Hyun Joon Jung and Matthew Lease. Improving Quality of Crowdsourced Labels via Probabilistic Matrix Factorization. In Proceedings of the 4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI, 2012. To appear. [ bib | website ]
Hyun Joon Jung and Matthew Lease. Inferring Missing Relevance Judgments from Crowd Workers via Probabilistic Matrix Factorization. In Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2012. Poster, to appear. [ bib ]
Shilpa Shukla, Matthew Lease, and Ambuj Tewari. Parallelizing ListNet Training using Spark. In Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2012. Poster, to appear. [ bib ]
Di Liu, Matthew Lease, Rebecca Kuipers, and Randolph Bias. Crowdsourcing for Usability Testing. Technical report, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, March 2012. arXiv:1203.1468. [ bib | .pdf ]
Hohyon Ryu, Matthew Lease, and Nicholas Woodward. Finding and Exploring Memes in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. ACM, 2012. To appear. [ bib | .pdf ]
Omar Alonso and Matthew Lease. Crowdsourcing For Research and Engineering. In Tutorial at CrowdConf 2011, San Francisco, CA, November 2011. [ bib | website | slides ]
Omar Alonso and Matthew Lease. Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval: Principles, Methods, and Applications. In Tutorial at the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, page 1299, Beijing, China, July 2011. ACM. [ bib | .pdf | website | slides ]
Omar Alonso and Matthew Lease. Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the WSDM of Crowds to Work for You. In Tutorial at the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 1-2, Hong Kong, China, February 2011. ACM. [ bib | .pdf | website | slides | Abstract ]
Lu Guo and Matthew Lease. Personalizing Local Search with Twitter. In Workshop on Enriching Information Retrieval (ENIR) at the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2011. Oral presentation. [ bib | .pdf | sourcecode | video | website ]
Hyun Joon Jung and Matthew Lease. Spam Worker Filtering and Featured-Voting based Consensus Accuracy Improvement. In Proceedings of CrowdConf, 2011. Poster. [ bib | website ]
Hyun Joon Jung and Matthew Lease. Improving Consensus Accuracy via Z-score and Weighted Voting. In Proceedings of the 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI, pages 88-90, 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Jorn Klinger and Matthew Lease. Enabling Trust in Crowd Labor Relations through Identity Sharing. In Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2011. Poster. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Jorn Klinger and Matthew Lease. Fighting Spam and Fraud in Online Labor Through Voluntary Identity Sharing. In Proceedings of CrowdConf, 2011. Poster. [ bib | website ]
Abhimanu Kumar and Matthew Lease. Learning to Rank From a Noisy Crowd. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2011. Poster. Separately reviewed and accepted to the 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI 2011. Appears in SIGIR proceedings only. [ bib | .pdf ]
Abhimanu Kumar, Matthew Lease, and Jason Baldridge. Supervised Language Modeling for Temporal Resolution of Texts. In Proceeding of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 2069-2072, 2011. Poster. [ bib | .pdf ]
Abhimanu Kumar and Matthew Lease. Modeling Annotator Accuracies for Supervised Learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM) at the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 19-22, Hong Kong, China, February 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website | slides | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease. Crowd Computing: Opportunities and Challenges. In Keynote at the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2011. [ bib | website | slides ]
Matthew Lease. On Quality Control and Machine Learning in Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 3rd Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI, pages 97-102, 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Matthew Lease and Gabriella Kazai. Overview of the TREC 2011 Crowdsourcing Track (Conference Notebook). In 20th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), 2011. Final proceedings version forthcoming. [ bib ]
Matthew Lease, Emine Yilmaz, Alexander Sorokin, and Vaughn Hester, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval at the 34th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011). Beijing, China, July 2011. [ bib | website ]
Matthew Lease, Vitor Carvalho, and Emine Yilmaz, editors. Proceedings of the Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM) at the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM). Hong Kong, China, February 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Matthew Lease, Vitor Carvalho, and Emine Yilmaz. Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining. ACM SIGIR Forum, 45(1):18-24, June 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease and Emine Yilmaz. Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval. ACM SIGIR Forum, 45(2):66-75, December 2011. [ bib | .pdf ]
Hohyon Ryu and Matthew Lease. Crowdworker Filtering with Support Vector Machine. In Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2011. Poster. [ bib | .pdf ]
Hohyon Ryu and Matthew Lease. SVM-based Instant Crowdworker Filtering. In Proceedings of CrowdConf, 2011. Poster. [ bib | website ]
Elben Shira and Matthew Lease. Expert Search on Code Repositories. Technical Report TR-11-42, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, December 2011. [ bib | .pdf ]
Wei Tang and Matthew Lease. Semi-Supervised Consensus Labeling for Crowdsourcing. In ACM SIGIR Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval (CIR), 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Aibo Tian and Matthew Lease. Active Learning to Maximize Accuracy vs. Effort in Interactive Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 145-154, 2011. [ bib | .pdf ]
Stephen Wolfson and Matthew Lease. Look Before You Leap: Legal Pitfalls of Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Yongyi Zhou, Ramona Broussard, and Matthew Lease. Mobile options for online public access catalogs. In Proceedings of the iConference, pages 598-605. ACM, 2011. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Ramona Broussard, Yongyi Zhou, and Matthew Lease. Mobile Phone Search for Library Catalogs. In Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2010. Short paper. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Ramona Broussard, Yongyi Zhou, and Matthew Lease. University of Texas Mobile Library Search. In Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2010. Poster. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Marc Cartright, Jangwon Seo, and Matthew Lease. UMass Amherst and UT Austin at the TREC'09 Relevance Feedback Track. In Proceedings of the 18th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC'09), 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Vitor Carvalho, Matthew Lease, and Emine Yilmaz. Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation. ACM SIGIR Forum, 44(2):17-22, December 2010. [ bib | .pdf | website | Abstract ]
