine the gender and main personality characteristics of Internet users by the texts they post on the Internet, the newspaper Izvestia has reported.
Law enforcement entities can use these developments to combat terrorists, the report said.
"Mathematicians from the Kurchatov Institute national research center have learned to determine the gender of Internet users by the texts published by them. With the assistance of linguists from the Voronezh State Pedagogical University, they have developed methods of machine training and computer simulation that make it possible to resolve this non-trivial task," the report said.
"The study is done using supercomputers. The computer uses neuronets and artificial intellect methods to analyze tests based on a number of grammar and style features. The regularities that make it possible to determine the gender of authors are determined," the report said.
"A need for in-depth analysis of information circulating on social networks arose a long time ago. The results and the methods we have obtained will be used for protecting children from harmful information and for combating terrorist threats," Alexander Sboyev, PhD in mathematics, who leads the project, said.
The relevant services analyze all sources of harmful information they find, he said. An important component of this work is accurate identification of the gender of authors. The same applies to the task of identifying terrorists by their correspondence and therefore law enforcement entities are among the potential users of the study results, Izvestia said.