Multiple Language Gender Identification for Blog Posts

In data-driven gender identification, it has been so far largely assumed that the same types of (mostly content-oriented) data features can be used to differentiate between male and female authors. In most cases, this distinction is done in a monolingual scenario. In this work, we discuss a set of features that distinguish between genders in six different datasets of blog data in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Catalan with accuracies that range from 77% to 88%. Using a reduced set of language-independent structural features in a multilingual scenario we first identify the gender and then the gender and language of the author, achieving accuracies higher than 74%.