Catherine Grady and Matthew Lease. Crowdsourcing Document Relevance Assessment with Mechanical Turk. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, pages 172-179, Los Angeles, June 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf | data | website ]
Adriana Kovashka and Matthew Lease. Human and Machine Detection of Stylistic Similarity in Art. In Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work (CrowdConf), San Francisco, September 2010. [ bib | .pdf | website | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease, Vitor Carvalho, and Emine Yilmaz, editors. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search Evaluation (CSE 2010). Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. [ bib | .pdf | website ]
Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, and Dietrich Klakow. Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), volume 6273 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 482-485. Springer-Verlag, 2010. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease. Incorporating Relevance and Psuedo-relevance Feedback in the Markov Random Field Model: Brown at the TREC'08 Relevance Feedback Track. In Proceedings of the 17th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC'08), 2009. Best results in track. This paper supersedes an earlier version appearing in conference's Working Notes. [ bib | .pdf | data | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease. An Improved Markov Random Field Model for Supporting Verbose Queries. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease, James Allan, and W. Bruce Croft. Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pages 90-101, 2009. [ bib | .pdf | data | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease and Eugene Charniak. A Dirichlet-smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech. In Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Revised Selected Papers, volume 5152 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2008. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease and Eugene Charniak. Brown at CL-SR'07: Retrieving Conversational Speech in English and Czech. In Working Notes of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF): Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track, 2007. Corrected version. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease. Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval: the time is ripe (again). In Proceedings of the 1st Ph.D. Workshop at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM), 2007. Best Paper award. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Ann Bies, Stephanie Strassel, Haejoong Lee, Kazuaki Maeda, Seth Kulick, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, and Matthew Lease. Linguistic Resources for Speech Parsing. In Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease, Mark Johnson, and Eugene Charniak. Recognizing disfluencies in conversational speech. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14(5):1566-1573, September 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, and David McClosky. A Look At Parsing and Its Applications. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), 16-20 July 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease and Mark Johnson. Early Deletion of Fillers In Processing Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL (HLT-NAACL'06), Companion Volume: Short Papers, pages 73-76, New York City, USA, June 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. Version here corrects Table 2 in published version. [ bib | .pdf ]
B. Roark, Yang Liu, M. Harper, R. Stewart, M. Lease, M. Snover, I. Shafran, B. Dorr, J. Hale, A. Krasnyanskaya, and L. Yung. Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'06), pages 545-548, May 14-19 2006. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Brian Roark, Mary Harper, Eugene Charniak, Bonnie Dorr, Mark Johnson, Jeremy G. Kahn, Yang Liu, Mari Ostendorf, John Hale, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Izhak Shafran, Matthew Snover, Robin Stewart, and Lisa Yung. SParseval: Evaluation Metrics for Parsing Speech. In Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), Genoa, Italy, 2006. [ bib | .pdf ]
M. Harper, B. Dorr, B. Roark, J. Hale, Z. Shafran, Y. Liu, M. Lease, M. Snover, L. Young, R. Stewart, et al. Parsing speech and structural event detection. In JHU Summer Workshop Final Report, 2005. [ bib | .pdf | website | slides ]
Jeremy G. Kahn, Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, and Mari Ostendorf. Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'05), pages 233-240, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2005. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease. Parsing and Disfluency Modeling. Technical Report CS-05-15, Brown University Department of Computer Science, 2005. [ bib | tech-report ]
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Parsing and its applications for conversational speech. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'05), volume 5, pages 961-964, March 18 - March 23 2005. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
Matthew Lease and Eugene Charniak. Parsing Biomedical Literature. In R. Dale, K.-F. Wong, J. Su, and O. Kwong, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'05), volume 3651 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 58 - 69, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11 - October 13 2005. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | .pdf | data | Abstract ]
Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak, and Matthew Lease. An Improved Model For Recognizing Disfluencies in Conversational Speech. In Rich Transcription 2004 Fall Workshop (RT-04F), 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]
Matthew Lease and Guy Eddon. SmartElevator: Revitalizing A Legacy Device through Inexpensive Augmentation. In Proceedings of the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing, pages 254 - 259, 2003. [ bib ]
Matthew Lease. Plan-Aware Behavioral Modeling. In Adjunct Proceedings of 4th Intl. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), pages 35-36, 2002. Poster presentation, http://www.viktoria.se/ubicomp/ubicomp_adjunct_proceedings.pdf. [ bib ]
A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S.B. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, and G. Borriello. PlantCare: An Investigation in Practical Ubiquitous Systems. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), volume 2498 of LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, pages 316-332. Springer, 2002. [ bib ]
Anthony LaMarca, Waylon Brunette, David Koizumi, Matthew Lease, Stefan B. Sigurdsson, Kevin Sikorski, Dieter Fox, and Gaetano Borriello. Making Sensor Networks Practical with Robots. In Pervasive '02: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing, volume 2414 of LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, pages 152-166. Springer-Verlag, 2002. [ bib ]
I.J. Kalet, J. Wu, M. Lease, M.M. Austin-Seymour, J.F. Brinkley, and C. Rosse. Anatomical information in radiation treatment planning. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium, 1999. [ bib ]
I.J. Kalet, R.S. Giansiracusa, C. Wilcox, and M. Lease. Radiation Therapy Planning: an Uncommon Application of Lisp. In R. Gabriel, editor, Proceedings of the Conference on the 40th Anniversary of Lisp, 1998. [ bib ]