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MBTI on Twitter

Personality Traits on Twitter —Or—

How to Get 1,500 Personality Tests in a WeekBarbara Plank and Dirk Hovy

University of Copenhagen, Denmark bplank@cst.dk,dirk.hovy@hum.ku.dk !

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Contributions

Corpus collection

Statistical Analysis

http://www.capt.org/mbti-assessment/

Introduction & Motivation

Results

•most work: small samples, closed vocabularies •here: large-scale, open vocabulary approach to

personality prediction How many personality tests can we get in a week?

‣manually checked 1,500 users annotated withMBTI and gender

‣>100 tweets/user, in total 1.2m tweets

‣Twitter API: “Briggs” + one of 16 MBTI

Twitter corpus

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Twitter corpus General US population

‣using social media data for personality prediction

‣analyze predictive features for various dimensions

‣novel corpus of 1.2m tweets / 1,500 authors with Myers-Briggs type indicators (MBTI) & gender

Myers-Briggs

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