Andrew S. Gordon
The Institute for Creative Technologies
The University of Southern California
13274 Fiji Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-7008
tel 310-574-5700
fax 310-574-5725
email gordon @ ict.usc.edu
I am a research scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, and a research associate professor in the department of Computer Science.
I conduct interdisciplinary research across a wide range of topics. My current research focuses on the acquisition and analysis of millions of stories from Internet weblogs, and their use for automated commonsense reasoning. I have led a number of applied research projects to develop story-based learning environments, largely focused on the challenge of leadership development in the U.S. Army. I developed an empirical method for computing the syntactic similarity between words. I also conduct research in the area of knowledge representation. I am the author of the 2004 book, Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge. As a follow-up effort, I have been collaborating with Jerry Hobbs on a large-scale logical formalization of commonsense psychology: the way that people think they think.
I received my PhD in Computer Science in 1999 from Northwestern University, where my research focused on the representation of commonsense activities and their application to browsing-based image retrieval interfaces. I was among the last students advised by Roger C. Schank, whose research focused on story-based memory and its applications to the development of learning environments. His advisor was Jacob Mey, whose research focused on pragmatics in the linguistic analysis of literature. His advisor was Louis Hjelmslev, whose research focused on the semantics of language and its contribution to epistemology. His advisor was Holger Pedersen, whose research focused on the phonology of languages and its application to historical linguistics.
I advise one PhD student, Reid Swanson, whose research focuses on computational linguistics approaches to narrative analysis and its application to massively collaborative interactive storytelling. Try out his interactive storytelling system: Say Anything.
Publications
Swanson, R. and Gordon, A. (2009) Say Anything: A Demonstration of Open Domain Interactive Digital Storytelling. 2009 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS-09), Guimarães, Portugal, December 9-11, 2009. pdf
Sagae, K. and Gordon, A. (2009) Clustering Words by Syntactic Similarity Improves Dependency Parsing of Predicate-Argument Structures. International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-09), Paris, France, October 7-9, 2009. pdf
McAlinden, R., Gordon, A., Lane, H. C., and Pynadath, D. (2009) UrbanSim: A Game-based Simulation for Counterinsurgency and Stability-focused Operations. Workshop on Intelligent Educational Games, 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Brighton, England, July 7, 2009. pdf
Gordon, A. and Swanson, R. (2009) Identifying Personal Stories in Millions of Weblog Entries. Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Data Challenge Workshop, San Jose, CA, May 20, 2009. pdf
Swanson, R. and Gordon, A. (2009) Open Domain Collaborative Storytelling With Say Anything. Third International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, San Jose, CA, May 17-20, 2009. pdf
Swanson, R. and Gordon, A. (2009) A Comparison of Retrieval Models for Open Domain Story Generation. AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies II, Stanford, CA, March 23-25, 2009. pdf
Gordon, A. (2009) Story-Based Learning Environments. In Nicholson, D., Schmorrow, D., & Cohn, J. (eds.) The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education: Developments for the Military and Beyond, Volume 2: Components and Training Technologies. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International. info
McAlinden, R., Durlach, P., Lane, H., Gordon, A., and Hart, J. (2008) UrbanSim: A game-based instructional package for conducting counterinsurgency operations. Proceedings of the 26th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1-4, 2008. pdf
Swanson, R. and Gordon, A. (2008) Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion. First International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Erfurt, Germany, November 26-29, 2008. pdf
Gordon, A. (2008) Story Management Technologies for Organizational Learning. International Conference on Knowledge Management, Special Track on Intelligent Assistance for Self-Directed and Organizational Learning, Graz, Austria, September 3-5, 2008. pdf
Gordon, A. and Swanson, R. (2008) Envisioning With Weblogs. International Conference on New Media Technology, Special Track on Knowledge Acquisition From the Social Web, Graz, Austria. September 3-5, 2008. pdf
Gordon, A., Hobbs, J. and Cox, M. (2008) Anthropomorphic self-models for metareasoning agents. AAAI Workshop on Metareasoning: Thinking about thinking. July 13-14, 2008, Chicago, IL. pdf
