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.

Selected Publications:

1. Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni.  "Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web."  Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL), 2007.
2. Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmakers, and Oren Etzioni.  "Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters."  Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2006.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel Weld.  "A Reliable Natural Language Interface to Household Appliances."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2003.

Teaching Topics/Interests:

Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Algorithms and Data Structures, Program Design, Databases, Complexity Theory.