# Is Personality Prediction Possible Based on Reddit Comments?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16089 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.16089/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 11 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11942/) (2019)
- [Myers-Briggs Personality Classification and Personality-Specific Language Generation Using Pre-trained Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.06333/) (2019)
- [MBTI Personality Prediction for Fictional Characters Using Movie Scripts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.10994/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this assignment, we examine whether there is a correlation between the personality type of a person and the texts they wrote. In order to do this, we aggregated datasets of Reddit comments labeled with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) of the author and built different supervised classifiers based on BERT to try to predict the personality of an author given a text. Despite experiencing issues with the unfiltered character of the dataset, we can observe potential in the classification.