Hobbs, J. and Gordon, A. (2008) The Deep Lexical Semantics of Emotions. Workshop on Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology (EMOT-08), 6th International conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-08), Marrakech, Morocco, May 27, 2008. pdf
Manshadi, M., Swanson, R., and Gordon, A. (2008) Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences From Internet Weblog Stories. Twenty-first International Conference of the Florida AI Society, Applied Natural Language Processing track, May 15-17, 2008, Coconut Grove, FL. pdf
Gordon, A. and Swanson. R. (2008) StoryUpgrade: Finding Stories in Internet Weblogs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, March 31-April 2, 2008, Seattle, WA. pdf
Swanson, R., Chew, E., and Gordon, A. (2008) Supporting Musical Creativity With Unsupervised Syntactic Parsing. Creative Intelligent Systems, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, March 26-28, 2008, Stanford University. pdf
Gordon, A., Havasi, C., Lux, M., and Strohmaier, M. (2008) Common Sense and Goal-Oriented Interfaces. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. January 13-16, 2008, Canary Islands, Spain. pdf workshop
Gordon, A., Cao, Q., and Swanson, R. (2007) Automated Story Capture From Internet Weblogs. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, October 28-31, 2007, Whistler, BC. pdf
Gordon, A. and Swanson, R. (2007) Generalizing semantic role annotations across syntactically similar verbs. Proceedings of the 2007 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007. pdf
Hill, R., Kim, J., Gordon, A., Traum, D., Gandhe, S., King, S., Lavis, S., Rocher, S., and Zbylut, M. (2006) AXL.Net: Web-enabled Case Method Instruction for Accelerating Tacit Knowledge Acquisition in Leaders. Proceedings of the 25th Army Science Conference, November 27-30, 2006, Orlando, FL. pdf
Gordon, A. (2006) Fourth Frame Forums: Interactive Comics for Collaborative Learning. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2006), October 23-27, Santa Barbara, CA. pdf
Gordon, A. and Swanson, R. (2006) Integrating logical inference into statistical text classification applications. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrating Logical Reasoning into Everyday Applications, Oct 13-15, 2006, Washington, DC. pdf
Gordon, A. (2006) Language evidence for changes in a Theory of Mind. In M. Arbib (ed) Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. info
Swanson, R. and Gordon, A. (2006) A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL 2006). Sydney, Australia, July 17-21, 2006. pdf
Gandhe, S., Gordon, A., and Traum, D. (2006) Improving question-answering with linking dialogues. 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Sydney, Australia, Jan 29 - Feb 1, 2006. pdf
Gordon, A. (2005) The Fictionalization of Lessons Learned. Guest Editorial for Media Impact Column, IEEE Multimedia 12(4):12-14. pdf
Gordon, A. and Ganesan, K. (2005) Automated Story Extraction From Conversational Speech. Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 05), October 2-5, Banff, Canada. pdf
Gordon, A. (2005) Commonsense Psychology and the Functional Requirements of Cognitive Models. Proceedings of the 2005 AAAI Workshop on Modular Construction of Human-like Intelligence, July 10, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. pdf
Hobbs, J. and Gordon, A. (2005) Encoding Knowledge of Commonsense Psychology. 7th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning. May 22-24, 2005, Corfu, Greece. pdf
Hobbs, J. and Gordon, A. (2005) Toward a Large-Scale Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology for Metacognition. 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Metacognitive Computing. March 21-23, Stanford, CA. pdf
Swanson, R. and Gordon, A. (2005) Automated Commonsense Reasoning About Human Memory. 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Metacognitive Computing. March 21-23, Stanford, CA. pdf
Gordon, A. and Hobbs, J. (2004) Formalizations of Commonsense Psychology. AI Magazine 25(4):49-62. pdf
Hill, R., Gordon, A., and Kim, J. (2004) Learning the lessons of leadership experience: Tools for interactive case method analysis. Proceedings of the 24th Army Science Conference, Orlando Florida. pdf
Gandhe, S., Gordon, A., Leuski, A., Traum, D., and Oard, D. (2004) First steps toward linking dialogues: Mediating between free-text questions and pre-recorded video answers. Proceedings of the 24th Army Science Conference, Orlando Florida. pdf
Iuppa, N., Weltman, G. and Gordon, A. (2004) Bringing Hollywood Storytelling Techniques to Branching Storylines for Training Applications, Proceedings of the Third International Conference for Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments. August 10-13, 2004. Edinburgh, Scotland. pdf
Gordon, A. and Nair, A. (2004) Expressions Related to Knowledge and Belief in Children's Speech. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2004), August 5-7, Chicago. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pdf
Gordon, A., van Lent, M., van Velsen, M., Carpenter, M., and Jhala, A. (2004) Branching Storylines in Virtual Reality Environments for Leadership Development. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-04), July 25-29, San Jose, CA. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. pdf
