Matthew Stone ADDRESS Dept. of Computer Science Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (732) 445-1494 / fax (732) 445-0537 110 Frelinghuysen Road [email protected] Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/˜mdstone RESEARCH INTERESTS Designing and implementing models of face-to-face dialogue in terms of formal methods for arti- ficial intellegence (logic programming and proof theory; probabilistic and decision-theoretic infer- ence) and linguistic theory (formal semantics and pragmatics; lexicalized approaches to grammar). EDUCATION • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science December 1998 Dissertation: Modality in Dialogue: Planning, Pragmatics, and Computation Advisor: Professor Mark Steedman. • Sc.B., Brown Unversity, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, 1992. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT • Visiting Researcher, Universitat¨ Postdam, 2009–2010. • Fellow, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers, 2007–2008. • Invited Research Stay, INRIA Lorraine, June 2007. • Associate Professor (tenured) and Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2005–present. • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow, Human Communication Research Centre, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, 2005–2006. • Assistant Professor and Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1999–2005. • Joint Appointment, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1999–present. • Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2001–present. • Fellow, Rutgers College, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2003–2006. • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1998–1999. • Graduate Fellow, Institute For Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1995–1998. • NSF Graduate Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1992–1995. • Research Assistant under Professor Pauline Jacobson (formal semantics of natural language), Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, 1991–1992. • Research programmer under Professor Thomas Banchoff (mathematics visualization), Department of Mathematics, Brown University, 1989–1991. HONORS AND AWARDS • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship. 2005. One of 24 awards made each year to young scientists to visit the UK. • Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Language, Logic and Computation. 1999. (Now known as the Beth Prize.) One of two awards made by FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. • Fellowship appointments 1997, 1996, 1995, 1992. • Sigma Xi, Technical Analysis Award, Brown University 1992. • Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University 1991. EXTERNAL SUPPORT • REU SITE: Perceptual science and technology. Matthew Stone, PI. NSF CNS-1062735, $303,675. March, 2011–February, 2014. • RI: SMALL: Collaborative reference in open domains. Matthew Stone, PI. NSF IIS-1017811 $100,000. September, 2010–August, 2011. • The role of communication in the dynamics of effective decision-making. Michael Littman, PI; Rick Lau, Barry Sopher, and Matthew Stone, co-PIs. NSF HSD-0624191, $685,000. December, 2006–November, 2010. • Depiction and perception of shape in line drawings. Doug DeCarlo, PI; Manish Singh and Matthew Stone, co-PIs. NSF CISE CCF-0541185, $300,000. October, 2006–September, 2011. • Electronic Arts, gift of source code (NHL 2004 PC video game, valued at $800,000), June 2005, to Village Lab (co-directed by Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone), Rutgers. • Making discourse visible: realizing conversational facial displays in interactive agents. Matthew Stone, PI; Doug DeCarlo, co-PI. NSF CISE HLC-0308121, $411,000 (including REU supple- ments). September, 2003–January, 2007. • A laboratory for interactive applications for computational vision and language. Sven Dickinson, PI; Suzanne Stevenson, Matthew Stone and Doug DeCarlo, co-PI’s, NSF CISE CDA (Research instrumentation) 9818322, $76,928 (+ $40,000 matching from Rutgers University). January, 1999– December, 2002. • Describing action for human-computer communication. Suzanne Stevenson, PI, Rutgers ISATC. $25,000, 2001. