Dan Weld
2013
2012
Discovering Hidden Structure in Factored MDPs
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D.S. Weld, Artificial Intelligence 189, 2012.
Reverse Iterative Deepening for Finite-Horizon MDPs with Large Branching Factors
A. Kolobov, P. Dai, Mausam, D.S. Weld, ICAPS, 2012.
Personalized Online Education — A Crowdsourcing Challenge
D.S. Weld, E. Adar, L. Chilton, R. Hoffmann, E. Horvitz, M. Koch, J. Landay, C. Lin, Mausam, 4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP-12), 2012.
A Theory of Goal-Oriented MDPs with Dead Ends
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D. Weld, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2012.
Crowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice
C.H. Lin, Mausam, D.S. Weld, Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
LRTDP vs. UCT for Online Probabilistic Planning
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D.S. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
Ontological Smoothing for Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision
C. Zhang, R. Hoffmann, D.S. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
ReGroup: Interactive Machine Learning for On-Demand Group Creation in Social Networks
S. Amershi, J. Fogarty, D.S. Weld, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-12), 2012.
2011
Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence
P. Dai, Mausam, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011.
Human Intelligence Needs Artificial Intelligence
D. Weld, Mausam, P. Dai, Human Computation Workshop, 2011.
Heuristic Search for Generalized Stochastic Shortest Path MDPs
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D. Weld, H. Geffner, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2011.
Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
R. Hoffmann, C. Zhang, X. Ling, L. Zettlemoyer, D. Weld, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
Downloads: Source Code
Execution Control for Crowdsourcing
D. Weld, Mausam, P. Dai, UIST, 2011.
Topological Value-Iteration Algorithms
P. Dai, Mausam, J. Goldsmith, D. Weld, JAIR 42, 2011.
Systematic Nonlinear Planning
D. Weld, AI Magazine 32:1, 2011.
2010
Decision-Theoretic Control for Crowdsourced Workflows
P. Dai, Mausam, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
Learning 5000 Relational Extractors
R. Hoffmann, D. Weld, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
Open Information Extraction using Wikipedia
F. Wu, D. Weld, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
SixthSense: Fast and Reliable Recognition of Dead Ends in MDPs
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
Machine Reading at the University of Washington
H. Poon, J. Christensen, P. Domingos, O. Etzioni, R. Hoffmann, C. Kiddon, Mausam, A. Ritter, S. Soderland, D. Weld, F. Wu, T. Lin, X. Ling, S. Schoenmackers, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
Classical Planning in MDP Heuristics: With a Little Help from Generalization
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D. Weld, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2010.
Learning First-Order Horn Clauses from Web Text
S. Schoenmackers, J. Davis, O. Etzioni, D. Weld, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010.
Panlingual Lexical Translation via Probabilistic Inference
Mausam, S. Soderland, O. Etzioni, D. Weld, J. Bilmes, K. Reiter, M. Skinner, M. Sammer, Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
2009
Focused Topological Value Iteration
P. Dai, Mausam, D. Weld, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2009.
Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference
Mausam, S. Soderland, O. Etzioni, D. Weld, M. Skinner, J. Bilmes, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009.
Domain-Independent, Automatic Partitioning for Probabilistic Planning
P. Dai, Mausam, D. Weld, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
ReTrASE: Intergating Paradigms for Approximate Probabilistic Planning
A. Kolobov, Mausam, D. Weld, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
Amplifying Community Content Creation with Mixed Initiative Information Extraction
R. Hoffmann, S. Amershi, K. Patel, F. Wu, J. Fogarty, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009.
Amplifying Community Content Creation with Mixed Initiative Information Extraction
R. Hoffmann, S. Amershi, K. Patel, F. Wu, J. Fogarty, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009.
2008
Augmenting Wikipedia-Extraction with Results from the Web
F. Wu, R. Hoffmann, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.
Information Extraction from Wikipedia: Moving Down the long Tail
F. Wu, R. Hoffmann, D. Weld, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2008.
Intelligence in Wikipedia
D. Weld, F. Wu, E. Adar, S. Amershi, J. Fogarty, R. Hoffmann, K. Patel, M. Skinner, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.
