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Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
- M.S. in Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1999
- B.S. in Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1998
- Rada, Evgeniy and I are organizing the workshop "Wikipedia and AI: An evolving synergy", to be held in conjunction with AAAI 2008.
Research
Publications
- Learning for Information Extraction
Razvan Bunescu
Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, August 2007
[White PDF] [Green PDF] - Learning to Extract Relations from the Web using Minimal Supervision
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007
[White PDF] - Multiple Instance Learning for Sparse Positive Bags
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Corvallis, OR, June 2007
[White PDF] - Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named Entity Disambiguation
Razvan Bunescu and Marius Pasca
Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy, April 2006
[White PDF] [PPT] - A Shortest Path Dependency Kernel for Relation Extraction
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Human Language Technology / Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), Vancouver, BC, October 2005
[White PDF] - Subsequence Kernels for Relation Extraction
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, BC, December 2005
[White PDF] - Consolidating the Set of Known Human Protein-Protein Interactions in Preparation for Large-Scale Mapping of the Human Interactome
Arun K. Ramani, Razvan Bunescu, Raymond J. Mooney and Edward M. Marcotte
Genome Biology , volume 6, number 5, r40 (2005)
[White PDF] - Collective Information Extraction with Relational Markov Networks
Razvan Bunescu and Raymond J. Mooney
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Barcelona, Spain, July 2004
[White PDF] - Comparative Experiments on Learning Information Extractors for Proteins and their Interactions
Razvan Bunescu, Ruifang Ge, Rohit J. Kate, Edward M. Marcotte, Raymond J. Mooney, Arun Kumar Ramani, and Yuk Wah Wong
Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Special Issue on Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents), 2004
[White PDF] - Sentiment Analyzer: Extracting Sentiments about a Given Topic using Natural Language Processing Techniques
Jeonghee Yi, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Razvan C. Bunescu, and Wayne Niblack
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Melbourne, Florida, December 2003
[White PDF] - Associative Anaphora Resolution: A Web-Based Approach
Razvan Bunescu
Proceedings of the EACL 2003 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Anaphora , Budapest, Hungary, April 2003
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Software
- Java package for generalized subsequence kernels.
- Java package for Relational Markov Networks (discrete potentials).
Datasets
- MIL dataset for relation extraction.
Teaching
- CS320/520N: Organization of Programming Languages, Spring, Winter 2008.
- CS404/504: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2007.
