Raymond Mooney
Professor
In December 1987, Raymond Mooney completed his Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Prof. Gerald DeJong and then began as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin where he is enjoying the beginning of the fourth decade of a hopefully long academic career.
Research
Research Areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
Research Interests:
- Natural Language Learning
- Connecting Language and Perception
- Statistical Relational Learning
- Information Extraction
- Transfer and Active Learning
- Abductive Reasoning
- Text Categorization and Clustering
- Text Data Mining
- Record Linkage & Duplication Detection
- Semi-Supervised and Ensemble Learning
- Learning for Recommender Systems
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Knowledge-Base and Theory Refinement
Research Labs & Affiliations:
UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Machine Learning Research Group, UT Computational Linguistics Lab, UT Department of Statistics and Data Science, UT Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Select Publications
. NOV 8 2018. Captioning Images with Diverse Objects Supplementary Material.
. OCT 6 2018. Interaction and Autonomy in RoboCup@ Home and Building-Wide Intelligence. arXiv.
. SEP 8 2018. Faithful Multimodal Explanation for Visual Question Answering. arXiv.
. AUG 29 2018. Learning a Policy for Opportunistic Active Learning. arXiv.
. AUG 6 2018. Executable Trigger-Action Comments. arXiv.
Awards & Honors
- 2014 - Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- 2010 - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- 2019 - Classic Paper Award
- 2007 - Best Paper Award
- 2005 - Distinguished Student Paper Award
- 2004 - Best Research Paper Award
- 1999 - One of 8 nominated for Best Paper Award
- 1996 - Best Paper Award
Contact Info
Raymond Mooney
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