This document summarizes research on lexical knowledge of personality traits in Estonian. The research aimed to analyze the vocabulary and concepts of personality traits used by Estonians to understand which traits are considered important and how personality traits are organized. The study looked to develop a taxonomy of personality concepts to add to the Estonian thesaurus. In under 3 sentences, it provides the context, goal, and overview of the research presented in the document.

1. Lexical Knowledge of Personality Traits
Heili Orav
Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Liivi 2-308, Tartu, Estonia
heili.orav@ut.ee
Abstract specific taxonomy that would aim to add new concepts to
This article studies the vocabulary and concepts of personal- the Estonian thesaurus. The present article summarises the
ity traits in Estonian. The choice of character words and con- research done towards reaching that goal.
cepts that are in active use can give us an idea which traits
are considered important for Estonians and how the concepts 1 Estonians are hard-workers
of personality traits are organized on ‘the map of charac- The category of personality is attr