What Does the Bird Say? Exploring the Link Between Personality and Language Use in Dutch Tweets
Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
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.
Authors: Sofie Vandenhoven, Orphée De Clercq
Language: English
Topic: Mental Health via Writing
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2691010709