[Corpora-List] Personality traits of Switchboard speakers

[Alexander Osherenko]

Thank you, Philip!

Of course, I am aware of the work by Pennebaker. However, I would like to conduct a similar study that relies not only on linguistic properties of words such as counts of pronouns but use means of data mining.

I began to work on this issue and conducted research using a small corpus with natural-language dialogues (574 turns). You can look at the results at http://caffei.iit.demokritos.gr/programme/osherenko.pdf. Now I would like to extend this study with the Switchboard data from NLTK.

For this purpose, I need descriptions of personality traits (psychological characteristics) of speakers that took part in the Switchboard conversations, similar to psychological characteristics of the SAL characters I used in my small study. For instance, character Prudence in SAL is described by words "pragmatic and practical". Finally, I can assess the yielded mathematical models of the speakers by comparing them with the descriptions as I did in the SAL study.



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> Datum: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:38:14 -0400
> Von: P Resnik <psresnik at gmail.com>
> An: Alexander Osherenko <osherenko at gmx.de>
> Betreff: Re: [Corpora-List] Personality traits of Switchboard speakers

> I recommend you look at work by psychologist Jamie Pennebaker if you have
> not already done so.  He has done extensive work using text
> characteristics
> as independent variables and looking at their predictive power with
> respect
> to psychological dependent variables including Big Five and others.  A
> good
> place to start both for his work and related work would be his article in
> Annual Review of Psychology 2003,
> http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145041
> .
> 
> I would be very grateful if you would forward or post any useful replies
> you
> receive.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>   Philip
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Osherenko
> <osherenko at gmx.de>wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to extract personality of speakers taking part in
> natural-language
> > dialogues, for instance, as Big Five personality traits. In order to
> > facilite analysis, I would like to analyze personality of speakers using
> the
> > well-annotated Switchboard dialogues in NLTK.
> >
> > In the disfluency annotation stylebook of NLTK, I didn't find
> description
> > of the speakers taking part in the conversations (speakers A and B).
> > Nevertheless, is it possible to get such information on personality
> traits
> > or alternatively information on psychological characteristics of the
> > Switchboard speakers?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Alexander
> >
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