Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle, WA), 2007.
MS, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle, WA), 2003.
B.A., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 2001.
Research / Professional Interests :
Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction from the Web, Text and Data Mining, Probabilistic Models, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.
Teaching Topics/Interests:
Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Algorithms and Data Structures, Program Design, Databases, Complexity Theory.
Selected Publications:
- Fei Huang and Alexander Yates. "Distributional Representations for
Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence Labeling". Proceedings of the
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
2009.
- Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni. "Unsupervised Methods for Determining
Object and Relation Synonyms on the Web". Journal of Artificial
Intelligence Research (JAIR) 34, March, 2009, pages 255-296.
- 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.
- 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.
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