Author Profiling

Author profiling is the analysis of a given set of texts in an attempt to uncover various characteristics of the author based on stylistic- and content-based features, or to identify the author. Characteristics analysed commonly include age and gender, though more recent studies have looked at other characteristics, like personality traits and occupation.

Author profiling is one of the three major fields in automatic authorship identification (AAI), the other two being authorship attribution and authorship identification.