On the Role of Personality Traits in Followee Recommendation Algorithms

ANTONELA TOMMASEL; ALEJANDRO CORBELLINI; DANIELA GODOY,; SILVIA SCHIAFFINO

Rosario

Simposio; ASAI 2015 - Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial; 2015

SADIO

Followee recommendation is a problem rapidly gaining importance in Twitterand other micro-blogging communities. Most traditional recommendation systems onlyrely on content or topology, disregarding the effect of psychological characteristics over the followee selection process. As personality is considered one of the primary factors that influence human behaviour, this study aims at assessing the impact of personality in the accurate prediction of followees. It analyses whether user personality could condition followee selection by combining personality traits with the most common followee recommendation factors.