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Overview

Chris Welty is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States, focusing primarily on the field of Computer Science with a strong emphasis on Artificial Intelligence. Over their career, they have contributed to a range of subfields including Computer Science Applications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Information Systems, and Safety Research.

Their work spans topics such as Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, Data Stream Mining Techniques, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Advanced Text Analysis Techniques, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Text and Document Classification Technologies, and Topic Modeling.

The venues where Welty frequently publishes include arXiv (Cornell University), AI Magazine, Semantic Web, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

Some frequent collaborators across these publications are Lora Aroyo, Flip Korn, Kurt Bollacker, Sara McCarthy, and Shubin Zhao.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Chris Welty include:

  • Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Empirical methodology for crowdsourcing ground truth, 2020, Semantic Web
  • Rapid Instance-Level Knowledge Acquisition for Google Maps from Class-Level Common Sense, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
  • Introducing v0.5 of the AI Safety Benchmark from MLCommons, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Addressing Label Sparsity With Class-Level Common Sense for Google Maps, 2022, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Best Publications

  • Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project

    David A. Ferrucci;Eric W. Brown;Jennifer Chu-Carroll;James Fan

  • Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • An Overview of OntoClean

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher A. Welty

  • A Formal Ontology of Properties

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher A. Welty

  • Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

    Christopher Welty;Nicola Guarino

  • Ontology: Towards a new synthesis

    Barry Smith;Chris Welty

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I

    Lora Aroyo;Chris Welty;Harith Alani;Jamie Taylor

  • Ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • A Reusable Ontology for Fluents in OWL

    Chris Welty;Richard Fikes

  • Truth Is a Lie: Crowd Truth and the Seven Myths of Human Annotation

    Lora Aroyo;Chris Welty

  • Identity, unity, and individuality: towards a formal toolkit for ontological analysis

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2013

    Harith Alani;Lalana Kagal;Achille Fokoue;Paul Groth

  • Identity and Subsumption

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • Towards a methodology for ontology based model engineering

    Nicola Guarino;Christopher Welty

  • FOIS introduction: Ontology---towards a new synthesis

    Barry Smith;Christopher Welty

  • A framework for merging and ranking of answers in DeepQA

    D. C. Gondek;A. Lally;A. Kalyanpur;J. W. Murdock

  • Learning to Predict Readability using Diverse Linguistic Features

    Rohit Kate;Xiaoqiang Luo;Siddharth Patwardhan;Martin Franz

  • A Multi-Strategy and Multi-Source Approach to Question Answering

    Jennifer Chu-Carroll;John M. Prager;Christopher A. Welty;Krzysztof Czuba

  • Structured data and inference in DeepQA

    A. Kalyanpur;B. K. Boguraev;S. Patwardhan;J. W. Murdock

  • Supporting online problem-solving communities with the semantic web

    Anupriya Ankolekar;Katia Sycara;James Herbsleb;Robert Kraut

  • Crowd Truth: Harnessing disagreement in crowdsourcing a relation extraction gold standard

    Lora Aroyo;Chris Welty

Frequent Co-Authors

Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo Google (United States)
David A. Ferrucci
David A. Ferrucci IBM (United States)
Aditya Kalyanpur
Aditya Kalyanpur Elemental Cognition
Nicola Guarino
Nicola Guarino National Research Council (CNR)
Paul Groth
Paul Groth University of Amsterdam
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
Jennifer Chu-Carroll Elemental Cognition
Krzysztof Janowicz
Krzysztof Janowicz University of California, Santa Barbara
Abraham Bernstein
Abraham Bernstein University of Zurich
Harith Alani
Harith Alani The Open University
Deborah L. McGuinness
Deborah L. McGuinness Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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