Personality Assessment from Text for Machine Commonsense Reasoning
This work addresses the problem of enhancing machine commonsense reasoning for applications in mental health and AI, though it appears incremental by applying existing methods to new data.
The authors tackled the problem of estimating human personality traits from text and using them for commonsense reasoning analysis, achieving up to 97% accuracy in personality assessment and 82.3% accuracy in predicting responses to commonsense questions.
This article presents PerSense, a framework to estimate human personality traits based on expressed texts and to use them for commonsense reasoning analysis. The personality assessment approaches include an aggregated Probability Density Functions (PDF), and Machine Learning (ML) models. Our goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of using machine learning algorithms on personality trait data to predict humans' responses to open-ended commonsense questions. We assess the performance of the PerSense algorithms for personality assessment by conducting an experiment focused on Neuroticism, an important personality trait crucial in mental health analysis and suicide prevention by collecting data from a diverse population with different Neuroticism scores. Our analysis shows that the algorithms achieve comparable results to the ground truth data. Specifically, the PDF approach achieves 97% accuracy when the confidence factor, the logarithmic ratio of the first to the second guess probability, is greater than 3. Additionally, ML approach obtains its highest accuracy, 82.2%, with a multilayer Perceptron classifier. To assess the feasibility of commonsense reasoning analysis, we train ML algorithms to predict responses to commonsense questions. Our analysis of data collected with 300 participants demonstrate that PerSense predicts answers to commonsense questions with 82.3% accuracy using a Random Forest classifier.