用超图建模文本层级,提升性格预测准确率
HyperPersona: A Multi-Level Hypergraph Framework for Text-Based Automatic Personality Prediction

- 构建文档-句子-词三级超图结构,显式捕捉语言层次
- 在五大性格维度上超越现有模型,显著提升预测性能
- 适合自然语言处理与心理计算交叉研究者参考
语言是社会与心理特征的丰富载体,反映人们将思维、行为和情绪编码为文字的方式。基于文本的自动性格预测(APP)旨在通过语言行为推断性格,提供可扩展的替代传统心理测评的方法。尽管文本具有固有的层次结构——文档层捕捉全局特征,句子层表达局部语义,词层提供细粒度词汇信息——但现有方法多依赖浅层、顺序或单层表示,忽略了语言的多级结构。为此,我们提出HyperPersona框架,通过超图结构显式建模文本的层次组织:文档及其句子作为超边,词作为节点,实现对文本全局、局部和词汇依赖关系的联合建模。随后采用基于Transformer的图编码器,学习各语言层级内及跨层级的交互,生成上下文敏感且结构化的特征表示用于性格预测。在五大性格维度上的实验表明,仅依赖文本,HyperPersona能有效整合多层级语言线索,性能优于当前最优基线。结果凸显了文本层次结构在推进类人性格推理中的关键作用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As a modern commodity, language has become a vast repository of socially and psychologically significant traits and concepts, reflecting the ways people encode pattern of thoughts, behaviors, and emotions into words. Text-based Automatic Personality Prediction (APP), seeks to infer personality from linguistic behavior, offering a scalable alternative to traditional psychometric assessments. Although text is inherently hierarchical, with the document-level capturing global features, the sentence-level encoding local semantics, and the word-level providing fine-grained lexical information, most existing approaches rely on shallow, sequential, or single-level representations that ignore the multi-level structure of written language. To address this, we propose HyperPersona, a framework that explicitly models the hierarchical organization of text (document, sentence, and word) through hypergraph structure, where a document and its sentences are represented as hyperedges, and the words are represented as nodes, enabling joint modeling of global, local, and lexical dependencies of text. Followed by a transformer-based graph encoder that learns interactions within and across these linguistic layers, yielding context-sensitive and structurally grounded feature representations for personality prediction. Experiments on the Big Five personality dimensions show that, while relying solely on text, HyperPersona effectively integrates multi-level linguistic cues, achieving superior performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines. These findings underscore the critical role of textual hierarchy in advancing human-like personality inference from natural language.
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