Computational Personality Analysis Introduction, Practical Applications and Novel Directions /

• Main Author: Neuman, Yair (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Application software.; Computational linguistics.; System safety.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Computational Linguistics.; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.; Security Science and Technology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Appendix
• Author index
• Subject index.