Personality recognition aims to identify the personality traits implied in user data such as dialogues and social media posts. Current research predominantly treats personality recognition as a classification task, failing to reveal the supporting evidence for the recognized personality. In this paper, we propose a novel task named Explainable Personality Recognition, aiming to reveal the reasoning process as supporting evidence of the personality trait. Inspired by personality theories, personality traits are made up of stable patterns of personality state, where the states are short-term characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a concrete situation at a specific moment in time. We propose an explainable personality recognition framework called Chain-of-Personality-Evidence (CoPE), which involves a reasoning process from specific contexts to short-term personality states to long-term personality traits. Furthermore, based on the CoPE framework, we construct an explainable personality recognition dataset from dialogues, PersonalityEvd. We introduce two explainable personality state recognition and explainable personality trait recognition tasks, which require models to recognize the personality state and trait labels and their corresponding support evidence. Our extensive experiments based on Large Language Models on the two tasks show that revealing personality traits is very challenging and we present some insights for future research. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/Lei-Sun-RUC/PersonalityEvd.
University of Groningen（格罗宁根大学）；Università degli Studi di Torino（都灵大学）；IT University of Copenhagen（哥本哈根信息技术大学）
As a contribution to personality detection in languages other than English, we rely on distant supervision to create Personal-ITY, a novel corpus of YouTube comments in Italian, where authors are labelled with personality traits. The traits are derived from one of the mainstream personality theories in psychology research, named MBTI. Using personality prediction experiments, we (i) study the task of personality prediction in itself on our corpus as well as on TwiSty, a Twitter dataset also annotated with MBTI labels; (ii) carry out an extensive, in-depth analysis of the features used by the c…
Uppsala University（乌普萨拉大学）；Swedish Defence Research Agency（瑞典国防研究局）
In this study, we examined the possibility to extract personality traits from a text. We created an extensive dataset by having experts annotate personality traits in a large number of texts from multiple online sources. From these annotated texts, we selected a sample and made further annotations ending up in a large low-reliability dataset and a small high-reliability dataset. We then used the two datasets to train and test several machine learning models to extract personality from text, including a language model. Finally, we evaluated our best models in the wild, on datasets from differen…
Neuron-based Personality Trait Induction in Large Language Models
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China（中国人民大学首都人工智能学院）；Tongyi Lab（通义实验室）；Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China（中国人民大学统计与大数据研究院）
Personality Vector: Modulating Personality of Large Language Models by Model Merging
Department of Human-Artificial Intelligence Interaction, Sungkyunkwan University（人类-人工智能交互系，成均馆大学）；Department of Immersive Media Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University（沉浸式媒体工程系，成均馆大学）
University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学）；Adapt Centre, Trinity College Dublin（都柏林圣三一学院适应中心）
Research on human spoken language has shown that speech plays an important role in identifying speaker personality traits. In this work, we propose an approach for identifying speaker personality traits using overlap dynamics in multiparty spoken dialogues. We first define a set of novel features representing the overlap dynamics of each speaker. We then investigate the impact of speaker personality traits on these features using ANOVA tests. We find that features of overlap dynamics significantly vary for speakers with different levels of both Extraversion and Conscientiousness. Finally, we f…
P-React: Synthesizing Topic-Adaptive Reactions of Personality Traits via Mixture of Specialized LoRA Experts
School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University（东华大学计算机科学与技术学院）；Shanghai Institute of AI for Education, East China Normal University（东华大学人工智能教育研究所）；Xiaohongshu Inc.（小红书公司）
Augmenting Dialog with Think-Aloud Utterances for Modeling Individual Personality Traits by LLM
Institute of Science Tokyo（东京科学大学）；Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）；Nara Institute of Science and Technology（奈良先端科学技术大学院大学）；Fujitsu Limited（富士通株式会社）
Activation-Space Personality Steering: Hybrid Layer Selection for Stable Trait Control in LLMs
Network Analysis and Social Influence Modelling (NASIM) Lab（网络分析与社会影响建模实验室）；School of Physics Maths and Computing, The University of Western Australia（西澳大学物理数学与计算学院）；School of Psychological Science, The University of Western Australia（西澳大学心理学科学学院）；School of Computing, Macquarie University（麦考瑞大学计算机学院）
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；EMOS Technologies Inc.（EMOS科技公司）
