Publications

  1. Language Models as Representations for Weakly-Supervised NLP Tasks Fei Huang, Alex Yates, Arun Ahuja, and Doug Downey. (CoNLL 2011)
  2. Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth, Doug Downey, and Mike Anderson. (ACL 2011)
  3. Analysis of a Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Unsupervised Information Extraction.   Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, and Stephen Soderland. (Artificial Intelligence, 2010).
  4. Improved Extraction Assessment through Better Language Models   Arun Ahuja and Doug Downey. (NAACL-HLT 2010).
  5. Learning to Integrate Relational Databases with Wikipedia   Doug Downey, Arun Ahuja, and Mike Anderson. (WIKIAI 2009).
  6. Look Ma, No Hands: Analyzing the Monotonic Feature Abstraction for Text Classification.   Doug Downey and Oren Etzioni. (NIPS 2008).
  7. Understanding the Relationship Between Searchers' Queries and Information Goals.   Doug Downey, Susan Dumais, Dan Liebling and Eric Horvitz. (CIKM 2008).
  8. It's a Contradiction -- No, It's Not: A Case Study using Functional Relations   Alan Ritter, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland, and Oren Etzioni. (EMNLP 2008).
  9. Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue.   Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers, and Oren Etzioni. (ACL 2007).
  10. Locating Complex Named Entities in Web Text.   Doug Downey, Matthew Broadhead, Oren Etzioni. (IJCAI 2007).
  11. Models of Searching and Browsing: Languages, Studies, and Applications.   Doug Downey, Susan Dumais, Eric Horvitz. (IJCAI 2007).
  12. Heads and Tails: Studies of Web Search with Common and Rare Queries.   Doug Downey, Susan Dumais, Eric Horvitz. (SIGIR 2007, poster).
  13. KnowItNow: Fast, Scalable Information Extraction From the Web.   Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni. (EMNLP 2005).
  14. A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information Extraction.   Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, Stephen Soderland. (IJCAI 2005).
  15. Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Study.   Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates. (Artificial Intelligence, 2005).
  16. Learning Text Patterns for Web Information Extraction and Assessment.   D. Downey, O. Etzioni, S. Soderland, and D. Weld. (AAAI-2004 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining).
  17. Learning Text Patterns for Web Information Extraction and Assessment (Extended Version)   D. Downey, O. Etzioni, S. Soderland, and D. Weld. University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technical Report UW-CSE-04-05-01, May 2004.
  18. Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison.  Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates. (AAAI 2004).
  19. Web-scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll. Oren Etzioni, Michael Cafarella, Doug Downey, Stanley Kok, Ana-Maria Popescu, Tal Shaked, Stephen Soderland, Daniel S. Weld, Alexander Yates. (WWW 2004)
  20. Further experiments in the evolution of minimally cognitive behavior: From perceiving affordances to selective attention. Slocum, A.C., Downey, D.C. and Beer, R.D. (2000). In J. Meyer, A. Berthoz, D. Floreano, H. Roitblat and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 430-439). MIT Press.

Dissertation

Redundancy in Web-scale Information and Extraction: Probabilistic Model and Experimental Results Doug Downey. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, 2008.