Projects

Publications

2011

Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry and Bill Dolan Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)

Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam and Oren Etzioni Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)

2010

A Latent Dirichlet Allocation method for Selectional Preferences Alan Ritter, Mausam and Oren Etzioni Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. Full Paper (PDF)

Machine Reading at the University of Washington Hoifung Poon, Janara Christensen, Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Raphael Hoffmann, Chloé Kiddon, Thomas Lin, Xiao Ling, Mausam, Alan Ritter, Stefan Schoenmackers, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld and Fei Wu Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. Workshop Paper (PDF)

Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry and Bill Dolan Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. Full Paper (PDF)

2009

Filter, Rank, and Transfer the Knowledge: Learning to Chat Sina Jafarpour, Chris Burges and Alan Ritter Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2009. Workshop Paper (PDF)

What Is This, Anyway: Automatic Hypernym Discovery Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland and Oren Etzioni AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2009. Symposia Paper (PDF)

Learning to Generalize for Complex Selection Tasks Alan Ritter and Sumit Basu International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)     Best Student Paper Award

2008

It's a Contradiction -- No, It's Not: A Case Study using Functional Relations Alan Ritter, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland and Oren Etzioni Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)