The Big Five: Discovering Linguistic Characteristics that Typify Distinct Personality Traits across Yahoo! Answers Members

Authors

  • Nicolás Olivares
  • Luz María Vivanco
  • Alejandro Figueroa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-3-2752

Keywords:

Big Five, User analysis, Personality analysis, Natural language processing, Community question answering.

Abstract

In psychology, it is widely believed thatthere are five big factors that determine the differentpersonality traits:Extraversion, Agreeableness,Conscientiousness and Neuroticism as well asOpenness.In the last years, researchers havestarted to examine how these factors are manifestedacross several social networks like Facebook andTwitter. However, to the best of our knowledge, otherkinds of social networks such as social/informationalquestion-answering communities (e.g., Yahoo! Answers)have been left unexplored.Therefore, this work explores several predictivemodels to automatically recognize these factors acrossYahoo! Answers members. As a means of devisingpowerful generalizations, these models were combinedwith assorted linguistic features. Since we do nothave access to ask community members to volunteerfor taking the personality test, we built a studycorpus by conducting a discourse analysis based ondeconstructing the test into 112 adjectives.Our results reveal that it is plausible to lessen thedependency upon answered tests and that effectivemodels across distinct factors are sharply different. Also,sentiment analysis and dependency parsing proven tobe fundamental to deal with extraversion, agreeablenessand conscientiousness. Furthermore, medium and lowlevels of neuroticism were found to be related to initialstages of depression and anxiety disorders.

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Published

2018-09-26

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (2018): Thematic issue on Natural Language Processing (Guest Editor: A. Gelbukh)

Section

Articles of the Thematic Issue

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