COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AS A TOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

References: 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM 2016, www.sgemsocial.org, SGEM2016 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-70-4 / ISSN 2367-5659, 24 - 31 August, 2016, Book 1 Vol. 1, 85-92 pp, DOI: 10.5593/SGEMSOCIAL2016/B11/S01.011

ABSTRACT
The present paper presents a description of the design and methods of the CPACT research (Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text 2016–2018; grant GACR no. 16-19087S) which focuses on the study of human communication. CPACT is an interdisciplinary research interconnecting two disciplines – psychology and linguistics. The research employs both psychological testing methods and computational linguistics methods. The computational analysis of a natural language conducted by means of specialized applications (e. g. neural networks) enables us to describe verbal communication in a manner that was previously impossible. This method is further combined with psychological research tools in order to identify which specific characteristics of words and phrases are associated with selected personal traits of the speaker. The research aims to understand the relations between a person’s personality and the words they use. By combining advanced computational methods with modern psychodiagnostics, the unique phenomenon of human communication can now be studied from an entirely new perspective.

Keywords: computational, psycholinguistics, words, personality, diagnostics