Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata at PR-SOCO 2016: A Simple Linear Regression Based Approach

We participated in the PR-SOCO task hosted in FIRE 2016 and tried some basic approaches which we look to improve in the future. We defined some simple features from the source code which, in our opinion, were indicative of the manner in which the code was written and which might give some clues about the personality of the programmer. We built a multiple linear regression model from the training data and applied this model on the test data. The results show that our method produces good prediction performances for Neuroticism, Extroversion and Openness.