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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).
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
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
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RI: Small: Extracting and Representing Commonsense Knowledge Using Language Models
Downey, D. C. & Birnbaum, L. A.
10/1/20 → 9/30/23
Project: Research project
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AitF:Mechanism Design and Machine Learning for Peer Grading
Hartline, J. D., Downey, D. C. & O'Rourke, E.
9/1/17 → 8/31/22
Project: Research project
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Parsing Scientific Metadata with Neural Networks
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
9/1/17 → 3/31/18
Project: Research project
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Open Named Entity Recognition from Scientific Documents
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
1/1/16 → 9/30/17
Project: Research project
Research Output
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Simplified Data Wrangling with ir_datasets
MacAvaney, S., Yates, A., Feldman, S., Downey, D., Cohan, A. & Goharian, N., Jul 11 2021, SIGIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 2429-2436 8 p. 3463254. (SIGIR 2021 - Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
1 Scopus citations -
A new evaluation framework for topic modeling algorithms based on synthetic corpora
Shi, H., Gerlach, M., Diersen, I., Downey, D. & Amaral, L. A. N., 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Estimating marginal probabilities of n-grams for recurrent neural language models
Noraset, T., Downey, D. & Bing, L., Jan 1 2020, Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018. Riloff, E., Chiang, D., Hockenmaier, J. & Tsujii, J. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 2930-2935 6 p. (Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
2 Scopus citations -
Generative data augmentation for commonsense reasoning
Yang, Y., Malaviya, C., Fernandez, J., Swayamdipta, S., Le Bras, R., Wang, J. P., Bhagavatula, C., Choi, Y. & Downey, D., 2020, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1008-1025 18 p. (Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
5 Scopus citations -
High-Precision Extraction of Emerging Concepts from Scientific Literature
King, D., Downey, D. & Weld, D. S., Jul 25 2020, SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1549-1552 4 p. (SIGIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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