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Table 20 Results for the person’s characteristic Occupation

From: Celebrity profiling through linguistic analysis of digital social networks

Category

Description

Politician

All the measured variables enrich their corpus, i.e., they have a vast lexicon, and a high average of words. They use elements of the social network and all the pronouns in their corpus.

Professional

They have a very varied lexical diversity. They do not use many elements of the social network, only hashtag, and the use of pronouns is limited to the singular third-person and plural first-person pronouns.

Religious

They have a high average word usage (long tweets) with great lexical diversity. They only use the mentions of the elements from the social network, and for syntactic analysis, it is evident the use of plural first person and singular third-person pronouns.

Science

They have high lexical diversity. They do not use retweets, nor singular first-person pronoun.

Sport

They do not use any syntactic attribute, URL, or mention. They use symbolic features and retweets instead.