PhD candidate, Computer Science at Brown University, graduating August 2009 (expected)
Areas: information retrieval (IR) & computational linguistics (CL) / natural language processing (NLP)
Advised by Eugene Charniak in the Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP)
Other affiliations: Visiting Researcher at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with James Allan

News

• June 24, 2009: Talk at FEAST, Saarland U., Germany
• May 8, 2009: Talk, U. of Texas at Austin School of Information
• May 5, 2009: Talk, AT&T Labs Research
• Apr 23, 2009: Talk, Johns Hopkins U. Human Language Technology Center of Excellence
• Apr 22, 2009: Talk, U. of Maryland iSchool/UMIACS Computational Linguistics and Information Processing lab
• Apr 11, 2009: SIGIR'09 paper acceptance
• Apr 10, 2009: Talk, Yahoo! Paris
• Apr 7-9, 2009: ECIR'09
• Apr 6, 2009: Talk, Google Research, Zurich
• Apr 2, 2009: Guest lecture, Brown U., CSCI 2531: Internet and Web Algorithms
• Apr 1, 2009: Talk, U. of Massachusetts Amherst Machine Learning and Friends seminar
• Mar 20, 2009: Talk, Yahoo! Labs, Montreal
• Mar 19, 2009: Talk, U. of Montreal
• Mar 3, 2009: Lab poster on my ECIR'09 paper (on display at CIIR for visitors)
• Feb 9-12, 2009: Attended WSDM'09 thanks to a student grant award
• Dec 9, 2008: ECIR'09 paper acceptance (paper and data below)
• Dec 7, 2008: Talk, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Nov 18, 2008: Best results, TREC'08 Relevance Feedback track (paper and data below).

Software & Data:

• ECIR'09: paper and data
• TREC'08 Relevance Feedback track: paper and data
• IJCNLP'05 Biomedical parser and treebank (see details). It was also evaluated in Clegg and Shepherd's Benchmarking natural-language parsers for biological applications using dependency graphs

Recent Publications (IR and NLP)

Older Publications

Ubiquitous Computing

Matthew Lease and Guy Eddon. SmartElevator: Revitalizing A Legacy Device through Inexpensive Augmentation. 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Workshops (IWSAWC: Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing), pp. 254-259, 2003. [PDF]

Matthew Lease. Plan-Aware Behavioral Modeling. Extended abstract, Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 35-36, 2002. Intel Research, IRS-TR-02-013 [PDF]

A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, G. Borriello. PlantCare: An Investigation in Practical Ubiquitous Systems, Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2002. Intel Research, IRS-TR-02-007 [PDF]

A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, G. Borriello. Making Sensor Networks Practical with Robots 2002 International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Intel Research, IRS-TR-02-004 [PDF]

Radiation Teatment Planning

Kalet, Ira J., Robert S. Giansiracusa, Craig Wilcox, and Matthew Lease, Radiation Therapy Planning: an Uncommon Application of Lisp, Proceedings of the Conference on the 40th Anniversary of Lisp, Berkeley, CA, November 1998. R. Gabriel, ed. [PDF]

Life outside the office...