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
Our
KnowItAll
research project is focused on
Machine Reading
of the World Wide Web.
I'm always looking for strong postdocs, students, programmers. If you're interested, e-mail
me your resume and I'll be in touch if there's a good fit
.
Demos:
Check out
TextRunner
,
which extracted close to a billion assertions from the Web
.
Check out
PanImages
, which translates image-search queries across over 100,000 language pairs.
Selected Publications
My
most cited papers
.
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)
A more comprehensive list of papers is available at the
Turing Center Publications Page
.
Papers published
before 2004
are available below:
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