Daniel S. Weld

University of Washington, Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/weld/
Publications320
h-index83
Citations29,647
Highly Influential Citations2,350
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PDDL-the planning domain definition language
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This manual describes the syntax of PDDL, the Planning Domain Definition Language, the problem-specification language for the AIPS-98 planning competition. Expand
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TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension
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We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples. Expand
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Knowledge-Based Weak Supervision for Information Extraction of Overlapping Relations
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We present MULTIR, a novel approach for multi-instance learning with overlapping relations that combines a sentence-level extraction model with a simple, corpus-level component for aggregating the individual facts. Expand
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Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study
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The KnowItAll system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an unsupervised, domain-independent, scalable manner. Expand
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SpanBERT: Improving Pre-training by Representing and Predicting Spans
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We present SpanBERT, a pre-training method that is designed to better represent and predict spans of text. Expand
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UCPOP: A Sound, Complete, Partial Order Planner for ADL
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We describe the ucpop partial order planning algorithm which handles a subset of Pednault's ADL action representation and demonstrate that it is both sound and complete for this representation. Expand
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Fine-Grained Entity Recognition
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This paper defines a fine-grained set of 112 tags, formulates the tagging problem as multi-class, multi-label classification, describes an unsupervised method for collecting training data, and presents the FIGER implementation. Expand
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An Introduction to Least Commitment Planning
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We introduce UCPOP, a planner that manages actions with disjunctive precondition, conditional effects, and universal quantification over dynamic universes. Expand
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Web-scale information extraction in knowitall: (preliminary results)
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This paper introduces KnowItAll, a system that aims to automate the tedious process ofextracting large collections of facts from the web in an autonomous,domain-independent, and scalable manner. Expand
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Wrapper Induction for Information Extraction
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We introduce wrapper induction, a method for automatically constructing wrappers, and identify hlrt, a wrapper class that is e ciently learnable, yet expressive enough to handle 48% of a recently surveyed sample of Internet resources. Expand
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