Publications of William W. Cohen 2013-05-13T11:48:18Z 2013-05-13T11:48:18Z William W. Cohen http://wcohen.com/pubs-rss.xml Regularization of Latent Variable Models to Obtain Sparsity http://wcohen.com/postscript/sdm-2013-rb.pdf Regularization of Latent Variable Models to Obtain Sparsity by Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William W. Cohen: Published 2013 in SDM-2013 Very Fast Similarity Queries on Semi-Structured Data from the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/sdm-2013-bbd.pdf Very Fast Similarity Queries on Semi-Structured Data from the Web by Bhavana Dalvi and William W.Cohen: Published 2013 in SDM-2013 A General and Scalable Approach to Mixed Membership Clustering http://wcohen.com/postscript/icdm-2012.pdf A General and Scalable Approach to Mixed Membership Clustering by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in ICDM-2012 Social and Affective Responses to Political Information http://wcohen.com/postscript/apsa-2012.pdf Social and Affective Responses to Political Information by Doug Pierce David P. Redlawsk William W. Cohen, Tae Yano, Ramnath Balasubramanyan: Published 2012 in APSA-2012 Community-Based Classification of Noun Phrases in Twitter http://wcohen.com/postscript/cikm-2012-freddy.pdf Community-Based Classification of Noun Phrases in Twitter by Freddy Chong Tat Chua, William W. Cohen, Justin Betteridge, and Ee-Peng Lim: Published 2012 in CIKM-2012 (short paper) Learning to Perceive Two-Dimensional Displays Using Probabilistic Grammars http://wcohen.com/postscript/ecml-2012-nan.pdf Learning to Perceive Two-Dimensional Displays Using Probabilistic Grammars by Nan Li, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2012 in ECML-2012 Entropic Regularization of Mixed-membership Network Models using Pseudo-observations http://wcohen.com/postscript/mlg-2012.pdf Entropic Regularization of Mixed-membership Network Models using Pseudo-observations by Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in MLG-2012 Creating Features from a Learned Grammar in a Simulated Student http://wcohen.com/postscript/ecai-2012.pdf Creating Features from a Learned Grammar in a Simulated Student by Nan Li, Abraham Schreiber, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2012 in ECAI-2012 Multi-Domain Learning: When Do Domains Matter? http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-2012-mahesh.pdf Multi-Domain Learning: When Do Domains Matter? by Mahesh Joshi, Mark Dredze, William Cohen and Carolyn Rose: Published 2012 in EMNLP-CoNLL-2012 Reading The Web with Learned Syntactic-Semantic Inference Rules http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-2012-ni.pdf Reading The Web with Learned Syntactic-Semantic Inference Rules by Ni Lao, Amar Subramanya, Fernando Pereira and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in EMNLP-CoNLL-2012 Collectively Representing Semi-Structured Data from the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/akbc-2012.pdf Collectively Representing Semi-Structured Data from the Web by Bhavana Dalvi, William W. Cohen, and Jamie Callan: Published 2012 in AKBC-2012 Evaluating Joint Modeling of Yeast Biology Literature and Protein-Protein Interaction Networks http://wcohen.com/postscript/bionlp-2012-network.pdf Evaluating Joint Modeling of Yeast Biology Literature and Protein-Protein Interaction Networks by Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Kathryn Rivard, William W. Cohen, Jelena Jakovljevic and John Woolford: Published 2012 in BioNLP-2012 Alignment-based Extraction of Abbreviations from Biomedical Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/bionlp-2012-abbrev.pdf Alignment-based Extraction of Abbreviations from Biomedical Text by Dana Movshovitz-Attias and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in BioNLP-2012 Bootstrapping Biomedical Ontologies for Scientific Text using NELL http://wcohen.com/postscript/bionlp-2012-bionell.pdf Bootstrapping Biomedical Ontologies for Scientific Text using NELL by Dana Movshovitz-Attias and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in BioNLP-2012 Crowdsourced Comprehension: Predicting Prerequisite Structure in Wikipedia http://wcohen.com/postscript/naacl-ws-2012-partha.pdf Crowdsourced Comprehension: Predicting Prerequisite Structure in Wikipedia by Partha Pratim Talukdar and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in BEA-2012 Graph Based Similarity Measures for Synonym Extraction from Parsed Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/textgraph-2012.pdf Graph Based Similarity Measures for Synonym Extraction from Parsed Text by Einat Minkov and William W. Cohen: Published 2012 in TextGraphs-2012 Shallow learning as a pathway for successful learning both for tutors and tutees http://wcohen.com/postscript/cogsci-2012.pdf Shallow learning as a pathway for successful learning both for tutors and tutees by Noboru Matsuda, Evelyn Yarzebinski, Victoria Keiser, Rohan Raizada, William W. Cohen, Gabriel Stylianides, Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2012 in CogSci-2012 Problem Order Implications for Learning Transfer http://wcohen.com/postscript/its-2012-order.pdf Problem Order Implications for Learning Transfer by Nan Li, William W. Cohen, and Ken Koedinger: Published 2012 in ITS-2012 Efficient Cross-Domain Learning