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Machine Learning And Natural Language Methods For Detecting Psychopathy In Textual Data, Andrew Stephen Henning
Machine Learning And Natural Language Methods For Detecting Psychopathy In Textual Data, Andrew Stephen Henning
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Among the myriad of mental conditions permeating through society, psychopathy is perhaps the most elusive to diagnose and treat. With the advent of natural language processing and machine learning, however, we have ushered in a new age of technology that provides a fresh toolkit for analyzing text and context. Because text remains the medium of choice for most personal and professional interactions, it may be possible to use textual samples from psychopaths as a means for understanding and ultimately classifying similar individuals based on the content of their language usage. This paper aims to investigate natural language processing and supervised …