Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
-- Howard Aiken

Tutorials

• Andrey Kolobov, Mausam. "MDPs for Probabilistic Planning". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012. To appear.

• Andrey Kolobov, Mausam. "Probabilistic Planning". Planning and Scheduling School. Sao Paolo, Brazil. June 2012. To appear.

• Mausam, David E. Smith, Sylvie Thiebaux. "Probabilistic Temporal Planning". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Providence, RI, USA. September 2007.
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Refereed Journal Articles

7. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "TurKontrol: POMDP-based Control for Crowdsourcing". Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Accepted for publication.

6. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Discovering Hidden Structure in Factored MDPs". Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Volume 189 (2012) 19-47.
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5. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld, Judy Goldsmith. "Topological Value Iteration Algorithms". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Volume 42 (2011) 181-209.
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4. Stephen Soderland, Brendan Roof, Bo Qin, Shi Xu, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "Adapting Open Information Extraction to Domain-Specific Relations". AI Magazine Volume 31 Issue 3 (2010) 93-102.
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3. Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld, Kobi Reiter, Michael Skinner, Marcus Sammer, Jeff Bilmes. "Panlingual Lexical Translation via Probabilistic Inference". Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). Volume 174 Issues 9-10 (2010) 619-637.
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2. Nicolas Meuleau, Emmanuel Benazera, Ronen Brafman, Eric Hansen, Mausam. "A Heuristic Search Approach to Planning with Continuous Resources in Stochastic Domains". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Volume 34 (2009) 27-59.
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1. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Planning with Durative Actions in Stochastic Domains". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Volume 31 (2008) 33-82.
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Archival Conference Papers

33. Alan Ritter, Mausam, Oren Etzioni, Sam Clark. "Open Domain Event Extraction from Twitter". ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). Beijing, China. August 2012. To appear.
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32. Mausam, Michael Schmitz, Stephen Soderland, Robert Bart, Oren Etzioni. "Open Language Learning for Information Extraction". Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CONLL). Jeju, Korea. July 2012. To appear.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 22%]

31. Thomas Lin, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "No Noun Phrase Left Behind: Detecting and Typing Unlinkable Entities". Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CONLL). Jeju, Korea. July 2012. To appear.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 16%]

30. Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Dynamically Switching between Synergistic Workflows for Crowdsourcing". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Toronto, ON, USA. July 2012. Accepted for both poster and oral presentation. To appear.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 26%][Acceptance Rate (Oral+Poster): %]

29. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "LRTDP vs. UCT for Online Probabilistic Planning". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Toronto, ON, USA. July 2012. Accepted for both poster and oral presentation. To appear.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 26%][Acceptance Rate (Oral+Poster): %]

28. Andrey Kolobov, Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Reverse Iterative Deepening for Finite-Horizon MDPs with Large Branching Factors". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Sao Paolo, Brazil. June 2012. To appear.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 35%]

27. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). San Francisco, CA, USA. August 2011. Accepted for both poster and oral presentation.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 25%][Acceptance Rate (Oral+Poster): 4.4%]

26. Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study". Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Edinburgh, UK. July 2011.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 15%][Acceptance Rate: 23%]

25. Oren Etzioni, Anthony Fader, Janara Christensen, Stephen Soderland, Mausam. "Open Information Extraction: the Second Generation". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Invited paper. Barcelona, Spain. July 2011.
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24. Janara Christensen, Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni. "An Analysis of Open Information Extraction based on Semantic Role Labeling". International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP). Banff, Alberta, Canada. June 2011.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 24%]

23. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld, Hector Geffner. "Heuristic Search for Generalized Stochastic Shortest Path MDPs". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Freiburg, Germany. June 2011.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 35%]

22. Thomas Lin, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "Identifying Functional Relations in Web Text". Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Boston, MA, USA. October 2010.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 14%]

21. Alan Ritter, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "A Latent Dirichlet Allocation method for Selectional Preferences". Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Uppsala, Sweden. July 2010.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 25%]

20. Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni. "Panlingual Lexical Translation via Probabilistic Inference". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Nectar Track (AAAI). Atlanta, GA, USA. July 2010.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Nectar): 25%]

19. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Decision-Theoretic Control of Crowd-Sourced Workflows". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Atlanta, GA, USA. July 2010.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 27%]

18. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "SixthSense: Fast and Reliable Recognition of Dead Ends in MDPs". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Accepted for both oral and poster presentation. Atlanta, GA, USA. July 2010.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 27%][Acceptance Rate (Oral+Poster): 4%]

17. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Classical Planning in MDP Heuristics: with a Little Help from Generalization". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Toronto, ON, Canada. May 2010. Best paper nomination. Extended version invited for submission to AI Journal.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 34%]

16. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Focused Topological Value Iteration". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Thessaloniki, Greece. September 2009.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 34%]

15. Stephen Soderland, Christopher Lim, Mausam, Bo Qin, Oren Etzioni, Jonathan Pool. "Lemmatic Machine Translation". Machine Translation Summit XII. Ottawa, Canada. August 2009.
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14. Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld, Michael Skinner, Jeff Bilmes. "Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference". Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP). Suntec, Singapore. August 2009.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 21%]

13. Janara Christensen, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search". Joint Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP). Suntec, Singapore. August 2009.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 25%]

12. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "ReTrASE: Integrating Paradigms for Approximate Probabilistic Planning". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Pasadena, CA, USA. July 2009.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 26%]

11. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Domain Independent, Automatic Partitioning for Probabilistic Planning". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Pasadena, CA, USA. July 2009.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 26%]

10. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Partitioned External Memory Value Iteration". AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Chicago, IL, USA. July 2008.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 24%]

9. William Cushing, Subbarao Kambhampati, Kartik Talamadupula, Daniel S. Weld, Mausam. "Evaluating Temporal Planning Domains". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Providence, RI, USA. September 2007.
   [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 32%]

8. Mausam, Piergiorgio Bertoli, Daniel S. Weld. "A Hybridized Planner for Stochastic Domains". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, A.P., India. January 2007.
   [.pdf] [Presentation slides (.ppt)] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 16%]

7. William Cushing, Subbarao Kambhampati, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "When is Temporal Planning Really Temporal?". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Hyderabad, A.P., India. January 2007.
   [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 16%]

6. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Probabilistic Temporal Planning with Uncertain Durations". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Boston, MA, USA. July 2006.
   [.pdf] [Presentation slides (.ppt)] [Acceptance Rate (Oral): 22%]

5. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Challenges for Temporal Planning with Uncertain Durations". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). The English Lake District, UK. June 2006.
   [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate (Poster): 69%]

4. Mausam, Emmanuel Benazera, Ronen Brafman, Nicolas Meuleau, Eric Hansen. "Planning with Continuous Resources in Stochastic Domains". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Edinburgh, Scotland. August 2005.
   [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 18%]

3. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Concurrent Probabilistic Temporal Planning". International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Monterey, CA, USA. June 2005.
   [.pdf] [Presentation slides (.ppt)] [Acceptance Rate: 35%]

2. Nilesh Dalvi, Pedro Domingos, Mausam, Sumit Sanghai, Deepak Verma. "Adversarial Classification". International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). Seattle, WA, USA. August 2004.
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1. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Solving Concurrent Markov Decision Processes". National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). San Jose, CA, USA. July 2004.
   [.ps] [.pdf] [Presentation slides (.ppt)] [Acceptance Rate: 26%]

Refereed Posters and Workshop Papers

20. Daniel S. Weld, Eytan Adar, Lydia Chilton, Raphael Hoffmann, Eric Horvitz, Mitchell Koch, James Landay, Christopher H. Lin, Mausam. "Personalized Online Education -- A Crowdsourcing Challenge". Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI. Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012. To appear.
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19. Christopher H. Lin, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Dynamically Switching between SynergisticWorkflows for Crowdsourcing". Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI. Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012. To appear.
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18. Christopher Lin, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Crowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice". Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI. Toronto, ON, Canada. July 2012. To appear.
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17. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Stochastic Shortest Paths MDPs with Dead Ends". Workshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain Independent Planning at ICAPS. Sao Paolo, Brazil. June 2012. To appear.
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16. Thomas Lin, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "Entity Linking at Web Scale". The Knowledge Extraction Workshop (AKBC-WEKEX) at NAACL. Montreal, Canada. June 2012. To appear.
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15. Niranjan Balasubramanian, Stephen Soderland, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "Rel-grams: A Probabilistic Model of Relations in Text". The Knowledge Extraction Workshop (AKBC-WEKEX) at NAACL. Montreal, Canada. June 2012. To appear.
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14. Daniel S. Weld, Mausam, Peng Dai. "Execution Control for Crowdsourcing". Poster at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). Santa Barbara, CA, USA. October 2011.
    [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 41%]

