Blog Authorship Corpus — Male Bloggers (13–17)

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 1,917 bloggers, 2,293 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#Teenager

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1,917 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

ageμ 15.628 ± 1.216
min 13max 17
6.3
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004liketimeknowgotdonpeoplegoodthinkdaywenttodaygoingaugustlovewantjunelifeurllinkschoolwaythingthingsrightnewjulysaidhomefeelfunbloglittleneedfriendsmanworkdidnnightlongcomebaddontstuffbettergreatpostprettymaybeyeartell
Topic clusters

Topic 0

know
love
feel
life
like
want
think
thing

Topic 1

like
music
song
good
know
think
time
day

Topic 2

bush
kerry
urllink
people
iraq
war
president
government

Topic 3

game
nintendo
play
good
like
time
new
character

Topic 4

school
time
today
class
think
teacher
like
post

Topic 5

like
day
lose
work
night
thing
time
little

Topic 6

jason
baron
movie
sam
ryan
know
time
like

Topic 7

day
like
good
time
think
thing
know
fun

Topic 8

lor
liao
coz
today
haha
realli
lol
haiz

Topic 9

urllink
gay
know
like
comment
post
good
wal

Topic 10

urllink
apple
site
new
computer
program
free
use

Topic 11

god
pray
life
know
church
jesus
christ
love
Show all 20 topics

Topic 12

den
haha
juz
wif
dat
sian
play
wad

Topic 13

hole
black
horizon
mass
life
time
light
universe

Topic 14

game
twins
team
sox
mike
jose
todd
baseball

Topic 15

kyle
need
want
fuck
like
sean
know
people

Topic 16

yea
like
people
lindsey
think
thing
music
site

Topic 17

band
time
like
know
mike
think
good
people

Topic 18

win
thorpe
team
soccer
olympic
lose
play
good

Topic 19

haha
haiz
lol
den
sia
nvm
dun
like
Top hashtags
#177
#251
#318
#514
#413
#00000012
#i9
#78
#67
#d8f3f35
#414
#y4
#103
#963
#r3
#ri3
#v3
#w3
#wi3
#112

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-male-teen
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
1,917
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, 124.9 MB across 4120 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 — Male Bloggers (13–17) [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-male-teen.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 — Male Bloggers (13–17). 2006, blog-authorship-male-teen.echo.directory/.

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