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5. Acquisition of Personality

Authors : Ailbhe N. Finnerty, Bruno Lepri, Fabio Pianesi

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This chapter provides an overview of the methods that can be used to automatically acquire information about an individual’s personality. In particular, we focus our attention on the sources of data (e.g. text, audio, video, mobile phones, wearable sensors, etc.) and the features used to automatically infer personality. For each data source, we discuss the methods of extracting the cues used to detect personality, as well as the major findings. Lastly, we refer some limitations of the current research which is relevant for the advancement of the state of the art.

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Title: Acquisition of Personality
Authors: Ailbhe N. Finnerty
Bruno Lepri
Fabio Pianesi
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-31411-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-31413-6

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31413-6_5

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