Ken Barker

Contact

Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, #D9500
Austin, Texas, USA
78712-1188

Tel: (512) 471-9574
Fax: (512) 471-8885
Email: kbarker@cs.utexas.edu

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    • Research

    Artificial Intelligence, Computational Ignorance, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition, Natural Language Processing

    Recent Publications

    • Gunning et al. (2010). "Project Halo Update -- Toward Digital Aristotle." AI Magazine 31(3).
    • Kim et al. (2010). "Improving the quality of text understanding by delaying ambiguity resolution." (COLING 2010) [pdf]
    • Kim et al. (2010). "Building an end-to-end text reading system based on a packed representation." (NAACL 2010 FAM-LbR Workshop) [pdf]
    • Chaw et al. (2009). "A Scalable Problem-Solver for Large Knowledge-Bases." (ICTAI 2009).
    • Glass et al. (2009). "Constructing a semantic interpreter using distributional analysis." (PACLing 2009). [pdf]
    • Kim et al. (2009). "Knowledge integration across multiple texts." (K-CAP 2009). [pdf]
    • Fan, Barker & Porter (2009). "Automatic interpretation of loosely encoded input". Artificial Intelligence 173(2).
    • Barker (2008). "Learning by Reading." (invited talk in The Hunter Lab Seminar Series, School of Medecine, University of Colorado, Denver).
    • Clark et al. (2007). "Capturing and Answering Questions Posed to a Knowledge-Based System." (K-CAP 2007).
    • Barker (2007). "Modular Knowledge Engineering using the Component Library." (invited talk, WoMO 2007).
    • Barker et al. (2007). "Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline and Lessons Learned." (AAAI 2007). [pdf]
    • Barker (2007). "Building Models by Reading Texts." (invited talk, AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading 2007).
    • Yeh, Porter & Barker (2006). "Flexible Semantic Matching for Link Analysis: A Proposal." (AAAI Fall Symposium 2006).
    • Yeh, Porter & Barker (2006). "A Unified Knowledge Based Approach for Sense Disambiguation and Semantic Role Labeling." (AAAI 2006). [pdf]
    • Fan, Porter & Barker (2005). "Indirect Anaphora Resolution as Semantic Path Search." (K-CAP 2005). [pdf]
    • Yeh, Porter & Barker (2005). "Matching Utterances to Rich Knowledge Structures to Acquire a Model of the Speaker's Goal." (K-CAP 2005). [pdf]
    • Friedland et al. (2004). "Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle". AI Magazine 25(4).
    • Barker et al. (2004). "A question-answering system for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies." (KR 2004). [pdf]
    • Friedland et al. (2004). "Towards a Quantitative, Platform-Independent Analysis of Knowledge Systems." (KR 2004). [pdf]
    • Yeh, Porter & Barker (2004). "Mining Transformation Rules for Semantic Matching." (MGTS 2004). [pdf]
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