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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 is an Assistant Professor with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science. Prior to joining the faculty, she completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University–Newark, where she studied morphology acquisition in children with language disorders. She also held a postdoctoral position at Princeton University, where she integrated computational and psycholinguistic methods to investigate how people learn word meanings.
Her research focuses on computational models of language learning, including construction learning, mental state verbs, language disorders, and second language acquisition. Her work has been published in leading computational, psycholinguistic, and cognitive science journals and conference 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
- by appointment only
- Friday
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- by appointment only
Spring
- Tuesday
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- by appointment only
- Friday
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- by appointment only
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