Projects

Publications

2010

Analysis of a Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Unsupervised Information Extraction Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni and Stephen Soderland Artificial Intelligence, 2010. Journal Article (PDF)

2008

Look Ma, No Hands: Analyzing the Monotonic Feature Abstraction for Text Classification Doug Downey and Oren Etzioni Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)

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)

2007

Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)

Locating Complex Named Entities in Web Text Doug Downey, Matt Broadhead and Oren Etzioni International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)

2005

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

A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni and Stephen Soderland International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005. Full Paper (PDF)     Distinguished Paper Award

Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Study Oren Etzioni, Michael J Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates Artificial Intelligence, 2005. Journal Article (PDF)

2004

Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison Oren Etzioni, Michael J Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland and Alexander Yates AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004. Full Paper (PDF)

WebScale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results) Oren Etzioni, Michael J Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates International World Wide Web Conference, 2004. Full Paper (PDF)