Overview
Project Team
Publications

Better Extraction from Text Towards Enhanced Retrieval (BETTER)

Project funded by IARPA
PI: Jordan Boyd-Graber

In collaboration with Ben Van Durme and Michael Paul.

Overview

The Better Extraction from Text Towards Enhanced Retrieval (BETTER) Program will develop methods for extracting increasingly fine-grained semantic information, with a focus of events in the form of who-did-what-to-whom-whenwhere, across multiple languages and problem domains. This extracted information will be applied to an information retrieval task. An additional area of focus is human-in-the-loop computation. Performer systems will need the ability to incorporate human judgments for metrics such as relevancy and accuracy of extracted or retrieved information.

The UMD focused on improving representations for low resource langauges through using related languages and human interaction.

Project Team

Jordan Boyd-Graber Jordan Boyd-Graber
Assistant Professor, Computer Science (UMD)
Mozhi Zhang
PhD Student, Computer Science (UMD)

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