Personality structure

This dissertation can be divided into two large questions. The first is a supervised learning problem: given text from an individual, how much can be said about their personality? The second is more fundamental: what personality structure is embedded in modern language models?

The current thesis presents five studies which consider the structure of normal range human personality as measured by psychometric inventories. The primary aim of the thesis was to develop a hierarchical model of the structure of human personality, which not only encapsulated t…