Publications
Book
- Natural Language Interfaces to Databases Yunyao Li, Dragomir Radev, and Davood Rafiei. Springer Nature. November 2023 Free Version
- Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces. Yunyao Li and Davood Rafiei. Morgan Claypool Publisher. 2018
Refereed Articles
2025
- ECLAIR: Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses in an Enterprise AI Assistant. John Murzaku, Zifan Liu, Vaishnavi Muppala, Mehrab Tanjim, Xiang Chen, Yunyao Li. To appear in AAAI (Demonstration Track) 2025
- Rewind and Render: Towards Factually Accurate Text-to-Video Generation with Distilled Knowledge Retrieval. Daniel Lee, Arjun Chandra, Yang Zhou, Yunyao Li, Simone Conia. To appear in AAAI (Demonstration Track) 2025
- ECLAIR: Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses. Murzaku, Zifan Liu, Mehrab Tanjim, Vaishnavi Muppala, Xiang Chen, Yunyao Li. To appear in IAAI 2025
- Evaluation and Incident Prevention in an Enterprise AI Assistant. Akash V Maharaj, David Arbour, Daniel Lee, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Anup Rao, Austin Zane, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li. To appear in IAAI 2025
2024
- AGRaME: Any-Granularity Ranking with Multi-Vector Embeddings. Revanth Gangi Reddy, Omar Attia, Yunyao Li, Heng Ji, Saloni Potdar. In EMNLP 2024.
- :medal_sports:Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs. Simone Conia, Daniel Lee, Min Li, Umar Farooq Minhas, Saloni Potdar, Yunyao Li. In EMNLP 2024. Code (Outstanding Paper Award)
- Addresses ``the challenge of translating culturally-relevant named entities, challenging previously held views about how to translate named entities.”
- StorySpark: Expert-Annotated QA Pairs with Real-World Knowledge for Children Storytelling. Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan Lu, Shao Zhang, Bingsheng Yao, Yuanzhe Dong, Ying Xu, Yunyao Li, Qianwen Wang, Dakuo Wang, Yuling Sun. In EMNLP 2024.
- ConvKGYarn: Spinning Configurable and Scalable Conversational Knowledge Graph QA datasets with Large Language Models. Ronak Pradeep, Daniel Lee, Ali Mousavi, Jeffrey Pound, Yisi Sang, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas, Saloni Potdar, Mostafa Arefiyan, Yunyao Li. In EMNLP (Industry Track) 2024
- RETAIN: Interactive Tool for Regression Testing Guided LLM Migration. Tanay Dixit, Daniel Lee, Sally Fang, Sai Sree Harsha, Anirudh Sureshan, Akash Maharaj, Yunyao Li. In EMNLP (Demonstration Track) 2024.
- MuRAR: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Retrieval and Answer Refinement Framework for Multimodal Question Answering. Zhengyuan Zhu, Daniel Lee, Hong Zhang, Sai Sree Harsha, Loic Feujio, Akash Maharaj, Yunyao Li. In submission.
- Time Sensitive Knowledge Editing through Efficient Finetuning. Xiou Ge, Ali Mousavi, Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, Kun Qian, Benjamin Han, Mostafa Arefiyan, Yunyao Li. In ACL 2024
- Evaluation and Continual Improvement for an Enterprise AI Assistant. Akash V. Maharaj, Kun Qian, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Sally Fang, Horia Galatanu, Manas Garg, Rachel Hanessian, Nishant Kapoor, Ken Russell, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, and Yunyao Li. In DaSH Workshop NAACL 2024
- APE: Active Learning-based Tooling for Finding Informative Few-shot Examples for LLM-based Entity Matching. Kun Qian, Yisi Sang, Farima Fatahi Bayat, Anton Belyi, Xianqi Chu, Yash Govind, Samira Khorshidi, Rahul Khot, Katherine Luna, Azadeh Nikfarjam, Xiaoguang Qi, Fei Wu, Xianhan Zhang, Yunyao Li. In DaSH Workshop NAACL 2024
- Entity Disambiguation via Fusion Entity Decoding. Junxiong Wang, Ali Mousavi, Omar Attia, Saloni Potdar, Alexander M Rush, Umar Farooq Minhas, Yunyao Li. In NAACL 2024
- Construction of Paired Knowledge Graph - Text Datasets Informed by Cyclic Evaluation. Ali Mousavi, Xin Zhan, He Bai, Peng Shi, Theo Rekatsinas, Benjamin Han,Yunyao Li, Jeff Pound, Josh Susskind, Natalie Schluter, Ihab F. Ilyas, Navdeep Jaitly. In COLING 2024
