People
Core Faculty
![James Pustejovsky](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/pustejovsky-james.jpg)
Expertise: Theoretical and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, corpus linguistics and annotation, lexical semantics, temporal and spatial reasoning
![Lotus Goldberg](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/goldberg-lotus.jpg)
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](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/lignos-constantine.jpg)
Expertise: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, language acquisition and change, and psycholinguistics
![Sophia Malamud](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/malamud-sophia.jpg)
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](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/plaster-keith.jpg)
Expertise: Phonological theory, historical linguistics, morphology, heritage linguistics.
![Nianwen Bert Xue](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/xue-nianwen.jpg)
Expertise: Computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, Semantic role labeling, machine translation and linguistic annotation, including Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank, OntoNotes
Additional Faculty
![Peter Anick](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/anick-peter.jpg)
Expertise: Information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing, medical informatics
![Marc Verhagen](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/people/images/faculty/verhagen-marc.jpg)
Expertise: Natural language processing, corpus annotation, technology extraction, temporal processing, tool development
![Ben Wellner](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/wellner-ben.jpg)
Expertise: Machine learning, computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing.
Staff
![Anna Esposito](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/anna_esposito.jpg)
Oversees admissions, academics, and student financials for the CL MS program
![Michael Golitsyn](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/people/images/faculty/michael-golitsyn.jpg)
![Anne Gudaitis](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/anne-gudaitis.jpg)
![Saebom Kim](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/saebom_kim.jpg)
![Amy Smack](https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/people/images/faculty/amy_smack.jpg)