Deep Learning Reveals New Insights About People

Can a computer detect an author's personality type, based only on a sample of his or her writing? Four researchers from Singapore and Mexico City sought to answer that question. In their newly published study, the authors present a deep learning-based method that can figure out the psychological profiles of authors. They used a specially designed deep convolutional neural network. Their method analyzed various texts in order to identify the presence or absence of the Big Five personality traits.