Publications of Matt Lease
(The list below may be incomplete -- refer to author's homepage for definitive listing)
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Matthew Lease. An Improved Markov Random Field Model for Supporting Verbose Queries. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2009. 16% acceptance rate, to appear. [ bib | 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. 22% acceptance rate. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
2008
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), 2008. Best results in track. This paper supersedes an earlier version appearing in conference's Working Notes. [ bib | .pdf | 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 ]
2007
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 ]
2006
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 ]
John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dorr, Mary Harper, Anna Krasnyanskaya, Matthew Lease, Yang Liu, Brian Roark, Matthew Snover, and Robin Stewart. PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL'06), pages 161-168, Sydney, Australia, July 2006. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ 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 ]
2005
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, pages 58 - 69, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11 - October 13 2005. Springer-Verlag. [ bib | .pdf | Abstract ]
2004
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.
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