TY - GEN
T1 - Toward personality insights from language exploration in social media
AU - Andrew Schwartz, H.
AU - Eichstaedt, Johannes C.
AU - Dziurzynski, Lukasz
AU - Kern, Margaret L.
AU - Seligman, Martin E.P.
AU - Ungar, Lyle H.
AU - Blanco, Eduardo
AU - Kosinski, Michal
AU - Stillwell, David
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Language in social media reveals a lot about people's personality and mood as they discuss the activities and relationships that constitute their everyday lives. Although social media are widely studied, researchers in computational linguistics have mostly focused on prediction tasks such as sentiment analysis and authorship attribution. In this paper, we show how social media can also be used to gain psychological insights. We demonstrate an exploration of language use as a function of age, gender, and personality from a dataset of Facebook posts from 75,000 people who have also taken personality tests, and we suggest how more sophisticated tools could be brought to bear on such data.
AB - Language in social media reveals a lot about people's personality and mood as they discuss the activities and relationships that constitute their everyday lives. Although social media are widely studied, researchers in computational linguistics have mostly focused on prediction tasks such as sentiment analysis and authorship attribution. In this paper, we show how social media can also be used to gain psychological insights. We demonstrate an exploration of language use as a function of age, gender, and personality from a dataset of Facebook posts from 75,000 people who have also taken personality tests, and we suggest how more sophisticated tools could be brought to bear on such data.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883294645
SN - 9781577355984
T3 - AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 72
EP - 79
BT - Analyzing Microtext - Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
T2 - 2013 AAAI Spring Symposium
Y2 - 25 March 2013 through 27 March 2013
ER -