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What Does the Bird Say? Exploring the Link Between Personality and Language Use in Dutch Tweets

Authors:
Sofie Vandenhoven
Orphée De Clercq

Keywords: Personality; Big Five; Sentiment analysis.

Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to ascertain whether the use of language in Dutch tweets can offer researchers insight into the personality of the user posting those tweets. A database was created, containing the tweets of twenty Belgian, Dutch-speaking Twitter users with an equal representation of both genders. All subjects filled in a personality test based on the Big Five Model of personality and two linguistic analyses were performed on the Dutch tweets. In a first analysis, a more abstract representation of the language was created by means of Part-of-Speech tagging. For the second analysis, typical sentiment and personality-charged words were derived from the tweets based on well-known lexicons. Though our database is rather limited, we were able to find some interesting correlations between certain personality traits and language use.

Pages: 38 to 42

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: November 13, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8351

ISBN: 978-1-61208-519-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2016 to November 17, 2016