On learning psycholinguistics tools for English-based Creole languages using social media data

• Main Authors: LO, Pei-Chi, LIM, Ee-peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Personality prediction; Language-specific psycholinguistics tool; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5107; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6110/viewcontent/Creole_Language_2018_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) tool is a psycholinguistics tool that has been widely used in both psychology and sociology research, and the LIWC scores derived from user-generated content are known to be good features for personality prediction [1], [2]. LIWC, however, is language spe...