2018

Semi-Supervised Event Extraction with Paraphrase Clusters

J. Ferguson, C. Lockard, D.S. Weld, H. Hajishirzi, NAACL-HLT, 2018.

Large-Scale QA-SRL Parsing

N. FitzGerald, J. Michael, L. He, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018.  *Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention*

Long Short-Term Memory as a Dynamically Computed Element-wise Weighted Sum

O. Levy, K. Lee, N. FitzGerald, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018.

Ultra-Fine Entity Typing

E. Choi, O. Levy, Y. Choi, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018.

Jointly Predicting Predicates and Arguments in Neural Semantic Role Labeling

L. He, K. Lee, O. Levy, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018.  *Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention*

Supervised Open Information Extraction

G. Stanovsky, J. Michael, L. Zettlemoyer, I. Dagan, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.

Higher-Order Coreference Resolution with Coarse-to-Fine Inference

K. Lee, L. He, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.

Adversarial Example Generation with Syntactically Controlled Paraphrase Networks

M. Iyyer, J. Wieting, K. Gimpel, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.

Crowdsourcing Question-Answer Meaning Representations

J. Michael, G. Stanovsky, L. He, I. Dagan, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.

Deep Contextualized Word Representations

M. Peters, M. Neumann, M. Iyyer, M. Gardner, C. Clark, K. Lee, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018.  *Best Paper Award*

Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax

T. Blevins, O. Levy, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018.

2017

TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension

M. Joshi, E. Choi, D. Weld, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017.
Downloads: http://nlp.cs.washington.edu/triviaqa/ DATA https://github.com/mandarjoshi90/triviaqa CODE

Learning a Neural Semantic Parser from User Feedback

S. Iyer, Y. Konstas, A. Cheung, J. Krishnamurthy, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017.
Downloads: https://github.com/sriniiyer/nl2sql CODE

Neural AMR: Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Parsing and Generation

I. Konstas, S. Iyer, M. Yatskar, Y. Choi, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017.
Downloads: http://www.ikonstas.net/index.php?page=demos# DEMO https://github.com/sinantie/NeuralAmr CODE

2016

Effective Crowd Annotation for Relation Extraction

A. Liu, S. Soderland, J. Bragg, C.H. Lin, X. Ling, D.S. Weld, 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2016), 2016.

2015

Entity Analysis with Weak Supervision: Typing, Linking, and Attribute Extraction

X. Ling, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington PhD, 2015.
Downloads: http://aiweb.cs.washington.edu/ai/pubs/LingXiaothesis2015.pdf PDF

Relation Extraction: from Ontological Smoothing to Temporal Correspondence

C. Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington PhD, 2015.
Downloads: http://aiweb.cs.washington.edu/ai/pubs/ZhangConglethesis2015.pdf PDF

University of Washington System for 2015 KBP Cold Start Slot Filling

S. Soderland, N. Hawkins, G. Kim, D.S. Weld, Text Analysis Conference (TAC) KBP, 2015.

A Language Model for Extracting Implicit Relations

S. Soderland, G. Kim, N. Hawkins, Technical Report, 2015.

Design Challenges for Entity Linking

X. Ling, S. Singh, D.S. Weld, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3, 2015.

Exploiting Parallel News Streams for Unsupervised Event Extraction

C. Zhang, S. Soderland, D.S. Weld, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 3, 2015.  

Crawled parallel news streams are available at

http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/clzhang/sentences.tokens.gz http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/clzhang/sentences.articleIDs.gz

The github url of this project: https://github.com/zhangcongle/NewsSpikeRe

Refer-to-as Relations as Semantic Knowledge

S. Feng, S. Ravi, R. Kumar, P. Kuznetsova, W. Liu, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, Y. Choi, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.

Psychological language on twitter predicts county-level heart disease mortality

J.C. Eichstaedt, H.Andrew Schwartz, M.L. Kern, G. Park, D.R. Labarthe, R.M. Merchant, S. Jha, M. Agrawal, L.A. Dziurzynski, M. Sap,  others, Psychological science 26, 2015.

Extreme Extraction: Only One Hour per Relation

R. Hoffmann, L. Zettlemoyer, D.S. Weld, CoRR abs/1506.06418, 2015.

2014

Type-Aware Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Linked Arguments

M. Koch, J. Gilmer, S. Soderland, D.S. Weld, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014.
Downloads: http://cs.uw.edu/homes/mkoch/re

Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions

K. Lee, Y. Artzi, J. Dodge, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.

Learning to Solve Arithmetic Word Problems with Verb Categorization

M.J. Hosseini, H. Hajishirzi, O. Etzioni, N. Kushman, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014.

