Luke Zettlemoyer

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

Spring 2013: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CSE 473)
Winter 2013: Natural Language Processing (CSE 517)
Winter 2012: Machine Learning (CSE 546)

Group

Yoav Artzi
Eunsol Choi
Nicholas FitzGerald
Raphael Hoffmann (Co-advised with Dan Weld)
Tom Kwiatkowski
Cynthia Matuszek (Co-advised with Dieter Fox)
Gabriel Schubiner
Adrienne Wang
Mark Yatskar
Leila Zilles

Recent Publications (Full List)

Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer. Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1 (2013) 49–62.

Cynthia Matuszek, Nicholas FitzGerald, Luke Zettlemoyer, Liefeng Bo, and Dieter Fox. A Joint Model of Language and Perception for Grounded Attribute Learning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2012.

Tom Kwiatkowski, Sharon Goldwater, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Mark Steedman. A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings. In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2012.

Einat Minkov and Luke Zettlemoyer. Discriminative Learning for Joint Template Filling. In Proceedings of Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012.

Kira Mourão, Luke Zettlemoyer, Ronald P.A. Petrick, and Mark Steedman. Learning STRIPS Operators from Noisy and Incomplete Observations. In Proceedings of Conference on Uncertainty in Articial Intelligence (UAI), 2012.

Cynthia Matuszek, Evan Herbst, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Dieter Fox. Learning to Parse Natural Language Commands to a Robot Control System. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2012.

Jeff Huang, Oren Etzioni, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kevin Clark, Christian Lee. RevMiner: An Extractive Interface for Navigating Reviews on a Smartphone. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2012.

Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer. Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldwater, and Mark Steedman. Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011.

Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Xiao Ling, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Daniel S. Weld. Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011. [source code]

Announcements

If you are an NLP researcher in the Pacific Northwest, consider submitting an abstract to NW-NLP 2012! Students and young researchers are especially encouraged to submit!