Publications
Academic work spanning question answering, deep learning, and NLP. Watson was the big one — it's still the thing I'm most proud of from my research days.
2020
Speech Sentiment Analysis via Pre-Trained Features from End-to-End ASR Models
ICASSP 2020
2020
A Large Scale Speech Sentiment Corpus
LREC 2020
2016
Poker-CNN: A Pattern Learning Strategy for Making Draws and Bets in Poker Games Using Convolutional Networks
AAAI 2016
2016
Building Joint Spaces for Relation Extraction
IJCAI 2016
2014
Medical Relation Extraction with Manifold Models
ACL 2014
2013
Analysis of Watson's Strategies for Playing Jeopardy!
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2013
2012
Question Analysis: How Watson Reads a Clue
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Relation Extraction and Scoring in DeepQA
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Finding Needles in the Haystack: Search and Candidate Generation
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Textual Resource Acquisition and Engineering
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Automatic Knowledge Extraction from Documents
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Textual Evidence Gathering and Analysis
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Typing Candidate Answers Using Type Coercion
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Simulation, Learning, and Optimization Techniques in Watson's Game Strategies
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2012
2012
Learning to Rank for Robust Question Answering
CIKM 2012
2012
When Did that Happen? Linking Events and Relations to Timestamps
EACL 2012
2012
Natural Language Processing in Watson
HLT-NAACL 2012
2012
A Comparison of Hard Filters and Soft Evidence for Answer Typing in Watson
ISWC 2012
2011
Artificial Intelligence Research at IBM
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2011
2011
Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering
AAAI 2011
2011
Statistical Source Expansion for Question Answering
CIKM 2011
2011
Using Syntactic and Semantic Structural Kernels for Classifying Definition Questions in Jeopardy!
EMNLP 2011
2011
Relation Extraction with Relation Topics
EMNLP 2011
2011
Leveraging Community-Built Knowledge for Type Coercion in Question Answering
ISWC 2011
2010
Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
AI Magazine, 2010
2009
Automatic Interpretation of Loosely Encoded Input
Artificial Intelligence, 2009
2008
SemantiClean
Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008
2007
Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline and Lessons Learned
AAAI 2007
2007
COALA: A Tool for Inter-document Coreference Resolution Evaluation
AAAI Spring Symposium 2007
2007
Capturing and Answering Questions Posed to a Knowledge-Based System
K-CAP 2007
2007
Capturing a Taxonomy of Failures During Automatic Interpretation of Questions Posed in Natural Language
K-CAP 2007
2007
Scalable Cleanup of Information Extraction Data Using Ontologies
ISWC/ASWC 2007
2005
Indirect Anaphora Resolution as Semantic Path Search
K-CAP 2005
2004
Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle
AI Magazine, 2004
2004
Interpreting Loosely Encoded Questions
AAAI 2004
2004
A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies
KR 2004
2003
Utilizing Domain Knowledge in Neuroevolution
ICML 2003
2003
The Knowledge Required to Interpret Noun Compounds
IJCAI 2003
2001
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Representing Roles and Purpose
K-CAP 2001