Professor Dr. Barend Beekhuizen

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Barend Beekhuizen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. His research focuses on computational linguistics, particularly in developing computational models of word meaning and investigating the ways in which languages vary in their categorization of the world. His areas of expertise include lexical semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, semantic typology, contrastive linguistics, and interactional linguistics. Beekhuizen employs both translated and non-translated cross-linguistic corpus data, as well as conversational spoken language corpora in his research. He has taught various courses including Linguistics Computation, Discourse Analysis, and Topics in Computational Linguistics. Barend holds a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University, where he graduated cum laude, as well as an MA and BA in Linguistics and Dutch Language Literature from the same institution. He has received grants and awards for his work, including an NSERC Discovery Grant and a Connaught New Researcher Award.

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