Computational personality analysis : introduction, practical applications and novel directions /

The emergence of intelligent technologies, sophisticated natural language processing methodologies and huge textual repositories, invites a new approach for the challenge of automatically identifying personality dimensions through the analysis of textual data. This short book aims to (1) introduce t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neuman, Yair, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: from The Princess Bride to computational personality
  • Personality in a nutshell: understanding who we are
  • Computational personality analysis: when the machine meets the psychologist
  • Distributional semantics and personality: how to find a perpetrator in a haystack
  • Themes of personality: profiling a political leader
  • Going beyond words: how the sisters of mercy may identify psychopaths
  • Hidden textual themes: into Shakespeare's mind
  • The complexity of personality: from Snowden to Superman
  • Attractors of personality: a murderer, a terrorist, and some angry Jews
  • Taking complexity a step forward: the reversibility of the pedophile's mind
  • Discussion.