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Discussion of the Results

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After having presented detailed results from personality modeling out of the perspective of exploiting different data sets with different inherent characteristics this chapter concludes on and discusses general tendencies across all differences in the data structure, i.e. results are now presented and discussed along a personality-centered perspective for personality classification and individual trait score prediction success. Finally, the chapter adds a comprehensive analysis of influencing factors and unexpected observations during processing.

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Polzehl, T. (2015). Discussion of the Results. In: Personality in Speech. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09516-5_6

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