Development of a Japanese Personality Dictionary based on Psychological Methods (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a new approach to constructing a personality dictionary with psychological evidence is needed . we use abstract terms such as "sociable person" or "kind" to describe ourselves or others . |
| Approach: | They propose a Japanese personality dictionary with weights for Big Five traits . they collect personality words and use word embeddings to construct the dictionary . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is the first to have psychological evidence tolerant to NLP standards. |
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