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Aaron Lamoreaux
dblp:290/1672
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Information extraction and text analysis · 77% Question answering and dialogue systems · 23% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program synthesis and code generation · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Information extraction and text analysis
web information extraction |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Web question answering with neurosymbolic program synthesis · PLDI 2021 |
Program synthesis and code generation › neural program synthesis
neurosymbolic program synthesis |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Web question answering with neurosymbolic program synthesis · PLDI 2021 |
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › open-domain question answering
web question answering |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | Web question answering with neurosymbolic program synthesis · PLDI 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transductive learning · 1.0optimal synthesis · 1.0neural NLP models · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Web question answering with neurosymbolic program synthesisabstractIn this paper, we propose a new technique based on program synthesis for extracting information from webpages. Given a natural language query and a few labeled webpages, our method synthesizes a program that can be used to extract similar types of information from other unlabeled webpages. To handle websites with diverse structure, our approach employs a neurosymbolic DSL that incorporates both neural NLP models as well as standard language constructs for tree navigation and string manipulation. We also propose an optimal synthesis algorithm that generates all DSL programs that achieve optimal F1 score on the training examples. Our synthesis technique is compositional, prunes the search space by exploiting a monotonicity property of the DSL, and uses transductive learning to select programs with good generalization power. We have implemented these ideas in a new tool called WebQA and evaluate it on 25 different tasks across multiple domains. Our experiments show that WebQA significantly outperforms existing tools such as state-of-the-art question answering models and wrapper induction systems. Qiaochu Chen, Aaron Lamoreaux, Xinyu Wang 0006, Greg Durrett, Osbert Bastani, Isil Dillig |
PLDI | 2 |