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Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, IBM Watson Core Language
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Professional Associations:  ACM  |  Association for Computational Linguistics


2020

Learning Explainable Linguistic Expressions with Neural Inductive Logic Programming for Sentence Classification
Prithviraj Sen, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Matthias Boehm, Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy
EMNLP, 2020


2019

Towards Universal Semantic Representation
Huaiyu Zhu, Yunyao Li, Laura Chiticariu
International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR), collocated with ACL 2019

Transparent Linguistic models for Contract Understanding and Comparison
Arvind Agarwal, Laura Chiticariu, Poornima Chozhiyath Raman, Marina Danilevsky, Diman Ghazi, Ankush Gupta, Shanmukh Guttula, Yannis Katsis, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Shubham Mudgal, Vitobha Munigala, Nicholas Phan, Dhaval Sonawane, Sneha Srinivasan, Sudarshan Thitte, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Mitesh Vasa, Ramiya Venkatachalam, Vinitha Yaski, Huaiyu Zhu
Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop @ NAACL, 2019


2018

Web Information Extraction
Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Howard Ho, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 4620--4629, Springer New York, 2018

SystemT: Declarative Text Understanding for Enterprise
Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Frederick R. Reiss, Huaiyu Zhu
NAACL - Industry Track, 2018

A Hardware Compilation Framework for Text Analytics Queries
R. Polig, K. Atasu, H. Giefers, C. Hagleitner, L. Chiticariu, F. R. Reiss, H. Zhu, P. H. Hofstee.
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)111, 260-272, 2018
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2017

Active Learning for Black-Box Semantic Role Labeling with Neural Factors
Chenguang Wang, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017, pp. 2908--2914

A Rectangle Mining Method for Understanding the Semantics of Financial Tables
Xilun Chen, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Alexandre Evfimievski and Prithviraj Sen
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2017

Creation and Interaction with Large-scale Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases
Shreyas Bharadwaj et al.
VLDB (demonstrations), 2017

Towards Re-defining Relation Understanding in Financial Domain
Chenguang Wang, Doug Burdick, Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Huaiyu Zhu
Data Science for Macro-Modeling with Financial and Economic Datasets (DSMM), collocated with ACM SIGMOD, 2017

Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER
Maeda F. Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li
SIGMOD, pp. 1687--1690, 2017

SEER: Auto-Generating Information Extraction Rules from User-Specified Examples
Maeda Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

CROWD-IN-THE-LOOP: A Hybrid Approach for Annotating Semantic Roles
Chenguang Wang, Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Fei Xia, Anbang Xu
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 9-11, 2017, pp. 1914--1923


2016

Web information Extraction
Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Howard Ho, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 1-9, Springer, 2016

Multilingual Information Extraction with PolyglotIE
Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yonas Kbrom, Yunyao Li, Huaiyu Zhu
COLING, pp. 268--272, 2016


2015


Generating High Quality Proposition Banks for Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling
Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu
ACL, pp. 397--407, 2015


2014

Giving text analytics a boost
Raphael Polig, Kubilay Atasu, Laura Chiticariu, Christoph Hagleitner, H Peter Hofstee, Frederick R Reiss, Huaiyu Zhu, Eva Sitaridi
IEEE Micro 34(4), 6--14, IEEE, 2014

Compiling text analytics queries to FPGAs
Raphael Polig, Kubilay Atasu, Heiner Giefers, Laura Chiticariu
24th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2014, Munich, Germany, 2-4 September, 2014, pp. 1--6


2013



I can do text analytics!: designing development tools for novice developers
Huahai Yang, Daina Pupons-Wickham, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Benjamin Nguyen, Arnaldo Carreno-Fuentes
CHI, pp. 1599-1608, 2013


2012

Towards Efficient Named-Entity Rule Induction for Customizability
Ajay Nagesh, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Ankush Dharkar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
EMNLP-CoNLL, pp. 128-138, 2012

WizIE: A Best Practices Guided Development Environment for Information Extraction
Yunyao Li, Laura Chiticariu, Huahai Yang, Frederick Reiss, Arnaldo Carreno-Fuentes
ACL (Demonstration), pp. 109-114, 2012


2011


The SystemT IDE: an integrated development environment for information extraction rules
Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, Sajib Dasgupta, Thilo W. Goetz, Howard Ho, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Alexander Lang, Yunyao Li, Bin Liu, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu
SIGMOD (Demonstration), pp. 1291-1294, 2011


2010

Enterprise information extraction: recent developments and open challenges
Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss
SIGMOD (Tutorial), pp. 1257-1258, 2010

Refining Information Extraction Rules using Data Provenance
Bin Liu, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, H. V. Jagadish, Frederick Reiss
IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 33(3), 17-24, Citeseer, 2010

Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction
Bin Liu, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, H. V. Jagadish, Frederick Reiss
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment Journal 3(1), 588-597, VLDB Endowment, 2010

Domain adaptation of rule-based annotators for named-entity recognition tasks
Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 1002--1012

SystemT: an algebraic approach to declarative information extraction
Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick R Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 128--137, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010
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2009

Laconic Schema Mappings: Computing the Core with SQL Queries
Balder ten Cate, Laura Chiticariu, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Wang Chiew Tan
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment Journal 2(1), 1006-1017, 2009

Provenance in Databases: Why, How, and Where
James Cheney, Laura Chiticariu, Wang Chiew Tan
Foundations and Trends in Databases 1(4), 379-474, 2009


2008


Muse: A System for Understanding and Designing Mappings
B. Alexe, L. Chiticariu, R. J. Miller, D. Pepper, W. Tan
SIGMOD (Demonstration), pp. 1281-1284, 2008


Muse: Mapping Understanding and deSign by Example
B. Alexe, L. Chiticariu, R. J. Miller, W. Tan
ICDE, pp. 10-19, 2008


2007

Semi-Automatic Schema Integration in Clio
L. Chiticariu, M. A. Hern\'andez, P. G. Kolaitis, L. Popa
SIGMOD (Demonstration), pp. 1326--1329, 2007


2006

SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbuggeR
B. Alexe, L. Chiticariu, W. Tan
VLDB (Demonstration), pp. 1179-1182, 2006

Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes
L. Chiticariu, W. Tan
VLDB, pp. 79--90, 2006


2005

DBNotes: a Post-it System for Relational Databases based on Provenance
L. Chiticariu, W. Tan, G. Vijayvargiya
SIGMOD (Demonstration), pp. 942--944, 2005

An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases
D. Bhagwat, L. Chiticariu, W. Tan, G. Vijayvargiya
VLDB Journal, Best papers of VLDB 2004 14(4), 373--396, 2005
A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the VLDB 2004 proceedings


2004

An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases
D. Bhagwat, L. Chiticariu, W. Tan, G. Vijayvargiya
VLDB, pp. 900-911, 2004