Using text mining techniques, I am going to attempt to build a naive Bayesian classifier capable of determining a person’s Myers-Briggs type from a sample of text that they write. This should be a fairly quick project once I finish with everything else. Whether it works or not is another story. Most likely it will, but no one will use it, so I’ll never accumulate a sufficient training set. No one uses anything I create these days, despite the constantly improving quality of my creations.

Anyway, if it does work, it’s publication-worthy, as this sort of thing hasn’t been done before, as far as I can tell. It could open up a whole new approach to automated psychological testing.

Update: It’s been done by uClassify. Pretty neat stuff.