Blog Authorship Corpus — Female Bloggers (23–27)

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 1,376 bloggers, 1,657 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#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics

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1,376 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

ageμ 24.658 ± 1.365
min 23max 27
6.3
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
6.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004likeknowtimedonthinkpeoplegoingwantdaylovelifegoodgotwayaugustthingsworkfeellittlerighttodayurllinknightnewwentsaiddidnjunethinghomeneedjulycomefriendsthoughtmaybelongletfindgodawaymanbetterfriendsureworldlookgreatperson
Topic clusters

Topic 0

know
love
like
feel
want
life
think
time

Topic 1

think
know
want
like
time
thing
life
feel

Topic 2

urllink
like
work
know
thing
time
people
want

Topic 3

like
know
think
feel
time
thing
day
good

Topic 4

aku
yang
dice
ang
know
dan
time
love

Topic 5

day
time
like
work
good
baby
pictures
come

Topic 6

time
like
think
day
team
love
know
good

Topic 7

night
like
think
movie
urllink
good
want
wes

Topic 8

god
lord
life
people
jesus
know
love
church

Topic 9

know
like
time
think
day
good
want
look

Topic 10

technology
medium
computer
student
disk
urllink
system
design

Topic 11

guy
want
like
think
time
tell
work
know
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

work
time
day
think
like
know
people
want

Topic 13

mum
think
class
day
like
know
thing
time
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Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-female-20s
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
1,376
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, 186.9 MB across 4043 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 (23–27) [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-female-20s.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 (23–27). 2006, blog-authorship-female-20s.echo.directory/.

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