Personality Classification of Social Users Based on Feature Fusion.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

Based on the openness and accessibility of user data, personality recognition is widely used in personalized recommendation, intelligent medicine, natural language processing, and so on. Existing approaches usually adopt a single deep learning mechanism to extract personality information from user data, which leads to semantic loss to some extent. In addition, researchers encode scattered user posts in a sequential or hierarchical manner, ignoring the connection between posts and the unequal value of different posts to classification tasks. We propose a hierarchical hybrid model based on a self-attention mechanism, namely HMAttn-ECBiL, to fully excavate deep semantic information horizontally and vertically. Multiple modules composed of convolutional neural network and bi-directional long short-term memory encode different types of personality representations in a hierarchical and partitioned manner, which pays attention to the contribution of different words in posts and different posts to personality information and captures the dependencies between scattered posts. Moreover, the addition of a word embedding module effectively makes up for the original semantics filtered by a deep neural network. We verified the hybrid model on the MyPersonality dataset. The experimental results showed that the classification performance of the hybrid model exceeds the different model architectures and baseline models, and the average accuracy reached 72.01%.

Authors

  • Xiujuan Wang
    Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education/Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Rubber-plastics, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China. Electronic address: wangxj@qust.edu.cn.
  • Yi Sui
    School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK. y.sui@qmul.ac.uk.
  • Kangfeng Zheng
    School of Cyberspace Security, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.
  • Yutong Shi
    Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
  • Siwei Cao
    Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.