Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach

PLOS ONE
3.24
Volume: 8, Issue: 9, Pages: 1 - 16
Published: Sep 25, 2013

Abstract
We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age. In our open-vocabulary technique, the data itself drives a comprehensive exploration of language that distinguishes people, finding connections that are not captured with traditional closed-vocabulary...


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Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach
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Published Date
25 Sep, 2013
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8
Issue
9
Pages
1 - 16
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