Michael Spranger


2026

Existing datasets for personality recognition in Natural Language Processing (NLP) suffer from documented quality problems: self-reported labels lacking psychometric validation, limited domain diversity and lack of context. Despite these known limitations, state-of-the-art approaches continue relying on the same datasets due to absence of alternatives. We present the Data Acquisition Framework (DAF), which addresses this gap by systematically translating psychometric questionnaire items into controlled communication scenarios through expert-community validation. DAF-items, validated scenario descriptions with contextual parameters, are deployed via the Automatic Data Acquisition and Annotation Tool (ADAAT). Participants complete personality surveys and engage in scenario-based text interactions with LLM personas configured to the DAF-Item context. This yields communication data with direct, item-level psychometric annotations.

2025

2021

2017

This paper evaluates the impact of various event extraction systems on automatic pathway curation using the popular mTOR pathway. We quantify the impact of training data sets as well as different machine learning classifiers and show that some improve the quality of automatically extracted pathways.

2016

2015