Luke Zettlemoyer

Contact	Mailing Address
Office: 658 Allen Center (directions)	Computer Science & Engineering
Phone: 206-685-1227	University of Washington
Fax: 206-685-2969	Box 352350
Email: `lsz@cs.washington.edu`	Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Research

My current research is in the intersections of natural language processing, machine learning, and decision making under uncertainty. I am particularly interested in designing, building and evaluating algorithms for recovering and making use of representations of the meaning of natural language text.

Bio: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Previously, I did postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh and was a Ph.D. student at MIT.

Recent Teaching

Winter 2012: Machine Learning (CSE 546)
Autumn 2011: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CSE 473)
Winter 2011: AI II / Natural Language Processing (CSE 574)

Group

Yoav Artzi
Nicholas FitzGerald
Raphael Hoffmann (Co-advised with Dan Weld)
Adrienne Wang
Mark Yatskar

Recent Publications (Full List)

Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer. Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Steedman. Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Xiao Ling, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Daniel S. Weld. Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011. [source code]

Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Steedman. Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-order Unification. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2010. [source code]

S.R.K. Branavan, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, and Regina Barzilay. Reading Between the Lines: Learning to Map High-level Instructions to Commands. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010.

Luke S. Zettlemoyer and Michael Collins. Learning Context-dependent Mappings from Sentences to Logical Form. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2009. [talk slides]

S.R.K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, and Regina Barzilay. Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), 2009. (Best Paper Award)