James Fan

Adam Lally, John M. Prager, Michael C. McCord, Branimir Boguraev, Siddharth Patwardhan, James Fan, Paul Fodor, Jennifer Chu-Carroll: Question analysis: How Watson reads a clue. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 2 (2012)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James Fan, Nico Schlaefer, Wlodek Zadrozny: Textual resource acquisition and engineering. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 4 (2012)

James Fan, Aditya Kalyanpur, David Gondek, David A. Ferrucci: Automatic knowledge extraction from documents. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 5 (2012)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James Fan, Branimir Boguraev, David Carmel, Dafna Sheinwald, Chris Welty: Finding needles in the haystack: Search and candidate generation. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 6 (2012)

J. William Murdock, Aditya Kalyanpur, Chris Welty, James Fan, David A. Ferrucci, David Gondek, Lei Zhang, Hiroshi Kanayama: Typing candidate answers using type coercion. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 7 (2012)

J. William Murdock, James Fan, Adam Lally, Hideki Shima, Branimir Boguraev: Textual evidence gathering and analysis. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 8 (2012)

Chang Wang, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan, Branimir Boguraev, David Gondek: Relation extraction and scoring in DeepQA. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 9 (2012)

Gerry Tesauro, David Gondek, Jon Lenchner, James Fan, John M. Prager: Simulation, learning, and optimization techniques in Watson's game strategies. IBM Journal of Research and Development 56(3): 16 (2012)

Arvind Agarwal, Hema Raghavan, Karthik Subbian, Prem Melville, Richard D. Lawrence, David Gondek, James Fan: Learning to rank for robust question answering. CIKM 2012: 833-842

Dirk Hovy, James Fan, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Siddharth Patwardhan, Christopher A. Welty: When Did that Happen? - Linking Events and Relations to Timestamps. EACL 2012: 185-193

Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan: Natural Language Processing in Watson. HLT-NAACL 2012

Chris Welty, J. William Murdock, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan: A Comparison of Hard Filters and Soft Evidence for Answer Typing in Watson. International Semantic Web Conference (2) 2012: 243-256

Christopher Griffin, Douglas Mercer, James Fan, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini: Two Species Evolutionary Game Model of User and Moderator Dynamics. CoRR abs/1210.0268 (2012)

James Fan, Michael Campbell, Brian Kingsbury: Artificial intelligence research at IBM. IBM Journal of Research and Development 55(5): 16 (2011)

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James Fan: Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering. AAAI 2011

Nico Schlaefer, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Eric Nyberg, James Fan, Wlodek Zadrozny, David A. Ferrucci: Statistical source expansion for question answering. CIKM 2011: 345-354

Alessandro Moschitti, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Siddharth Patwardhan, James Fan, Giuseppe Riccardi: Using Syntactic and Semantic Structural Kernels for Classifying Definition Questions in Jeopardy! EMNLP 2011: 712-724

Chang Wang, James Fan, Aditya Kalyanpur, David Gondek: Relation Extraction with Relation Topics. EMNLP 2011: 1426-1436

Aditya Kalyanpur, J. William Murdock, James Fan, Christopher A. Welty: Leveraging Community-Built Knowledge for Type Coercion in Question Answering. International Semantic Web Conference (2) 2011: 144-156

David A. Ferrucci, Eric W. Brown, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, James Fan, David Gondek, Aditya Kalyanpur, Adam Lally, J. William Murdock, Eric Nyberg, John M. Prager, Nico Schlaefer, Christopher A. Welty: Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project. AI Magazine 31(3): 59-79 (2010)

James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter: Automatic interpretation of loosely encoded input. Artif. Intell. 173(2): 197-220 (2009)

Christopher A. Welty, J. William Murdock, James Fan: SemantiClean. Language Resources and Evaluation 42(4): 395-408 (2008)

Ken Barker, Bhalchandra Agashe, Shaw Yi Chaw, James Fan, Noah S. Friedland, Michael Robert Glass, Jerry R. Hobbs, Eduard H. Hovy, David J. Israel, Doo Soon Kim, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Sourabh Patwardhan, Bruce W. Porter, Dan Tecuci, Peter Z. Yeh: Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline and Lessons Learned. AAAI 2007: 280-286

Bradley M. Andrews, James Fan, J. William Murdock, Chris Welty: COALA: A Tool for Inter-document Coreference Resolution Evaluation. AAAI Spring Symposium: Machine Reading 2007: 11-16

Peter Clark, Shaw Yi Chaw, Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Philip Harrison, James Fan, Bonnie E. John, Bruce W. Porter, Aaron Spaulding, John A. Thompson, Peter Z. Yeh: Capturing and answering questions posed to a knowledge-based system. K-CAP 2007: 63-70

Peter Z. Yeh, Shaw Yi Chaw, James Fan, Dan Tecuci: Capturing a taxonomy of failures during automatic interpretation of questions posed in natural language. K-CAP 2007: 71-78

Julian Dolby, James Fan, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, J. William Murdock, Kavitha Srinivas, Christopher A. Welty: Scalable Cleanup of Information Extraction Data Using Ontologies. ISWC/ASWC 2007: 100-113

James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter: Indirect anaphora resolution as semantic path search. K-CAP 2005: 153-160

Noah S. Friedland, Paul G. Allen, Gavin Matthews, Michael J. Witbrock, David Baxter, Jon Curtis, Blake Shepard, Pierluigi Miraglia, Jürgen Angele, Steffen Staab, Eddie Mönch, Henrik Oppermann, Dirk Wenke, David J. Israel, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Bruce W. Porter, Ken Barker, James Fan, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter Z. Yeh, Dan Tecuci, Peter Clark: Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle. AI Magazine 25(4): 29-48 (2004)

James Fan, Bruce W. Porter: Interpreting Loosely Encoded Questions. AAAI 2004: 399-405

Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter Clark, James Fan, David J. Israel, Sunil Mishra, Bruce W. Porter, Pedro Romero, Dan Tecuci, Peter Z. Yeh: A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies. KR 2004: 488-497

James Fan, Raymond Lau, Risto Miikkulainen: Utilizing Domain Knowledge in Neuroevolution. ICML 2003: 170-177

James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter: The Knowledge Required to Interpret Noun Compounds. IJCAI 2003: 1483-1485

James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter, Peter Clark: Representing roles and purpose. K-CAP 2001: 38-43