Stephen Soderland

Also published as: S. Soderland


2016

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Effective Crowd Annotation for Relation Extraction
Angli Liu | Stephen Soderland | Jonathan Bragg | Christopher H. Lin | Xiao Ling | Daniel S. Weld
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2015

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Exploiting Parallel News Streams for Unsupervised Event Extraction
Congle Zhang | Stephen Soderland | Daniel S. Weld
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 3

Most approaches to relation extraction, the task of extracting ground facts from natural language text, are based on machine learning and thus starved by scarce training data. Manual annotation is too expensive to scale to a comprehensive set of relations. Distant supervision, which automatically creates training data, only works with relations that already populate a knowledge base (KB). Unfortunately, KBs such as FreeBase rarely cover event relations (e.g. “person travels to location”). Thus, the problem of extracting a wide range of events — e.g., from news streams — is an important, open challenge. This paper introduces NewsSpike-RE, a novel, unsupervised algorithm that discovers event relations and then learns to extract them. NewsSpike-RE uses a novel probabilistic graphical model to cluster sentences describing similar events from parallel news streams. These clusters then comprise training data for the extractor. Our evaluation shows that NewsSpike-RE generates high quality training sentences and learns extractors that perform much better than rival approaches, more than doubling the area under a precision-recall curve compared to Universal Schemas.

2014

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Type-Aware Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Linked Arguments
Mitchell Koch | John Gilmer | Stephen Soderland | Daniel S. Weld
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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Hierarchical Summarization: Scaling Up Multi-Document Summarization
Janara Christensen | Stephen Soderland | Gagan Bansal | Mausam
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2013

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Towards Coherent Multi-Document Summarization
Janara Christensen | Mausam | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Generating Coherent Event Schemas at Scale
Niranjan Balasubramanian | Stephen Soderland | Mausam | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2012

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Rel-grams: A Probabilistic Model of Relations in Text
Niranjan Balasubramanian | Stephen Soderland | Mausam | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX)

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Open Language Learning for Information Extraction
Mausam | Michael Schmitz | Stephen Soderland | Robert Bart | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

2011

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Identifying Relations for Open Information Extraction
Anthony Fader | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2010

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Semantic Role Labeling for Open Information Extraction
Janara Christensen | Mausam | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading

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Machine Reading at the University of Washington
Hoifung Poon | Janara Christensen | Pedro Domingos | Oren Etzioni | Raphael Hoffmann | Chloe Kiddon | Thomas Lin | Xiao Ling | Mausam | Alan Ritter | Stefan Schoenmackers | Stephen Soderland | Dan Weld | Fei Wu | Congle Zhang
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading

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Extracting Sequences from the Web
Anthony Fader | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers

2009

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Compiling a Massive, Multilingual Dictionary via Probabilistic Inference
Mausam | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni | Daniel Weld | Michael Skinner | Jeff Bilmes
Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP

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Lemmatic Machine Translation
Stephen Soderland | Christopher Lim | Mausam | Bo Qin | Oren Etzioni | Jonathan Pool
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII: Papers

2008

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It’s a Contradiction – no, it’s not: A Case Study using Functional Relations
Alan Ritter | Stephen Soderland | Doug Downey | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2007

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Lexical translation with application to image searching on the web
Oren Etzioni | Kobi Reiter | Stephen Soderland | Marcus Sammer
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers

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Building a sense-distinguished multilingual lexicon from monolingual corpora and bilingual lexicons
Marcus Sammer | Stephen Soderland
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers

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TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web
Alexander Yates | Michele Banko | Matthew Broadhead | Michael Cafarella | Oren Etzioni | Stephen Soderland
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT)

2006

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Expanding the Recall of Relation Extraction by Bootstrapping
Junji Tomita | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM 2006)

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Ambiguity Reduction for Machine Translation: Human-Computer Collaboration
Marcus Sammer | Kobi Reiter | Stephen Soderland | Katrin Kirchhoff | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers

Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) accuracy degrades when there is only a limited amount of training, or when the training is not from the same domain or genre of text as the target application. However, cross-domain applications are typical of many real world tasks. We demonstrate that SMT accuracy can be improved in a cross-domain application by using a controlled language (CL) interface to help reduce lexical ambiguity in the input text. Our system, CL-MT, presents a monolingual user with a choice of word senses for each content word in the input text. CL-MT temporarily adjusts the underlying SMT system's phrase table, boosting the scores of translations that include the word senses preferred by the user and lowering scores for disfavored translations. We demonstrate that this improves translation adequacy in 33.8% of the sentences in Spanish to English translation of news stories, where the SMT system was trained on proceedings of the European Parliament.

2005

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KnowItNow: Fast, Scalable Information Extraction from the Web
Michael J. Cafarella | Doug Downey | Stephen Soderland | Oren Etzioni
Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

1995

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Description of the UMass System as Used for MUC-6
David Fisher | Stephen Soderland | Joseph McCarthy | Fangfang Feng | Wendy Lehnert
Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6): Proceedings of a Conference Held in Columbia, Maryland, November 6-8, 1995

1993

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UMass/Hughes: Description of the CIRCUS System Used for TIPSTER Text
W. Lehnert | J. McCarthy | S. Soderland | E. Riloff | C. Cardie | J. Peterson | F. Feng
TIPSTER TEXT PROGRAM: PHASE I: Proceedings of a Workshop held at Fredricksburg, Virginia, September 19-23, 1993

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UMass/Hughes: Description of the CIRCUS System Used for MUC-51
W. Lehnert | J. McCarthy | S. Soderland | E. Riloff | C. Cardie | J. Peterson | F. Feng
Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5): Proceedings of a Conference Held in Baltimore, Maryland, August 25-27, 1993

1992

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University of Massachusetts: MUC-4 Test Results and Analysis
W. Lehnert | C. Cardie | D. Fisher | J. McCarthy | E. Riloff | S. Soderland
Fourth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-4): Proceedings of a Conference Held in McLean, Virginia, June 16-18, 1992

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University of Massachusetts: Description of the CIRCUS System as Used for MUC-4
W. Lehnert | C. Cardie | D. Fisher | J. McCarthy | E. Riloff | S. Soderland
Fourth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-4): Proceedings of a Conference Held in McLean, Virginia, June 16-18, 1992