I am Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I've just arrived after nine and a half years as faculty at the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego. I direct MIT's Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences	Phone:	(617) 253-5763
Building 46, Room 3033	Fax:	(617) 253-9216
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Email:	rplevy@mit.edu
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA

My research focuses on theoretical and applied questions in the processing and acquisition of natural language. Linguistic communication involves the resolution of uncertainty over a potentially unbounded set of possible signals and meanings. How can a fixed set of knowledge and resources be deployed to manage this uncertainty? And how is this knowledge acquired? To address these questions I combine computational modeling, psycholinguistic experimentation, and analysis of large naturalistic language datasets. This work furthers our understanding of the cognitive underpinning of language processing and acquisition, and helps us design models and algorithms that will allow machines to process human language.

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Last modified: Mon 11 Jul 11:44:09 UTC 2016 by Roger Levy. Photo credit © 2016 Gabriel Aldaz.