You Are What You Talk About: Inducing Evaluative Topics for Personality Analysis (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on the relationship between personality and evaluative language. |
| Approach: | They propose to map evaluative topics to pre-filtered evalative text and link evalueative topics with individual text authors to build their ev emvaluative profiles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach is validated by observing correlations consistent with prior research in personality psychology. |
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