Temple T
Alexander Yates
Assistant Professor
Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
College of Science and Technology
Temple University
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Office: Wachman Hall 303A
Phone: 215-204-8869
Fax: 215-204-5082
Email: temple email address
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324 Wachman Hall
Temple University
1805 N. Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
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Research

I am interested in all aspects of artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. Currently, my lab's research focuses on the question of how to best represent the meaning of words and phrases in language-processing systems, and on how to extract knowledge from text for use by automated agents.

Some recent publications:

Avirup Sil and Alexander Yates. Machine Reading between the Lines: A Simple Evaluation Framework for Extracted Knowledge Bases. Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition (IEKA), 2011.

Avirup Sil and Alexander Yates. Extracting STRIPS Representations of Actions and Events. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), 2011.

Fei Huang, Alexander Yates, Arun Ahuja, and Doug Downey. Language Models as Representations for Weakly Supervised NLP Tasks. Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2011.

Peter LoBue and Alexander Yates. Types of Common-Sense Knowledge Needed for Recognizing Textual Entailment. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2011.

Avirup Sil, Fei Huang, and Alexander Yates. Extracting Action and Event Semantics from Web Text. AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium on Commonsense Knowledge (CSK), 2010.

Fei Huang and Alexander Yates. Exploring Representation-Learning Approaches to Domain Adaptation. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Domain Adaptation (DANLP), 2010.

Fei Huang and Alexander Yates. Open-domain Semantic Role Labeling by Modeling Word Spans. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010.

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Teaching

I teach introductory programming courses in Java, as well as graduate courses in text mining and data management.