Professor Oren Etzioni
Director of the
Turing Center
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Office:
580 Allen Center
University of Washington
Phone:
(206) 685-3035
Computer Science & Engineering
Fax:
(206) 543-2969
Box 352350
Email:
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
The goal of my research is to solve fundamental problems in AI, particularly the automatic learning of knowledge from text.
I'm also interested in creating the next generation of search engines for the Web.
Talk Video:
Open Information Extraction at Web Scale
(IJCAI '11)
Demos:
Check out
ReVerb
,
our open-source extractor, which extracted over 1,000,000,000 assertions from the Web
.
Check out
RevMiner
, an open extractor for user reviews currently applied to venues in Seattle.
Publications:
Our most cited papers
.
A more comprehensive list of our group's papers is available at the
Turing Center Publications Page
.
Papers published
before 2004
are available below:
Automatically Personalizing User Interfaces
(IJCAI 2003)
Mangrove: Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via Instant Gratification
(ISWC 2003)
Semantic Email: Adding Lightweight Data Manipulation Capabilities to the Email Habitat
(WebDB 2003)
To Buy or Not To Buy: Mining Airfare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price
(KDD 2003)
A Reliable Natural Language Interface to Household Appliances
(IUI 2003)
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
(IUI 2003)
Crossing the Structure Chasm
(CIDR 2003)
Scaling question answering to the Web
(WWW 2001)
Query Routing for Web Search Engines: Architecture and Experiments
(WWW 2000)
Adaptive Web Sites: Conceptual Cluster Mining
(IJCAI 1999)
Towards Adaptive Web Sites: Conceptual Framework and Case Study
(WWW 1999)
Adaptive Web Sites: Automatically Synthesizing Web Pages
(AAAI 1998)
Adaptive Web Sites: an AI challenge
(IJCAI 1997)
A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web
(Autonomous Agents 1997)
Dynamic Reference Sifting: a Case Study in the Homepage Domain
(Runner-up for Best Paper, WWW 1997)
The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web
[
HTML
]
IEEE Expert
, 12(1):8-14, 1997
Sound and Efficient Closed-World Reasoning for Planning
Artificial Intelligence
, 89(1-2):113-148, 1997
Moving up the information food chain: deploying softbots on the Web
(AAAI 1996)
Efficient Information Gathering on the Internet
(FOCS 1996)
The World Wide Web: quagmire or gold mine?
Communications of the ACM
, 39(11):65-68, 1996
Learning to understand information on the Internet
(IJCAI 1995)
A sound and fast goal recognizer
(IJCAI 1995)
Multi-Service Search and Comparison Using the MetaCrawler
[
HTML
] (WWW 1995)
Intelligent Agents on the Internet: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
IEEE Expert
, 44-49, August 1995
The softbot approach to OS interfaces
IEEE Software
, 12(4):42-51, 1995
The First Law of Robotics
(AAAI 1994)
Omnipotence without omniscience: Sensor management in planning
(AAAI 1994)
Learning decision lists using homogeneous rules
(AAAI 1994)
Tractable closed-world reasoning with updates
(KR 1994)
A Softbot-based interface to the internet
Communications of the ACM
, 72-76, July 1994
Representation design and brute-force induction in a Boeing manufacturing domain
Applied Artificial Intelligence
, 8(1):125-147, 1994
Statistical methods for analyzing speedup learning experiments
Machine Learning
, 14(3):333-347, 1994 Technical Note
Intelligence without Robots (A Reply to Brooks)
AI Magazine
, 14(4), December 1993
Acquiring search-control knowledge via static analysis
Artificial Intelligence
, 62(2):255-302, 1993
A structural theory of explanation-based learning
Artificial Intelligence
, 60(1):93-140, 1993