Management

John P. Lehmann is CEO and President of 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.

Sean Monahan is Vice President of Engineering at LCC. Sean graduated from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, and received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. Sean's areas of expertise include customizable information extraction, entity coreference, knowledge base population, and content management. Sean was responsible for developing LCC products including IndexManager, On-Demand NLP, CiceroCustom Entity, and Dossier Generation. Sean has participated in evaluations such as TREC and ACE, and led LCC's slot filling effort at TAC-KBP 2010.