Bar Ilan Linguistics Colloquium

Speaker:

Prof. Lyle Ungar

Computer and Information Science

University of Pennsylvania

Joint work with Andy Schwartz, Johannes Eichstaedt, Peggy Kern,
Stephanie Ramones, Lukasz Dziurzynski and Martin Seligman 

Title: Word use, personality, and subjective well-being.

Abstract:
The words people use on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and
Google are a rich, if imperfect, source of information about their
personality and psychological state.  This talk will give an
introduction to recent work in estimating variation in subjective
well-being over time and space from social media word use. I will also
describe our work characterizing how word use in Facebook posts varies
as a function of age, sex, IQ and personality, and what we can learn
from these word use patterns.
 

Place: Bldg. 403 Room 101