of Complex Skills http://wcohen.com/postscript/its-2012-xdom.pdf Efficient Cross-Domain Learning of Complex Skills by Nan Li, William W. Cohen, and Ken Koedinger: Published 2012 in ITS-2012 (short paper) Modeling Polarizing Topics: When Do Different Political Communities Respond Differently to the Same News? http://wcohen.com/postscript/icwsm-2012.pdf Modeling Polarizing Topics: When Do Different Political Communities Respond Differently to the Same News? by Ramnath Balasubramanyan, William W. Cohen, Doug Pierce, and David P. Redlawsk: Published 2012 in ICWSM-2012 WebSets: Extracting Sets of Entities from the Web Using Unsupervised Information Extraction http://wcohen.com/postscript/wsdm-2012-bdd.pdf WebSets: Extracting Sets of Entities from the Web Using Unsupervised Information Extraction by Bhavana Dalvi, William W. Cohen, and Jamie Callan: Published 2012 in WSDM-2012 Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-2011.pdf Random Walk Inference and Learning in A Large Scale Knowledge Base by Ni Lao, Tom Mitchell, and William W. Cohen: Published 2011 in EMNLP-2011 Structured Databases of Named Entities from Bayesian Nonparametrics http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-ws-2011.pdf Structured Databases of Named Entities from Bayesian Nonparametrics by Jacob Eisenstein, Tae Yano, William W. Cohen, Noah A. Smith, and Eric P. Xing: Published 2011 in UNSUP-2011 Adaptation of Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Methods to Large-Scale Text Data http://wcohen.com/postscript/mlg-2011.pdf Adaptation of Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Methods to Large-Scale Text Data by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2011 in MLG-2011 A Machine Learning Approach for Automatic Student Model Discovery http://wcohen.com/postscript/edm-2011.pdf A Machine Learning Approach for Automatic Student Model Discovery by Nan Li and William W. Cohen and Kenneth R. Koedinger and Noboru Matsuda: Published 2011 in EDM-2011 What pushes their buttons? Predicting comment polarity from the content of political blog posts http://wcohen.com/postscript/lsm-2011.pdf What pushes their buttons? Predicting comment polarity from the content of political blog posts by Ramnath Balasubramanyan, William W. Cohen, Doug Pierce, and David P. Redlawsk: Published 2011 in LSM-2011 Learning by Teaching SimStudent - An Initial Classroom Baseline Study comparing with Cognitive Tutor http://wcohen.com/postscript/aied-2011.pdf Learning by Teaching SimStudent - An Initial Classroom Baseline Study comparing with Cognitive Tutor by Noboru Matsuda, Evelyn Yarzebinski, Victoria Keiser, Rohan Raizada, Gabriel J. Stylianides, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2011 in AIED-2011 Entity List Completion Using Set Expansion Techniques http://wcohen.com/postscript/trec-2011.pdf Entity List Completion Using Set Expansion Techniques by Bhavana Dalvi, Jamie Callan, and William W. Cohen : Published 2011 in TREC 2011 Block-LDA: Jointly modeling entity-annotated text and entity-entity links http://wcohen.com/postscript/sdm-2011-sub.pdf Block-LDA: Jointly modeling entity-annotated text and entity-entity links by Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William W. Cohen: Published 2011 in SDM-2011 Node Clustering in Graphs: An Empirical Study http://wcohen.com/postscript/nipsws-2010-sub.pdf Node Clustering in Graphs: An Empirical Study by Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Frank Lin, and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in NIPS-2010 Workshop on Networks Across Disciplines Signal/Collect: Graph Algorithms for the (Semantic) Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/iswc-2010.pdf Signal/Collect: Graph Algorithms for the (Semantic) Web by Philip Stutz, Abraham Bernstein and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in ISWC-2010 Improving Graph-Walk Based Similarity with Reranking: Case Studies for Personal Information Management http://wcohen.com/postscript/tois-ghirl.pdf Improving Graph-Walk Based Similarity with Reranking: Case Studies for Personal Information Management by Einat Minkov and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in TOIS-2010 Relational Retrieval Using a Combination of Path-Constrained Random Walks http://wcohen.com/postscript/ecml-2010-ni.pdf Relational Retrieval Using a Combination of Path-Constrained Random Walks by Ni Lao and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in ECML-2010 and MLJ-2010 Special Issue Semi-Supervised Classification of Network Data Using Very Few Labels http://wcohen.com/postscript/asonam2010-final.pdf Semi-Supervised Classification of Network Data Using Very Few Labels by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in ASONAM-2010 Block-LDA: Jointly modeling entity-annotated text and entity-entity links http://wcohen.com/postscript/icml-workshop-2010.pdf Block-LDA: Jointly modeling entity-annotated text and entity-entity links by Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in ICML-2010 Workshop on Topic Modeling Power Iteration Clustering http://wcohen.com/postscript/icml2010-pic-final.pdf Power Iteration Clustering by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in ICML-2010 A Very Fast Method for Clustering Big Text Datasets http://wcohen.com/postscript/ecai2010-pic-final.pdf A Very Fast Method for Clustering Big Text Datasets by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in ECAI-2010 Fast Query Execution for Retrieval Models based on Path Constrained Random Walks http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2010-ni.pdf Fast Query Execution for Retrieval Models based on Path Constrained Random Walks by Ni Lao and William W. Cohen: Published 2010 in KDD-2010 Structured Literature Image Finder: Extracting Information from Text and Images in Biomedical Literature http://wcohen.com/postscript/lecture-notes-slif-2010.pdf Structured Literature Image Finder: Extracting Information from Text and Images in Biomedical Literature by L. P. Coelho, A. Ahmed, A. Arnold, J. Kangas, A.