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Automatic personality prediction: an enhanced method using ensemble modeling

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Human personality is significantly represented by those words which he/she uses in his/her speech or writing. As a consequence of spreading the information infrastructures (specifically the Internet and social media), human communications have reformed notably from face to face communication. Generally, Automatic Personality Prediction (or Perception) (APP) is the automated forecasting of the personality on different types of human generated/exchanged contents (like text, speech, image, video, etc.). The major objective of this study is to enhance the accuracy of APP from the text. To this end, we suggest five new APP methods including term frequency vector-based, ontology-based, enriched ontology-based, latent semantic analysis (LSA)-based, and deep learning-based (BiLSTM) methods. These methods as the base ones, contribute to each other to enhance the APP accuracy through ensemble modeling (stacking) based on a hierarchical attention network (HAN) as the meta-model. The results show that ensemble modeling enhances the accuracy of APP.

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  1. For more attention by computational researchers.

  2. A more complete list is provided at the beginning of Sect. 2.

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Ramezani, M., Feizi-Derakhshi, MR., Balafar, MA. et al. Automatic personality prediction: an enhanced method using ensemble modeling. Neural Comput & Applic 34, 18369–18389 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07444-6

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