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Areas of interest:
Artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, natural language processing
2022
Infrastructure for rapid open knowledge network development
AI Magazine 43, 2022: 59-68.
, CiteRead: Integrating Localized Citation Contexts into Scientific Paper Reading
27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022: 707–719.
, Don't Say What You Don't Know: Improving the Consistency of Abstractive Summarization by Constraining Beam Search
arXiv, 2022.
, A Search Engine for Discovery of Scientific Challenges and Directions
36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22), AAAI, 2022.
, VILA: Improving Structured Content Extraction from Scientific PDFs Using Visual Layout Groups
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 10, 2022: 376-392.
, 2021
Goldilocks: Consistent Crowdsourced Scalar Annotationswith Relative Uncertainty
CSCW '21: The 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing, 2021.
, Exploring The Role of Local and Global Explanations in Recommender Systems
arXiv:2109.13301, 2021.
, Polyjuice: Generating Counterfactuals for Explaining, Evaluating, and Improving Models
Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), 2021.
, Bridger: Toward Bursting Scientific Filter Bubbles and Boosting Innovation via Novel Author Discovery
arXiv:2108.05669, 2021.
, Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers
2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-21), 2021.
, Does the Whole Exceed its Parts? The Effect of AI Explanations on Complementary Team Performance
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021: 1–12.
, Augmenting Scientific Papers with Just-in-Time, Position-Sensitive Definitions of Terms and Symbols
CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 2021: 1–12.
, SciCo: Hierarchical Cross-Document Coreference for Scientific Concepts
arXiv:2104.08809, 2021.
, GENIE: A Leaderboard for Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation of Text Generation
arXiv 2101.06561, arXiv, 2021.
, 2020
TLDR: Extreme Summarization of Scientific Documents
Findings of EMNLP, 2020.
, Document-Level Definition Detection in Scholarly Documents: Existing Models, Error Analyses, and Future Directions
First Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) at EMNLP 2020, 2020.
, The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: Extracting And Analyzing Visual Content from 16 Million Historic Newspaper Pages in Chronicling America
29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM-20), ACM, 2020: 3055-3062.
, Newspaper Navigator: Open Faceted Search for 1.5 Million Images
Adjunct Publication of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020: 120–122.
, Document-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers
Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-20), 2020.
, S2ORC: The Semantic Scholar Open Research Corpus
Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-20), 2020.
, High-Precision Extraction of Emerging Concepts from Scientific Literature
43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-20), ACM, 2020.
, The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: Extracting And Analyzing Visual Content from 16 Million Historic Newspaper Pages in Chronicling America
arXiv:2005:01583, 2020.
, No Explainability without Accountability: An Empirical Study of Explanations and Feedback in Interactive ML
CHI, ACM, 2020.
, CORD-19: The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
arXiv:2004:10706, 2020.
, Explanation-Based Tuning of Opaque Machine Learners with Application to Paper Recommendation
arXiv:2003:04315, 2020.
, SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 8, 2020.
, 2019
BERT for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and Analysis
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019: 5807–5812.
, Pretrained Language Models for Sequential Sentence Classification
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019: 3684–3690.
, Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis
the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), 2019.
, pair2vec: Compositional Word-Pair Embeddings for Cross-Sentence Inference
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019, 2019: 3597-3608.
, Local Decision Pitfalls in Interactive Machine Learning: An Investigation into Feature Selection in Sentiment Analysis
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 26:4, 2019.
, The Challenge of Crafting Intelligible Intelligence
CACM, 2019.
, Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction
CHI, ACM, 2019.
, 2018
Sprout: Crowd-Powered Task Design for Crowdsourcing
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '18), 2018.
, Active Learning with Unbalanced Classes & Example-Generation Queries
AAAI Conference on Human Computation, 2018.
, Semi-Supervised Event Extraction with Paraphrase Clusters
NAACL-HLT, 2018.
, StaQC: A Systematically Mined Question-Code Dataset from Stack Overflow
Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW18), 2018.
, 2017
TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension
ACL, 2017.
, 2016
MicroTalk: Using Argumentation to Improve Crowdsourcing Accuracy
Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016), AAAI Press, 2016.
, Effective Crowd Annotation for Relation Extraction
15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2016), 2016.
, Optimal Testing for Crowd Workers
15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), 2016.
, Re-active Learning: Active Learning with Relabeling
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016.
, Toward Automatic Bootstrapping of Online Communities Using Decision-theoretic Optimization
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM, 2016.
, 2015
University of Washington System for 2015 KBP Cold Start Slot Filling
Text Analysis Conference (TAC) KBP, 2015.
, Artificial Intelligence and Collective Intelligence
The Collective Intelligence Handbook (Thomas Malone & Michael Bernstein, eds.), MIT Press, 2015.
, Learning on the Job: Optimal Instruction for Crowdsourcing
ICML ’15 Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning, 2015.
, Reactive Learning: Actively Trading Off Larger Noisier Training Sets Against Smaller Cleaner Ones
ICML Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning and ICML Active Learning Workshop, 2015.
, Design Challenges for Entity Linking
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3, 2015.
, Exploiting Parallel News Streams for Unsupervised Event Extraction
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 3, 2015.
