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 2015: Machine Learning (CSE 446)
• Autumn 2013: Natural Language Processing (CSEP 517)
• Spring 2013: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CSE 473)
• Winter 2013: Natural Language Processing (CSE 517)

Students (Alumni)

• Yoav Artzi
• Eunsol Choi
• Nicholas FitzGerald
• Luheng He
• Chloé Kiddon (Co-advised with Yejin Choi)
• Kenton Lee
• Victoria Lin
• Gabriel Schubiner
• Adrienne Wang
• Mark Yatskar
• Leila Zilles

Postdoc

• Mike Lewis

Recent Publications (Full List)

• Adrienne Wang, Tom Kwiatkowski, and Luke Zettlemoyer.
  Morpho-syntactic Lexical Generalization for CCG Semantic Parsing.
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014.


• Mark Yatskar, Michel Galley, Lucy Vanderwende, and Luke Zettlemoyer.
  See No Evil, Say No Evil: Description Generation from Densely Labeled Images.
  In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computation Semantics (*SEM), 2014.


• Anthony Fader, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Oren Etzioni.
  Open Question Answering Over Curated and Extracted Knowledge Bases.
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2014.
  [code] [data]


• Cynthia Matuszek, Liefeng Bo, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Dieter Fox.
  Learning from Unscripted Deictic Gesture and Language for Human-Robot Interactions.
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014.


• Nate Kushman, Yoav Artzi, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Regina Barzilay.
  Learning to Automatically Solve Algebra Word Problems.
  In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014.


• Kenton Lee, Yoav Artzi, Jesse Dodge, and Luke Zettlemoyer.
  Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions.
  In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014.
  [demo] [code] [tool]

Announcements

• Kenton released UW Time, a context-dependent semantic parser for detecting and resolving time expressions. Please consider giving it a try!
• Yoav is recording a tutorial on Semantic Parsing with CCG. We hope you find it useful!
• Yoav, Tom, and Jonathan are organizing a Workshop on Semantic Parsing at ACL 2014. Please consider submitting and attending!
• We released the UW Semantic Parsing Framework, and plan to keep it as up to date as possible as we develop new algorithms in the framework. Special thanks to Yoav Artzi for making this happen! We hope you will find it useful!