Raymond J. Mooney

Research Interests

My current research interests in artificial intelligence are primarily in the area of machine learning. They include:

Natural Language Learning: Learning parsers, lexicons, information extraction systems, and word sense disambiguation from examples.
Inductive Logic Programming: Learning Prolog programs from examples.
Knowledge-Base and Theory Refinement: Automatically modifying rule bases and Bayesian networks to fit empirical data.
Learning for Planning: Learning search-control heuristics to improve planning efficiency and quality.
Learning for Recommender Systems: Learning for text categorization and applications to content-based book recommending.

For more information and publications, see the UT machine learning home page .

See a demo of a learning natural-language interface called Geoquery!

See my vita (in postscript).

I grew up in the 60's and 70's in the small town of O'Fallon Illinois where starting in 1975 I attended O'Fallon Township Highschool. Starting in the fall of 1979, I went to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana to obtain all of the degrees listed above. In December 1987, I completed my Ph.D. thesis in the Explanation-Based Learning Group under the direction of Prof. Gerald Dejong and then began as an Assistant Professor here in The Department of Computer Sciences at the The University of Texas at Austin where I have recently completed the first decade of my academic career.

Office:: 4.130B Taylor Hall, (512) 471-9558
Email address:: mooney@cs.utexas.edu
Fax:: (512) 471-8885
Postal address:: Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1188
U.S.A.
Home address (New as of July '98):: 4707 Eby Lane
Austin, Texas 78731
U.S.A.