-S. Sheikh, E. Xing, W. Cohen, and R. F. Murphy: Published 2010 in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics Structured Literature Image Finder: Parsing Text and Figures in Biomedical Literature http://wcohen.com/postscript/jws-2010.pdf Structured Literature Image Finder: Parsing Text and Figures in Biomedical Literature by A. Ahmed, A. Arnold, L. P. Coelho, J. Kangas, A.-S. Sheikh, E. Xing, W. Cohen, and R. F. Murphy: Published 2010 in Journal of Web Semantics A Computational Model of Accelerated Future Learning through Feature Recognition http://wcohen.com/postscript/its-2010-nanli.pdf A Computational Model of Accelerated Future Learning through Feature Recognition by Nan Li, William W. Cohen, and Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2010 in ITS-2010 (poster) Learning by Teaching SimStudent: Technical Accomplishments and an Initial Use with Students http://wcohen.com/postscript/its-2010-noboru.pdf Learning by Teaching SimStudent: Technical Accomplishments and an Initial Use with Students by Noboru Matsuda, Victoria Keiser, Rohan Raizada, Arthur Tu, Gabriel Stylianides, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2010 in ITS-2010 Data Integration for Many Data Sources using Context-Sensitive Similarity Metrics http://wcohen.com/postscript/locksmith-sub-2009.pdf Data Integration for Many Data Sources using Context-Sensitive Similarity Metrics by William W. Cohen, Natalie Glance, Charles Schafer, Roy Tromble, Yuk Wah Wong: Published 2009 in preparation Information Leaks and Suggestions: A Case Study using Mozilla Thunderbird http://wcohen.com/postscript/ceas-2009.pdf Information Leaks and Suggestions: A Case Study using Mozilla Thunderbird by Vitor Carvalho, Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William W. Cohen: Published 2009 in CEAS-2009 Character-level Analysis of Semi-Structured Documents for Set Expansion http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-2009.pdf Character-level Analysis of Semi-Structured Documents for Set Expansion by Richard Wang and William W. Cohen: Published 2009 in EMNLP 2009 Modeling corpora of timestamped documents using semisupervised nonparametric topic models http://wcohen.com/postscript/nips-2009-hots.pdf Modeling corpora of timestamped documents using semisupervised nonparametric topic models by Ramnath Balasubramanyan and William W. Cohen and Matthew Hurst: Published 2009 in preparation Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/acl-2009-asia.pdf Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web by Richard Wang and William W. Cohen: Published 2009 in ACL-IJNLP 2009 A Computational Model of How Learner Errors Arise from Weak Prior Knowledge http://wcohen.com/postscript/cogsci-2009.pdf A Computational Model of How Learner Errors Arise from Weak Prior Knowledge by Noboru Matsuda, Andrew Lee, William W. Cohen, and Ken Koedinger: Published 2009 in CogSci-2009 Structured Literature Image Finder http://wcohen.com/postscript/biolink-2009.pdf Structured Literature Image Finder by Amr Ahmed, Andrew Arnold, Luis Pedro Coelho, Joshua Kangas, Abdul-Saboor Sheikk, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, and Robert F. Murphy: Published 2009 in Biolink-2009 Structured Correspondence Topic Models for Mining Captioned Figures in Biological Literature http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2009-ahmed.pdf Structured Correspondence Topic Models for Mining Captioned Figures in Biological Literature by Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, and Robert F. Murphy: Published 2009 in KDD-2009 Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models http://wcohen.com/postscript/naacl2009-tae.pdf Predicting Response to Political Blog Posts with Topic Models by Tae Yano, Noah A. Smith, and William W. Cohen: Published 2009 in NAACL-2009 From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences http://wcohen.com/postscript/icwsm-2009-saga-final.pdf From Episodes to Sagas: Understanding the News by Identifying Temporally Related Story Sequences by Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Frank Lin, William W. Cohen, Noah A. Smith, and Matthew Hurst: Published 2009 in ICWSM-2009 (poster) Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection http://wcohen.com/postscript/snas-2009.pdf Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection by Andrew Arnold and William W. Cohen: Published 2009 in WASA-2009 Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection http://wcohen.com/postscript/icwsm-2009-aa-final.pdf Information Extraction as Link