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Doug Downey
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Automatic Knowledge Base Construction
Web Search Enhancement
Learning From Unstructured Text
Active And Semi-Supervised Learning
About
Downey's research is focused on natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in the automatic construction of useful knowledge bases from Web text. One goal is to develop techniques and prototypes that extend the state of the art in Web search. Another goal is to theoretically investigate and establish a formal basis for techniques that can learn from unstructured text alone, without hand-labeled data.
More generally, Downey works on ways to utilize human input more effectively in machine learning. Two directions in this effort involve selecting human input carefully (active learning) or utilizing it in concert with unlabeled data (semi-supervised learning).
Research Performance Summary
2000-2026
Active Research Span
First Recorded Paper
Further experiments in the evolution of minimally cognitive behavior: From perceiving affordances to selective attention
Year:
2000
Citations:
169
Venue:
From animals to animats 6
Latest Recorded Paper
Generating Literature-Driven Scientific Theories at Scale
Year:
2026
Citations:
0
Venue:
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.16282
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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Publication Venues and Collaboration
Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown
Top Coauthors
Downey
Weld
Research Impact by Period
Papers
11
Citations
139
Avg. Citations / Paper
12.6
H-Index
5
Papers
52
Citations
7153
Avg. Citations / Paper
137.6
H-Index
29
Papers
21
Citations
1444
Avg. Citations / Paper
68.8
H-Index
12
Papers
21
Citations
1667
Avg. Citations / Paper
79.4
H-Index
12
Papers
11
Citations
2955
Avg. Citations / Paper
268.6
H-Index
10
Papers
6
Citations
1662
Avg. Citations / Paper
277
H-Index
4
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Detected Research Keywords
Neural Language Models
Extraction Web Experimental
Probabilistic Model Redundancy
Information Extraction Web
Evolution Minimally Cognitive
Minimally Cognitive Behavior
Learning Text Patterns
Text Patterns Web
Patterns Web Information
Web Information Extraction