James Mayfield

Collaborator

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., Laurel, MD 20723-6099, USA

James Mayfield is a Principal Computer Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he is supervisor of the Distributed Information Systems section. He is the Principal Investigator for the HAIRCUT information retrieval project, which routinely places among the top systems in the world in international evaluation of cross-language retrieval (TREC, CLEF, NTCIR). Dr. Mayfield has received fellowships from ARDA and NASA, and is the winner of the 1998 Hart Prize for Research at JHU/APL. He is the author of over 75 books, articles and other scholarly communications.

Publications

2020

  1. C. H. Song, D. Lawrie, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "Gazetteer Generation for Neural Named Entity Recognition", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 33rd International FLAIRS Conference, May 2020, 787 downloads.

2017

  1. B. Van Durme, T. Lippincott, K. Duh, D. Burchfield, A. Poliak, C. Costello, T. Finin, S. Miller, J. Mayfield, P. Koehn, C. Harmon, D. Lawrie, C. May, M. Thomas, A. Carrell, and J. Chaloux, "CADET: Computer Assisted Discovery Extraction and Translation", InProceedings, 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (System Demonstrations), November 2017, 759 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, D. Lawrie, J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, and C. Costello, "Participation in TAC KBP 2017: Cold Start TEDL and Low-resource EDL", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2017 Text Analysis Workshop, November 2017, 708 downloads.

2016

  1. T. Finin, D. Lawrie, J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, J. Laspesa, and M. Latman, "HLTCOE Participation in TAC KBP 2016: Cold Start and EDL", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2016 Text Analysis Workshop, November 2016, 1338 downloads.

2015

  1. T. Finin, D. Lawrie, P. McNamee, J. Mayfield, D. Oard, N. Peng, N. Gao, Y. Lin, J. MacKin, and T. Dowd, "HLTCOE Participation in TAC KBP 2015: Cold Start and TEDL", InProceedings, Eighth Text Analysis Conference, November 2015, 872 downloads.
  2. T. Wolfe, M. Dredze, J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, C. Harmon, T. Finin, and B. Van Durme, "Interactive Knowledge Base Population", Proceedings, arXiv:1506.00301 [cs.AI], May 2015, 1037 downloads.

2014

  1. J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, C. Harmon, T. Finin, and D. Lawrie, "KELVIN: Extracting Knowledge from Large Text Collections", InProceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Language Access to Big Data, November 2014, 1507 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, P. McNamee, D. Lawrie, J. Mayfield, and C. Harmon, "Hot Stuff at Cold Start: HLTCOE participation at TAC 2014", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 7th Text Analysis Conference, October 2014, 1309 downloads.

2013

  1. P. McNamee, T. Finin, D. Lawrie, and J. Mayfield, "HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2013", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth Text Analysis Conference, November 2013, 1033 downloads.
  2. D. Lawrie, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and P. McNamee, "Comparing and Evaluating Semantic Data Automatically Extracted from Text,", InProceedings, AAAI 2013 Fall Symposium on Semantics for Big Data, November 2013, 1160 downloads.
  3. L. Han, A. L. Kashyap, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and J. Weese, "UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, June 2013, 3779 downloads.
  4. P. McNamee, J. Mayfield, T. Finin, T. Oates, D. Lawrie, T. Xu, and D. Oard, "KELVIN: a tool for automated knowledge base construction", InProceedings, Proc. Conf. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2013, 1310 downloads.

2012

  1. P. McNamee, v. Stoyanov, J. Mayfield, T. Finin, T. Oates, T. Xu, D. Oard, and D. Lawrie, "HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2012: Entity Linking and Cold Start Knowledge Base Construction", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifth Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2012), November 2012, 1276 downloads.
  2. v. Stoyanov, J. Mayfield, T. Xu, D. Oard, D. Lawrie, T. Oates, and T. Finin, "A Context-Aware Approach to Entity Linking", InProceedings, Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction, June 2012, 2865 downloads.
  3. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "Evaluating the Quality of a Knowledge Base Populated from Text", InProceedings, Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction, June 2012, 4381 downloads.

