<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-28205b3d-b0cf-34f9-2516-90ad943ebdde"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
 University of Pennsylvania’s World Well-Being Project invites 
applicants for a postdoctoral research position in natural language 
processing for health and social scientific discovery, working on an 
interdisciplinary research project studying the effects of subjective 
well-being, depression, optimism/pessimism, and future orientation on 
health outcomes. This work includes building models to better understand
 people, such as predicting personality from the words they use and 
automatically recognizing cognitive distortions typical of depression.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
 ideal candidate will have research experience in computational 
linguistics and applied machine learning. She or he will develop and 
code up novel methods to leverage large datasets (i.e. billions of 
tweets) and use them to further our understanding of health, well-being,
 and the psychological states of large populations. Methods and results will be 
published in high impact computer science venues and (via collaboration 
with psychologists and doctors) in social science and multidisciplinary 
venues.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Application Deadline: 3/1/2014</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Approximate Start Date: 8/1/2014 </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">How to Apply: Send a detailed CV with at least 2 references that can be contacted for letters to </span><a href="mailto:WWBP.applications@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">WWBP.applications@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">. Include job-code “POSTDOC-CS” in subject line. </span></p>

<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">This
 work is with the World Well-Being Project (WWBP), a collaboration 
between computer scientists, psychologists, and medical researchers 
pioneering techniques for measuring physical and psychological 
well-being based on language in social media. We are shedding new light 
on psychosocial processes and developing unobtrusive well-being measures
 to supplement (and in part replace) expensive survey methods.  More 
about the project can be found at </span><a href="http://wwbp.org" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://wwbp.org .</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Primary Contact:</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Prof. Lyle Ungar  (<a href="mailto:ungar@upenn.edu">ungar@upenn.edu</a>)</span></p>

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</span></div><br><br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~hansens/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">H. Andrew Schwartz</span></a><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">


<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Postdoctoral Fellow</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Computer & Info. Science /</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lead Research Scientist<br><a href="http://wwbp.org" target="_blank">WWBP</a></span>, Pos. Psychol. Center<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">University of Pennsylvania<br>215-746-5085<br><br><br></span>
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