Just the way you chat: linking personality, style and recognizability in chats

Roffo, G. , Giorgetta, C., Ferrario, R. and Cristani, M. (2014) Just the way you chat: linking personality, style and recognizability in chats. In: Park, H. S., Salah, A. A., Lee, Y. J., Morency, L.-P., Sheikh, Y. and Cucchiara, R. (eds.) Human Behavior Understanding. Series: Lecture notes in computer science (8749). Springer International Publishing: Cham, pp. 30-41. ISBN 9783319118383 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-11839-0_3)

Abstract

Text chatting represents a hybrid type of communication, where textual information is delivered following turn-taking dynamics, which characterize spoken interactions. It is interesting to understand whether special interactional behavior can emerge in chats, similarly as it does in face-to-face exchanges. In this work, we focus on the writing style of individuals, analyzing how it can be recognized given a portion of chat, and how personality comes into play in this scenario. Two interesting facts do emerge: 1) some traits correlate significantly with some characteristics of people’s chatting style, captured by stylometric features; 2) some of such features are very effective in recognizing a person among a gallery of diverse individuals. This seems to suggest that some personality traits could lead people to chat with a particular style, which turns out to be very recognizable. For example, motor impulsiveness gives a significative (negative) correlation with the use of the suspension points (…), that is also one of the most discriminative characteristics in chats. This and other relations emerge on a dataset on 45 subjects, monitored for 3 months, whose personality traits have been analyzed through self-administered questionnaires. What turns out is that chatting seems to be more than just typing.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Roffo, Dr Giorgio
• Authors: Roffo, G., Giorgetta, C., Ferrario, R., and Cristani, M.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• ISSN: 0302-9743
• ISBN: 9783319118383