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Overview

Matthew Lease is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their work is situated primarily within the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Management Science and Operations Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, Topic Modeling, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Data Stream Mining Techniques, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Machine Learning and Data Classification, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Recent publications by Matthew Lease include:

  • "The state of human-centered NLP technology for fact-checking," 2022, Information Processing & Management
  • "Annotator Rationales for Labeling Tasks in Crowdsourcing," 2020, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • "Fast, Accurate, and Healthier: Interactive Blurring Helps Moderators Reduce Exposure to Harmful Content," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
  • "Data excellence for AI," 2022, interactions
  • "The Challenge of Variable Effort Crowdsourcing and How Visible Gold Can Help," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Matthew Lease frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research, with regular co-authors including Soumyajit Gupta, Anubrata Das, Venelin Kovatchev, Mike Schaekermann, and Houjiang Liu.

Best Publications

  • The future of crowd work

    Aniket Kittur;Jeffrey V. Nickerson;Michael Bernstein;Elizabeth Gerber

  • Improving bug localization using structured information retrieval

    Ripon K. Saha;Matthew Lease;Sarfraz Khurshid;Dewayne E. Perry

  • SQUARE: A Benchmark for Research on Computing Crowd Consensus

    Aashish Sheshadri;Matthew Lease

  • Making Sensor Networks Practical with Robots

    Anthony LaMarca;Waylon Brunette;David Koizumi;Matthew Lease

  • On quality control and machine learning in crowdsourcing

    Matthew Lease

  • Crowdsourcing Document Relevance Assessment with Mechanical Turk

    Catherine Grady;Matthew Lease

  • Parsing biomedical literature

    Matthew Lease;Eugene Charniak

  • Neural information retrieval: at the end of the early years

    Kezban Dilek Onal;Kezban Dilek Onal;Ye Zhang;Ismail Sengor Altingovde;Md. Mustafizur Rahman

  • The Psychological Well-Being of Content Moderators: The Emotional Labor of Commercial Moderation and Avenues for Improving Support

    Miriah Steiger;Timir J Bharucha;Sukrit Venkatagiri;Martin J. Riedl

  • Crowdsourcing for Usability Testing

    Di Liu;Randolph G Bias;Matthew Alan Lease;Rebecca Kuipers

  • Active discriminative text representation learning

    Ye Zhang;Matthew Lease;Byron C. Wallace

  • Semi-Supervised Consensus Labeling for Crowdsourcing

    Wei Tang;Matthew Lease

  • Mechanical Turk is Not Anonymous

    Matthew Lease;Jessica Hullman;Jerey P. Bigham;Juho Kim

  • Believe it or not: Designing a Human-AI Partnership for Mixed-Initiative Fact-Checking

    An T. Nguyen;Aditya Kharosekar;Saumyaa Krishnan;Siddhesh Krishnan

  • Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments.

    Tyler McDonnell;Matthew Lease;Mucahid Kutlu;Tamer Elsayed

  • Aggregating and Predicting Sequence Labels from Crowd Annotations.

    An Thanh Nguyen;Byron C. Wallace;Junyi Jessy Li;Ani Nenkova

  • Combining Crowd and Expert Labels Using Decision Theoretic Active Learning

    An Thanh Nguyen;Byron C. Wallace;Matthew Lease

  • Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries

    Matthew Lease;James Allan;W. Bruce Croft

  • PlantCare: An Investigation in Practical Ubiquitous Systems

    Anthony LaMarca;Waylon Brunette;David Koizumi;Matthew Lease

  • Look before you leap: Legal pitfalls of crowdsourcing

    Stephen M. Wolfson;Matthew Alan Lease

  • Effective Use of Prosody in Parsing Conversational Speech

    Jeremy G. Kahn;Matthew Lease;Eugene Charniak;Mark Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Byron C. Wallace
Byron C. Wallace Northeastern University
Eugene Charniak
Eugene Charniak Brown University
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson Macquarie University
Yang Liu
Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
Clint Dawson
Clint Dawson The University of Texas at Austin
Gabriella Kazai
Gabriella Kazai Microsoft (United States)
Brian Roark
Brian Roark Google (United States)
Bonnie J. Dorr
Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida
Gaetano Borriello
Gaetano Borriello University of Washington
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson RMIT University

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