The Brandeis Lab for Linguistics and Computation (LLC) is a group of faculty, postdocs, and students who conduct research in computational and theoretical linguistics and natural language processing. Research areas covered by our group include:
The LLC is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, the Language and Linguistics Program, and the MA Program in Computational Linguistics.
Director: James Pustejovsky
- lexical semantics and the design of lexical databases;
- compositional mechanisms in language;
- multimodal communication between humans and computers;
- interoperability among language resources and natural language processing tools;
- temporal and spatial reasoning;
- formal models of speaker-meaning and discourse-level computations;
- extra-linguistic factors that affect truth-conditions, and the way they enter into the meaning computation;
- semantic and pragmatic models of modality and reference;
- semantic annotation and resource development;
- construction and analysis of linguistic corpora;
- discourse structure and relation identification.
The LLC is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, the Language and Linguistics Program, and the MA Program in Computational Linguistics.
Director: James Pustejovsky