Projects

Publications

2011

Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Ling, Luke S. Zettlemoyer and Daniel S. Weld Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)

2010

Learning 5000 Relational Extractors Raphael Hoffmann and Daniel S. Weld 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)

Supporting rule-based representations with corpus-derived lexical information Annie Zaenen, Cleo Condoravdi, Daniel G Bobrow and Raphael Hoffmann Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010. Workshop Paper (PDF)

2009

Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li and Jakub Szymanski ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)

Amplifying Community Content Creation with Mixed Initiative Information Extraction Raphael Hoffmann, Saleema Amershi, Kayur Patel, Fei Wu, James Fogarty and Daniel S. Weld Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)     Best Paper Nominee

2008

Augmenting Wikipedia-Extraction with Results from the Web Fei Wu, Raphael Hoffmann and Daniel S. Weld AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008. Workshop (PDF)

Information Extraction from Wikipedia: Moving Down the long Tail Fei Wu, Raphael Hoffmann and Daniel S. Weld Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)

Intelligence in Wikipedia Daniel S. Weld, Fei Wu, Eytan Adar, Saleema Amershi, James Fogarty, Raphael Hoffmann, Kayur Patel and Michael Skinner AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)

Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens Raphael Hoffmann, Patrick Baudisch and Daniel S. Weld Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. Full Paper (PDF)

2007

Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers Raphael Hoffmann, James Fogarty and Daniel S. Weld Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007. Full Paper (PDF)