Gordon, A. (2004) Authoring Branching Storylines for Training Applications. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS-04). Santa Monica, CA, June 22-26. pdf
Gordon, A. (2004) Tough Love Between Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment (Invited talk). Proceedings of IE2004: Australian Workshop on Interactive Entertainment, Feb 13, 2004, University of Technology, Sydney. pdf
Gordon, A. (2004) The Representation of Planning Strategies. Artificial Intelligence 153:287-305. Journal homepage pdf
Gordon, A. (2004) Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. info
Gordon, A. and Nair, A. (2003) Literary Evidence for the Cultural Development of a Theory of Mind. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2003). July 31-Aug 2, Boston, MA. pdf
Gordon, A., Kazemzadeh, A., Nair, A., and Petrova, M. (2003) Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2003) Sapporo, Japan, July 7-12, 2003. pdf
Hill, R., Douglas, J., Gordon, A., Pighin, F., and van Velsen, M. (2003) Guided Conversations about Leadership: Mentoring with Movies and Interactive Characters. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-03) August 12-14, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. pdf
Gordon, A. and Hobbs, J. (2003) Coverage and Competency in Formal Theories: A Commonsense Theory of Memory. Proceedings of the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Stanford University, March 24-26, 2003. pdf
Gordon, A. and Iuppa, N. (2003) Experience Management Using Storyline Adaptation Strategies. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technologies for Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, Darmstadt, Germany, March 24-26, 2003. pdf
Gordon, A. (2002) The Theory of Mind in Strategy Representations. Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2002), George Mason University, Aug 7-10. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pdf
Gordon, A. (2002) Enabling and recognizing strategic play in strategy games: Lessons from Sun Tzu. The 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, Stanford University, March 25-27, 2002. pdf
Gordon, A. and Van Lent, M. (2002) Virtual Humans as Participants vs. Virtual Humans as Actors. The 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, Stanford University, March 25-27, 2002. pdf
Gordon, A. (2001) Browsing Image Collections with Representations of Commonsense Activities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(11):925-929. pdf
Gordon, A. (2001) Strategies in Analogous Planning Cases. In J. Moore & K. Stenning (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Edinburgh, August 1-4, 2001. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pdf
Gordon, A. (2001) The Representational Requirements of Strategic Planning. Fifth symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, New York University, May 20-22, 2001. pdf
Gordon, A. (2001) Playing Chess with Machiavelli: Improving Interactive Entertainment with Explicit Strategies. The 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, Stanford University, March 26-28, 2001. pdf
Gordon, A. (2000) Using Annotated Video as an Information Retrieval Interface. 2000 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans, LA, January 9-12, 2000. pdf
Gordon, A. (1999) The Design of Knowledge-rich Browsing Interfaces for Retrieval in Digital Libraries. Northwestern University Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science. pdf
Gordon, A. and Domeshek, E. (1998) Deja Vu: A Knowledge-Rich Interface for Retrieval in Digital Libraries. 1998 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Francisco, CA, January 6-9, 1998. pdf
Domeshek, E., Kedar, S., and Gordon, A. (1996) Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Minimalist Representation AAAI-96: Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Portland, OR. pdf
Gordon, A., Kedar, S., and Domeshek, E. (1996) Interfaces for Managing Access to a Video Archive. CHI-96: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC. pdf
Gordon, A., and Domeshek, E. (1995) Retrieval Interfaces for Video Databases. In Burke, R. (chair) AI Applications in Knowledge Navigation and Retrieval, Working notes of the AAAI-95 Fall Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, November 10-12, 1995. pdf
Domeshek, E., and Gordon, A. (1995). Structuring Indexing for Video. In IMMI-95, First International Workshop on Intelligence and Multimodality in Multimedia Interfaces: Research and Applications. University of Edinburgh. pdf
Gordon, A. (1995) Automated Video Assessment of Human Performance In J. Greer (ed) Proceedings of AI-ED 95 - World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Washington, DC; August 16-19, 1995. Charlottesville, VA: AACE Press. pp. 541-546. pdf
Gordon, A., and Domeshek, E. (1995) Conceptual Indexing for Video Retrieval. In Maybury, M. (chair) Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, Working notes of the IJCAI-95 Workshop, Montreal, Quebec, August 19, 1995. pdf