Temple T Alexander Yates
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Sciences
Temple University
 Contact Information:
Office: Wachman Hall 303A
Phone: 215-204-8869
Fax: 215-204-5082
Email: temple email address
 Mailing Address:
324 Wachman Hall
Temple University
1805 N. Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Projects

Teaching

Publications

Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni. Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web. Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL), 2007.

Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmakers, and Oren Etzioni. Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2006.

Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel Weld, and Alexander Yates. Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Study. Artificial Intelligence, 165(1):91-134, 2005.

Ana-Maria Popescu, Alexander Yates, and Oren Etzioni. Class Extraction from the Web. Proceedings of the AAAI 2004 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining.

Ana-Maria Popescu, Alex Armanasu, Oren Etzioni, David Ko, Alexander Yates. Modern Natural Language Interfaces to Databases: Composing Statistical Parsing with Semantic Tractability. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2004.

Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel Weld, Alexander Yates. Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison, Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2004.

Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel Weld, Alexander Yates. Web-scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2004.

Oren Etzioni, Craig Knoblock, Rattapoom Tuchinda, Alexander Yates. To Buy or Not To Buy:  Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price. Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2003.

Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel Weld. A Reliable Natural Language Interface to Household Appliances. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2003.

Dissertation

Alexander Yates. Information Extraction from the Web: Techniques and Applications. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, 2007.

Advised by: Oren Etzioni.

Data

The data used for all of my experiments with Resolver (HLT-NAACL 2007) may be found here.
For all other data sets, please email me. Unfortunately, because of copyright concerns, I am unable to share the data used in my Hamlet (KDD 2003) experiments.

Links

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