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title: Brandeis LLC
subtitle: Brandeis Lab for Linguistics and Computation
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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: 

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<li>lexical semantics and the design of lexical databases; </li>
<li>compositional mechanisms in language; </li>
<li>multimodal communication between humans and computers; </li>
<li>interoperability among language resources and natural language processing tools; </li>
<li>temporal and spatial reasoning; </li>
<!--- <li>determining the source of variation in word meaning as purely semantic or arising from syntax and morphology; </li> -->
<li>formal models of speaker-meaning and discourse-level computations; </li>
<li>extra-linguistic factors that affect truth-conditions, and the way they enter into the meaning computation; </li>
<li>semantic and pragmatic models of modality and reference; </li>
<li>semantic annotation and resource development; </li>
<li>construction and analysis of linguistic corpora; </li>
<li>discourse structure and relation identification. </li>
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We develop theoretically inspired models of linguistic behavior, and employ machine learning, statistical techniques, and finite-state and other rule-based methods to implement the algorithms for these models. 

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The LLC is affiliated with the <a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/">Department of Computer Science</a>, the <a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/inderdepartmental/linguistics/">Language and Linguistics Program</a>, and the <a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/computer-science/comp-linguistics/index.html">MA Program in Computational Linguistics</a>. 

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Director: <a href="http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp/">James Pustejovsky</a>
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