, Crawled parallel news streams are available at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/clzhang/sentences.tokens.gz http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/clzhang/sentences.articleIDs.gz
The github url of this project: https://github.com/zhangcongle/NewsSpikeRe
Extreme Extraction: Only One Hour per Relation
CoRR abs/1506.06418, 2015.
, 2014
To Re(label), or Not To Re(label)
AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014.
, Parallel Task Routing for Crowdsourcing
AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014.
, Type-Aware Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Linked Arguments
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014.
, Context Representation for Named Entity Linking
3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop, 2014.
, 2013
Crowdsourcing Multi-Label Classification for Taxonomy Creation
Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), AAAI Press, 2013. Awarded Best Paper
, Towards a Language for Non-Expert Specification of POMDPs for Crowdsourcing
Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) Works in Progress Track, AAAI Press, 2013.
, Joint Crowdsourcing of Multiple Tasks
Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) Works in Progress Track, AAAI Press, 2013.
, Open Information Extraction to KBP Relation in 3 Hours
Text Analysis Conference - Knowledge Base Propagation (KBP), 2013.
, Harvesting Parallel News Streams to Generate Paraphrases of Event Relations
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
, Joint Coreference Resolution and Named-Entity Linking with Multi-pass Sieves
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2013.
, Extracting Meronyms for a Biology Knowledge Base using Distant Supervision
ACM Workshop on Automatic Knowledge-Base Construction, ACM, 2013.
, POMDP-based control of workflows for crowdsourcing
Artificial Intelligence 202, 2013.
, 2012
Discovering Hidden Structure in Factored MDPs
Artificial Intelligence 189, 2012.
, Crowdsourcing Control: Moving Beyond Multiple Choice
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
, A Theory of Goal-Oriented MDPs with Dead Ends
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2012.
, Personalized Online Education — A Crowdsourcing Challenge
4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP-12), 2012.
, Dynamically Switching between Synergistic Workflows for Crowdsourcing
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
, ReGroup: Interactive Machine Learning for On-Demand Group Creation in Social Networks
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-12), 2012.
, Ontological Smoothing for Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
, LRTDP vs. UCT for Online Probabilistic Planning
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
, Fine-Grained Entity Recognition
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
, 2011
Execution Control for Crowdsourcing
UIST, 2011.
, Topological Value-Iteration Algorithms
JAIR 42, 2011.
, Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011.
, Human Intelligence Needs Artificial Intelligence
Human Computation Workshop, 2011.
, Towards Scalable MDP Algorithms
Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2011.
, Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.
, Heuristic Search for Generalized Stochastic Shortest Path MDPs
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2011.
, Systematic Nonlinear Planning
AI Magazine 32:1, 2011.
, 2010
Learning First-Order Horn Clauses from Web Text
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010.
, Automatically generating personalized user interfaces with Supple
Artificial Intelligence 174:12-13, 2010: 910-950.
, SixthSense: Fast and Reliable Recognition of Dead Ends in MDPs
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
, Temporal Information Extraction
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
, Open Information Extraction using Wikipedia
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
, Decision-Theoretic Control for Crowdsourced Workflows
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
, Learning 5000 Relational Extractors
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.
, Machine Reading at the University of Washington
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
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2010.
, Panlingual Lexical Translation via Probabilistic Inference
Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
, 2009
Focused Topological Value Iteration
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2009.
, Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009.
, ReTrASE: Intergating Paradigms for Approximate Probabilistic Planning
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
, Domain-Independent, Automatic Partitioning for Probabilistic Planning
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
, Amplifying Community Content Creation with Mixed Initiative Information Extraction
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009.
, 2008
Open Information Extraction from the Web
Communications of the ACM, 2008.
, Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2008.
, Partitioned External Memory Value Iteration
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.
, Information Extraction from Wikipedia: Moving Down the long Tail
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2008.
, Intelligence in Wikipedia
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.
, Augmenting Wikipedia-Extraction with Results from the Web
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.
, Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
, Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology
International World Wide Web Conference, 2008.
, Evaluating Visual Cues for Window Switching on Large Screens
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
, Improving the Performance of Motor-Impaired Users with Automatically-Generated, Ability-Based Interfaces
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008.
, Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2008.
, Planning with Durative Actions in Stochastic Domains
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 31, 2008: 33 - 82.
, 2007
Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To User's Motor And Vision Capabilities
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007.
, Assieme: Finding and Leveraging Implicit References in a Web Search Interface for Programmers
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2007.
, Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2007.
, When is temporal planning really temporal?
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.
, A Hybridized Planner for Stochastic Domains
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.
, Evaluating Temporal Planning Domains
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2007.
, 2006
Automatically Generating Custom User Interfaces for Users With Physical Disabilities
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, 2006.
, Exploring the Design Space for Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces
Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2006.
, Challenges for Temporal Planning with Uncertain Durations
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2006.
, Probabilistic Temporal Planning with Uncertain Durations
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.
, 2005
Preference Elicitation for Interface Optimization
Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2005.
, Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Study
Artificial Intelligence, 2005.
, Concurrent Probabilistic Temporal Planning
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2005.
, 2004
WebScale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results)
International World Wide Web Conference, 2004.
, SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2004.
, Solving Concurrent Markov Decision Processes
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2004.
, 2003
A Reliable Natural Language Interface To Household Appliances
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2003.
, Research on Statistical Relational Learning at the University of Washington
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
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2002.
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