Projects

Publications

2011

Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)     Best Paper Award

2010

Machine Reading: A "Killer App" for Statistical Relational AI Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos Workshop on Statistical Relational AI, 2010. Workshop Paper (PDF)

Unsupervised Ontology Induction from Text Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. Full Paper (PDF)

Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature Hoifung Poon and Lucy Vanderwende Annual Conference of the North American Chapter 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)

2009

Unsupervised Semantic Parsing Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)     Best Paper Award

Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry and Kristina Toutanova Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. Full Paper     Best Paper Award     Best Student Paper Award

2008

Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)

A General Method for Reducing the Complexity of Relational Inference and its Application to MCMC Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos and Marc Sumner AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008. Full Paper (PDF) (Slides) (Code)

2007

Joint Inference in Information Extraction Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)

2006

Sound and Efficient Inference with Probabilistic and Deterministic Dependencies Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006. Full Paper (PDF)

Unifying Logical and Statistical AI Pedro Domingos, Stanley Kok, Hoifung Poon, Matt Richardson and Parag Singla AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006. Full Paper