Matthew Lease

Château de Chenonceau, Loire valley


Contact · Professional · Personal


I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Brown University
My area is statistical natural language processing (NLP) / computational linguistics
I am advised by Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson
I work in the
Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP)

Learn how a Smart Elevator has changed our way of life forever...

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Contact Information

firstname_lastname@brown.edu

Department of Computer Science
Brown University, Box 1910
115 Waterman Street, 4th Floor
Providence, RI 02912-1910

Office:  CIT 527
Phone:  401-863-7667
Fax:   401-863-7657

Mobile SMS

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Publications

NLP Publications

Ubiquitous Computing

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

Plan-Aware Behavioral Modeling
Matthew Lease
Extended abstract. Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2002. Intel Research, IRS-TR-02-013
[PDF] (if link broken, try looking here)

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

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


Radiation Teatment Planning

Anatomical Information in Radiation Treatment Planning
Kalet, Ira J., Ph.D., Jonn Wu, M.D., Matthew Lease, James F. Brinkley, M.D., Ph.D., Mary M. Austin-Seymour, M.D., and Cornelius Rosse, M.D., D.Sc.
Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium 1999, pp. 291-295
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Radiation Therapy Planning: an Uncommon Application of Lisp
Kalet, Ira J., Robert S. Giansiracusa, Craig Wilcox, and Matthew Lease
Proceedings of the Conference on the 40th Anniversary of Lisp, Berkeley, CA, November 1998. R. Gabriel, ed.
[PDF]

Honors

Post-Workshop Research Award, Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing, 2005 (1-year fellowship)
University Fellowship, Brown University, 2002 (1-year fellowship)

Service

Reviewer, COLING 2008
Reviewer, ICASSP 2008
Reviewer, ASRU 2007
Brown University Community Council (BUCC) (chair: Pres. Simmons), 2005-2006
Brown Graduate Student Council (GSC), 2003-2006
Program Committee, Student Research Workshop at COLING/ACL'06
Volunteer, HLT/NAACL'06
Volunteer, HLT/EMNLP'05
Volunteer, 23rd Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2003
Reviewer and Volunteer, Fourth Intl. Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, 2002

Timeline

Summer research on radiation treatment planning with Ira Kalet, University of Washington, 1998
Bachelor's Degree in CS, University of Washington, 1999, attending as a Washington Scholar
Software/Reseach Engineer at LizardTech, 1999-2001, developing JPEG2000 technology
Technical Graduate Intern at Intel Research Seattle, 2001-2002, working on ubiquitous computing
Spring 2004: MSc in CS, Brown University
Summer 2004: Visited SSLI lab, University of Washington
Summer 2005: Parsing and Structural Event Detection work at CLSP, Johns Hopkins University
Fall 2006: Co-taught CS241: Statistical Models in Natural-Language Processing, with Eugene Charniak
Spring 2007: PIRE work at UFAL, Charles University
Fall 2007: on leave

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Personal

My first rappel. Enchantments, WA, Summer 1997. Derek Stuart snaps a pic as Mark Swanson mans the rope.

The polar plunge at Ingalls lake...

For fun I swim, bike, run, and maybe soon all three. Stay tuned.

Thanks to Vance Faber, I have a pseudo Erdös number of 2