Prediction: Using Curated Citation Networks to Improve Gene Detection by Andrew Arnold and William W. Cohen: Published 2009 in ICWSM-2009 (poster) Iterative Set Expansion of Named Entities Using the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/icdm-2008-iseal.pdf Iterative Set Expansion of Named Entities Using the Web by Richard Wang and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in ICDM-2008 Intra-document Structural Frequency Features for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation http://wcohen.com/postscript/cikm-2008.pdf Intra-document Structural Frequency Features for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation by Andrew Arnold and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in CIKM-2008 Suppressing Outliers in Pairwise Preference Ranking http://wcohen.com/postscript/cikm08-carvalho.pdf Suppressing Outliers in Pairwise Preference Ranking by Vitor Carvalho, Jonathan L. Elsas, William W. Cohen, and Jaime G. Carbonell: Published 2008 in CIKM-2008 Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-2008-richard.pdf Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering by Richard Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen, and Eric Nyberg: Published 2008 in EMNLP-2008 Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/emnlp-2008-einat.pdf Learning Graph Walk Based Similarity Measures for Parsed Text by Einat Minkov and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in EMNLP-2008 Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition http://wcohen.com/postscript/acl-2008.pdf Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition by Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in ACL-2008 CutOnce - Recipient Recommendation and Leak Detection in Action http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-ws-2008-cutonce.pdf CutOnce - Recipient Recommendation and Leak Detection in Action by Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Vitor Carvalho, and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in AAAI-2008 Workshop on Enhanced Messaging Activity-centric Search in Email http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-ws-2008-einat.pdf Activity-centric Search in Email by Einat Minkov, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in AAAI-2008 Workshop on Enhanced Messaging SimStudent: Building an Intelligent Tutoring System by Tutoring a Synthetic Student http://wcohen.com/postscript/simstudent-authoring-submitted.pdf SimStudent: Building an Intelligent Tutoring System by Tutoring a Synthetic Student by Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall, Gustavo Lacerda, Kenneth Koedinger: Published 2008 in limbo Learning to Walk Structured Text Networks http://wcohen.com/postscript/tr-einat-2008.pdf Learning to Walk Structured Text Networks by Einat Minkov and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in CMU SCS Technical Report Series (CMU-LTI-08-02) Joint Latent Topic Models for Text and Citations http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2008-ramesh.pdf Joint Latent Topic Models for Text and Citations by Ramesh Nallapati, Amr Ahmed, Eric Xing, and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in KDD-2008 Link-PLSA-LDA: A New Unsupervised Model for Topics and Influence of Blogs http://wcohen.com/postscript/icwsm-2007-ramesh.pdf Link-PLSA-LDA: A New Unsupervised Model for Topics and Influence of Blogs by Ramesh Nallapati and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in ICWSM-2008 Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations http://wcohen.com/postscript/icwsm-2007-yichia.pdf Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations by Yi-Chia Wang, Mahesh Joshi, William Cohen, and Carolyn Rose: Published 2008 in ICWSM-2008 The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: SemiSupervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using SemiSupervised Link Classification http://wcohen.com/postscript/icwsm-2007-frank-abstract.pdf The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: SemiSupervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using SemiSupervised Link Classification by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in ICWSM-2008 (poster) The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: SemiSupervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using SemiSupervised Link Classification http://wcohen.com/postscript/CMU-LTI-08-003.pdf The MultiRank Bootstrap Algorithm: SemiSupervised Political Blog Classification and Ranking Using SemiSupervised Link Classification by Frank Lin and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in CMU SCS Technical Report Series (CMU-LTI-08-03) Why Tutored Problem Solving may be better than Example Study: Theoretical Implications from a Simulated-Student Study http://wcohen.com/postscript/its-2008-final.pdf Why Tutored Problem Solving may be better than Example Study: Theoretical Implications from a Simulated-Student Study by Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall, Gustavo Lacerda, and Kenneth R. Koedinger: Published 2008 in ITS-2008 Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing http://wcohen.com/postscript/ecir2008.pdf Ranking Users for Intelligent Message Addressing by Vitor Carvalho and William W. Cohen: Published 2008 in