James Jumin Fan
Ph.D. Alumni
James's dissertation focuses on question answering in large knowledge bases; his advisor is Bruce Porter.
Homepage:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jfan
Publications
Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline and Lessons Learned 2007
Ken Barker, Bhalchandra Agashe, Shaw-Yi Chaw, James Fan, Noah Friedland, Michael Glass, Jerry Hobbs, Eduard Hovy, David Israel, Doo Soon Kim, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Sourabh Patwardhan, Bruce Porter, Dan Tecuci, and Peter Yeh, In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007) 2007.
Indirect Anaphora Resolution as Semantic Path Search 2005
James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce Porter, In Proceedings of Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture 2005.
A Question-Answering System for AP Chemistry: Assessing KR&R Technologies 2004
Ken Barker, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter E. Clark, James Fan, David Israel, Sunil Mishra, Bruce Porter, Pedro Romero, Dan Tecuci, Peter Yeh, In The Ninth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2004) 2004.
Interpreting Loosely Encoded Questions 2004
James Fan, Bruce Porter, In Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2004.
Project Halo: Towards a Digital Aristotle 2004
Noah S. Friedland, Paul G. Allen, Gavin Matthews, Michael Witbrock, David Baxter, Jon Curtis, Blake Shepard, Pierluigi Miraglia, Jürgen Angele, Steffen Staab, Eddie Moench, Henrik Oppermann, Dirk Wenke, David Israel, Vinay Chaudhri, Bruce Porter, Ken Barker, James Fan, Shaw Yi Chaw, Peter Yeh, Dan Tecuci, Peter Clark, Artificial Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 25, 4 (2004), pp. 29-47.
The Knowledge Required to Interpret Noun Compounds 2003
James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce Porter, In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2003.
Utilizing Domain Knowledge in Neuroevolution 2003
James Fan, Raymond Lau, and Risto Miikkulainen, Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-03, Washington, DC)
Representing Roles and Purpose 2001
James Fan, Ken Barker, Bruce Porter, Peter Clark, In First International Conference on Knowledge Capture, October 2001.
Areas of Interest
Natural Language Processing Neuroevolution
Labs
Formerly affiliated with Knowledge Representation & Reasoning