Matthew Lease

Matt Lease

Assistant Professor
School of Information and Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin

School of Information
1616 Guadalupe Ste 5.202
Austin, TX 78701-1213

Campus box: D8600

Voice: (512) 471-9350 · Fax: (512) 471-3971 · Office: UTA 5.450
myinitials@ischool.utexas.edu

Curriculum Vitae · Publications · LinkedIn

Other UT affiliations: Computational Linguistics
Faculty advisor, UT Austin ASIS&T student chapter

RESEARCH

Areas: Information Retrieval (IR) & Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Prospective students: Graduate Study in IR at UT Austin

Software & Data

SIGIR'09: paper (data to be posted, email if interested)
ECIR'09: paper and data
TREC'08 Relevance Feedback track: paper and data
IJCNLP'05: Biomedical parser and treebank (see details, external evaluation by Clegg and Shepherd)

Service: coordinating TREC 2010 Relevance Feeback Track with Chris Buckley and Mark Smucker

TEACHING

Spring 2010

INF385T/CS395T: Topics in Information Retrieval and Web Search
INF383D: Mathematical Foundations of Information Studies

PAST AFFILIATIONS

Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP), Department of Computer Science, Brown University

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (lab reunion at SIGIR'09)

Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (LSV), Saarland University

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL), Charles University

Thanks to Vance Faber I have a pseudo Erdös number of 2. Nothing more to accomplish, right?