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Program Committee, ACL, 2010. Area chair for dialogue. • Editorial board, Artificial Intelligence, 2007–present. • Editorial board, Computational Linguistics, 2006–2008. • Program Co-Chair, NAACL HLT: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technology Conference, 2007. • Programme Committee Member, International Workshop on Computational Semantics, 2005. • Tutorial Forum Chair, Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2004. • Editorial board member, Journal of AI Research, 2002–2004. • Program Co-Chair (with Owen Rambow, Columbia University), Seventh International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, May 2004. • Program Commitee Member, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2003. • Program Co-Chair (with Owen Rambow, AT&T Labs—Research), International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 2002. • Information Officer, Association for Computational Linguistics special interest group on computa- tional semantics, 1999–2003. • Programme Committee Member, International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2000. • Programme Committee Member, Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2000. • Panelist, NSF. • Reviewer, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Processes, Linguistics and Philosophy, Computer Speech and Language, Journal of Logic and Computation, Cognitive Science, IEEE PAMI, ACM TAP, Journal of Memory and Language journals. • Reviewer, SIGGRAPH, AAAI, IJCAI, CSCW, ACL, NAACL, EACL, COLING, CASA conferences. • Reviewer, ICoS, AAMAS ECA, ACL Teaching, SCANALU workshops. • Program committee, ACL student session, 1996. • Member, Association for Computational Linguistics (1993–present), Linguistic Society of America (1993–present), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1997–present). INVITED PRESENTATIONS • Metaphorical Discourse Rutgers Linguistics, October 2011. Harvard Language Seminar, March 2012. Western Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Panel on the Philosophy of Poetry, April 2012. • Communication and Knowledge of Language Beihang University, August 2011. International Conference on Language and Value, Beijing, August 2011. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Panel on Conversational Im- plicature, February 2012. • Pathways to Understanding Machines, Algorithms and Representations. National Academy of Sciences Conference on Computational Thinking for Everyone, Washington, February 2010. • Reasoning in Collaborative Activity and Language Use. Conference in Honor of Rich Thomason, Ann Arbor, November 2009. University of Amsterdam, May 2010. • Learning Semantics and Pragmatics from Dialogue History. AT&T Shannon Labs, January 2009. University of the Saarland, June, 2010. Northwestern University, March 2011. • Decisions and Logical Form. (Comments on Asher and Lascarides). University of Michigan Workshop on Implicature, November 2008. • Computing Communicative Intentions (5 lecture course). LOT (Dutch Graduate Program in Linguistics) Summer School, Utrecht, July 2008. • Language, Embodiment and Social Intelligence. Keynote, International Natural Language Generation Conference, Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008. • Layered Pragmatic Processes: The Case of Metaphorical Instructions. Dialogue Matters Workshop, University of London, June 2008. • Designing Meaningful Agents. Princeton ACM/IEEE Regional Chapter, March 2008. • Discourse Coherence and Gesture Interpretation. Dialogue Matters Workshop, University of London, February 2008. Gesture Meeting, SUNY Stony Brook, April 2008. Rutgers Semantics Conference, November 2008. Workshop on Context and Communication, Barcelona, September 2010. SUNY Buffalo, October 2010. Carleton University, April 2011. • Reproducing Natural Behaviors in Conversational Animation. SUNY Stony Brook, March 2007. • Incremental Reasoning about Constraints on Reference. Dialogue Matters Workshop, University of London, February 2007. • Enlightened update: a computational architecture for presupposition accommodation. Target article and presentation at the NSF Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation, Columbus, Ohio, October 2006. Richmond Thomason, Matthew Stone and David DeVault. • Formal semantics of iconic gesture. University of Bielefeld, June 2007. Workshop on Dynamic Semantics, University of Oslo, Norway, September 2006. • Generating animated utterances. INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France, July 2007. Workshop on NL Understanding and Cognitive Science, Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, May 2006. Workshop on Embodied Communication, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2006. University of Aberdeen, UK, March 2006. University of Edinburgh, UK, December 2005. University of Essex, Colchester, UK, October 2005. • Declarative methods for language use in dialogue. University of Oxford, February 2006. University of Cambridge, February 2006. • An information-state approach to collaborative reference. Kings College London, November 2005. Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop in Language Engineering, July 2005. University of Edinburgh, May 2005. Columbia University, April 2005. • Formal pragmatics for face-to-face conversation. One Week Course at the European Summer