Knowledge Graph-Enabled Text-Based Automatic Personality Prediction

How people think, feel, and behave primarily is a representation of their personality characteristics. By being conscious of the personality characteristics of individuals whom we are dealing with or deciding to deal with, one can competently ameliorate the relationship, regardless of its type. With the rise of Internet-based communication infrastructures (social networks, forums, etc.), a considerable amount of human communications takes place there. The most prominent tool in such communications is the language in written and spoken form that adroitly encodes all those essential personality characteristics of individuals. Text-based Automatic Personality Prediction (APP) is the automated forecasting of the personality of individuals based on the generated/exchanged text contents. This paper presents a novel knowledge graph-enabled approach to text-based APP that relies on the Big Five personality traits. To this end, given a text, a knowledge graph, which is a set of interlinked descriptions of concepts, was built by matching the input text's concepts with DBpedia knowledge base entries. Then, due to achieving a more powerful representation, the graph was enriched with the DBpedia ontology, NRC Emotion Intensity Lexicon, and MRC psycholinguistic database information. Afterwards, the knowledge graph, which is now a knowledgeable alternative for the input text, was embedded to yield an embedding matrix. Finally, to perform personality predictions, the resulting embedding matrix was fed to four suggested deep learning models independently, which are based on convolutional neural network (CNN), simple recurrent neural network (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). The results indicated considerable improvements in prediction accuracies in all of the suggested classifiers.