Scalable Knowledge Intelligence - Outreach and Impact
Education
Besides regularly giving guest lectures at universities around the world, we have created and taught several university courses with our academic collaborators. We have also created open online courses.
- Unversity Courses
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County IS 698/IS 800 - Information Extraction - Spring 2016
- Unversity of Washington LING 575 - Declarative Information Extraction - Spring 2015
- University of Oregon CIS607 - Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction - Spring 2015
- University of California - Santa Cruz CMPS290M - Information Extraction - Spring 2014
- Online Courses
- IBM SystemT is now in Dan Jurafsky’s 3rd edition of Speech and Language Processing
If you are interested in inviting us for guest lectures or need help with the coures materials (available for free under academic license), please feel free to contact us.
Open Source
Whenever possible, we make our code, data, and models available as open source.
- Apache SystemML [link] A declaractive large-scale machine learning system that automatically scales to Spark and Hadoop clusters.
- Universal Proposition Bank [link] Semi-automatically generated Proposition Bank for 7 languages with the appropriate English frames.
- DimSim - A Chinese Soundex Library [link] Chinese-specific encording for phonetic similarity.
Products
Our work has made significant impact across all IBM software brands and currently ships with multiple IBM products. Below is a partial list (in alphabetic order).
- BigMatch
- Guardium
- Smart Cloud Analytics
- SPSS
- Streams
- Watson Analytics for Social Media
- Watson Compare & Comply
- Watson Discovery
- Watson Drug Discovery
- Watson Natural Language Understanding
- Watson Workspace
Awards
2021 - IBM Outstanding Research Accomplishment Award (upgrade): "Research Contributions to Watson NLP Stack" 2021 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Research Contributions to Watson OneConversion" 2020 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Research Contributions to Watson NLP Stack" 2020 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Deep Thinking Question Answering" 2020 - IBM Special Division Accomplishment Award: "Research Contributions to the IBM COVID-19 Technology Taskforce" 2020 - ISWC Best Poster/Demo Award 2020 - Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation 2019 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Expanded Shallow Semantic Parsing and its Transfer to Watson Products" 2019 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Research Contributions to Document Understanding (Document Conversion, Compare and Table Understanding)" 2019 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "IBM Services Solution Advisor and Cognitive Document Risk Analyzer" 2019 - AKBC Best Application Paper Award 2019 - YMCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award 2018 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Foundations for Inverses of Schema Mappings and Applications to Schema Evolution Management" 2018 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "Declarative Machine/Deep Learning (SystemML)" 2018 - NAACL Test-of-Time Award 2017 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award: "High-Level Language for Entity Resolution and Integration" 2016 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award 2016 - VLDB Best Paper Award 2015 - ICDT Best Paper Award 2014 - ACM PODS Test-of-Time Award 2013 - IBM Research Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award 2013 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award 2013 - ICDT Test-of-Time Award 2010 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award 2008 - IBM Research Accomplishment Award