ECIR-2008 A Comparative Study of Methods for Transductive Transfer Learning http://wcohen.com/postscript/icdm-workshop-2007-transfer.pdf A Comparative Study of Methods for Transductive Transfer Learning by Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati and William W. Cohen: Published 2007 in ICDM Workshop on Mining and Management of Biological Data Parallelized Variational EM for Latent Dirichlet Allocation: An Experimental Evaluation of Speed and Scalability http://wcohen.com/postscript/icdm-workshop-2007-parallel.pdf Parallelized Variational EM for Latent Dirichlet Allocation: An Experimental Evaluation of Speed and Scalability by Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen, and John Lafferty: Published 2007 in ICDM Workshop on High Performance Data Mining Sparse Word Graphs: A Scalable Algorithm for Capturing Word Correlations in Topic Models http://wcohen.com/postscript/icdm-workshop-2007-graphs.pdf Sparse Word Graphs: A Scalable Algorithm for Capturing Word Correlations in Topic Models by Ramesh Nallapati, Amr Ahmed, William Cohen and Eric Xing: Published 2007 in ICDM Workshop on High Performance Data Mining Language-Independent Set Expansion of Named Entities using the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/icdm-2007.pdf Language-Independent Set Expansion of Named Entities using the Web by Richard Wang and William Cohen: Published 2007 in ICDM-2007 Learning to Rank Typed Graph Walks: Local and Global Approaches http://wcohen.com/postscript/webkdd-2007.pdf Learning to Rank Typed Graph Walks: Local and Global Approaches by Einat Minkov and William Cohen: Published 2007 in WebKDD-2007 Discovering Leadership Roles in Email Workgroups http://wcohen.com/postscript/ceas-2007.pdf Discovering Leadership Roles in Email Workgroups by Vitor Carvalho, Wen Wu and William Cohen: Published 2007 in CEAS-2007 Online Stacked Graphical Learning http://wcohen.com/postscript/nipsws-2007.pdf Online Stacked Graphical Learning by Zhenzhen Kou, Vitor Carvalho and William Cohen: Published 2007 in NIPS-07 Workshop on Efficient Machine Learning Recommending Recipients in the Enron Corpus http://wcohen.com/postscript/cc-predict-submitted.pdf Recommending Recipients in the Enron Corpus by Vitor Carvalho and William Cohen: Published 2007 in limbo Multiscale Topic Tomography http://wcohen.com/postscript/topic-tomography-submitted.pdf Multiscale Topic Tomography by Ramesh Nallapati, William Cohen, Susan Ditmore, John Lafferty and Kin Ung: Published 2007 in KDD-2007 Identifying Fluorescence Microscope Images in Online Journal Publications using Both Image and Text Features http://wcohen.com/postscript/isbi-2007.pdf Identifying Fluorescence Microscope Images in Online Journal Publications using Both Image and Text Features by Juchang Hua, Orhan Ayasli, William Cohen and Robert Murphy: Published 2007 in ISBI-2007 Preventing Information Leaks in Email http://wcohen.com/postscript/sdm-2007-leak.pdf Preventing Information Leaks in Email by Vitor Carvalho and William W. Cohen: Published 2007 in SDM-2007 Stacked Graphical Models for Efficient Inference in Markov Random Fields http://wcohen.com/postscript/sdm-2007-stack.pdf Stacked Graphical Models for Efficient Inference in Markov Random Fields by Zhenzhen Kou and William W. Cohen: Published 2007 in SDM-2007 A Stacked Graphical Model for Associating Information from Text And Images In Figures http://wcohen.com/postscript/psb-2007-stack.pdf A Stacked Graphical Model for Associating Information from Text And Images In Figures by Zhenzhen Kou, William W. Cohen, and Robert F. Murphy: Published 2007 in PSB-2007 Learning to Extract Gene-Protein Names from Weakly-Labeled Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/CMU-LTI-08-004.pdf Learning to Extract Gene-Protein Names from Weakly-Labeled Text by Richard C. Wang, Anthony Tomasic, Robert E. Frederking, William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in CMU SCS Technical Report Series (CMU-LTI-08-04) An Email and Meeting Assistant using Graph Walks http://wcohen.com/postscript/ceas2006.pdf An Email and Meeting Assistant using Graph Walks by Einat Minkov and William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in CEAS-2006 Contextual Search and Name Disambiguation in Email using Graphs http://wcohen.com/postscript/sigir2006.pdf Contextual Search and Name Disambiguation in Email using Graphs by Einat Minkov, Andrew Ng and William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in SIGIR-2006 Single-Pass Online Learning: Performance, Voting Schemes and Online Feature Selection http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd2006.pdf Single-Pass Online Learning: Performance, Voting Schemes and Online Feature Selection by Vitor Carvalho and William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in KDD-2006 Improving Email Speech Act Analysis via N-gram Selection http://wcohen.com/postscript/hlt-acts-2006.pdf Improving Email Speech Act Analysis via N-gram Selection by Vitor Carvalho and William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in HLT/NAACL ACTS Workshop 2006 NER Systems that Suit Users Preferences: Adjusting the Recall-Precision Trade-off for Entity Extraction http://wcohen.com/postscript/hlt2006.pdf NER Systems that Suit Users Preferences: Adjusting the Recall-Precision Trade-off