Men are from Venus: Profiling Anonymous Authors

 

Abstract

What can we determine about an anonymous author based on the texts they've written? We will show that we can determine an author's age, gender, native language and personality type with a fair degree of accuracy. We will also show  that we can sometimes even unmask pseudonymous authors. We will show how we used these methods to solve a famous historical mystery. Joint work with Shlomo Argamon (IIT), Jonathan Schler (Bar-Ilan) and James Pennebaker (U. Texas at Austin).

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