COOPNet: Multi-Modal Cooperative Gender Prediction in Social Media User Profiling

The principal way of performing user profiling is to investigate accumulated social media data. However, the problem of information asymmetry generally exists in user generated contents since users post multi-modal contents in social media freely. In this paper, we propose a novel text-image cooperation framework (COOPNet), a bridge connection network architecture that exchanges information between texts and images. First, we map the representations of both visual and sentiment enriched textual modalities into a cooperative semantic space to derive a cooperative representation. Next, the representations of texts and images are combined with their cooperative representation to exchange knowledge in the learning process. Finally, a multi-modal regression is leveraged to make cooperative decisions. Extensive experiments on the public PAN-2018 dataset demonstrate the efficacy of our framework over the state-of-the-art methods on the premise of automatic feature learning.