Open Question Answering Over Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases

A. Fader, O. Etzioni, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2014.
Downloads: https://github.com/afader/oqa CODE https://github.com/afader/oqa DATA

See No Evil, Say No Evil: Description Generation from Densely Labeled Images

M. Yatskar, M. Galley, L. Vanderwende, L. Zettlemoyer, Joint Conference on Lexical and Computation Semantics (*SEM), 2014.

TreeTalk: Composition and compression of trees for image descriptions

P. Kuznetsova, V. Ordonez, T.L. Berg, Y. Choi, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2, 2014.

Learning to Automatically Solve Algebra Word Problems

N. Kushman, Y. Artzi, L. Zettlemoyer, R. Barzilay, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014.

Keystroke Patterns as Prosody in Digital Writings: A Case Study with Deceptive Reviews and Essays

R. Banerjee, S. Feng, J.Seok Kang, Y. Choi, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014.

ConnotationWordNet: Learning Connotation over the Word+Sense Network

J.Seok Kang, S. Feng, L. Akoglu, Y. Choi, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014.

Context Representation for Named Entity Linking

X. Ling, S. Singh, D.S. Weld, 3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop, 2014.
Downloads: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~xiaoling/papers/nwnlp14.pdf

Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media

M. Sap, G. Park, J.C. Eichstaedt, M.L. Kern, D.J. Stillwell, M. Kosinski, L.H. Ungar, H.Andrew Schwartz, Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.

Introduction to the special issue on learning semantics.

A. Bordes, L. Bottou, R. Collobert, D. Roth, J. Weston, L. Zettlemoyer, Machine Learning 94, 2014.

Learning from Unscripted Deictic Gesture and Language for Human-Robot Interactions

C. Matuszek, L. Bo, L. Zettlemoyer, D. Fox, Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014.

2013

Open Information Extraction to KBP Relation in 3 Hours

S. Soderland, J. Gilmer, R. Bart, O. Etzioni, D.S. Weld, Text Analysis Conference - Knowledge Base Propagation (KBP), 2013.
Downloads: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~soderlan/Soderland-KBP2013.pdf PDF

Harvesting Parallel News Streams to Generate Paraphrases of Event Relations

C. Zhang, D.S. Weld, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
Downloads: http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/clzhang/release.tar.gz datasets

Joint Coreference Resolution and Named-Entity Linking with Multi-pass Sieves

H. Hajishirzi, L. Zilles, D.S. Weld, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.

Extracting Meronyms for a Biology Knowledge Base using Distant Supervision

X. Ling, P. Clark, D.S. Weld, ACM Workshop on Automatic Knowledge-Base Construction, ACM, 2013.

Scaling semantic parsers with on-the-fly ontology matching

T. Kwiatkowski, E. Choi, Y. Artzi, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.

Modeling Missing Data in Distant Supervision for Information Extraction.

A. Ritter, L. Zettlemoyer,  Mausam, O. Etzioni, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 1, 2013.
Downloads: http://aritter.github.io/emnlp13.pptx SLIDES

Success with Style: Using Writing Style to Predict the Success of Novels

V.Ganjigunte Ashok, S. Feng, Y. Choi, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.

Paraphrase-Driven Learning for Open Question Answering

A. Fader, L. Zettlemoyer, O. Etzioni, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.
Downloads: http://knowitall.cs.washington.edu/paralex/ CODE http://knowitall.cs.washington.edu/paralex/ DATA

Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions.

Y. Artzi, L. Zettlemoyer, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 1, 2013.
Downloads: https://bitbucket.org/yoavartzi/spf CODE

Lightly Supervised Learning of Procedural Dialog Systems

S. Volkova, P. Choudhury, C. Quirk, B. Dolan, L.S. Zettlemoyer, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.

Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews

J. Kang, P. Kuznetsova, M. Luca, Y. Choi, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.

Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions

Y. Artzi, L. Zettlemoyer, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 1, 2013.

Understanding and Quantifying Creativity in Lexical Composition

P. Kuznetsova, J. Chen, Y. Choi, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.

3D Wikipedia: using online text to automatically label and navigate reconstructed geometry

B.C. Russell, R. Martin-Brualla, D.J. Butler, S.M. Seitz, L. Zettlemoyer, ACM Trans. Graph. (SIGGRAPH Asia) 32, 2013.
Downloads: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/label3d/ VIDEO

“Can you give me another word for hyperbaric?”: Improving speech translation using targeted clarification questions

N.Fazil Ayan, A. Mandal, M. Frandsen, J. Zheng, P. Blasco, A. Kathol, F. Béchet, B. Favre, A. Marin, T. Kwiatkowski, M. Ostendorf, L. Zettlemoyer, P. Salletmayr, J. Hirschberg, S. Stoyanchev, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, 2013.

