Software designed by two academics from the Faculty of Computer Science & Mathematics which is able to detect gender deception in E-mail exchanges could maximize the safety of users of online chat rooms and related social networking services.
The internet is not only revolutionizing the domain of communication but also provides opportunities for people to experiment with their identities. Cyberspace makes gender switching and deception so easy as what we reveal to others can be easily exaggerated or falsified. As such, internet chat rooms and similar sites provide a tempting opportunity to gender switch, experiment with identities, abandon it if necessary and safely try it again if one so desires. With such online identity deception and experimentation on the rise, internet users need to hone their deceit-detector skills and the E-mail analyzer thus, plays a significant role in keeping gender deception at bay.
Associate Professor Dianne Cheong Lee Mei and Nur Atiqah Sia Abdullah designed the E-mail analyzer based on gender-preferential linguistic features of English since inferences can be made both from the writing style and hidden cues in the posted message.
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