--- title: "Libby Barak — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Libby Barak, Montclair State University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Libby Barak # Libby Barak Libby Barak has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Whitney Poh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/whitney-poh/), [Michael Tombolini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/), [Anna Feldman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-feldman/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5032000174) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1045-7701) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5032000174) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032000174) · [194 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032000174&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10835](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10835) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Libby+Barak) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Libby+Barak) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Libby+Barak) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Libby+Barak) ## Affiliations [🎓**Montclair State University** Montclair · United States 2023–2026 · 10 papersEmployment since 2023 · Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/montclair-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2009–2014 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) · [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2016–2019 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey** New Brunswick · United States 2021–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Communication · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/communication/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Child-directed speech · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/child-directed-speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[What did you say? Generating Child-Directed Speech Questions to Train LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poh-2025-what-did-you-say-generating/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Language models trained on adult speech addressed to children (Child-Directed Speech, CDS) often perform better than models trained on the same amount of other types of text. 2. **[Challenges in Japanese Euphemism Classification: An Analysis of Pretrained Japanese and Multilingual Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/takahashi-2026-challenges-japanese-euphemism-classification-analysis/)** *(2026)* Euphemisms are difficult for NLP because whether a phrase is meant literally or euphemistically depends on context, social norms and pragmatic inference. 3. **[Making Synthetic Questions More Child-Directed: Prompting and Sampling Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poh-2026-making-synthetic-questions-more-child/)** *(2026)* Child-directed speech (CDS) can help small language models learn, but real CDS corpora are small, so researchers try to synthesize CDS-like input. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Whitney Poh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/whitney-poh/) ×3 - [Michael Tombolini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/) ×2 - [Anna Feldman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-feldman/) - [Jing Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jing-peng/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BabyLM Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/babylm/): [BabyLM Workshop 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/babylm/2025/) - [Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cdl/): [CDL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cdl/2026/) - [Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nonliteral/): [Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nonliteral/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026