for Entity Extraction by Einat Minkov, Richard C.Wang, Anthony Tomasic and William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in HLT/NAACL-2006 (short paper) A Graph-Search Framework for GeneId Ranking (Extended Abstract) http://wcohen.com/postscript/bio-ont-ws-2006.pdf A Graph-Search Framework for GeneId Ranking (Extended Abstract) by William W. Cohen: Published 2006 in BioNLP'06 Extracting Personal Names from Email: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/hlt-2005.pdf Extracting Personal Names from Email: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text by Einat Minkov, Richard C. Wang, and William W. Cohen: Published 2005 in EMNLP/HLT-2005 Bayesian methods for frequent terms in text: Models of contagion and the Delta square statistic http://wcohen.com/postscript/csna-2005.pdf Bayesian methods for frequent terms in text: Models of contagion and the Delta square statistic by Edoardo M. Airoldi, William W. Cohen, Stephen Fienberg: Published 2005 in CSNA-2005 Learning to Understand Web Site Update Requests http://wcohen.com/postscript/webmaster.pdf Learning to Understand Web Site Update Requests by William W. Cohen, Einat Minkov & Anthony Tomasic: Published 2005 in IJCAI-2005 Stacked Sequential Learning http://wcohen.com/postscript/ijcai-2005-stack.pdf Stacked Sequential Learning by William W. Cohen & Vitor Carvalho: Published 2005 in IJCAI-2005 On the Collective Classification of Email Speech Acts http://wcohen.com/postscript/sigir-2005.pdf On the Collective Classification of Email Speech Acts by Vitor Carvalho & William W. Cohen: Published 2005 in SIGIR 2005 High-Recall Protein Entity Recognition Using a Dictionary http://wcohen.com/postscript/ismb-2005.pdf High-Recall Protein Entity Recognition Using a Dictionary by Zhenzhen Kou, William W. Cohen & Robert F. Murphy: Published 2005 in ISMB-2005 Automatic and Semi-Automatic Skill Coding with a View Towards Supporting On-Line Assessment http://wcohen.com/postscript/aied-2005.pdf Automatic and Semi-Automatic Skill Coding with a View Towards Supporting On-Line Assessment by Carolyn Rose, Pinar Donmez, G. Gweon, A. Knight, B. Junker, W. Cohen, K. Koedinger, N. Hefferman: Published 2005 in AIED-2005 An Intelligent Authoring System with Programming by Demonstration. http://wcohen.com/postscript/japan-ws-2005.pdf An Intelligent Authoring System with Programming by Demonstration. by Noboru Matsuda, William Cohen & Ken Koedinger: Published 2005 in Proceedings of the Japan National Conference on Information and Systems in Education Building Cognitive Tutors with Programming by Demonstration http://wcohen.com/postscript/ilp-2005-late.pdf Building Cognitive Tutors with Programming by Demonstration by Noboru Matsuda, William Cohen & Ken Koedinger: Published 2005 in ILP-2005 (late-breaking paper) Applying Programming by Demonstration in an Intelligent Authoring Tool for Cognitive Tutors http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-ws-2005.pdf Applying Programming by Demonstration in an Intelligent Authoring Tool for Cognitive Tutors by Noboru Matsuda, William Cohen & Ken Koedinger: Published 2005 in AAAI Workshop on Human Comprehensible Machine Learning Extracting Personal Names from Emails: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/coref-2004.pdf Extracting Personal Names from Emails: Applying Named Entity Recognition to Informal Text by Einat Minkov, Richard Wang & William Cohen : Published 2004 in preparation Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Information Extraction http://wcohen.com/postscript/semiCRF.pdf Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Information Extraction by Sunita Sarawagi & William W. Cohen: Published 2004 in NIPS 2004 Extracting and Structuring Subcellular Location Information from On-line Journal Articles: The Subcellular Location Image Finder http://wcohen.com/postscript/ksce-2004.pdf Extracting and Structuring Subcellular Location Information from On-line Journal Articles: The Subcellular Location Image Finder by Robert F. Murphy, Zhenzhen Kou, Juchang Hua, Matthew Joffe, William W. Cohen: Published 2004 in KSCE-2004 A Secure Protocol for Computing String Distance Metrics http://wcohen.com/postscript/psdm-2004.pdf A Secure Protocol for Computing String Distance Metrics by Pradeep Ravikumar, William W. Cohen, Stephen E. Fienberg: Published 2004 in PSDM-2004 Learning to Navigate Web Forms http://wcohen.com/postscript/iiweb-2004.pdf Learning to Navigate Web Forms by Anthony Tomasic, William W. Cohen, Einat Minkov: Published 2004 in IIWeb 2004 Learning to Classify Email into "Speech Acts" http://wcohen.com/postscript/speech-acts.pdf Learning to Classify Email into "Speech Acts" by William W. Cohen, Vitor Carvalho & Tom Mitchell: Published 2004 in EMNLP 2004 Learning to Extract Signature and Reply Lines from Email http://wcohen.com/postscript/email-2004.pdf Learning to Extract Signature and Reply Lines from Email by Vitor Carvalho & William W. Cohen: Published 2004 in CEAS 2004 Inferring Ongoing Activities of Workstation Users by Clustering Email http://wcohen.com/postscript/ceas-2004.pdf Inferring Ongoing Activities of Workstation Users by Clustering Email by Yifen Huang, Dinesh Govindaraju, Tom Mitchell, Vitor Carvalho & William W. Cohen: Published 2004 in CEAS 2004 A Hierarchical Graphical