Chris Welty
- Research Area(s)
- Machine Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
Dr. Chris Welty is a Sr. Research Scientist at Google in New York, and an Endowed
Professor of Cognitive Systems at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main area of
interest is using structured semantic information to improve semantic processing of
unstructured information, such as using freebase to help improve web search. His
latest work is on using crowdsourcing to form a new theory of truth based on
diversity of perspectives. Before Google, Dr. Welty was a member of the technical
leadership team for IBM's Watson - the question answering computer that destroyed the
all-time best Jeopardy! champions in a widely televised contest. He appeared on the
broadcast, discussing the technology behind Watson, as well as many articles in the
popular and scientific press. His proudest moment was being interviewed for
StarTrek.com about the project. He is a recipient of the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize for
his work. Welty was one of the first to call attention to the new paradigm of
Cognitive Computing that is emerging in computation, and previously has played a
seminal role in the development of the Semantic Web and Ontologies, and co-developed
OntoClean, the first formal methodology for evaluating ontologies. He is on the
editorial board of AI Magazine, the Journal of Applied Ontology, the Journal of Web
Semantics, and the Semantic Web Journal.
Google Publications
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Crowdsourcing a Gold Standard for Medical Relation Extraction with CrowdTruth
Anca Dumitrache, Chris Welty, Lora Aroyo
Proceedings of the 2016 Collective Intelligence Conference (to appear)
