Publications by year

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2008

"The Tradeoffs Between Open and Traditional Relation Extraction"
Michele Banko and Oren Etzioni
To Appear in the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008)

2007

"Automatically Semantifying Wikipedia"
Fei Wu and Daniel S. Weld
Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007)
Best Paper Prize

"Strategies for Lifelong Knowledge Extraction from the Web"
Michele Banko and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2007)
Best Student Paper Award

"Disambiguating for the Web: A Test of Two Methods"
Jonathan Pool and S. M. Colowick
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2007)

"Syntactic Disambiguation for the Semantic Web"
Jonathan Pool and S. M. Colowick
Proceedings of the Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM 2007)

"Lexical Translation with Application to Image Search on the Web"
Oren Etzioni, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, and Marcus Sammer
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI, 2007

"Building a Sense-Distinguished Multilingual Lexicon from Monolingual Corpora and Bilingual Lexicons"
Marcus Sammer and Stephen Soderland
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI, 2007

"Navigating Extracted Data with Schema Discovery"
Michael J. Cafarella, Dan Suciu, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2007)

"Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue"
Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007)

"Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web"
Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007)

"Machine Reading"
Oren Etzioni, Michele Banko, and Michael J. Cafarella
Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading

"Moving from Textual Relations to Ontologized Relations"
Stephen Soderland and Bhushan Mandhani
Proceedings of the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading

"Open Information Extraction from the Web"
Michele Banko, Michael J. Cafarella, Stephen Soderland, Matt Broadhead, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007)

"Locating Complex Named Entities in Web Text"
Doug Downey, Matthew Broadhead, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007)

"Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge"
Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher Re, Dan Suciu, Oren Etzioni, and Michele Banko
Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2007)

"Information Extraction from Unstructured Web Text"
Ana-Maria Popescu
University of Washington Ph.D. Dissertation

"Information Extraction from the Web: Techniques and Applications"
Alexander Yates
University of Washington Ph.D. Dissertation

2006

"Structured Queries Over Web Text"
Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni, and Dan Suciu
IEEE Data Bulletin, 29(4):45-51, 2006

"Machine Reading"
Oren Etzioni, Michele Banko, and Michael J. Cafarella
Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006)

"Ontology-driven Information Extraction with OntoSyphon"
Luke K. McDowell and Michael Cafarella
Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)

"Can Controlled Languages Scale to the Web?"
Jonathan Pool
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW 2006)

"Ambiguity Reduction for Machine Translation: Human-Computer Collaboration"
Marcus Sammer, Kobi Reiter, Stephen Soderland, Katrin Kirchhoff, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006)

"Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters"
Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006)

"Relational Web Search"
Michael J. Cafarella, Michele Banko, and Oren Etzioni
UW CSE Tech Report 2006-04-02

2005

"Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews"
Ana-Maria Popescu and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2005)

"KnowItNow: Fast, Scalable Information Extraction from the Web"
Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2005)

"A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction"
Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, and Stephen Soderland
Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005)
Distinguished Paper Award

"A Search Engine for Natural Language Applications"
Michael J. Cafarella and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005)

"Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study"
Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, and Alexander Yates
Artificial Intelligence, 165(1):91-134, 2005

"Beauty and the Beast: What running a broad-coverage precision grammar over the BNC taught us about the grammar---and the corpus"
Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Ara Kim, and Stephan Oepen
Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, 49-70, 2005

"A Coordination Module for a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource"
Scott Drellishak and Emily M. Bender
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2005)

"Rapid Prototyping of Scalable Grammars: Towards Modularity in Extensions to a Language-Independent Core"
Emily M. Bender and Dan Flickinger
Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2005)

2004

"Methods for domain-independent information extraction from the Web: an experimental comparison"
Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, and Alexander Yates
Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2004)

"Web-scale information extraction in KnowItAll (preliminary results)"
Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, and Alexander Yates
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2004)

"Semantic Email"
Luke McDowell , Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, and Henry Levy
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2004)
Runner-up for Best Paper Award

"Modern Natural Language Interfaces to Databases: composing statistical parsing with semantic tractability"
Ana-Maria Popescu, Alex Armanasu, Oren Etzioni, David Ko, and Alexander Yates
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004)

"The specification of agent behavior by ordinary people: A case study"
Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, and Alon Halevy
Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)

"Semantic email: Theory and applications"
Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, and Alon Halevy
Journal of Web Semantics, 2(2):153-183, 2004

"Montage: Leveraging Advances in Grammar Engineering, Linguistic Ontologies, and Mark-up for the Documentation of Underdescribed Languages"
Emily Bender, Dan Flickinger, Jeff Good and Ivan Sag
Proceedings of the Workshop on First Steps for Language Documentation of Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation (LREC 2004)

"Meaning for the Masses: Theory and Applications for Semantic Web and Semantic Email Systems"
Luke McDowell
University of Washington Ph.D. Dissertation

2003

"Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via Instant Gratification"
Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven D. Gribble, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, and Stani Vlasseva
Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003)

"Semantic Email: Adding Lightweight Data Manipulation Capabilities to the Email Habitat"
Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, and Luke McDowell
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2003)

"Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases"
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, and Henry Kautz
Proceedings of the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2003)

"A reliable natural language interface to household appliances"
Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel S. Weld
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2003)

"Compositional Semantics in a Multilingual Grammar Resource"
Dan Flickinger and Emily M. Bender
Proceedings of the Workshop on Ideas and Stratgies for Multilingual Grammar Development (ESSLLI 2003)

2002

"The Grammar Matrix: An Open-Source Starter-Kit for the Rapid Development of Cross-Linguistically Consistent Broad-Coverage Precision Grammars"
Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, and Stephan Oepen
Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering and Evaluation (COLING 2002)

1999

"Clustering Web Documents: A Phrase-Based Method for Grouping Search Engine Results"
Oren Zamir
University of Washington Ph.D. Dissertation

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