PANDORA Talks: Personality and Demographics on Reddit

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/94xcp
• Publication Date: 2020-04-09T10:47:11Z
• Authors: Matej Gjurković; Mladen Karan; Iva Vukojević; Mihaela Bošnjak; Jan Šnajder
• Keywords: Demographics; Interpretability

Personality and demographics are important variables in social sciences, whilein NLP they can aid interpretability removal of societal biases.However, datasets with both personality demographic labels scarce. Toaddress this, we present PANDORA, the first large-scale dataset Reddit commentslabeled three models (including well-established Big 5 model) (age, gender, location) for more than 10k users. Weshowcase usefulness this on experiments, where leveragethe readily available data from other to predict theBig traits, analyze gender classification biases arising frompsycho-demographic variables, carry out a confirmatory exploratoryanalysis based psychological theories. Finally, benchmarkprediction all variables.