Partitioned External Memory Value Iteration
P. Dai, Mausam, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.
Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology
F. Wu, D. Weld, International World Wide Web Conference, 2008.
Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens
R. Hoffmann, P. Baudisch, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens
R. Hoffmann, P. Baudisch, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces
K. Gajos, J. Wobbrock, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces
K. Gajos, J. Wobbrock, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces
K. Gajos, K. Everitt, D. Tan, M. Czerwinski, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces
K. Gajos, K. Everitt, D. Tan, M. Czerwinski, D. Weld, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
Open Information Extraction from the Web
O. Etzioni, S. Soderland, D. Weld, M. Banko, Communications of the ACM, 2008.
Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
S. Schoenmackers, O. Etzioni, D. Weld, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2008.
Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration
J.H. Chen, D. Weld, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008.
Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration
J.H. Chen, D. Weld, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008.
Planning with Durative Actions in Stochastic Domains
Mausam, D. Weld, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 31, 2008.
2007
Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia
F. Wu, D. Weld, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007.
Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers
R. Hoffmann, J. Fogarty, D. Weld, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007.
Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers
R. Hoffmann, J. Fogarty, D. Weld, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007.
Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities
K. Gajos, J. Wobbrock, D. Weld, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007.
Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities
K. Gajos, J. Wobbrock, D. Weld, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007.
A Hybridized Planner for Stochastic Domains
Mausam, P. Bertoli, D. Weld, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.
When is temporal planning really temporal?
W. Cushing, S. Kambhampati, Mausam, D. Weld, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.
Evaluating Temporal Planning Domains
W. Cushing, S. Kambhampati, K. Talamadupula, D. Weld, Mausam, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2007.
2006
Automatically Generating Custom User Interfaces for Users With Physical Disabilities
K. Gajos, J.J. Long, D. Weld, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006.
Automatically Generating Custom User Interfaces for Users With Physical Disabilities
K. Gajos, J.J. Long, D. Weld, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006.
Challenges for Temporal Planning with Uncertain Durations
Mausam, D. Weld, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2006.
Probabilistic Temporal Planning with Uncertain Durations
Mausam, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.
2005
Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Study
O. Etzioni, M. Cafarella, D. Downey, A.M. Popescu, S. Soderland, D. Weld, A. Yates, T. Shaked, Artificial Intelligence, 2005.
Preference Elicitation for Interface Optimization
K. Gajos, D. Weld, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2005.
Preference Elicitation for Interface Optimization
K. Gajos, D. Weld, Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2005.
Concurrent Probabilistic Temporal Planning
Mausam, D. Weld, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2005.
2004
WebScale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results)
O. Etzioni, M. Cafarella, D. Downey, S. Kok, A.M. Popescu, T. Shaked, S. Soderland, D. Weld, A. Yates, International World Wide Web Conference, 2004.
SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces
K. Gajos, D. Weld, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004.
SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces
K. Gajos, D. Weld, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004.
Solving Concurrent Markov Decision Processes
Mausam, D. Weld, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004.
2003
A Reliable Natural Language Interface To Household Appliances
A. Yates, O. Etzioni, D. Weld, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2003.
Research on Statistical Relational Learning at the University of Washington
P. Domingos, Y. Abe, C. Anderson, A. Doan, D. Fox, A. Halevy, G. Hulten, H. Kautz, T. Lau, L. Liao, J. Madhavan, D. Mausam, M. Richardson, S. Sanghai, D. Weld, S. Wolfman, Proc. of the IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data, 2003.
2002
Relational Markov models and their application to adaptive Web navigation
C. Anderson, P. Domingos, D. Weld, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2002.
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