Program Faculty


Full-time Faculty

  Faculty / Contact Areas of Expertise
james pustejovsky James Pustejovsky
Professor and Chair
Volen 258
(781) 736-2709
(781) 736-2741 (fax)
jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu
Theoretical and computational modeling of language, specifically computational linguistics; lexical semantics; knowledge representation; temporal reasoning and extraction.
lotus goldberg Lotus Goldberg
Visiting Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Adviser
Volen 253
(781) 736-3265
lmgold@brandeis.edu
Linguistics, specifically theoretical syntax and the syntax-semantics interface.
sophia malamud Sophia Malamud
Assistant Professor
Volen 137
(781) 736-2225
smalamud@brandeis.edu
Linguistics; semantics; pragmatics; impersonals and passives; mathematical linguistics; game and decision theory; language acquisition.
nianwen xue Nianwen Xue
Assistant Professor
(781) 736-728
xuen@brandeis.edu
Semantic role labeling, temporal inference, machine translation, Chinese language processing, linguistic annotation (Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank, OntoNotes).

Adjunct Faculty

  Faculty / Contact Areas of Expertise
marie meteer Marie Meteer
Lecturer
(781) 718-2109
mmeteer@brandeis.edu
Speech, natural language, data analysis.
anna rumshisky Anna Rumshisky '94, PhD'09
Lecturer
arum@brandeis.edu
Computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, lexical semantics, word sense disambiguation, novel word use.
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Marc Verhagen, MA'97, PhD'04
Lecturer
(781) 736-2745
marc@cs.brandeis.edu
Temporal annotation, temporal parsing, relational parsing for biomedical documents, integration of temporal and spatial processing.
ben wellner Ben Wellner, PhD'09
Lecturer
wellner@cs.brandeis.edu

Affiliated Faculty

  Faculty / Contact Areas of Expertise
no photo available Alan Berger
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Rabb 372
(781) 736-2790
berger@brandeis.edu

Philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, contemporary 20th century analytic, philosophy of science.

harry mairson Harry Mairson
Professor of Computer Science
Volen 257
(781) 736-2724
mairson@cs.brandeis.edu
Logic in computer science, lambda calculus and functional programming.
janet mcintosh Janet McIntosh
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Brown 207
(781) 736-2215
janetmc@brandeis.edu
Linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, religion, ethnicity, East Africa.
jerry samet
Jerry Samet
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Brown 207
(781) 736-2783
samet@brandeis.edu

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, history of philosophy, philosophy of science.

javier urcid Javier Urcid
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Brown 203
(781) 736-2223
urcid@brandeis.edu
Archaeology, bioarchaeology, complex societies, writing systems, material culture, comparative aesthetics, Mesoamerica.