Hoifung Poon

Address: Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052, U.S.A. Email: <first name > at microsoft dot com Website: research.microsoft.com/~hoifung

Publications

• Grounded Unsupervised Semantic Parsing.   [Paper]  
  Hoifung Poon.
  In Proceedings of the Fifty First Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013.



• Probabilistic Frame Induction.   [Paper]  
  Jackie Cheung, Hoifung Poon and Lucy Vanderwende.
  In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2013.



• An Exhaustive Epistatic SNP Association Analysis on Expanded Wellcome Trust Data.   [Paper]  
  Christoph Lippert, Jennifer Listgarten, Robert Davidson, Scott Baxter, Hoifung Poon, Carl M. Kadie, David Heckerman.
  In Scientific Reports, 2013, doi:10.1038/srep01099.



• Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture.   [Paper]   [Slides]   [Download code and results]
  Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
  In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, (UAI), 2011.
  Acceptance rate: 34%. (Plenary acceptance: 9%)
  Best Paper Award



• Unsupervised Ontology Induction from Text.   [Paper]   [Slides]
  Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
  In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2010.
  Acceptance rate: 25%.



• Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature.   [Paper]   [Slides]
  Hoifung Poon and Lucy Vanderwende.
  In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL-HLT), 2010.
  Acceptance rate: 31%.



• Unsupervised Semantic Parsing.   [Paper]   [Slides]   [Download data and code]
  Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009.
  Acceptance rate: 20%.
  Best Paper Award



• Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models.   [Paper]   [Slides]
  Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry, and Kristina Toutanova.
  In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL-HLT), 2009.
  Acceptance rate: 29%.
  Best Paper Award



• Language ID in the Context of Harvesting Language Data off the Web.   [Paper]
  Fei Xia, William Lewis and Hoifung Poon.
  In Proceedings of the Conference of European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2009.
  Acceptance rate: 28%.



• Joint Unsupervised Coreference Resolution with Markov Logic.   [Paper]
  Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2008.
  Acceptance rate: 20%.



• A General Method for Reducing the Complexity of Relational Inference and its Application to MCMC.   [Paper]
  Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos, and Marc Sumner.
  In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.
  Acceptance rate: 24%.



• Markov Logic.   [Book Chapter]
  Pedro Domingos, Stanley Kok, Daniel Lowd, Hoifung Poon, Matthew Richardson, Parag Singla.
  In L. De Raedt, P. Frasconi, K. Kersting and S. Muggleton (eds.), Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming, 2008.



• Joint Inference in Information Extraction.   [Paper]   [Online Appendix]
  Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
  In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2007.
  Acceptance rate: 27%.



• Sound and Efficient Inference with Probabilistic and Deterministic Dependencies.   [Paper]   [Slides]
  Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos.
  In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006.
  Acceptance rate: 21%.



• Unifying Logical and Statistical AI.   [Paper]
  Pedro Domingos, Stanley Kok, Hoifung Poon, Matthew Richardson, Parag Singla.
  In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006.
  Invited paper.

Tutorial

Software

• Sum-Product Networks


• Unsupervised Semantic Parsing


• The Alchemy System for Statistical Relational AI