Faculty and Staff

Core Faculty

James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Linguistics and Computational Linguistics Programs
781-736-2709 Volen 258

Expertise: Theoretical and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, corpus linguistics and annotation, lexical semantics, temporal and spatial reasoning

Lotus Goldberg
Lotus Goldberg
PhD, McGill University
Professor of Linguistics; Vice Chair, Linguistics and Computational Linguistics Programs
781-736-3265 Volen 252

Expertise: Theoretical syntax and the syntax-semantics interface, ellipsis and null anaphora, morphosyntax, structure of Modern Hebrew and other Semitic languages, corpus linguistics.

Constantine Lignos
Constantine Lignos
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics
781-736-2807 Volen 139

Expertise: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, language acquisition and change, and psycholinguistics

Sophia Malamud
Sophia Malamud
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of Linguistics; Director of Graduate Studies, Computational Linguistics Program
781-736-2225 Volen 215

Expertise: Formal semantics and pragmatics, corpus linguistics, speech acts, game and decision theory, reference and information structure, modality, impersonals and passives, heritage language acquisition

Keith Plaster
Keith Plaster
JD, Georgetown University; MA, Harvard University; PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics; Undergraduate Advising Head
781-736-2726 Volen 124

Expertise: Phonological theory, historical linguistics, morphology, heritage linguistics.

Nianwen Bert Xue
Nianwen Bert Xue
PhD, University of Delaware
Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics
781-736-2728 Volen 253

Expertise: Computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, Semantic role labeling, machine translation and linguistic annotation, including Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank, OntoNotes

Additional Faculty

Marc Verhagen
Marc Verhagen
PhD, Brandeis University
Senior Research Scientist
781-736-2769 Volen 216

Expertise: Natural language processing, corpus annotation, technology extraction, temporal processing, tool development

Ben Wellner
Ben Wellner
PhD, Brandeis University
Lecturer in Linguistics

Expertise: Machine learning, computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing.

Staff

Michael Golitsyn
Michael Golitsyn
Department Administrator
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Anne Gudaitis
Anne Gudaitis
Graduate Programs Coordinator
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