Hoifung Poon



Address:
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Telephone: (206) 543-8086
Fax: (206) 543-2969
Email: <first name > at cs dot washington dot edu
Office: 318 Allen Center


Welcome! I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. My research interest lies in statistical relational learning (SRL) with applications to natural language processing. My research hypothesis is that relational structures that abound in the real world can be leveraged not only to make modeling more accurate, but also to enable effective learning with little or no supervision. This sparks many intriguing and challenging research questions. On the methodology side, I am interested in unsupervised learning where the lack of label information is compensated by leveraging the relational structures. On the application side, I am thrilled by the prospect of automatic knowledge induction from free text, a.k.a. machine reading, which promises to breach the knowledge acquisition bottleneck once and for all (with a side product of solving AI :-). My advisor is Pedro Domingos. Currently, I am working on unsupervised semantic parsing with Markov Logic, with application to knowledge extraction from biomedical literature.


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Last modified: August. 23, 2009