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Libby Barak

Assistant Professor, Linguistics, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Conrad J. Schmitt Hall 241N
Email:
barakl@montclair.edu
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Libby Barak, assistant professor, received her PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Barak joins the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Computer Science after a post-doctoral fellowship at Rutgers University - Newark, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she studied morphology acquisition in children with language disorders. Previously, she also held a post-doctoral position at Princeton University where she combined computational and psycholinguistic methods to study how people learn the meaning of words. Her work on computational models of construction learning, mental state verbs, language disorders, and second language learning have been published in computational, psycholinguistic, and cognitive journals and proceedings.

Specialization

Natural Language Processing (NLP). Computational models of language acquisition, language disorders, and development. Computational models of second language learning and teaching.

Office Hours

Fall

Tuesday
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Friday
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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