@article{ieee-computer-extraction,
   author = {Alexander Yates},
   journal = {{IEEE} {C}omputer},
   title = {Extracting World Knowledge from the Web},
   year = {2009},
   month = {June},
   pages = {94-97},
   volume = {42},
   number = {6}
}


@article{quantifier-scope-with-extracted-pragmatics,
   author = {Prakash Srinivasan and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Quantifier Scope Disambiguation Using Extracted Pragmatic Knowledge: Preliminary Results},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   year = {2009}
}


@article{distributional-representations,
   author = {Fei Huang and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence Labeling},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
   year = {2009}
}


@article{sensational09bmc,
   author = {Weisi Duan and Min Song and Alexander Yates},
   journal = {{BMC} {B}ioinformatics},
   title = {Fast Max-Margin Clustering for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation in Biomedical Texts},
   year = {2009},
   volume = {10(S3)},
   number = {S4}
}


@article{jair09resolver,
   author = {Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni},
   title = {Unsupervised Methods for Determining Object and Relation Synonyms on the Web},
   journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)},
   volume = {34},
   pages = {255-296},
   month = {March},
   year = {2009}
}


@inproceedings{shopsmart08cikm,
   author = {Alexander Yates and James Joseph and Ana-Maria Popescu and Alexander D. Cohn and Nick Sillick},
   title = {{S}hop{S}mart: {P}roduct Recommendations through Technical Specifications and User Reviews},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)},
   year = {2008}
}


@inproceedings{yates07resolver,
  author={Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni},
  title={Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web},
  year={2007},
  booktitle={Proceedings of HLT-NAACL}
}


@inproceedings{yates06emnlp,
   author = {Alexander Yates and Stefan Schoenmackers and Oren Etzioni},
   title = {Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   year = {2006}
}


@article{kiaAij,
   author = {Oren Etzioni and Michael Cafarella and Doug Downey and Stanley Kok and Ana-Maria Popescu and Tal Shaked and Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates},
   title = {Unsupervised Named-Entity Extraction from the Web: {A}n Experimental Study},
   journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
   volume = {165},
   number = {1},
   pages = {91-134},
   year = {2005}
}


@inproceedings{kia-ontology-extension,
   author = {Ana-Maria Popescu and Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni},
   title = {Class Extraction from the {W}orld {W}ide {W}eb},
   booktitle = {AAAI Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM)},
   pages = {65-70},
   year = {2004}
}


@inproceedings{popescu04precise,
   author={Ana-Maria Popescu and Alex Armanasu and Oren Etzioni and David Ko and Alexander Yates},
   title={{M}odern natural language interfaces to databases: {C}omposing statistical parsing with semantic tractability},
   booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
   year={2004}
}


@inproceedings{kia-aaai,
   author = {Oren Etzioni and Michael Cafarella and Doug Downey and Ana-Maria Popescu and Tal Shaked and Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates},
   year = {2004},
   title = {{M}ethods for domain-independent information extraction from the {Web}: {An} experimental comparison},
   pages = {391--398},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04)}
}


@inproceedings{kia-www,
   author = "Oren Etzioni and Michael Cafarella and Doug Downey and Stanley Kok and Ana-Maria Popescu and Tal Shaked and Stephen Soderland and Daniel S. Weld and Alexander Yates",
   year = "2004",
   title = "{W}eb-{S}cale {I}nformation {E}xtraction in {KnowItAll}",
   pages = "100-110",
   booktitle = "World Wide Web Conference",
   address = "New York City, New York" }


@inproceedings{etzioni-kdd2003,
   author = "Oren Etzioni and Rattapoom Tuchinda and Craig. A. Knoblock and Alexander Yates",
   title = {To buy or not to buy: {M}ining airfare data to minimize ticket purchase price},
   pages = "119--128",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)",
   year = "2003"
}


@inproceedings{yates03exact,
   author={Alexander Yates and Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld},
   title={A Reliable Natural Language Interface to Household Appliances},
   booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)},
   year={2003}
}


@phdthesis{yates-web-IE,
   author = {Alexander Yates},
   title = {Information Extraction from the Web: {T}echniques and Applications},
   school = {University of Washington},
   address = {Department of Computer Science and Engineering},
   month = {August},
   year = {2007}
}