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Faculty

Full-time Faculty
	Faculty / Contact	Areas of Expertise
	James Pustejovsky Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor and Chair Volen 258 (781) 736-2709 jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu	Theoretical and computational linguistics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; corpus linguistics and annotation; lexical semantics; temporal and spatial reasoning.
	Lotus Goldberg Ph.D., McGill University Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advising Head, CL MA Advising Chair Volen 134 (781) 736-3265 lmgold@brandeis.edu	Theoretical syntax and the syntax-semantics interface; ellipsis and null anaphora; morphosyntax; structure of Modern Hebrew and other Semitic languages; corpus linguistics.
	Sophia Malamud Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor Volen 137 (781) 736-2225 smalamud@brandeis.edu	Formal semantics and pragmatics; corpus linguistics; speech acts; game and decision theory; reference and information structure; modality; impersonals and passives; heritage language acquisition.
	Nianwen Bert Xue Ph.D., University of Delaware Associate Professor Volen 136 (781) 736-2728 xuen@brandeis.edu	Computational linguistics; Chinese language processing; Semantic role labeling; machine translation and linguistic annotation, including Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank, OntoNotes.
Additional Faculty
	Faculty / Contact	Areas of Expertise
	Marie Meteer Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science and Industry Liaison Feldberg 127 (781) 736-2712 mmeteer@mac.com	Computational linguistics; natural language processing; speech recognition.
	Ben Wellner Ph.D., Brandeis University Lecturer Volen 256 (781) 736-2726 wellner@cs.brandeis.edu	Machine learning, computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing.
	Keith Plaster J.D., Georgetown University M.A., Harvard University Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University Lecturer Volen 256 (781) 736-2726 kplaster@brandeis.edu	Phonological theory, historical linguistics, morphology, heritage linguistics.
	David Tresner-Kirsch M.A., Brandeis University Lecturer Volen 256 (781) 736-2726 dwkirsch@gmail.com	Computational linguistics, machine translation, medical informatics, healthcare technology.
	Peter Anick Ph.D., Brandeis University Lecturer Volen 256 (781) 736-2726 panick@brandeis.edu	Information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing, medical informatics.
	Marc Verhagen Ph.D., Brandeis University Senior Research Scientist Volen 110 (781) 736-2745 marc@cs.brandeis.edu	Computational linguistics; corpus annotation and machine learning; temporal relation identification.