snowball is a "quick & dirty" implementation of the snowball algorithm for training profile attribute classifiers 1.
snowball was initially developed for the purpose of conducting research in the area of privacy in online social networks. For more details you can read the following publications:
- Ammar Abuelgasim and Anne V.D.M. Kayem (2017), A Snow-Ball Algorithm for Automating Privacy Policy Configuration in Social Media, Book: Information Systems Security and Privacy, In Springer Lecture Series on Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 691, pp. 108--129, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54433-5_7 (Springer)