Whose Thumb Is It Anyway? Classifying Author Personality from Weblog Text

We report initial results on the relatively novel task of automatic classification of author personality. Using a corpus of personal weblogs, or `blogs', we investigate the accuracy that can be achieved when classifying authors on four important personality traits. We explore both binary and multiple classification, using differing sets of n-gram features. Results are promising for all four traits examined.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Jon Oberlander, Scott Nowson
• Keywords: ACL 2006, ACL 2007, Author Personality, Automatic Classification, Important Personality Traits