MBTI Personality Prediction for Fictional Characters Using Movie Scripts (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing NLP models cannot predict character's personality types based on text classifications . character comprehension is the cornerstone of understanding stories in psychology and education. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to predict movie character's MBTI or Big 5 personality types based on the narratives of the character. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models in the task and is more accurate than random guesses. |
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