Deriving Personality Traits from Text
If you’d ask me, one the most compelling fields in language processing is that of authorship profiling. In this field, we try to derive specific information about an (unknown) author of text based on what he or she writes alone, using a principle called stylometry. The idea is that what you write and how you write it, defines you as a person semi-uniquely. This is great for us because it means we can learn a lot of information about a person just by observing writings of that person.