Publications & Presentations

Below are the various presentations and publications I’ve done over the years.

Artificial Intelligence (& related)

  • Michael Lipschultz and Nelson Lerma, “Lexical Normalization, or How I learned to Stop Worrying About Typos and Do My Job Better”, Naval Applications of Machine Learning (NAML), February 2020.
  • Michael Lipschultz, “WiCAT: Window into Contract Analytics Tool”, Naval Applications of Machine Learning (NAML), February 2020.
  • Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman, Sandra Katz, Patricia Albacete, and Pamela Jordan, “Predicting Semantic Changes in Abstraction in Tutor Responses to Students”, International Journal of Learning Technology, Volume 9, Number 3, pp. 281-303. (paper)
  • Michael Lipschultz and Diane Litman, “Modeling Student Benefit from Illustrations and Graphs”, Proceedings 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Honolulu, HI, June 2014. (paper)
  • Pamela Jordan, Patricia Albacete, Michael Ford, Sandra Katz, Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman and Christine Wilson, “Interactive Event: The Rimac Tutor - A Simulation of the Highly Interactive Nature of Human Tutorial Dialogue”, Proceedings 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Memphis, TN, July 2013. (paper)
  • Sandra Katz, Patricia Albacete, Michael Ford, Pamela Jordan, Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman, Scott Silliman and Christine Wilson. “Pilot Test of a Natural-language Tutoring System for Physics that Simulates the Highly Interactive Nature of Human Tutoring”, Proceedings 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Memphis, TN, July 2013. (paper)
  • Michael Lipschultz and Diane Litman. “Illustrations or Graphs: Some Students Benefit From One Over the Other”, Proceedings 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Memphis, TN, July 2013. (paper)
  • Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman, Pamela Jordan, and Sandra Katz. “Evaluating Learning Factors Analysis”, Workshop and Poster Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), Montreal, Canada, July 2012. (paper)
  • Michael Lipschultz, Diane Litman, Pamela Jordan and Sandra Katz. “Predicting Changes in Level of Abstraction in Tutor Responses to Students”, Proceedings 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011. (paper)
  • Michael Lipschultz and Diane Litman. “Correcting Scientific Knowledge in a General-Purpose Ontology”, Proceedings 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2010. (paper)
  • Pamela Jordan, Diane Litman, Michael Lipschultz and Joanna Drummond. “Evidence of Misunderstandings in Tutorial Dialogue and their Impact on Learning”, Proceedings 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Brighton, UK, July 2009. (paper)
  • J. Scott Payne, Luiz Amaral, Weijia Li, and Michael Lipschultz. “LangBot: An Intelligent Agent for Language Learning and Research”, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Amherst, Massachusetts, May 2010.
  • J. Scott Payne and Michael Lipschultz. “Using Instant Messenger Bots and Unsupervised Learning Techniques to Promote Vocabulary Acquisition”, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), San Marcos, Texas, May 2007.
  • J. Scott Payne and Michael Lipschultz. “The Bodo Bot Project: Intelligent Agents, Instant Messaging, and Vocabulary Acquisition”, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2006.

Software Engineering

  • Aiton Goldman and Michael Lipschultz. “Fixing Under Fire: Lessons Learned on How to Support Cloud-Based Microservices”. Index Conference 2018, San Francisco, California, February 2018 (slides | video)
  • Michael Keeling and Michael Lipschultz. “Manage your Technical Debt Portfolio”. SATURN 2018, Plano, Texas, May 2018
  • Michael Lipschultz and Aiton Goldman. “Fixing Under Fire: Exploring Architectural Decisions that led to Painful On-Call Experiences”. SATURN 2018, Plano, Texas, May 2018