- Enhancing Machine Learning Translation Experience with Multilingual Knowledge Graphs. Simone Conia, Min Li, Daniel Lee, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ihab Ilyas, Yunyao Li. In AAAI (Demonstration Track) 2024
2023
Increasing Coverage and Precision of Textual Information in Multilingual Knowledge Graphs. Simone Conia, Min Li, Daniel Lee, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ihab Ilyas, Yunyao Li. In EMNLP 2023
Beyond Labels: Empowering Human Annotators with Natural Language Explanations through a Novel Active-Learning Architecture. Bingsheng Yao, Ishan Jindal, Lucian Popa, Yannis Katsis, Sayan Ghosh, Lihong He, Yuxuan Lu, Shashank Srivastava, Yunyao Li, James Hendler, Dakuo Wang. In EMNLP (finding) 2023
FLEEK: Factual Error Detection and Correction with Evidence Retrieved from External Knowledge.Farima Fatahi Bayat, Kun Qian, Benjamin Han, Yisi Sang, Anton Belyi, Samira Khorshidi, Fei Wu, Ihab F. Ilyas, Yunyao Li. In EMNLP (Demonstration Track) 2023
When to Use What: An In-Depth Comparative Empirical Analysis of OpenIE Systems for Downstream Applications. Kevin Song Pei, Ishan Jindal, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, ChengXiang Zhai and Yunyao Li. In ACL 2023
Fact Ranking over Large-Scale Knowledge Graphs with Reasoning Embedding Models. Hongyu Ren, Ali Mousavi, Anil Pacaci, Shihabur R. Chowdhury, Jason Mohoney, Ihab F. Ilyas, Yunyao Li, Theodoros Rekatsinas. In Data Engineering Bulletin June 2023 (Special Issue on Graph Neural Networks)
Growing and Serving Large Open-domain Knowledge Graphs. Ihab Ilyas, JP Lacerda, Yunyao Li, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ali Mousavi, Jeff Pound, Theodoros Rekatsinas, Chiraag Sumanth. In SIGMOD (Industry Track) 2023
PriMeSRL-Eval: A Practical Quality Metric for Semantic Role Labeling Systems Evaluation. Ishan Jindal, Alexandre Rademaker, Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Huaiyu Zhu, Hiroshi Kanayama, Marina Danilevsky and Yunyao Li. In EACL (Findings) 2023
Powering an AI Chatbot with Expert Sourcing to Support Credible Health Information Access. Ziang Xiao, Tyrone W Andre Grandison, Q. Vera Liao, Michelle Zhou, and Yunyao Li. In IUI 2023
2022
Label Sleuth: From Unlabeled Text to a Classifier in a Few Hours. Eyal Shnarch, Alon Halfon, Ariel Gera, Marina Danilevsky, Yannis Katsis, Leshem Choshen, Martin Santillan Cooper, Dina Epelboim, Zheng Zhang, Dakuo Wang, Lucy Yip, Liat Ein-Dor, Lena Dankin, Ilya Shnayderman, Ranit Aharonov, Yunyao Li, Naftali Liberman, Philip Levin Slesarev, Gwilym Newton, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Noam Slonim, Yoav Katz. In EMNLP (Demonstration Track) 2022
Improving Human Annotation Effectiveness for Fact Collection by Identifying the Most Relevant Answers Pranav Kamath, Yiwen Sun, Thomas Semere, Adam Green, Scott Manley, Xiaoguang Qi, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li and Mina Farid. In DaSH Workshop EMNLP 2024
Label Definitions Improve Semantic Role Labeling. Harry Zhang, Ishan Jindal, and Yunyao Li. In NAACL 2022
Universal Proposition Bank 2.0. Ishan Jindal, Alexandre Rademaker, Michał Ulewicz, Huyen Nguyen, Ha Linh, Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Huaiyu Zhu and Yunyao Li. In LREC 2022
Domain Representative Keywords Selection: A Probabilistic Approach. Pritom Saha Akash, Jie Huang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa, ChengXiang Zhai. In ACL (findings) 2022
A Simulation-based Evaluation Framework for Interactive AI Systems and Its Application. Maeda F. Hanafi, Yannis Katsis, Martin Santillan Cooper, Yunyao Li. In IAAI 2022
InteractEva: A Simulation-Based Evaluation Framework for Interactive AI Systems. Yannis Katsis, Maeda F. Hanafi, Martin Santillan Cooper, Yunyao Li. In AAAI (Demonstration Track) 2022
2021
LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking. Hang Jiang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li and Alexander Gray. In ACL (long paper) 2021
Leveraging Abstract Meaning Representation for Knowledge Base Question Answering. Pavan Kapanipathi, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Srinivas Ravishankar, Salim Roukos, Alexander Gray, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Maria Chang, Cristina Cornelio, Saswati Dana, Achille Fokoue, Dinesh Garg, Alfio Gliozzo, Sairam Gurajada, Hima Karanam, Naweed Khan, Dinesh Khandelwal, Young-Suk Lee, Yunyao Li, Francois Luus, Ndivhuwo Makondo, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Tahira Naseem, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Ryan Riegel, Gaetano Rossiello, Udit Sharma, G P Shrivatsa Bhargav and Mo Yu. In ACL (findings) 2021
Domain-Aware Dependency Parsing for Questions. Aparna Garimella, Laura Chiticariu and Yunyao Li. In ACL (findings) 2021
Who needs to know what, when?: Broadening the Explainable AI (XAI) Design Space by Looking at Explanations Across the AI Lifecycle. Shipi Dhanorkar, Christine T. Wolf, Kun Qian, Anbang Xu, Lucian Popa, and Yunyao Li. In Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2021
Development of an Enterprise-Grade Contract Understanding System. Arvind Agarwal, Laura Chiticariu, Poornima Chozhiyath Raman, Marina Danilevsky, Diman Ghazi, Ankush Gupta, Shanmukha Guttula, Yannis Katsis, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Shubham Mudgal, Vitobha Munigala, Nicholas Phan, Dhaval Sonawane, Sneha Srinivasan, Sudarshan R. Thitte, Mitesh Vasa, Ramiya Venkatachalam, Vinitha Yaski, and Huaiyu Zhu. In NAACL-HLT (Industry Track) 2021
TableLab: An Interactive Table Extraction System with Adaptive Deep Learning. Nancy Xin Ru Wang, Douglas Burdick, and Yunyao Li. In IUI Companion. 2021
XNLP: A Living Survey for XAI Research in Natural Language Processing. Kun Qian, Marina Danilevsky, Yannis Katsis, Ban Kawas, Erick Oduor, Lucian Popa, and Yunyao Li. In IUI Companion. 2021
AutoText: An End-to-End AutoAI Framework for Text. Arunima Chaudhary, Alayt Issak, Kiran Kate, Yannis Katsis, Abel N. Valente, Dakuo Wang, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Sairam Gurajada, Ban Kawas, A. Cristiano I. Malossi, Lucian Popa, Tejaswini Pedapati, Horst Samulowitz, Martin Wistuba, and Yunyao Li. In AAAI(Demonstration Track) 2021
KAAPA: Knowledge Aware Answers from PDF Analysis. Nicolas R. Fauceglia, Mustafa Canim, Alfio Gliozzo, Jennifer J. Liang, Nancy Xin Ru Wang, Douglas Burdick, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Vittorio Castelli, Guy Feigenblat, David Konopnicki, Yannis Katsis, Radu Florian, Yunyao Li, Salim Roukos, and Avirup Sil. In AAAI(Demonstration Track) 2021
2020
🏅 Ontology Mediated Information Extraction with MASTRO SYSTEM-T. Domenico Lembo, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa, Kun Qian, Federico Scafoglieri. In ISWC (Demonstration Track) 2020 (Best Demo Award)
Exploiting Node Content for Multiview Graph Convolutional Network and Adversarial Regularization. Qiuhao Lu, Nisansade Silva, Dejing Dou, Thien Huu Nguyen, Prithviraj Sen, Berthold Reinwald, Yunyao Li. In COLING 2020
A Novel Workflow for Accurately and Efficiently Crowdsourcing Predicate Senses and Argument Labels. Youxuan Jiang, Huaiyu Zhu, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Yunyao Li, Walter S. Lasecki. In EMNLP (Findings) 2020
Small but Mighty: New Benchmarks for Split and Rephrase. Li Zhang, Huaiyu Zhu, Siddhartha Brahma, Yunyao Li. In EMNLP (short paper) 2020
CLAR: A Cross-Lingual Argument Regularizer for Semantic Role Labeling. Ishan Jindal, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Huaiyu Zhu. In EMNLP (Findings) 2020
Learning Explainable Linguistic Expressions with Neural Inductive Logic Programming for Sentence Classification. Prithviraj Sen, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Siddhartha Brahma, Matthias Boehm, Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy. In EMNLP (long paper) 2020
