@inproceedings{2013-acl-textual-schema-matching,
   author = {Qingqing Cai and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Large-scale Semantic Parsing via Schema Matching and Lexicon Extension}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
   year = {2013}
}


@article{2013-compling-rep-learning-lvlms,
   author = {Fei Huang and Arun Ahuja and Doug Downey and Yi Yang and Yuhong Guo and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Learning Representations for Weakly Supervised Natural Language Processing Tasks}},
   journal = {Computational Linguistics},
   year = {2013},
   volume = {xx},
   pages = {yy},
}


@inproceedings{2013-starsem-open-sem-parsing,
   author = {Qingqing Cai and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Semantic Parsing Freebase: Towards Open-domain Semantic Parsing}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)},
   year = {2013}
}


@inproceedings{2013-naacl-scaling-lvlms,
   author = {Yi Yang and Alexander Yates and Doug Downey},
   title = {{Overcoming the Memory Bottleneck in Distributed Training of Latent Variable Models of Text}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies(NAACL-HLT)},
   year = {2013}
}


@inproceedings{2012-coling-semi-sup-rep-learning,
   author = {Min Xiao and Yuhong Guo and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Semi-Supervised Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation Using Dynamic Dependency Networks}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)},
   year = {2012}
}


@inproceedings{2012-emnlp-biased-rep-learning,
   author = {Fei Huang and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Biased Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)},
   year = {2012}
}


@inproceedings{2012-emnlp-open-ne-resolution,
   author = {Avirup Sil and Ernest Cronin and Penghai Nie and Yinfei Yang and Ana-Maria Popescu and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Linking Named Entities to Any Database}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)},
   year = {2012}
}


@inproceedings{2012-bea-automatic-grading-inquiry,
   author = {Avirup Sil and Angela Shelton and Diane Jass Ketelhut and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{Automatic Grading of Scientific Inquiry}},
   booktitle = {The 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 7)},
   year = {2012}
}


@inproceedings{2011-ieka-machine-reading-between-lines,
   author = {Avirup Sil and Alexander Yates},
   title = {{{M}achine {R}eading between the {L}ines: {A} Simple Evaluation Framework for Extracted Knowledge Bases},
   booktitle = {Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition (IEKA)},
   year = {2011}
}


@inproceedings{2011-ranlp-strips-extraction,
   author = {Avirup Sil and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Extracting {STRIPS} Representations of Actions and Events},
   booktitle = {Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)},
   year = {2011}
}


@inproceedings{2011-conll-reps-weak-supervision,
   author = {Fei Huang and Alexander Yates and Arun Ahuja and Doug Downey},
   title = {Language Models as Representations for Weakly Supervised NLP Tasks},
   booktitle = {Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)},
   year = {2011}
}


@inproceedings{2011-world-knowledge-for-rte-study,
   author = {Peter LoBue and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Types of Common-Sense Knowledge Needed for Recognizing Textual Entailment},
   booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
   year = {2011}
}


@inproceedings{2010-csk-strips-extraction,
   author = {Avirup Sil and Fei Huang and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Extracting Action and Event Semantics from Web Text},
   booktitle = {AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium on Commonsense Knowledge (CSK)},
   year = {2010}
}


@inproceedings{2010-stn-multi-relational-web-graph,
   author = {Harish Sethu and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Using Text Analysis to Understand the Structure and Dynamics of the World Wide Web as a Multi-Relational Graph},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the SocialCom 2010 Workshop on Finding Synergies Between Texts and Networks (STN)},
   year = {2010}
}


@inproceedings{2010-danlp-lvlms-for-domain-adaptation,
   author = {Fei Huang and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Exploring Representation-Learning Approaches to Domain Adaptation},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop on Domain Adaptation for Natural Language Processing (DANLP)},
   year = {2010}
}


@inproceedings{2010-acl-open-srl,
   author = {Fei Huang and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Open-domain Semantic Role Labeling by Modeling Word Spans},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
   year = {2010}
}


@inproceedings{2010-naacl-ie-for-wsd,
   author = {Weisi Duan and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Extracting Glosses to Disambiguate Word Senses},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL)},
   year = {2010}
}


