Research areas include: NLP for low-resource scenarios, especially lower-resourced and minoritized languages and language users; human-robot interaction, and the representation of language in the mind, including language acquisition, processing, and change.
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James Pustejovsky
Research areas include: computational linguistics, lexical semantics, generative lexicon theory, qualitative temporal and spatial reasoning, TimeML and ISO-Space, and machine learning and language annotation.
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Marc Verhagen
Research areas include: computational linguistics; corpus annotation and machine learning; temporal relation identification.
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Nianwen Xue
Research areas include: developing linguistic corpora annotated with syntactic, semantic, and discourse structures, as well as machine learning approaches to syntactic, semantic and discourse parsing; Chinese language processing.
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Linguistics-Specialized Faculty
Lotus Goldberg
Research areas include: theoretical generative syntax and the syntax-semantics interface; null anaphora from a cross-linguistic perspective, including non-English VP Ellipsis; interactions between morphosyntactic typology and null anaphora traits and diagnostics; corpus linguistics and language annotation for theoretical research; Modern Hebrew and other Semitic languages; verb-initial languages.
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Sophia A. Malamud
Research areas include: the cross-linguistic exploration of semantics and pragmatics, including the pragmatics of speech acts and the semantics of clause-types, game- and decision-theoretic models of meaning; mood, tense and modality; reference, (in)definiteness, and information structure. She also works on collection, annotation, and analysis of spoken corpora, and the language of adults and children in immigrant and bilingual communities.
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Keith Plaster
Research areas include: the phonology of stress systems (and especially morphologically governed stress systems); nominal categorization, including noun classifier, noun class and gender systems, and the computational modeling of these systems; the phonology of poetic meter and rhyme; the linguistics of ancient and modern law; the historical grammar of the various Indo-European branches, the Mayan languages, the Native American languages of the Pacific Northwest, and the languages of the Caucasus.
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