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10850
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8214
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Overview

David A. Ferrucci is affiliated with IBM in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work focuses on Artificial Intelligence and intersects with several key topics including Topic Modeling, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Logic, Programming, and Type Systems, as well as Semantic Web and Ontologies. Natural Language Processing Techniques also form a significant part of their research interests.

They have contributed to a number of publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and Algorithms. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Braid: Weaving Symbolic and Neural Knowledge into Coherent Logical Explanations," 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "LLM-ARC: Enhancing LLMs with an Automated Reasoning Critic," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "SKATE: A Natural Language Interface for Encoding Structured Knowledge," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Braid: Weaving Symbolic and Neural Knowledge into Coherent Logical Explanations," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Pushing the Limits of Clingo's Incremental Grounding and Solving Capabilities in Practical Applications," 2023, Algorithms

Frequent collaborators on their research projects include:

  • Aditya Kalyanpur
  • Marcello Balduccini
  • Kailash Saravanakumar
  • Victor Barres
  • Jennifer Chu-Carroll

Their body of work shows a concentration on integrating symbolic and neural methods, reasoning systems, and the development of explainable AI approaches. Publications also demonstrate an interest in structured knowledge encoding and advances in automated reasoning techniques.

Best Publications

  • Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project

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

  • UIMA: an architectural approach to unstructured information processing in the corporate research environment

    David Ferrucci;Adam Lally

  • Introduction to This is Watson

    D. A. Ferrucci

  • System and method for providing answers to questions

    Eric W. Brown;David Ferrucci;Adam Lally;Wlodek W. Zadrozny

  • Questions and answers generation

    Pablo A. Duboue;David A. Ferrucci;David C. Gondek;James W. Murdock

  • Providing answers to questions using multiple models to score candidate answers

    Eric W. Brown;David A. Ferrucci;James W. Murdock

  • Watson: beyond jeopardy!

    David Ferrucci;Anthony Levas;Sugato Bagchi;David Gondek

  • Evidence evaluation system and method based on question answering

    David A. Ferrucci;Wlodek W. Zadrozny

  • Evidence diffusion among candidate answers during question answering

    David A. Ferrucci;David C. Gondek;Aditya A. Kalyanpur;Adam P. Lally

  • Error correction using fact repositories

    David A. Ferrucci;David C. Gondek;Wlodek W. Zadrozny

  • Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine

    Selmer Bringsjord;David Ferrucci

  • System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, and providing multiple document views derived from different document tokenizations

    Andrei Z Broder;David Carmel;Arthur C Ciccolo;David Ferrucci

  • System and method for providing question and answers with deferred type evaluation

    James Fan;David Ferrucci;David C. Gondek;Wlodek W. Zadrozny

  • Automatic knowledge extraction from documents

    J. Fan;A. Kalyanpur;D. C. Gondek;D. A. Ferrucci

  • Building an example application with the Unstructured Information Management Architecture

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

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

  • Providing answers to questions using hypothesis pruning

    Jennifer Chu-Carroll;David A. Ferrucci;David C. Gondek;Adam P. Lally

  • Providing answers to questions using logical synthesis of candidate answers

    Eric W. Brown;Jennifer Chu-Carroll;David A. Ferrucci;Adam P. Lally

  • Utilizing failures in question and answer system responses to enhance the accuracy of question and answer systems

    Michael A. Barborak;Jennifer Chu-Carroll;David A. Ferrucci;James W. Murdock

  • System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, and including a document common analysis system (CAS)

    David Ferrucci;Thilo Goetz;Thomas Hampp;Alan Marwick

  • Method and system for automatic computation creativity and specifically for story generation

    Selmer Conrad Bringsjord;David Angelo Ferrucci

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Chu-Carroll
Jennifer Chu-Carroll Elemental Cognition
Aditya Kalyanpur
Aditya Kalyanpur Elemental Cognition
Chris Welty
Chris Welty Google (United States)
Deborah L. McGuinness
Deborah L. McGuinness Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eric Nyberg
Eric Nyberg Carnegie Mellon University
Andrei Z. Broder
Andrei Z. Broder Google (United States)
Owen Rambow
Owen Rambow Stony Brook University
Richard Fikes
Richard Fikes Stanford University
Yoelle Maarek
Yoelle Maarek Amazon (United States)
David Carmel
David Carmel Amazon (Israel)

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