BabyTalk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions

G. Kulkarni, V. Premraj, V. Ordonez, S. Dhar, S. Li, Y. Choi, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 35, 2013.

Learning to Relate Literal and Sentimental Descriptions of Visual Properties.

M. Yatskar, S. Volkova, A. Celikyilmaz, B. Dolan, L.S. Zettlemoyer, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2013.

Connotation Lexicon: A Dash of Sentiment Beneath the Surface Meaning

S. Feng, J.Seok Kang, P. Kuznetsova, Y. Choi, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.

Automatic Idiom Identification in Wiktionary

G. Muzny, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
Downloads: https://bitbucket.org/muzny/wiktionaryidioms/downloads/ DATA https://bitbucket.org/muzny/wiktionaryidioms/ CODE

From Large Scale Image Categorization to Entry-Level Categories

V. Ordonez, J. Deng, Y. Choi, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013.   Awarded Best Paper

Learning Distributions over Logical Forms for Referring Expression Generation.

N. FitzGerald, Y. Artzi, L.S. Zettlemoyer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
Downloads: https://bitbucket.org/nfitzgerald/genx-referring-expression-corpus DATA

Generalizing Image Captions for Image-Text Parallel Corpus

P. Kuznetsova, V. Ordonez, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, Y. Choi, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.

2012

Open Domain Event Extraction from Twitter

A. Ritter,  Mausam, O. Etzioni, S. Clark, KDD, 2012.
Downloads: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/aritter/rt080-ritter.pdf PDF

Discriminative Learning for Joint Template Filling

E. Minkov, L. Zettlemoyer, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.

Entity Linking at Web Scale

T. Lin,  Mausam, O. Etzioni, Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction, 2012.

Rel-grams: A Probabilistic Model of Relations in Text

N. Balasubramanian, S. Soderland,  Mausam, O. Etzioni, Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX) at NAACL, 2012.

Fine-Grained Entity Recognition

X. Ling, D.S. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
Downloads: http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/figer/figer.tar.gz Code

Syntactic Stylometry for Deception Detection

S. Feng, R. Banerjee, Y. Choi, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.

Ontological Smoothing for Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision

C. Zhang, R. Hoffmann, D.S. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.

Distributional Footprints of Deceptive Product Reviews

S. Feng, L. Xing, A. Gogar, Y. Choi, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2012.

Detecting Visual Text

J. Dodge, A. Goyal, X. Han, A. Mensch, M. Mitchell, K. Stratos, K. Yamaguchi, Y. Choi, H. Daumé, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2012.

A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings

T. Kwiatkowski, S. Goldwater, L. Zettlemoyer,  Steedman, Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2012.

Characterizing Stylistic Elements in Syntactic Structure

S. Feng, R. Banerjee, Y. Choi, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2012.

Collective Generation of Natural Image Descriptions

P. Kuznetsova, V. Ordonez, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, Y. Choi, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.

2011

Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing

T. Kwiatkowski, L. Zettlemoyer, S. Goldwater, M. Steedman, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations

Y. Artzi, L. Zettlemoyer, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations

R. Hoffmann, C. Zhang, X. Ling, L. Zettlemoyer, D. Weld, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
Downloads: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~raphaelh/mr/index.html Source Code

Language of Vandalism: Improving Wikipedia Vandalism Detection via Stylometric Analysis

M. Harpalani, M. Hart, S. Signh, R. Johnson, Y. Choi, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.

Learning General Connotation of Words using Graph-based Algorithms

S. Feng, R. Bose, Y. Choi, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Gender Attribution: Tracing Stylometric Evidence Beyond Topic and Genre

R. Sarawgi, K. Gajulapalli, Y. Choi, Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.

Composing Simple Image Descriptions Using Web-scale N-grams

S. Li, G. Kulkarni, T.L. Berg, A.C. Berg, Y. Choi, Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011.

Baby talk: Understanding and generating simple image descriptions

G. Kulkarni, V. Premraj, S. Dhar, S. Li, Y. Choi, A.C. Berg, T.L. Berg, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.

Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination

M. Ott, Y. Choi, C. Cardie, J.T. Hancock, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.

2010

Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-order Unification

T. Kwiatkowski, L. Zettlemoyer, S. Goldwater, M. Steedman, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2010.

2009

Learning Context-dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form

L. Zettlemoyer, M. Collins, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.

Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions

S.R.K. Branavan, H. Chen, L. Zettlemoyer, R. Barzilay, Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.  *Best Paper Award*

2008

A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations

W. Lu, H.T. Ng, W.S. Lee, L. Zettlemoyer, Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2008.