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I'm a graduate student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. I am also a member of the Knowledge Systems Research Group headed by Bruce Porter.

Musings

• S. Chaw. A Better Understanding of Knowledge Workers and Strategies for Managing their Departure (Unpublished 2003) (pdf)
  
• Amusing email exchange with a WSJ journalist (txt)
  

Publications

• P. Clark, S. Chaw, K. Barker, V. Chaudhri, J.Fan, J. Thompson, P. Harrison, B. John, B. Porter, A. Spaulding, P. Yeh. Capturing and Answering Questions Posed to a Knowledge-Based System . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP 2007). Whistler, Canada.
• S. Chaw, J.Fan, D. Tecuci, P.Yeh. Capturing a Taxonomy of Failures During Automatic Interpretation of Questions Posed in Natural Language . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP 2007). Whistler, Canada.
• S. Chaw, K. Barker, B. Porter, P. Yeh. Towards an Ontology-Independent Problem-Solver. AI Technical Report TR-07-349, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
• K. Barker, V. Chaudhri, S. Chaw, P. Clark, B. John, S. Mishra, J. Pacheco, B. Porter & A. Spaulding. Enabling Domain Experts to Construct Declarative Knowledge Bases from Science Textbooks.In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007). Vancouver, Canada.
• K. Barker, B. Agashe, S. Chaw, J. Fan, N. Friedland, M. Glass, J. Hobbs, E. Hovy, D. Israel, D. Kim, R. Mulkar, S. Patwardhan, B. Porter, D. Tecuci & P. Yeh. Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline and Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007). Vancouver, Canada.
• S. Chaw, B. Porter. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Answering Novel Questions. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (KRAQ 2007), Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
• N. Friedland, P. Allen, P. Matthews, M. Witbrock, D. Baxter, J. Curtis, B. Shepard, P. Miraglia, J. Angele, S. Staab, E. Moench, H. Oppermann, D. Wenke, D. Israel, V. Chaudhri, B. Porter, K. Barker, J. Fan, S. Chaw, P. Yeh, D. Tecuci & P. Clark. Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle. AI Magazine 25(4)
• K. Barker, S. Chaw, J. Fan, B. Porter, D. Tecuci, P. Yeh, V. Chaudhri, D. Israel, S. Mishra, P. Romero, P. Clark. A question-answering system for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2004). Whistler, Canada

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