Summary of Predicting the Big Five Personality Traits in Chinese Counselling Dialogues Using Large Language Models, by Yang Yan et al.
Predicting the Big Five Personality Traits in Chinese Counselling Dialogues Using Large Language Models
by Yang Yan, Lizhi Ma, Anqi Li, Jingsong Ma, Zhenzhong Lan
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The study explores whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can accurately predict the Big Five personality traits from counseling dialogues. The researchers introduce an innovative framework that applies role-play and questionnaire-based prompting to condition LLMs on counseling sessions, simulating client responses to the Big Five Inventory. They evaluate their framework on 853 real-world counseling sessions, finding a significant correlation between LLM-predicted and actual Big Five traits. The results prove the validity of the framework. Additionally, ablation studies highlight the importance of role-play simulations and task simplification via questionnaires in enhancing prediction accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study shows that Large Language Models (LLMs) can predict personality traits based on counseling dialogues. Researchers created a special way to train LLMs using role-playing and questionnaires to make them better at understanding people’s personalities. They tested this method with 853 real-life conversations and found it works really well. This could be a useful tool for helping psychologists understand people better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Prompting
