Curriculum Vitae
Anton Leuski

Principal fields of interest

Interactive information access. Information retrieval, organization, and visualization. Human-computer interaction. Machine learning.

Education

Employment

Publications (journals)

1. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Interactive information retrieval using clustering and spatial proximity”. User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), 14(2):259-288, June 2004. Winner of the 2004 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article.
2. Anton Leuski, Chin Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, Ulrich Germann, Franz Josef Och, and Eduard Hovy. “Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English access to Hindi information”. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2(3):245-269, September 2003.
3. Daqing He, Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kareem Darwish, Philip Resnik, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Michael Nossal, Michael Subotin, and Anton Leuski. “Making MIRACLEs: Interactive translingual search for Cebuano and Hindi”. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2(3):219-244, September 2003.
4. James Allan, Anton Leuski, Russell Swan, and Don Byrd. “Evaluating combinations of ranked lists and visualizations of inter-document similarity”. Information Processing and Management (IPM), 37:435-458, 2000.
5. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Strategy-based interactive cluster visualization for information retrieval”. International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJODL), 3(2):170-184, 2000.

Publications (refereed conferences)

6. David Traum, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Panayiotis Georgiou, Jillian Gerten, Bilyana Martinovski, Shrikanth Narayanan, Susan Robinson, and Ashish Vaswani. “Hassan: A virtual human for tactical questioning”. In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 71-74, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.
7. Hua Ai, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. “Using information state to improve dialogue move identification in a spoken dialogue system”. In Proceedings of the 10th Interspeech Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.
8. Patrick Kenny, Thomas D. Parsons, Jonathan Gratch, Anton Leuski, and Albert A. Rizzo. “Virtual patients for clinical therapist skills training”. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Paris, France, September 2007.
9. Anton Leuski, Jarrell Pair, David Traum, Peter J. McNerney, Panayiotis Georgiou, and Ronakkumar Patel. “How to talk to a hologram”. In Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI'06), pages 360-362, Sydney, Australia, January 2006. ACM Press New York, NY, USA.
10. Anton Leuski and Victor Lavrenko. “Tracking dragon-hunters with language models”. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Arlington, VA, November 2006.
11. Ronakkumar Patel, Anton Leuski, and David Traum. “Dealing with out of domain questions in virtual characters”. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'06), Marina del Rey, CA, August 2006.
12. Anton Leuski, Ronakkumar Patel, David Traum, and Brandon Kennedy. “Building effective question answering characters”. In Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.
13. Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Vivek Rangarajan, Susan Robinson, Ashish Vaswani, Shri Narayanan, and David Traum. “Radiobot-cff: A spoken dialogue system for military training”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.
14. Rahul Bhagat, Anton Leuski, and Eduard Hovy. “Statistical shallow semantic parsing despite little training data”. In Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (ACL/SIGPARSE'05), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2005.
15. David Traum, William Swartout, Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella, Patrick Kenney, Eduard Hovy, Shri Narayanan, Ed Fast, Bilyana Martinovski, Rahul Bhagat, Susan Robinson, Andrew Marshall, Dagen Wang, Sudeep Gandhe, and Anton Leuski. “Dealing with doctors: Virtual humans for non-team interaction training”. In Proceedings of ACL/ISCA 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.
16. Anton Leuski. “Context features in email archives”. In Proceedings of IRiX workshop at SIGIR'05, August 2005.
17. Anton Leuski. “Email is a stage: discovering people roles from email archives”. In Proceedings of 27th annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'04), pages 502--503, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2004. ACM Press. NY, USA.
18. Sudeep Gandhe, Andrew Gordon, Anton Leuski, David Traum, and Douglas W. Oard. “First steps toward linking dialogues: Mediating between free-text questions and pre-recorded video answers”. In Proceedings of the 24th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 2004.
19. Douglas W. Oard, Anton Leuski, and Stuart Stubblebine. “Protecting the privacy of observable behavior in distributed recommender systems”. In Proceedings of SIGIR'03 Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences, August 2003.
20. Anton Leuski, Chin Yew Lin, and Eduard Hovy. “iNeATS: Interactive multi-document summarization”. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2003), pages 125-128, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003.
21. Douglas W. Oard and Anton Leuski. “Searching recorded speech based on the temporal extent of topic labels”. In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management, Palo Alto, CA, March 2003.
22. Douglas W. Oard, David Doermann, Bonnie Dorr, Daqing He, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, William Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur, David Yarowsky, Anton Leuski, Philipp Koehn, and Kevin Knight. “Desparately seeking Cebuano”. In Proceedings of the 3rd Human Language Technology Conference (HLT'03), pages 76-78, Edmonton, Canada, May 2003.
23. Anton Leuski, Douglas W. Oard, and Rahul Bhagat. “eArchivarius: Accessing collections of electronic mail”. In Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 468-469, Toronto, Canada, July 2003. ACM Press.
24. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation”. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 89-96, Tampere, Finland, August 11-15, 2002. ACM Press.
25. Anton Leuski. “Evaluating document clustering for interactive information retrieval”. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'01), pages 41-48, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 5-10, 2001. ACM Press.
26. David Frey, Rahul Gupta, Vikas Khandelwal, Victor Lavrenko, Anton Leuski, and James Allan. “Monitoring the news: a TDT demonstration system”. In Proceedings of the First International Human Language Technologies Conference (HLT'01), pages 351-355, San Diego, California, USA, March 18-21, 2001. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco.
27. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Lighthouse: showing the way to relevant information”. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis'00), pages 125-130, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October 9-10, 2000. IEEE Computer Society.
28. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Improving interactive retrieval by combining ranked lists and clustering”. In Proceedings of RIAO'2000, pages 665-681, Paris, France, April 12-14, 2000. C.I.D., Paris, France.
29. Anton Leuski. “Relevance and reinforcement in interactive browsing”. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'00), pages 119-126, McLean, Virginia, USA, November 6-11, 2000. ACM Press.
30. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Visual interactions with multidimensional ranked list”. In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 353-354, Melbourne, Australia, August 24-28, 1998. ACM Press.
31. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Evaluating a visual navigation system for a digital library”. In Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'98), pages 535-554, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 21-23, 1998. Springer.