@article{ieee-computer-extraction,
   author = {Alexander Yates},
   journal = {{IEEE} {C}omputer},
   title = {Extracting World Knowledge from the Web},
   year = {2009},
   month = {June},
   pages = {94-97},
   volume = {42},
   number = {6}
}


@inproceedings{quantifier-scope-with-extracted-pragmatics,
   author = {Prakash Srinivasan and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Quantifier Scope Disambiguation Using Extracted Pragmatic Knowledge: Preliminary Results},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   year = {2009}
}


@inproceedings{distributional-representations,
   author = {Fei Huang and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence Labeling},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
   year = {2009}
}


@article{sensational09bmc,
   author = {Weisi Duan and Min Song and Alexander Yates},
   journal = {{BMC} {B}ioinformatics},
   title = {Fast Max-Margin Clustering for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation in Biomedical Texts},
   year = {2009},
   volume = {10(S3)},
   number = {S4}
}


@article{jair09resolver,
   author = {Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni},
   title = {Unsupervised Methods for Determining Object and Relation Synonyms on the Web},
   journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)},
   volume = {34},
   pages = {255-296},
   month = {March},
   year = {2009}
}


@inproceedings{shopsmart08cikm,
   author = {Alexander Yates and James Joseph and Ana-Maria Popescu and Alexander D. Cohn and Nick Sillick},
   title = {{S}hop{S}mart: {P}roduct Recommendations through Technical Specifications and User Reviews},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)},
   year = {2008}
}


@inproceedings{yates07resolver,
  author={Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni},
  title={Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web},
  year={2007},
  booktitle={Proceedings of HLT-NAACL}
}


@inproceedings{yates06emnlp,
   author = {Alexander Yates and Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni},
   title = {Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   year = {2006}
}


@article{kiaAij,
   author = {Oren Etzioni and Michael Cafarella and Doug Downey and Stanley Kok and Ana-Maria Popescu and Tal Shaked and Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: {A}n Experimental Study},
   journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
   volume = {165},
   number = {1},
   pages = {91-134},
   year = {2005}
}


@inproceedings{kia-ontology-extension,
   author = {Ana-Maria Popescu and Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni},
   title = {Class Extraction from the {W}orld {W}ide {W}eb},
   booktitle = {AAAI Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM)},
   pages = {65-70},
   year = {2004}
}


@inproceedings{popescu04precise,
   author={Ana-Maria Popescu and Alex Armanasu and Oren Etzioni and David Ko and Alexander Yates},
   title={{M}odern natural language interfaces to databases: {C}omposing statistical parsing with semantic tractability},
   booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
   year={2004}
}


@inproceedings{kia-aaai,
   author = {Oren Etzioni and Michael Cafarella and Doug Downey and Ana-Maria Popescu and Tal Shaked and Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates},
   year = {2004},
   title = {{M}ethods for domain-independent information extraction from the {Web}: {An} experimental comparison},
   pages = {391--398},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04)}
}


@inproceedings{kia-www,
   author = "Oren Etzioni and Michael Cafarella and Doug Downey and Stanley Kok and Ana-Maria Popescu and Tal Shaked and Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates",
   year = "2004",
   title = "{W}eb-{S}cale {I}nformation {E}xtraction in {KnowItAll}",
   pages = "100-110",
   booktitle = "World Wide Web Conference",
   address = "New York City, New York" }


@inproceedings{etzioni-kdd2003,
   author = "Oren Etzioni and Rattapoom Tuchinda and Craig. A. Knoblock and Alexander Yates",
   title = {To buy or not to buy: {M}ining airfare data to minimize ticket purchase price},
   pages = "119--128",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)",
   year = "2003"
}


@inproceedings{yates03exact,
   author={Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld},
   title={A Reliable Natural Language Interface to Household Appliances},
   booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)},
   year={2003}
}


@phdthesis{yates-web-IE,
   author = {Alexander Yates},
   title = {Information Extraction from the Web: {T}echniques and Applications},
   school = {University of Washington},
   address = {Department of Computer Science and Engineering},
   month = {August},
   year = {2007}
}