Automatic Recognition of Personality from Digital Annotations

Nizar Omheni, Anis Kalboussi, Omar Mazhoud, Ahmed Hadj Kacem

2015

Abstract

There is an increasing interest in understanding human perception based on reading and writing behaviours. Such researches are interested to seek knowledge of an individual’s personality as a way to predict their behaviours and preferences across different contexts and environments. Recent works show significant relation between the reader personality and his reading behaviours. Based on these findings, annotation activity is considered as potential source to predict certain personality traits of readers. In this paper, we take advantage of such theoretical works and we propose an online environment of active reading used to explore practically the utility of annotation in reflecting an accurate user personality profile. We apply the paired t-test to evaluate the system’s efficiency to measure human traits versus the scores of personality traits measured using the Neo-IPIP inventory. Our findings show plainly that some traits of users’ personalities can be predicted accurately from digital annotation traces during online reading session.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Omheni N., Kalboussi A., Mazhoud O. and Kacem A. (2015). Automatic Recognition of Personality from Digital Annotations . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 273-280. DOI: 10.5220/0005483002730280

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist15,
author={Nizar Omheni and Anis Kalboussi and Omar Mazhoud and Ahmed Hadj Kacem},
title={Automatic Recognition of Personality from Digital Annotations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={273-280},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005483002730280},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Automatic Recognition of Personality from Digital Annotations
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - Omheni N.
AU - Kalboussi A.
AU - Mazhoud O.
AU - Kacem A.
PY - 2015
SP - 273
EP - 280
DO - 10.5220/0005483002730280