Publications

Research related to FACTORIE is described in several publications. These include:

Andrew McCallum, Karl Schultz, Sameer Singh. “FACTORIE: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs”. In Advances on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2009.
Sameer Singh, Karl Schultz, Andrew McCallum. “Bi-directional Joint Inference for Entity Resolution and Segmentation using Imperatively-Defined Factor Graphs”. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) and European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2009.
Andrew McCallum, Khashayar Rohanemanesh, Michael Wick, Karl Schultz, Sameer Singh. “FACTORIE: Efficient Probabilistic Programming for Relational Factor Graphs via Imperative Declarations of Structure, Inference and Learning”. In Advances on Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Probabilistic Programming, 2008.
Michael Wick, Andrew McCallum, Gerome Miklau. “Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC”. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2010.
Michael Wick, Khashayar Rohanemanesh, Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum. “SampleRank: Learning Preferences from Atomic Gradients”. In Advances on Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Advances in Ranking, 2009.

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Citation

Factorie has been released under the Apache License 2.0, and is free to use for commercial or academic purposes. However, please acknowledge its use with a citation:

Andrew McCallum, Karl Schultz, Sameer Singh. “FACTORIE: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs”. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2009.

@inproceedings{mccallum09:factorie:,
  Author = {Andrew McCallum and Karl Schultz and Sameer Singh}, 
  Booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)}, 
  Title = { {FACTORIE}: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs}, 
  Year = {2009}}

Sponsors

Research and development of FACTORIE is supported in part by the UMass Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval; in part by Google, in part by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant #IIS-0803847, #IIS-0326249 and #CNS-0551597; in part by Army prime contract number W911NF-07-1-0216 and University of Pennsylvania subaward number 103-548106; and in part by SRI International subcontract #27-001338 and ARFL prime contract #FA8750-09-C-0181. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the sponsors.