Model for Record Linkage http://wcohen.com/postscript/uai-2004.pdf A Hierarchical Graphical Model for Record Linkage by Pradeep Ravikumar & William W. Cohen: Published 2004 in UAI 2004 Exploiting Dictionaries in Named Entity Extraction: Combining Semi-Markov Extraction Processes and Data Integration Methods http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-04-csmm.pdf Exploiting Dictionaries in Named Entity Extraction: Combining Semi-Markov Extraction Processes and Data Integration Methods by William W. Cohen & Sunita Sarawagi: Published 2004 in KDD 2004: 89-98 Learning and Discovering Structure in Web Pages http://wcohen.com/postscript/deb-2003.pdf Learning and Discovering Structure in Web Pages by William W. Cohen: Published 2003 in IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 26(3): 3-10 (2003) Adaptive Name-Matching in Information Integration http://wcohen.com/postscript/intelligent-systems-2003.pdf Adaptive Name-Matching in Information Integration by Mikael Bilenko, Ray Mooney, William W. Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar & Steve Fienberg: Published 2003 in IEEE Intelligent Systems 18(5): 16-23 (2003) Extracting Information from Text and Images for Location Proteomics http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2003-bio-ws.doc Extracting Information from Text and Images for Location Proteomics by William W. Cohen, Zhenzhen Kou & Robert F. Murphy: Published 2003 in BIOKDD 2003: 2-9 A Comparison of String Metrics for Matching Names and Records http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2003-match-ws.pdf A Comparison of String Metrics for Matching Names and Records by William W. Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar & Stephen Fienberg: Published 2003 in KDD Workshop on Data Cleaning and Object Consolidation A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks http://wcohen.com/postscript/ijcai-ws-2003.pdf A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks by William W. Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar & Stephen Fienberg: Published 2003 in IIWeb 2003: 73-78 Understanding Captions in Biomedical Publications http://wcohen.com/postscript/ismb-2003.pdf Understanding Captions in Biomedical Publications by William W. Cohen, Richard Wang & Robert Murphy: Published 2003 in KDD 2003: 499-504 Infrastructure Components for Large-Scale Information Extraction Systems http://wcohen.com/postscript/iaai-2003.pdf Infrastructure Components for Large-Scale Information Extraction Systems by William W. Cohen: Published 2003 in IAAI 2003: 71-78 Beyond Independent Topical Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval http://wcohen.com/postscript/sigir-2003.pdf Beyond Independent Topical Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval by Cheng Zhai, William W. Cohen & John Lafferty: Published 2003 in SIGIR 2003: 10-17 Improving A Page Classifier with Anchor Extraction and Link Analysis http://wcohen.com/postscript/nips-2002.pdf Improving A Page Classifier with Anchor Extraction and Link Analysis by William W. Cohen: Published 2002 in NIPS 2002 Learning to Match and Cluster Large High-Dimensional Data Sets For Data Integration http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2002.pdf Learning to Match and Cluster Large High-Dimensional Data Sets For Data Integration by William W. Cohen & Jacob Richman: Published 2002 in KDD 2002: 475-480 A Flexible Learning System for Wrapping Tables and Lists in HTML Documents http://wcohen.com/postscript/ws-chap-2002.pdf A Flexible Learning System for Wrapping Tables and Lists in HTML Documents by William W. Cohen, Matthew Hurst & Lee S. Jensen: Published 2003 in Web Document Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities, ed. Antonacopoulos & Hu, Word Scientific Publishing Grouping Extracted Fields http://wcohen.com/postscript/IJCAI_Workshop_-_Wrapster_Associations.htm Grouping Extracted Fields by Lee S. Jensen & William W. Cohen: Published 2001 in Proc. of the IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining Hardening Soft Information Sources http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-2000.ps Hardening Soft Information Sources by William W. Cohen, David McAllester, and Henry Kautz: Published 2000 in KDD 2000: 255-259 Automatically extracting features for concept learning from the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-2000.ps Automatically extracting features for concept learning from the Web by William W. Cohen: Published 2000 in ICML 2000: 159-166 Data Integration using Similarity Joins and a Word-based Information Representation Language http://wcohen.com/postscript/tois-whirl.pdf Data Integration using Similarity Joins and a Word-based Information Representation Language by William W. Cohen: Published 2000 in ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 18(3): 288-321 (2000) Simple, Fast, and Effective Rule Learner http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-99-slipper.ps Simple, Fast, and Effective Rule Learner by William W. Cohen and Yoram Singer: Published 1999 in AAAI/IAAI 1999: 335-342 Recognizing Structure in Web Pages using Similarity Queries http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-99-extract.ps Recognizing Structure in Web Pages using Similarity Queries by William W. Cohen: Published 1999 in AAAI/IAAI 1999: 59-66 WHIRL: A Word-based Information Representation Language http://wcohen.com/postscript/aij-whirl-overview.ps WHIRL: A Word-based Information Representation Language by William W. Cohen: Published 2000 in Artif. Intell. 