We propose a multilingual model to recognize Big Five Personality traits from text data in four different languages: English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian. Our analysis shows that words having a similar semantic meaning in different languages do not necessarily correspond to the same personality traits. Therefore, we propose a personality alignment method, GlobalTrait, which has a mapping for each trait from the source language to the target language (English), such that words that correlate positively to each trait are close together in the multilingual vector space. Using these aligned embeddi…
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Western University（韦仕敦大学）；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
In recent years, deep learning-based automated personality trait detection has received a lot of attention, especially now, due to the massive digital footprints of an individual. Moreover, many researchers have demonstrated that there is a strong link between personality traits and emotions. In this paper, we build on the known correlation between personality traits and emotional behaviors, and propose a novel multitask learning framework, SoGMTL that simultaneously predicts both of them. We also empirically evaluate and discuss different information-sharing mechanisms between the two tasks. …
Samsung R&D Institute of China - Beijing (SRC-B)（三星中国研发研究院-北京（SRC-B））；Utrecht University（乌得勒支大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
Endowing a dialogue system with particular personality traits is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, due to the challenge of embodying personality via language expression and the lack of large-scale persona-labeled dialogue data, this research problem is still far from well-studied. In this paper, we investigate the problem of incorporating explicit personality traits in dialogue generation to deliver personalized dialogues. To this end, firstly, we construct PersonalDialog, a large-scale multi-turn dialogue dataset containing various traits from a large number of spea…
Enhancing Textual Personality Detection toward Social Media: Integrating Long-term and Short-term Perspectives
School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China（计算机科学与技术学院，大连理工大学，大连，中国）；Criminal Investigation Police University of China, Shenyang, China（中国刑事侦查警察大学，沈阳，中国）；School of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China（外语学院，大连理工大学，大连，中国）
The Better Angels of Machine Personality: How Personality Relates to LLM Safety
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）；Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）；Renmin University of China（中国人民大学）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Many methods have been used to recognize author personality traits from text, typically combining linguistic feature engineering with shallow learning models, e.g. linear regression or Support Vector Machines. This work uses deep-learning-based models and atomic features of text, the characters, to build hierarchical, vectorial word and sentence representations for trait inference. This method, applied to a corpus of tweets, shows state-of-the-art performance across five traits and three languages (English, Spanish and Italian) compared with prior work in author profiling. The results, support…
DPN-LE: Dual Personality Neuron Localization and Editing for Large Language Models
Southeast University（东南大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；East China Normal University（华东师范大学）；Zhongguancun Academy（中关村学院）；Zhejiang University of Technology（浙江工业大学）；Kuaishou Technology（快手科技）；Northeastern University（东北大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics（南京航空航天大学）
Exploring the Impact of Personality Traits on Conversational Recommender Systems: A Simulation with Large Language Models
Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；Singapore Management University（新加坡管理大学）；Hong Kong Baptist University（香港浸会大学）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Do Personality Traits Interfere? Geometric Limitations of Steering in Large Language Models
Network Analysis and Social Influence Modelling (NASIM) Lab（网络分析与社会影响建模实验室）；School of Physics Maths and Computing（物理数学计算学院）；The University of Western Australia（西澳大学）；School of Computing（计算学院）；Macquarie University（麦觉瑞大学）
LLMvsSmall Model? Large Language Model Based Text Augmentation Enhanced Personality Detection Model
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））
Evaluating Personality Traits in Large Language Models: Insights from Psychological Questionnaires
School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing（物理、数学与计算学院）；University of Western Australia（西澳大学）；School of Computing（计算机学院）；School of Psychological Sciences（心理科学学院）
Linguistic markers of personality traits have been studied extensively, but few cross-cultural studies exist. In this paper, we evaluate how native speakers of American English and Arabic perceive personality traits and naturalness of English utterances that vary along the dimensions of verbosity, hedging, lexical and syntactic alignment, and formality. The utterances are the turns within dialogue fragments that are presented as text transcripts to the workers of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The results of the study suggest that all four dimensions can be used as linguistic markers of all persona…
