Survey on Personality Recognition Based on Social Media Data

Personality is a stable construction, which is associated with thoughts, emotions and behaviors of human. Any technology involved in understanding, analyzing and predicting human behaviors may benefit from personality recognition. Accurately recognizing the personality will contribute to the research of human-computer interaction, recommendation system, cyberspace security, etc. Social media provides high-quality data for personality recog-nition, while classic personality measurement methods such as self-report scales and projective tests can no longer match the social media data in the age of big data. Moreover, the current mainstream personality recognition methods based on machine learning still have lots of room for performance improvement. Therefore, this paper investigates the literature on personality recognition based on social media data, introduces the background knowledge of personality recognition and summarizes the research status according to the data types of recognition model input used, specifically based on social text data, social image data, social application data and multimodal data. Finally, this paper proposes seven future research directions of personality recognition based on social media data.