Understanding personality through natural language

Now, let's move to another interesting topic—that of personality.

With the Watson Personality Insights service, you can garner insight into the personality of anyone by using anything that they wrote. Before we get deeper into this tool, let's take a moment to deconstruct what this means.

Using natural language to infer personality traits

Psychologists have known for a long time that you can infer someone's personality traits based off of the way they write. Not what they write, but how they write. The way you structure your sentences and paragraphs, and the verbiage you choose—these introduce subtle hints or clues as to what certain personality...