Machine prediction of personality from Facebook profiles

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 109-115

  Wald, Randall ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi ^a   Sumner, Chris ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Online Privacy Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; data mining; Facebook; personality prediction; privacy

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BIG FIVE; FACEBOOK; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SPECIFIC SUBSET;

DATA MINING; DATA PRIVACY; FORECASTING; INFORMATION USE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84868333587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2012.6302998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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