Management

Andrew Hickl serves as CEO and President of Language Computer Corporation. His areas of expertise include computational semantics, information distillation (with a particular focus in question-answering and multi-document summarization), and computational approaches to discourse and dialogue modeling. He has been responsible for the development of a number of state-of-the-art NLP systems, including the top-performing systems at the 2006, 2007, and 2008 PASCAL (now TAC) Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenges, the 2005, 2006, and 2007 Document Understanding Conference (DUC) Multi-Document Summarization Evaluations, and the 2006 and 2007 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Question-Answering Evaluations.

John P. Lehmann is Vice President (Engineering) at Language Computer Corporation. While at LCC, John has focused on the development of high-performance information extraction, question answering, and named entity recognition systems for Government, Intelligence, and corporate customers. John has been responsible for developing some of LCC’s most successful products, including the CiceroLite named entity recognition system, the Ferret interactive question answering system, and the CiceroCustom information extraction systems. John has also led LCC’s teams participating in a number of industry-wide evaluations, including Event99, EELD, CTC, and TREC and has published papers in a number of conferences, including ACL.

Dr. Finley Lacatusu is Vice President (Operations) of Language Computer Corporation. A 2007 recipient of a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Lacatusu’s areas of expertise include multi-document summarization, automatic topic representation, and complex question-answering. While at LCC, he has been the driving force behind the development of LCC’s GistTexter multi-document summarization system and was responsible for LCC’s participation in the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Document Understanding Conference (DUC) Summarization evaluations.

John Williams is LCC’s Chief Software Architect. John is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (B.S., Computer Science, 2000), and he has served as the lead developer of the Ferret question answering system.