[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral Research position at the University of Pennsylvania in NLP and Comp. Soc. Sci.

[Andy Schwartz]

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.

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.

Application Deadline: 3/1/2014

Approximate Start Date: 8/1/2014

How to Apply: Send a detailed CV with at least 2 references that can be
contacted for letters to WWBP.applications at gmail.com. Include job-code
“POSTDOC-CS” in subject line.

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 http://wwbp.org . <http://wwbp.org>

Primary Contact:

Prof. Lyle Ungar  (ungar at upenn.edu)

Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA






-- 
H. Andrew Schwartz <http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~hansens/>
Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer & Info. Science /
Lead Research Scientist
WWBP <http://wwbp.org>, Pos. Psychol. Center
University of Pennsylvania
215-746-5085
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