<s>
Personality	B-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
research	O
field	O
related	O
to	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
and	O
personality	O
psychology	O
that	O
studies	O
personality	O
by	O
means	O
of	O
computational	O
techniques	O
from	O
different	O
sources	O
,	O
including	O
text	O
,	O
multimedia	O
and	O
social	O
networks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Personality	B-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
addresses	O
three	O
main	O
problems	O
involving	O
personality	O
:	O
automatic	B-General_Concept
personality	I-General_Concept
recognition	I-General_Concept
,	O
perception	O
and	O
synthesis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Automatic	B-General_Concept
personality	I-General_Concept
recognition	I-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
inference	O
of	O
personality	O
type	O
of	O
target	O
individuals	O
from	O
their	O
digital	O
footprint	O
,	O
automatic	O
personality	O
perception	O
is	O
the	O
inference	O
of	O
the	O
personality	O
attributed	O
by	O
an	O
observer	O
to	O
a	O
target	O
individual	O
based	O
on	O
some	O
observable	O
behavior	O
,	O
and	O
automatic	O
personality	O
synthesis	O
is	O
the	O
generation	O
of	O
the	O
style	O
or	O
behaviour	O
of	O
artificial	O
personalities	O
in	O
Avatars	O
and	O
virtual	O
agents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Self-assessed	O
personality	O
tests	O
or	O
observer	O
ratings	O
are	O
always	O
exploited	O
as	O
the	O
ground	B-General_Concept
truth	I-General_Concept
for	O
testing	O
and	O
validating	O
the	O
performance	O
of	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
algorithms	O
for	O
the	O
automatic	O
prediction	O
of	O
personality	O
types	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Personality	B-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
can	O
be	O
considered	O
as	O
an	O
extension	O
or	O
complement	O
of	O
Affective	O
Computing	O
,	O
where	O
the	O
former	O
focuses	O
on	O
personality	O
traits	O
and	O
the	O
latter	O
on	O
affective	O
states	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Personality	B-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
begun	O
around	O
2005	O
with	O
few	O
pioneering	O
research	O
works	O
in	O
personality	O
recognition	O
showing	O
that	O
personality	O
traits	O
could	O
be	O
inferred	O
with	O
reasonable	O
accuracy	O
from	O
text	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
blogs	O
,	O
self-presentations	O
,	O
and	O
email	O
addresses	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
2010s	O
the	O
research	O
focussed	O
mainly	O
on	O
personality	O
recognition	O
and	O
perception	O
from	O
social	O
media	O
,	O
in	O
particular	O
from	O
Facebook	B-Application
,	O
Twitter	B-Application
and	O
Instagram	B-Application
.	O
</s>
