Author-Profile System Development Based on Software Reuse of Open Source Components

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the contribution of simple open source tools to the development of a highly efficient author profiling system, which determines the age and gender of the author based on the authored text itself. With the rapid growth of the Web, the number of social websites has increased by twice a fold. Thus it becomes necessary for security agencies and intelligence experts to keep track of any malicious activity by users on the Web (such as pedophiles, security attacks etc.) by monitoring their profiles and flagging them if necessary. Rather than building the system from scratch Software Engineering provides us a Component Based Methodology (CBM) that permits the reuse of various components that will help us in achieving better quality software in a quick span of time, free of cost. Significant differences exist in the way males/females and younger/older people write. We illustrate in detail how the system exploits these differences for its development based on the architecture of the CBM.