Learning Structured Representations of Entity Names using ActiveLearning and Weak Supervision. Kun Qian, Poornima Chozhiyath Raman, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa. In EMNLP (short paper) 2020
CORD-19: The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset. Lucy Lu Wang, Kyle Lo, Yoganand Chandrasekhar, Russell Reas, Jiangjiang Yang, Doug Burdick, Darrin Eidedarrine, Kathryn Funk, Yannis Katsis, Rodney Kinney, Yunyao Li, Ziyang Liu, William Merrill, Paul Mooney, Dewey Murdick, Devvret Rishi, Jerry Sheehan, Zhihong Shenzhihosh, Brandon Stilson, Alex Wade, Kuansan Wang, Nancy Xin Ru Wang, Chris Wilhelm, Boya Xie, Douglas Raymond, Daniel S Weld, Oren Etzioni, Sebastian Kohlmeier. In NLP COVID-19 Workshop, Co-located with ACL, 2020
Jennifer for COVID-19: An NLP-Powered Chatbot Built for the People and by the People to Combat Misinformation. Yunyao Li, Tyrone Grandison, Patricia Silveyra, Ali Douraghy, Xinyu Guan, Thomas Kieselbach, Chengkai Li, Haiqi Zhang. In NLP COVID-19 Workshop, Co-located with ACL, 2020
An Intuitive User Interface for Human-in-the-loop Entity Name Parsing and Entity Variant Generation. Kun Qian, Lucian Popa and Yunyao Li. In DaSH@KDD, 2020.
WhyFlow: Explaining Errors. in Data Flows Interactively. Maeda Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Marina Danilevsky and Yunyao Li. In DaSH@KDD, 2020
XAIT: An Interactive Website for Explainable AI for Text. Erick Oduor, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa In IUI (Demonstration Track) 2020
PARTNER: Human-in-the-loop Entity Understanding with Deep Learning. Kun Qian, Poornima Chozhiyath Raman, Yunyao Li, and Lucian Popa. In AAAI (Demonstration Track) 2020
Making AI Machines Work for Humans in FoW. Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy, Lei Chen, Atsuyuki Morishima, James Abello Monedero, Pierre Bourhis, Franois Charoy, Marina Danilevsky, Gautam Das, Gianluca Demartini, Shady Elbassuoni, David Gross-Amblard, Emilie Hoareau, Munenari Inoguchi, Jared B. Kenworthy, Itaru Kitahara, Dongwon Lee, Yunyao Li, Ria Mae Borromeo, Paolo Papotti, Raghav Rao, Sudeepa Roy, Pierre Senellart, Keishi Tajima, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Marion Tommasi, Kazutoshi Umemoto, Andrea Wiggins, Koichiro Yoshida: SIGMOD Record 49(2): 30-35. 2020
Synergizing Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy with Deep Learning. Hongming Shan, Xun Jia, Pingkun Yan, Yunyao Li, Harald Paganetti and Ge Wang. Machine Learning: Science and Technology April 2020
2019
Learning Electronic Health Records through HyperbolicEmbedding of Medical Ontologies. Qiuhao Lu, Nisansa de Silva, Sabin Kafle, Jiazhen Cao, Dejing Dou, Thien Huu Nguyen, Prithviraj Sen, Brent Hailpern, Berthold Reinwald, Yunyao Li. In ACM-BCB 2019
Low-resource Deep Entity Resolution with Transfer and Active Learning. Jungo Kasai, Kun Qian, Sairam Gurajada, Yunyao Li, Lucian Popa. In ACL 2019
HEIDL: Learning Linguistic Expressions with Deep Learning and Human-in-the-Loop. Yiwei Yang, Eser Kandogan, Yunyao Li, Walter S. Lasecki, and Prithviraj Sen. In ACL(Demonstration Track) 2019
Bridging the Semantic Gap with SQL Query Logs in Natural Language Interfaces to Databases. Chris Baik, Yunyao Li, and H.V. Jagadish. In ICDE 2019
2018
DIMSIM: An Accurate Chinese Phonetic Similarity Algorithm based on Learned High Dimensional Encoding. Min Li, Marina Danilevsky, Sarah Noeman, and Yunyao Li. In CoNLL 2018
Exploiting Structure in Representation of Named Entities using Active Learning. Nikita Bhutani, Kun Qian, Yunyao Li, H. V. Jagadish, Mauricio A. Hernndez, Mitesh Vasa. In COLING 2018
LUSTRE: An Interactive System for Entity Structured Representation and Variant Generation. Kun Qian, Nikita Bhutani, and Yunyao Li. In ICDE (Demonstration Track) 2018
SystemT: Declarative Text Understanding for Enterprise. Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, and Huaiyu Zhu. In NAACL-HLT (Industry Track) 2018
