Deep Learning-Based Document Modeling for Personality Detection from Text

Abstract-Personality is a combination of an individual’s behavior, emotion, motivation, and thought pattern characteristics. Our personality has great impact on our lives; it affects our life choices, well-being,health, and numerous other preferences. Automatic detection of a person’s personality traits has many important practical applications. In the context of sentiment analysis,1 for example, the products and services recommended to a person should be those that have been positively evaluated by other users with a similar personality type. Personality detection can also be exploited for word polarity disambiguation in sentiment lexicons,2 as the same concept can convey different polarity to different types of people. In mental health diagnosis, certain diagnoses correlate with certain personality traits. In forensics, knowing personality traits helps reduce the circle ofsuspects. In human resources management, personality traits affect one’s suitability for certain jobs.