The Turing Center
Department of Computer Science and Engg
Paul Allen Center, Box 352350
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, 98195, U.S.A.
Email : mausam AT cs DOT washington DOT edu
Phone : 206-685-1964 (O), 206-979-7038 (C)
Research
My main research interests are in the field of Artificial Intelligence. At present I am working on three projects:
- Open Information Extraction: Extracting information from natural language text in a domain-independent manner. We hope to push the precision and recall of Textrunner extractor using probabilistic techniques.
- Formal Inference in Translation Graph: Developing probabilistic inference techniques to formalize inference in translation graphs, a graph that is formed by combining all available dictionaries between all possible languages in the world. An efficient and high quality inference procedure will enable the system to produce good translations from a sense in one language to several languages, even when there is no available dictionary between the exact pair of languages. More details on the Panimages website. A recent paper on this work.
- Large-scale Probabilistic Planning: Solving large Markov Decision Processes by combining several optimal as well as approximate techniques. We hope to alleviate the memory bottleneck in solving the large MDPs and scale to large, industry sized probabilistic planning problems. Some recent papers on this work: Paper 1 and Paper 2.