2017
Crowd-in-the-Loop: A Hybrid Approach for Annotating Semantic Roles. Chenguang Wang, Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Fei Xia, and Anbang Xu. In EMNLP 2017
Creation and Interaction with Large-scale Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases. S. Bharadwaj, L. Chiticariu, M. Danilevsky, S. Dhingra, S. Divekar, A. Carreno-Fuentes, H. Gupta, N. Gupta, S.-D. Han, M. Herandez, H. Ho, P. Jain, S. Joshi, H. Karanam, S. Krishnan, R. Krishnamurthy, Y. Li, S. Manivannan, A. Mittal, F. Ozcan A. Quamar, P. Raman, D. Saha, K. Sankaranarayanan, J. Sen, P. Sen, S. Vaithyanathan, M. Vasa, H. Wang, and H. Zhu. In VLDB (Demonstration Track) 2017 (video)
Active Learning for Black-Box Semantic Role Labeling with Neural Factors. Chenguang Wang, Laura Chiticariu, and Yunyao Li. In IJCAI 2017
SEER: Auto-Generating Information Extraction Rules from User-Specified Examples. Maeda F. Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Laura Chiticariu, and Yunyao Li. In CHI 2017
Synthesizing Extraction Rules from User Examples with SEER. Maeda F. Hanafi, Azza Abouzied, Laura Chiticariu, and Yunyao Li. In SIGMOD (Demonstration Track) 2017
2016
Multilingual Information Extraction with PolyglotIE. Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yonas Kbrom, Yunyao Li, and Huaiyu Zhu. In COLING (Demonstration Track) 2016
Polyglot: Multilingual semantic role labeling with unified labels. Alan Akbik and Yunyao Li. In COLING (Demonstration Track)__ 2016
K-SRL: Instance-based Learning for Semantic Role Labeling. Alan Akbik and Yunyao Li. In COLING 2016
Multilingual aliasing for auto-generating proposition banks. Alan Akbik, Xinyu Guan, and Yunyao Li. In COLING 2016
Towards semi-automatic generation of proposition banks for low-resource languages. Alan Akbik and Vishwajeet Kumar and Yunyao Li. In EMNLP (short paper) 2016
2015
VINERy: A Visual IDE for Information Extraction. Yunyao Li, Elmer Kim, Marc A. Touchette, Ramiya Venkatachalam, and Hao Wang. In VLDB (Demonstration Track) 2015
Gumshoe Quality Toolkit: Administering Programmable Search. Zhuowei Bao, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, and Huahai Yang. In CIKM (Demonstration Track) 2012
WIZIE:A Best Practices Guided Development Environment for Information Extraction. Yunyao Li, Laura Chiticariu, Huahai Yang, Frederick Reiss, and Arnaldo Carreno-fuentes. In ACL (Demonstration Track) 2012
Generating High Quality Proposition Banks for Multilingual Semantic Role Labeling. Alan Akbik, Laura Chiticariu, Marina Danilevsky, Yunyao Li, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, and Huaiyu Zhu. In ACL 2015
An In-depth Analysis of the Effect of Text Normalization in Social Media. Tyler Baldwin and Yunyao Li. In NAACL 2015
2014
Ph.D. Workshop - An Overview. Yunyao Li and Erich J. Neuhold. VLDB__ 2014 In PVLDB7(13): 1719 2014
Understand users comprehension and preferences for composing information visualizations. Huahai Yang, Yunyao Li, and Michelle Zhou. ACM Transaction on Computer Human Interaction 21(1) 2014
2013
Rule-based Information Extraction is Dead! Long Live Rule-based Information Extraction Systems! Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, and Frederick Reiss. In EMNLP 2013 (short paper)
OpinionBlocks: A Crowd-Powered, Self-Improving Interactive Visual Analytic System for Understanding Opinion Text. Mengdie Hu, Huahai Yang, Michelle Zhou, Liang Gou, Yunyao Li, and Eben Haber. In INTERACT 2013
:medal_sports:Adaptive Parser-Centric Text Normalization. Congle Zhang, Tyler Baldwin, Howard Ho, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li. In ACL 2013 (Best paper nomination)
Automatic Term Ambiguity Detection. Tyler Baldwin, Yunyao Li, Bogdan Alexe, Ioana Roxana Stanoi. In ACL 2013 (short paper)
I Can Do Text Analytics! Designing Development Tools for Novice Developers. Huahai Yang, Daina Pupons-Wickham, Laura Chiticariu, Yunyao Li, Benjamin Nguyen, and Arnaldo Carreno-fuentes. In CHI 2013
