Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging

Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs

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Papers from the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium

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Analysis of a corpus of tens of thousands of blogs — incorporating close to 300 million words — indicates significant differences in writing style and content between male and female bloggers as well as among authors of different ages. Such differences can be exploited to determine an unknown author’s age and gender on the basis of a blog’s vocabulary.