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 [email protected],[email protected] !
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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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