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Record W2180526599 · doi:10.1109/pacrim.2015.7334812

Sociolinguistics and programming

2015· article· en· W2180526599 on OpenAlex
Fariha Naz, Jacqueline E. Rice

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAuthorship Attribution and Profiling
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
FundersUniversity of Lethbridge
KeywordsComputer scienceC4.5 algorithmNaive Bayes classifierDecision treeArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingMachine learningCoding (social sciences)Random forestImplementationProgramming languageSupport vector machine

Abstract

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This paper focuses on the use of machine learning techniques for the analysis of computer programs in order to acquire information about an author's gender. There are few existing studies that address the relationship between linguistics and programming; however, in many areas where language is analyzed it is possible to mine important information about the users of that language associated with set of attribute or coding style. In this work we use open source implementations of machine learning algorithms, specifically, nearest neighbor (K*), decision tree (J48), and Bayes classifier (Naïve Bayes). These algorithms were applied to C++ programs which were associated with sociolinguistic information about the program authors. Our goal was to classify the programs according to the gender of the author. As indicated by our initial results we have been able to achieve precision of 72.3%, recall of 72%, and f-measure of 71.9% which demonstrates that we can predict the gender of the authors of C++ programs.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.748
Threshold uncertainty score0.112

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.087
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2015
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