Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
Spinning Straw into Gold: Using Free Text to Train Monolingual Alignment Models for Non-factoid Question Answering
Monolingual alignment models have been shown to boost the performance of question answering systems by "bridging the lexical chasm" between questions and answers. The main limitation of these…
VISALOGY: Answering Visual Analogy Questions
In this paper, we study the problem of answering visual analogy questions. These questions take the form of image A is to image B as image C is to what. Answering these questions entails discovering…
VisKE: Visual Knowledge Extraction and Question Answering by Visual Verification of Relation Phrases
How can we know whether a statement about our world is valid. For example, given a relationship between a pair of entities e.g., 'eat(horse, hay)', how can we know whether this relationship is true…
Connotation Frames: A Data-Driven Investigation
Through a particular choice of a predicate (e.g., "x violated y"), a writer can subtly connote a range of implied sentiments and presupposed facts about the entities x and y: (1) writer's…
A Data Scientist's Guide to Start-Ups
In August 2013, we held a panel discussion at the KDD 2013 conference in Chicago on the subject of data science, data scientists, and start-ups. KDD is the premier conference on data science…
Automatic Construction of Inference-Supporting Knowledge Bases
While there has been tremendous progress in automatic database population in recent years, most of human knowledge does not naturally fit into a database form. For example, knowledge that "metal…
Chinese Open Relation Extraction for Knowledge Acquisition
This study presents the Chinese Open Relation Extraction (CORE) system that is able to extract entity-relation triples from Chinese free texts based on a series of NLP techniques, i.e., word…
Freebase QA: Information Extraction or Semantic Parsing?
We contrast two seemingly distinct approaches to the task of question answering (QA) using Freebase: one based on information extraction techniques, the other on semantic parsing. Results over the…
Insights Into Parallelism with Intensive Knowledge Sharing
Novel search space splitting techniques have recently been successfully exploited to paralleliz Constraint Programming and Mixed Integer Programming solvers. We first show how universal hashing can…
Learning Everything about Anything: Webly-Supervised Visual Concept Learning
Recognition is graduating from labs to real-world applications. While it is encouraging to see its potential being tapped, it brings forth a fundamental challenge to the vision researcher:…