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 Alan Ritter
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I'm a third year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. My adviser is Oren Etzioni and I'm funded by an NDSEG Fellowship.

Publications

"Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations"
Alan Ritter, Colin Cherry, Bill Dolan
To appear in proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2010

"Filter, Rank, and Transfer the Knowledge: Learning to Chat"
Sina Jafarpour and Chris Burges, Alan Ritter
NIPS Workshop on Advances in Ranking, Vancouver, Canada, 2009

"Learning to Generalize for Complex Selection Tasks"
Alan Ritter and Sumit Basu
Best Student Paper Award
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009)
Video Slides

"What Is This, Anyway: Automatic Hypernym Discovery"
Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read

"It's a Contradiction -- No, It's Not: A Case Study using Functional Relations"
Alan Ritter, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland, and Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008)
Slides

"Distributional Word Clustering in Parallel"
Alan Ritter, James Hearne, Philip Nelson
ISCA PDCS 2006

"Machine Learning Approach to Tuning Distributed Operating System Load Balancing Algorithms"
Michael Meehan, Alan Ritter
ISCA PDCS 2006

"NDIS Network Driver"
Alan Ritter
Dr. Dobb's Journal, January 2006

Software/Demos

Presentations

NRL Seminar
openMosix Load Balancing Poster


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