2009

  1. P. McNamee, M. Dredze, A. Gerber, N. Garera, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, C. Piatko, D. Rao, D. Yarowsky, and M. Dreyer, "HLTCOE Approaches to Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2009", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2009 Text Analysis Conference, November 2009, 1475 downloads, 6 citations.
  2. C. Fink, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, D. Chou, T. Finin, and J. Martineau, "The Geolocation of Web Logs from Textual Clues", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, August 2009, 1626 downloads, 2 citations.
  3. J. Mayfield, D. Alexander, B. J. Dorr, J. Eisner, T. Elsayed, T. Finin, C. Fink, M. Freedman, N. Garera, P. McNamee, D. Oard, C. Piatko, Z. Syed, R. Weischedel, D. Yarowsky, and e., "Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: A Key Technology for Learning by Reading", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, March 2009, 3333 downloads, 6 citations.
  4. C. Fink, C. Piatko, J. Mayfield, T. Finin, and J. Martineau, "Geolocating Blogs From Their Textual Content", InProceedings, Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, March 2009, 3880 downloads, 1 citation.
  5. T. Finin, Z. Syed, J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, and C. Piatko, "Using Wikitology for Cross-Document Entity Coreference Resolution", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, March 2009, 2867 downloads, 7 citations.

2008

  1. J. Mayfield, B. J. Dorr, T. Finin, D. Oard, and C. Piatko, "Knowledge Base Evaluation for Semantic Knowledge Discovery", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NSF Sponsored Symposium Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use, November 2008, 2556 downloads.
  2. C. Fink, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and C. Piatko, "OWL as a Target for Information Extraction Systems", InProceedings, OWLED 2008 DC, OWL: Experiences and Directions, April 2008, 2152 downloads.

2007

  1. J. Martineau, A. Java, P. Kolari, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "BlogVox: Learning Sentiment Classifiers", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2007, 1957 downloads, 2 citations.
  2. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Martineau, and J. Mayfield, "The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), February 2007, 4333 downloads, 7 citations.
  3. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007), January 2007, 3697 downloads, 8 citations.

2006

  1. P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, A. Joshi, and J. Martineau, "Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification", InCollection, TREC 2006 Blog Track Notebook, November 2006, 8392 downloads, 11 citations.

2005

  1. T. Finin, J. Mayfield, C. Fink, A. Joshi, and R. S. Cost, "Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on System Sciences, January 2005, 17004 downloads, 51 citations.

2003

  1. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "Information retrieval on the Semantic Web: Integrating inference and retrieval", InProceedings, Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on the Semantic Web, August 2003, 6067 downloads, 76 citations.

2002

  1. U. Shah, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Mayfield, and R. S. Cost, "Information retrieval on the semantic web", InProceedings, The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2002, 3311 downloads, 147 citations.

1999

  1. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, and T. Finin, "An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, October 1999, 2282 downloads, 23 citations.
  2. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, and A. Boughannam, "Agent development with Jackal", InProceedings, Third annual conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1999, 991 downloads.

1998

  1. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, and T. Finin, "Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Software Tools for Agent Development, July 1998, 9578 downloads, 61 citations.

1997

  1. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages", TechReport, UMBC, January 1997, 43 downloads.

1996

  1. T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and J. Mayfield, "Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language", InBook, Intelligent Agents II -- Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, January 1996, 2223 downloads, 47 citations.
  2. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language", InCollection, Intelligent Agents Volume II - 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, January 1996, 65 downloads.

1995

  1. J. Mayfield, T. Finin, R. Narayanaswamy, C. Shah, W. MacCartney, and K. Goolsbey, "The Cycic Friends Network: getting Cyc agents to reason together", InProceedings, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, December 1995, 1546 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 358 downloads.
  3. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995, 32 downloads.
  4. J. Mayfield, T. Finin, and M. Hall, "Using Automatic Memoization as a Software Engineering Tool in Real-World AI Systems", InProceedings, Eleventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications, February 1995, 4369 downloads.

Past Projects

  1. Cross language Information Retrieval, Faculty
  2. DAML / ITTalks, Collaborator
  3. memeta, Collaborator
  4. OWLIR: Information Retrieval On The Semantic Web, Collaborator
  5. Vox Blogguli, Collaborator

Assertions

  1. (Photo) Jim Mayfield at SWANS shows (Person) James Mayfield.