Publications (other)

32. Anton Leuski. Interactive Information Organization: Techniques and Evaluation. PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 2001.
33. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “Details of Lighthouse”. Technical Report IR-212, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000.
34. Anton Leuski. “Evaluating a visual presentation of retrieved documents”. Technical Report IR-159, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999.
35. Anton Leuski. “Studying the usability of relevant proximity ranking”. Technical Report IR-175, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999.
36. Anton Leuski and James Allan. “The best of both worlds: Combining ranked list and clustering”. Technical Report IR-172, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999.
37. James Allan, Anton Leuski, and Russel Swan. “Interactive cluster visualization for Information Retrieval”. Technical Report IR-116, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.
38. Anton Leuski and W. Bruce Croft. “An evaluation of techniques for clustering search results”. Technical Report IR-76, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996.
39. Anton Leuski and Paul E. Utgoff. “What a neural network can learn about Othello”. Technical Report TR 96-10, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996.
40. Anton Leuski. “Learning of position evaluation in the game of Othello”. Technical Report TR 95-23, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995.

Programming skills

System building experience: numerous with systems that were primarily user interaction oriented. Two selected examples include (1) Lighthouse - a document organization and visualization system (45,000 lines of Java code, client-server architecture) and (2) MacINQUERY - a Mac OS 9 version of a large UNIX-based research information retrieval engine INQUERY. Details are available upon request.

Programming languages: C/C++ (actively using since 1992), Java (since 1998), Objective-C (since 2000).

Operating systems: Mac OS 9 and X, UNIX. Cross-platform software development experience for Mac/UNIX/Windows.

Professional activities

Co-organized and co-chaired Workshop on New Directions For IR Evaluation at SIGIR 2004.

Invited talks at the AT&T Shannon Laboratory (08/1998), University of Maryland (06/2005 and 11/2006), FX-PAL Laboratory (04/2007).

Reviewed papers for CG&A, TOIS, IP&M, and JAIR journals

Program committee member at AAAI 2000, 2002, KDD 2000, CIKM 2001, SIGIR 2001-2007, InfoVis 2002

Teaching experience

Guest lectures at the Computer Science Department at the University of Souther California for the Natural Language Processing (prof. Edward Hovy) and Dialog Systems (prof. David Traum) courses.

Assisted in teaching courses at the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Course titles: "Programming and Data Structures" (Fall 1992), "Programming Languages" (Spring 1993), and "Assembler Language" (Fall 1993 and Spring 1994). Duties included lab supervision, holding office hours, home assignment preparation, exam and homework grading.

Assisted in teaching basic programming course at Moscow State University (Spring and Summer 1992). Duties included lab supervision, tutoring students in C and Pascal programming languages, developing educational software.