Individual Text Corpora Predict Openness, Interests, Knowledge and Level of Education

arXiv:2404.00165v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Here we examine whether the personality dimension of openness to experience can be predicted from the individual google search history. By web scraping, individual text corpora (ICs) were generated from 214 participants with a mean number of 5 million word tokens. We trained word2vec models and used the similarities of each IC to label words, which were derived from a lexical approach of personality. These IC-label-word similarities were utilized as predictive features in neural models. …

abstract arxiv cs.cl cs.lg education experience generated google google search history knowledge mean personality scraping search text tokens type web web scraping word word2vec