joseph reisinger

Joseph Reisinger

I'm a fourth year PhD student in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. My advisor is Ray Mooney. I'm currently supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I'm also co-mastermind of FAI.

This summer Google Research has graciously agreed to host my work on semi-supervised latent variable models.

Research Interests

I'm interested primarily in models of latent combinatorial structure in unlabeled data; particularly inferring semantic information automatically. My previous home was in theoretical evolutionary biology where I studied evolvability under randomized search schemes (here is a recent review).

Current projects include: Nonparametric Bayesian Approaches to Semantification/Information Extraction, Leveraging Evolvability in Search, and Evolutionary Games with Unknown Payoff Distributions.

Diversions

My hobby is taking photos; I vaguely co-author a blog on literary pleasures; I'm fluent in Japanese.

Natural Language Processing

Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment , with Marius Pasca. ACL-2009.
(supplemental material), email me for a draft.

Bootstrapped Extraction of Class Attributes,
with Marius Pasca. WWW-2009.

Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks.
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius Pasca, Deepak Ravichandran, Rahul Bhagat and Fernando Pereira. EMNLP-2008.

Reinforcement Learning

Online Kernel Selection for Bayesian Reinforcement Learning, with Peter Stone and Risto Miikkulainen. ICML-2008. (video)

Coevolving Strategies for General Game Playing
with Erkin Bahceci, Igor Karpov and Risto Miikkulainen. IEEE-CIG-2007.

Evolvability

Acquiring Evolvability through Adaptive Representations, with Risto Miikkulainen.
GECCO-2007.Best Paper Award

Selecting for Evolvable Representations
with Risto Miikkulainen. GECCO-2006.

Evolvability in Developmental Systems, with Risto Miikkulainen. Technical Report AAAI-FS-06.

Towards an Empirical Measure of Evolvability
with Kenneth Owen Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen. GECCO-2005.

Evolving Reusable Neural Modules, with Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen. GECCO-2004.