13. Daniel S. Weld, Mausam, Peng Dai. "Human Computation Needs Artificial Intelligence". Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI. San Francisco, CA, USA. July 2011.
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12. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence". Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) at AAAI. San Francisco, CA, USA. July 2011.
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11. Thomas Lin, Mausam, Oren Etzioni. "Commonsense from the Web: Relation Properties". AAAI Fall Symposium on Commonsense Knowledge (CSK). Arlington, VA, USA. November 2010.
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10. Janara Christensen, Mausam, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni. "Semantic Role Labeling for Open Information Extraction". Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading (FAM-LbR) at NAACL. Los Angeles, CA, USA. June 2010.
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9. Hoifung Poon, Janara Christensen, Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Raphael Hoffmann, Chloe Kiddon, Thomas Lin, Xiao Ling, Mausam, Alan Ritter, Stefan Schoenmackers, Stephen Soderland, Dan Weld, Fei Wu, Congle Zhang. "Machine Reading at the University of Washington". Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading (FAM-LbR) at NAACL. Los Angeles, CA, USA. June 2010.
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8. Peng Dai, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Decision-Theoretic Control of Crowd-Sourced Workflows". Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK) at ICAPS. Toronto, ON, Canada. May 2010.
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7. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Determinize, Solve, and Generalize: Classical Planning for MDP Heuristics". Workshop on Heuristics for Domain Independent Planning at ICAPS. Thessaloniki, Greece. September 2009.
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6. Andrey Kolobov, Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Regressing Deterministic Plans for MDP Function Approximation". Workshop on A Reality Check for Planning and Scheduling Under Uncertainty at ICAPS. Sydney, Australia. September 2008.
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5. William Cushing, Subbarao Kambhampati, Kartik Talamadupula, Daniel S. Weld, Mausam. "Evaluating Temporal Planning Domains". Workshop on International Planning Competition: Past, Present and Future, at ICAPS. Providence, RI, USA. September 2007.
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4. Emmanuel Benazera, Ronen Brafman, Nicolas Meuleau, Mausam, Eric Hansen. "An AO* Algorithm for Planning with Continuous Resources". Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty for Autonomous Systems, at ICAPS. Monterey, CA, USA. June 2005.
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3. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Concurrent Probabilistic Temporal Planning: Initial Results". Workshop on Learning and Planning in Markov Processes -- Advances and Challenges, at AAAI. San Jose, CA, USA. July 2004.
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2. Pedro Domingos, Yeuhi Abe, Corin Anderson, AnHai Doan, Dieter Fox, Alon Halevy, Geoff Hulten, Henry Kautz, Tessa Lau, Lin Liao, Jayant Madhavan, Mausam, Don Patterson, Matthew Richardson, Sumit Sanghai, Daniel Weld, Steve Wolfman. "Research on Statistical Relational Learning at the University of Washington". Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data, at IJCAI. Acapulco, Mexico. August 2003.
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1. Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Solving Relational MDPs with First-Order Machine Learning". Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, at ICAPS. Trento, Italy. June 2003.
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Other Articles

• Mausam. "Artificial Intelligence -- Trends and Implications to the Society". Delta (IET Newsletter, Delhi Network). February 2007.
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Technical Reports

• Mausam. "Stochastic Planning with Concurrent, Durative Actions". Ph.D Dissertation, University of Washington. 2007.
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• Mausam, Daniel S. Weld. "Solving Concurrent Markov Decision Processes". UW-CSE-TR-04-03-03, University of Washington. 2004.
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• Mausam, Gaurav Singh Kushwaha. "Cache Efficiency and Sorting Algorithms". B.Tech project, Indian Institute of Technology. 2001.
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