I am a graduate student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. My advisor is Luke Zettlemoyer. I received a BSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv Unviersity. In summer 2011 I was an intern at Microsoft Research, where I worked with Patrick Pantel and Michael Gamon. In summer 2013 I will intern with Slav Petrov and Dipanjan Das at Google Research.

Research

My current research is in the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning and learning through interaction, with specific interest in situated/grounded language acquisition and natural language dialog.

Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars (Tutorial) Yoav Artzi, Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer To appear in the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013. [Slides - coming soon]
Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2013. [Presented in the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2013.] [Talk slides][Bibtex][Code and Data]
Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts Yoav Artzi, Patrick Pantel and Michael Gamon In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2012. [Talk slides][Bibtex]
Learning to Recover Meaning from Unannotated Conversational Interactions Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer In Learning Semantics (NIPS Workshop), 2011.
Bootstrapping Semantic Parsers from Conversations Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011. [Talk slides][Bibtex]

UW SPF

The University of Washington Semantic Parsing Framework is an open source research software package. It includes a semantic parser, a flexible meaning representation language and learning algorithms. To get SPF and learn more about it, click here

Personal

At times I take photos and some I share here and here. I also tampered with creating mixsets on the very fringe of popular music.