Gender Genie - Automatically Identify blogger’s gender



I found a fun service named Gender Genie which can guess the gender of an author by just using sample paragraphs from the author’s writings. Based on an algorithm by Moshe Koppel and Shlomo Argamon from Illinois Institute of Technology, Gender Genie can quite accurately (albeit sometimes humorously) predict the writers gender solely base on the style of his/her writings.

The downside of this service that I found that it need at least 500 words sample in order to predict gender fairly accurately, a number which is quite impossible to get with a blog entry.

However having said that, Gender Genie is a fun service available on the web which you can try in order to test the ‘masculinity’ (or ‘femininity’) of your blog. You should try it now : The Gender Genine

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The Malaysian Blogosphere
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November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am

links from Technorati Original post by Jon Moffet and software by Elliott Back

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Sopian
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November 11, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Ha.. it’s so fun, its not 100% work, I am a man but Genie think i was a female.
How they think i am female? but it’s so good tools but need more development.

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Michael
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January 17, 2009 at 4:07 am

That’s a really interesting tool. It correctly predicted my gender and the two other sites I checked.

We leave a lot of clues behind when we write, don’t we?

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Hectic Capiznon Blogger
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February 5, 2009 at 1:06 pm

It looks so interesting. I will use this in my stranger followers. It sounds so cool.Thanks for the information

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solar power
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March 19, 2009 at 2:52 am

This is amazing, I just tested it a few times and it got everything right even with short text.

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August 8, 2009 at 9:03 pm

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It is very funny and interesting to know that it is possible to determine the sex of the blogger,by verifying some words.I think that it will be possible.

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Raymund @Pinoy Social Network
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August 9, 2009 at 9:46 am

This is fantastic! The site just showed my daughter’s blog entry as male! Great! :)

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Mike
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September 13, 2009 at 12:27 pm

I guess this highlights another difference between men and women. I never thought of considering a writing style as being masculine or feminine.