Professor Oren Etzioni Director of the Turing Center

Contact Information	Mailing Address
Office: 580 Allen Center	University of Washington
Phone: (206) 685-3035	Computer Science & Engineering
Fax: (206) 543-2969	Box 352350
Email:	Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Selected Publications

• Open Information Extraction from the Web (IJCAI 2007)
  
• Lexical Translation with Application to Image Search on the Web  (MT Summit 2007)
  
• Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue  (ACL 2007)
• Machine Reading  (Expanded version of AAAI 2006 paper)
• Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews  (EMNLP 2005)
• A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction (Distinguished Paper Award, IJCAI 2005)
• KnowItAll (Artificial Intelligence, 2005)
• Semantic Email  (Runner-up for Best Paper, WWW 2004)
• Scaling Question Answering to the Web  (ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2001)
• SCIENCE editorial  on On-Line Communities.
• Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration  (SIGIR 1998)
• A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web  (Autonomous Agents 1997)
• Learning to understand information on the Internet  (IJCAI 1995)

• Automatically Personalizing User Interfaces  (IJCAI 2003)
• Mangrove: Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via Instant Gratification  (ISWC 2003)
• Semantic Email: Adding Lightweight Data Manipulation Capabilities to the Email Habitat  (WebDB 2003)
• To Buy or Not To Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price  (KDD 2003)
• A Reliable Natural Language Interface to Household Appliances  (IUI 2003)
• Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases  (IUI 2003)
• Crossing the Structure Chasm  (CIDR 2003)
• Scaling question answering to the Web (WWW 2001)
• Query Routing for Web Search Engines: Architecture and Experiments (WWW 2000)
• Adaptive Web Sites: Conceptual Cluster Mining (IJCAI 1999)
• Towards Adaptive Web Sites: Conceptual Framework and Case Study (WWW 1999)
• Adaptive Web Sites: Automatically Synthesizing Web Pages (AAAI 1998)
• Adaptive Web Sites: an AI challenge (IJCAI 1997)
• A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web (Autonomous Agents 1997)
• Dynamic Reference Sifting: a Case Study in the Homepage Domain (Runner-up for Best Paper, WWW 1997)
• The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web [HTML] IEEE Expert, 12(1):8-14, 1997
• Sound and Efficient Closed-World Reasoning for Planning Artificial Intelligence, 89(1-2):113-148, 1997
• Moving up the information food chain: deploying softbots on the Web (AAAI 1996)
• Efficient Information Gathering on the Internet (FOCS 1996)
• The World Wide Web: quagmire or gold mine? Communications of the ACM, 39(11):65-68, 1996
• Learning to understand information on the Internet (IJCAI 1995)
• A sound and fast goal recognizer (IJCAI 1995)
• Multi-Service Search and Comparison Using the MetaCrawler [HTML] (WWW 1995)
• Intelligent Agents on the Internet: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast IEEE Expert, 44-49, August 1995
• The softbot approach to OS interfaces IEEE Software, 12(4):42-51, 1995
• The First Law of Robotics (AAAI 1994)
• Omnipotence without omniscience: Sensor management in planning (AAAI 1994)
• Learning decision lists using homogeneous rules (AAAI 1994)
• Tractable closed-world reasoning with updates (KR 1994)
• A Softbot-based interface to the internet Communications of the ACM, 72-76, July 1994
• Representation design and brute-force induction in a Boeing manufacturing domain Applied Artificial Intelligence, 8(1):125-147, 1994
• Statistical methods for analyzing speedup learning experiments Machine Learning, 14(3):333-347, 1994 Technical Note
• Intelligence without Robots (A Reply to Brooks) AI Magazine, 14(4), December 1993
• Acquiring search-control knowledge via static analysis Artificial Intelligence, 62(2):255-302, 1993
• A structural theory of explanation-based learning Artificial Intelligence, 60(1):93-140, 1993