118(1-2): 163-196 (2000) Reasoning about Textual Similarity in a Web-Based Information Access http://wcohen.com/postscript/jnl-agents.ps.gz Reasoning about Textual Similarity in a Web-Based Information Access by William W. Cohen: Published 1999 in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2(1): 65-86 (1999) Context-sensitive learning methods for text categorization http://wcohen.com/postscript/tois-sigir.pdf Context-sensitive learning methods for text categorization by William W. Cohen & Yoram Singer: Published 1999 in ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 17(2): 141-173 (1999) Joins that Generalize: Text Classification Using WHIRL http://wcohen.com/postscript/kdd-98.ps Joins that Generalize: Text Classification Using WHIRL by William W. Cohen & Haym Hirsh: Published 1998 in KDD 1998: 169-173 A Web-based Information System that Reasons with Structured Collections of Text http://wcohen.com/postscript/agents-98.ps A Web-based Information System that Reasons with Structured Collections of Text by William W. Cohen: Published 1998 in Agents 1998: 400-407 The WHIRL Approach to Integration: An Overview http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-98-ws.ps The WHIRL Approach to Integration: An Overview by William W. Cohen: Published 1998 in IIWeb 1998 (informal proceedings) Transferring and Retraining Learned Information Filters http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-97-transfer.ps Transferring and Retraining Learned Information Filters by William W. Cohen and Daniel Kudenko: Published 1997 in AAAI/IAAI 1997: 583-590 Learning Trees and Rules with Set-valued Features http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-96.ps Learning Trees and Rules with Set-valued Features by William W. Cohen: Published 1996 in AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 1 1996: 709-716 Learning Rules that Classify E-Mail http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-ss-96.ps Learning Rules that Classify E-Mail by William W. Cohen: Published 1996 in AAAI Spring Symposium on ML and IR 1996 Learning to Query the Web http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-ws-96.ps Learning to Query the Web by William W. Cohen and Yoram Singer: Published 1996 in AAAI Workshop on Internet-Based Information Access Systems 1996 Learning to Classify English Text with ILP Methods http://wcohen.com/postscript/ilp-95.ps Learning to Classify English Text with ILP Methods by William W. Cohen: Published 1995 in Advances in ILP, ed. L. de Readt, IOS Press Fast effective rule induction http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-95-ripper.ps Fast effective rule induction by William W. Cohen: Published 1995 in ICML 1995: 115-123 Text categorization and relational learning http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-95-ir.ps Text categorization and relational learning by William W. Cohen: Published 1995 in ICML 1995: 124-132 Learning the CLASSIC description logic: Theoretical and experimental results http://wcohen.com/postscript/kr-94.ps Learning the CLASSIC description logic: Theoretical and experimental results by William W. Cohen and Haym Hirsh: Published 1994 in KR 1994: 121-133 Cryptographic limitations on learning one-clause logic programs http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-93-cryptlim.ps Cryptographic limitations on learning one-clause logic programs by William W. Cohen: Published 1993 in AAAI 1993: 80-85 Rapid prototyping of ILP systems using explicit bias http://wcohen.com/postscript/ijcai-ws-93.ps Rapid prototyping of ILP systems using explicit bias by William W. Cohen: Published 1993 in Proc. of the 1993 IJCAI Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming Pac-learning a restricted class of recursive logic programs http://wcohen.com/postscript/aaai-93-force2.ps Pac-learning a restricted class of recursive logic programs by William W. Cohen: Published 1993 in AAAI 1993: 86-92 Efficient pruning methods for separate-and-conquer rule learning systems http://wcohen.com/postscript/ijcai-93.ps Efficient pruning methods for separate-and-conquer rule learning systems by William W. Cohen: Published 1993 in IJCAI 1993: 988-994 Compiling prior knowledge into an explicit bias http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-92.ps Compiling prior knowledge into an explicit bias by William W. Cohen: Published 1992 in ICML 1992: 102-110 The generality of overgenerality http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-91.ps The generality of overgenerality by William W. Cohen: Published 1991 in ICML 1991: 490-494 Learning approximate control rules of high utility http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-90-axaebl.ps Learning approximate control rules of high utility by William W. Cohen: Published 1990 in ICML 1990: 268-276 An analysis of representation shift in concept learning http://wcohen.com/postscript/ml-90-repshift.ps An analysis of representation shift in concept learning by William W. Cohen: Published 1990 in ICML 1990: 104-112