Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (33–47)

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 557 bloggers, 686 posts, collected by Schler et al. for AAAI 2006. Each record contains blog post text, gender, age, industry, astrological sign. Historical blog corpus from 2004 with rich metadata per blogger (gender, age, industry, astrological sign). Balanced across age groups and genders.. Suitable for authorship attribution, stylistic analysis, demographic language variation, historical NLP.

#Age prediction#Author profiling#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus

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Content metrics

557 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

ageμ 37.639 ± 4.137
min 33max 47
6.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
6.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004liketimeknowdonthinkpeopledaygoinggoodlifewantthingsaugustwayworkurllinklovegotfeeltodaylittlehomesaidneednewrightyearsjunedidnthingnightwentthoughtcomelonghouseyearawayoldbetterlookgreatfindletsurejulyplaceworldweek
Topic clusters

Topic 0

time
minute
day
like
think
know
run
work

Topic 1

know
feel
want
think
love
like
time
thing

Topic 2

urllink
bush
kerry
know
like
people
think
time

Topic 3

know
feel
thing
want
think
time
like
tell

Topic 4

god
church
know
people
time
love
energy
thing

Topic 5

work
like
thing
think
day
know
time
home

Topic 6

know
like
think
thing
want
come
dog
time

Topic 7

day
today
work
year
time
thing
good
think

Topic 8

golden
life
like
live
day
know
want
kid

Topic 9

bike
ride
day
paul
train
time
meet
work
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Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-female-30s
Authors
Schler, Jonathan; Koppel, Moshe; Argamon, S.; Pennebaker, J.
Year
2006
Source paper
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging
License
Free for non-commercial research (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
557
Languages
en
Collected
2004 (2000s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/barilan/blog_authorship_corpus link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 74.3 MB across 1461 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{schler2006,
  title     = {Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging},
  author    = {Schler, Jonathan and Koppel, Moshe and Argamon, S. and Pennebaker, J.},
  year      = {2006},
  booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Schler, J., Koppel, M., Argamon, S., & Pennebaker, J. (2006). Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (33–47) [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-female-30s.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Schler, Jonathan, et al. Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (33–47). 2006, blog-authorship-female-30s.echo.directory/.

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