Michele Banko

Michele Banko
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

I am a Ph.D. student with interests in web-scale text mining and natural language processing. From 2001-2004, I was a member of the Natural Language Processing group at Microsoft Research. I earned a B.S. in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2006.

Publications

Knowledge and The Web

M. Banko and O. Etzioni. (2008). The Tradeoffs Between Traditional and Open Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio. (To appear).
M. Banko and O. Etzioni. (2007). Strategies for Lifelong Knowledge Extraction from the Web. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2007. (Awarded Best Student Paper)
M. Banko, M. Cafarella, S. Soderland, M. Broadhead, O. Etzioni. (2007). Open Information Extraction from the Web. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2007.
Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher Re, Dan Suciu, Oren Etzioni, Michele Banko. (2007). Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge. Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) 2007. Asilomar, CA.
O. Etzioni, M. Banko, M. Cafarella. (2006). Machine Reading. In Proceedings of AAAI 2006.
S. Dumais, M. Banko, E. Brill, J. Lin and A. Ng (2002). Web question answering: Is more always better? In Proceedings of SIGIR 2002, Aug 2002, pp. 291-298.
E. Brill, J. Lin, M. Banko, S. Dumais and A. Ng (2001). Data-intensive question answering. In Proceedings of the Tenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-10), Gaithersburg, MD.

Natural Language Processing

M. Banko and R. Moore (2004). Part-of-Speech Tagging in Context. In Proceedings of COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
M. Banko and L. Vanderwende (2004). Using N-Grams to Understand the Nature of Summaries. In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2004. Boston, MA.
M. Banko, E. Brill. (2001). Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France.
M. Banko, E. Brill. (2001). Mitigating the Paucity of Data Problem. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology, San Diego, CA.
M. Banko, V. Mittal, M. Witbrock. (2000). Generating Headline-Style Summaries. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Hong Kong.
M. Banko, V. Mittal, M. Kantrowitz, J. Goldstein. (1999). Text-Span Alignment for Creating Summarization Corpora. In Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, Waterloo, Canada.