David Uthus (デイブ　ユーサス)
	Position:	Software Engineer
	Location:	Google Inc. Mountain View, CA
	Email:	duthus ☯ google ☉ com
	Research Interests:	Multiparticipant Chat (e.g., IRC), Machine Learning, Heuristic Search, Ant Colony Optimization, Sports Scheduling, Watching Succulents Grow...

Research

Past Projects

Education

Publications

Journals

1. Uthus, D.C., & Aha, D.W. (2013). Multiparticipant Chat Analysis: A Survey. Artificial Intelligence. 199-201, 106-201. doi: 10.1016/j.artint.2013.02.004 [Elsevier link]
2. Uthus, D.C., Riddle, P.J., & Guesgen, H.W. (2012). Solving the Traveling Tournament Problem with Iterative-Deepening A*. Journal of Scheduling, 15(5), 601-614. doi: 10.1007/s10951-011-0237-x [Springer Link]

Conferences & Symposia

1. Guo, M., Ainslie, J., Uthus, D., Ontanon, S., Ni, J., Sung, Y.-H., and Yang, Y. (2022). LongT5: Efficient Text-To-Text Transformer for Long Sequences. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022 (pp. 724–736). Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ACL Link]
2. Uthus, D., Voitovich, M., & Mical, R.J. (2022). Augmenting Poetry Composition with Verse by Verse. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Track (pp 18–26). Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ACL Link]
3. Riley, P., Constant, N., Guo, M., Kumar, G., Uthus, D., & Parekh, Z. (2021). TextSETTR: Few-Shot Text Style Extraction and Tunable Targeted Restyling. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 3786–3800) Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ACL Link]
4. Uthus, D.C., & Aha, D.W. (2013). Detecting Bot-Answerable Questions in Ubuntu Chat. Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (pp. 747-752). Nagoya, Japan: Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. [ACL Link] [Presentation Slides] [Corpus]
5. Uthus, D.C., & Aha, D.W. (2013). Extending Word Highlighting in Multiparticipant Chat. Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (pp. 238-242). St. Pete Beach, FL: AAAI Press. [AAAI Link] [Presentation Slides] [Corpus]
6. Uthus, D.C., & Aha, D.W. (2013). The Ubuntu Chat Corpus for Multiparticipant Chat Analysis. Papers from the 2013 AAAI Spring Symposium on Analyzing Microtext (pp. 99-102). Stanford, CA: AAAI Press. [AAAI Link] [PDF] [Presentation & Poster]
7. Uthus, D.C., Riddle, P.J., & Guesgen, H.W. (2009). An Ant Colony Optimization Approach to the Traveling Tournament Problem. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 81-88). Montréal, Canada: ACM. doi:10.1145/1569901.1569913 [ACM Link | Presentation Slides]
8. Uthus, D.C., Riddle, P.J., & Guesgen, H.W. (2009). DFS* and the Traveling Tournament Problem. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (pp. 279-293). Pittsburgh, PA: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01929-6_21 [Springer Link | Presentation Slides]
9. Uthus, D.C., Riddle, P.J., & Guesgen, H.W. (2008). Ant Colony Optimization and the Single Round Robin Maximum Value Problem. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (pp. 243-250). Brussels, Belgium: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_23 [Springer Link]

Workshops

1. Sheng, E., & Uthus, D. (2020). Investigating Societal Biases in a Poetry Composition System. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing. Barcelona, Spain (Online): COLING. [ACL Link]
2. Uthus, D., Voitovich, M., Mical, R.J., & Kurzweil, R. (2019). First Steps Towards Collaborative Poetry Generation. NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 3.0. Vancouver, Canada: NeurIPS. [Workshop Link]
3. Uthus, D.C., & Aha, D.W. (2011). Plans Toward Automated Chat Summarization. Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Languages (pp.1-7). Portland, OR: Association for Computational Linguistics. [ACL Link]

Edited Volumes

1. Hovy, E., Markman, V., Martell, C., & Uthus, D.C. (Eds.) (2013). Papers from the 2013 AAAI Spring Symposium on Analyzing Microtext. Technical Report SS-13-01. Stanford, CA: AAAI Press. [AAAI Link]
2. Aha, D.W., Oard, D.W., Ramachandran, S., & Uthus, D.C. (Eds.) (2011). Papers from the AAAI Workshop on Analyzing Microtext. Technical Report WS-11-05. San Francisco, CA: AAAI Press. [AAAI Link]

Magazines

1. Agmon, N., Agrawal, V., Aha, D.W., Aloimons, Y., Buckley, D., Doshi, P., Geib, C., Grasso, F., Green, N., Johnson, B., Kaliski, B., Kiekintveld, C., Law, E., Lieberman, H., Mengshoel, O.J., Metzler, T., Modayil, J., Oard, D.W., Onder, N., O'Sullivan, B., Pastra, K., Precup, D., Ramachandran, S., Reed, C., Sariel-Talay, S., Selker, T., Shastri, L., Singh, S., Smith, S.F., Srivastava, S., Sukthankar, G., Uthus, D.C., & Williams, M.-A. (2012). Reports of the AAAI 2011 Conference Workshops. AI Magazine, 33(1), 57-70. [AAAI Link]

Unrefereed Papers

1. Uthus, D.C., Riddle, P.J., & Guesgen, H.W. (2013). Solving the Traveling Tournament Problem with Iterative-Deepening A*. ICAPS 2013 Journal Presentation Track. Rome, Italy: AAAI Press.

Technical Reports

1. Williams, B., Uthus, D.C., & Aha, D.W. (2012). Automated Chat Generator. Technical Note AIC-12-131. Washington, DC: Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence.

Blog Postings

1. Uthus, D. (2020). Find your inner poet with help from America's greats. [Keyword Link]

Dissertations

1. Uthus, D.C. (2010). Sports Scheduling: An Artificial Intelligence Approach. PhD Thesis.
2. Uthus, D.C. (2006). Hierarchical Partitioned Framework for the Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic. MSc Thesis.

Talks

1. Overcoming Information Overload in Navy Chat. NRC Postdoctoral Colloquium Series, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 22 November, 2011.
2. Overcoming Information Overload in Navy Chat. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 05 October, 2011.
3. Overcoming Information Overload in Navy Chat. USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, 05 August, 2011.
4. DFS* and the Traveling Tournament Problem. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 20 July, 2009. [Presentation Slides]
5. DFS* and the Traveling Tournament Problem. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 07 July, 2009. Same presentation slides as Ames.

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