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GerAV-Twitter

Dataset Description

GerAV-Twitter is a German authorship verification benchmark belonging to the publication Towards New Heights in German Authorship Verification using Fine-Tuned LLMs on a New Benchmark (Kiefer et al., 2026). The dataset is designed for research on authorship verification and related tasks in computational authorship analysis.

GerAV-Twitter contains authorship verification instances based on German-language Twitter posts. Each instance consists of two posts, referred to as post_a and post_b, together with information about their respective authors and a binary authorship-verification label.

The dataset contains train, validation, and test splits.

The original text of the Twitter posts is not directly distributed with the benchmark. Instead, posts are identified through IDs that can be mapped to the corresponding texts in the original Twitter dataset. Please refer to the paper and the corresponding GerAV GitHub repository for information on obtaining and reconstructing the original texts.

Data Format

Field Type Description
label boolean Whether the two posts were written by the same author
post_a object Information about the first Twitter post
post_b object Information about the second Twitter post

Each post_a and post_b entry contains IDs belonging the the tweet and the author of the tweet.

The authorship verification task is therefore defined as determining whether post_a and post_b were written by the same author.

Intended Use

GerAV-Twitter is intended for academic and non-commercial research on authorship verification, stylometry, NLP, and related areas.

Access Conditions

You need to satisfy the following conditions for your access request to be accepted:

  • The dataset may be used for academic research only. Such use must comply with the applicable Twitter terms of usage and user privacy as stated in the dataset licence of the source dataset.
  • Access is restricted to researchers affiliated with a research or educational institution. Please provide an institutional email address with your request.
  • The dataset may not be used for commercial purposes or for mass surveillance.
  • Access requests are reviewed individually. Additional restrictions or exclusions may be applied based on the information provided in the access request.
  • The dataset may not be redistributed or made available to third parties.

By requesting access, you confirm that you have read and agree to these conditions.

Citation

If you use GerAV-Twitter in your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{kiefer-etal-2026-gerav,
    title = "{G}er{AV}: Towards New Heights in {G}erman Authorship Verification using Fine-Tuned {LLM}s on a New Benchmark",
    author = "Kiefer, Lotta  and
      Leiter, Christoph  and
      Takeshita, Sotaro  and
      Schmidt, Elena  and
      Eger, Steffen",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1991/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.1991",
    pages = "40050--40069",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}
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