Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Ptofessor Downey's research is focused on natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in the automatic construction of useful knowledge bases from Web text. One goal is to develop techniques and prototypes that extend the state of the art in Web search. Another goal is to theoretically investigate and establish a formal basis for techniques that can learn from unstructured text alone, without hand-labeled data.
More generally, Prof. Downey works on ways to utilize human input more effectively in machine learning. Two directions in this effort involve selecting human input carefully (active learning) or utilizing it in concert with unlabeled data (semi-supervised learning).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science and Engineering, PhD, University of Washington
… → 2008
Computer Science and Engineering, MS, University of Washington
… → 2004
Computer Science, Minors in Mathematics and Economics, BS/MS, Case Western Reserve University
… → 2000
Research interests keywords
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
Fingerprint
- 1 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
-
RI: Small: Extracting and Representing Commonsense Knowledge Using Language Models
Downey, D. C. (PD/PI), Downey, D. C. (PD/PI), Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI) & Birnbaum, L. A. (Co-PD/PI)
10/1/20 → 9/30/25
Project: Research project
-
Parsing Scientific Metadata with Neural Networks
Downey, D. C. (PD/PI)
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
9/1/17 → 3/31/18
Project: Research project
-
AitF:Mechanism Design and Machine Learning for Peer Grading
Hartline, J. D. (PD/PI), Downey, D. C. (Co-PD/PI) & O'Rourke, E. (Co-PD/PI)
9/1/17 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
-
Open Named Entity Recognition from Scientific Documents
Downey, D. C. (PD/PI)
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
1/1/16 → 9/30/17
Project: Research project
-
NRT-DESE: Training in Data-Driven Discovery - From the Earth and the Universe to the Successful Careers of the Future
Kalogera, V. (PD/PI), Katsaggelos, A. K. (Co-PD/PI), Klabjan, D. (Co-PD/PI), van der Lee, S. (Co-PD/PI), Downey, D. C. (Other), Luijten, E. (Other) & Schmitt, M. (Other)
4/1/15 → 8/31/21
Project: Research project
-
ARIES: A Corpus of Scientific Paper Edits Made in Response to Peer Reviews
D'Arcy, M., Ross, A., Bransom, E., Kuehl, B., Bragg, J., Hope, T. & Downey, D., 2024, Long Papers. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. F. T. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 6985-7001 17 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access -
CARE: Extracting Experimental Findings From Clinical Literature
Naik, A., Kuehl, B., Bransom, E., Downey, D. & Hope, T., 2024, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024 - Findings. Duh, K., Gomez, H. & Bethard, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 4580-4596 17 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024 - Findings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
SCIMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty
Wang, Q., Downey, D., Ji, H. & Hope, T., 2024, Long Papers. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. F. T. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 279-299 21 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open Access6 Scopus citations -
TOPICAL: TOPIC Pages AutomagicaLly
Giorgi, J., Singh, A., Downey, D., Feldman, S. & Wang, L. L., 2024, p. 1-11. 11 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Open Access -
A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery
Hope, T., Downey, D., Weld, D. S., Etzioni, O. & Horvitz, E., Jul 25 2023, In: Communications of the ACM. 66, 8, p. 62-73 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access13 Scopus citations