Datasets:
annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
- found
languages:
- en
licenses:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
paperswithcode_id: blog-authorship-corpus
pretty_name: Blog Authorship Corpus
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- multi-class-classification
Dataset Card for Blog Authorship Corpus
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
Dataset Description
- Homepage: https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/BlogCorpus.htm
- Repository: More Information Needed
- Paper: More Information Needed
- Point of Contact: More Information Needed
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 298.45 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 617.75 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 916.20 MB
Dataset Summary
The Blog Authorship Corpus consists of the collected posts of 19,320 bloggers gathered from blogger.com in August 2004. The corpus incorporates a total of 681,288 posts and over 140 million words - or approximately 35 posts and 7250 words per person.
Each blog is presented as a separate file, the name of which indicates a blogger id# and the blogger’s self-provided gender, age, industry and astrological sign. (All are labeled for gender and age but for many, industry and/or sign is marked as unknown.)
All bloggers included in the corpus fall into one of three age groups:
- 8240 "10s" blogs (ages 13-17),
- 8086 "20s" blogs (ages 23-27),
- 2994 "30s" blogs (ages 33-47).
For each age group there are an equal number of male and female bloggers.
Each blog in the corpus includes at least 200 occurrences of common English words. All formatting has been stripped with two exceptions. Individual posts within a single blogger are separated by the date of the following post and links within a post are denoted by the label urllink.
The corpus may be freely used for non-commercial research purposes.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
Languages
The language of the dataset is English (en).
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
blog-authorship-corpus
- Size of downloaded dataset files: 298.45 MB
- Size of the generated dataset: 617.75 MB
- Total amount of disk used: 916.20 MB
An example of 'validation' looks as follows.
{
"age": 23,
"date": "27,July,2003",
"gender": "female",
"horoscope": "Scorpion",
"job": "Student",
"text": "This is a second test file."
}
Data Fields
The data fields are the same among all splits.
blog-authorship-corpus
text: astringfeature.date: astringfeature.gender: astringfeature.age: aint32feature.horoscope: astringfeature.job: astringfeature.
Data Splits
| name | train | validation |
|---|---|---|
| blog-authorship-corpus | 532812 | 31277 |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
Who are the source language producers?
Annotations
Annotation process
Who are the annotators?
Personal and Sensitive Information
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
Discussion of Biases
Other Known Limitations
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
Licensing Information
The corpus may be freely used for non-commercial research purposes.
Citation Information
@inproceedings{schler2006effects,
title={Effects of age and gender on blogging.},
author={Schler, Jonathan and Koppel, Moshe and Argamon, Shlomo and Pennebaker, James W},
booktitle={AAAI spring symposium: Computational approaches to analyzing weblogs},
volume={6},
pages={199--205},
year={2006}
}
Contributions
Thanks to @thomwolf, @lewtun, @patrickvonplaten for adding this dataset.