2012
- Automatic Suggestion of Query-Rewrite Rules for Enterprise Search. Zhuowei Bao, Benny Kimelfeld, and Yunyao Li. In SIGIR 2012
2011
SystemT: A Declarative Information Extraction System. Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, and Laura Chiticariu. In ACL (Demonstration Track) 2011
The SystemT IDE: an integrated development environment for information extraction rules. Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, Sajib Dasgupta, Thilo W. Goetz, Howard Ho, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Alexander Lang, Yunyao Li, Bin Liu, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, and Huaiyu Zhu, In SIGMOD (Demonstration Track) 2011
Facilitating Pattern Discovery for Relation Extraction with Semantic-Signature-based Clustering. Yunyao Li, Vivian Chu, Sebastian Blohm, Huaiyu Zhu, and Howard Ho. In CIKM 2011
A Graph Approach to Spelling Correction in Domain-Centric Search. Zhuowei Bao, Benny Kimelfeld, and Yunyao Li. In ACL 2011
Rewrite Rules for Search Database Systems. Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. In PODS 2011
Selectivity Estimation for Extraction Operators over Text Data. Daisy Zhe Wang, Long Wei, Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. In ICDE 2011
2010
SystemT: An Algebraic Approach to Declarative Information Extraction. Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. In ACL 2010
Domain Adaptation of Rule-Based Annotators for Named-Entity Recognition Tasks. Laura Chiticariu, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Frederick Reiss, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. In EMNLP 2010
Understanding queries in a search database system. Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. In PODS 2010
2009
- Enabling enterprise mashups over unstructured text feeds with InfoSphere MashupHub and SystemT. David E. Simmen, Frederick Reiss, Yunyao Li, and Suresh Thalamati. In SIGMOD (Demonstration Track) 2009
2008
SystemT: a System for Declarative Information Extraction. Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Yunyao Li, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, and Huaiyu Zhu. SIGMOD Record 37(4) 2008
Enabling Schema-Free XQuery with Meaningful Query Focus. Yunyao Li, Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish. Very Large Data Bases Journal 17(3) 2008
Regular Expression Learning for Information Extraction. Yunyao Li, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, and H. V. Jagadish. In EMNLP 2008
Enabling Domain-Awareness for a Generic Natural Language Interface. Yunyao Li, Ishan Chaudhuri, Huahai Yang, Satinder Singh, and H. V. Jagadish. In AAAI 2007
2007
DaNaLIX: a Domain-adaptive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML. Yunyao Li, Ishan Chaudhuri, Huahai Yang, Satinder Singh and H. V. Jagadish. . In SIGMOD (Demonstration Track) 2007
NaLIX: A Generic Natural Language Search Environment for XML Data. Yunyao Li, Huahai Yang, H. V. Jagadish. ACM Transaction on Database System. 32(4) 2007
Making database systems usable. H. V. Jagadish, Adriane Chapman, Aaron Elkiss, Magesh Jayapandian, Yunyao Li, Arnab Nandi, and Cong Yu. In SIGMOD 2007
2006
Getting Work Done on the Web: Supporting Transactional Queries. Yunyao Li, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, and H.V. Jagadish. In SIGIR 2006
Term Disambiguation in Natural Language Query for XML. Yunyao Li, Huahai Yang, and H. V. Jagadish. In FQAS 2006 (invited paper)
Constructing a Generic Natural Language Interface for an XML Database. Yunyao Li, Huahai Yang, and H. V. Jagadish. In EDBT 2006
2005
- :medal_sports:NaLIX: an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying XML. Yunyao Li, Huahai Yang, H. V. Jagadish. In SIGMOD (Demonstration Track) 2005 (Best Demo Award)
2004
- Schema-Free XQuery. Yunyao Li, Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish. In VLDB 2004