Research

I did my M.S. and Ph.D. in the Haystack Group at MIT CSAIL, advised by David Karger. My research focused on natural language processing and low-code programming frameworks.

Natural Language Processing

Voice Query Refinement Cyril Allauzen, Edward Benson, Ciprian Chelba, Michael Riley, Johan Schalkwyk

INTERSPEECH / Portland, OR 2012

Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay

ACL / Portland, OR 2011

In-domain Relation Discovery with Meta-constraints via Posterior Regularization Harr Chen, Edward Benson, Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay

ACL / Portland, OR 2011

Low Code Programming

Spreadsheet Driven Web Applications Edward Benson, Amy Zhang, David Karger

UIST / Honolulu, Hawaii 2014

End-Users Publishing Structured Information on the Web: An Observational Study of What, Why, and How Edward Benson, David Karger

CHI / Toronto, Canada 2014

Cascading Tree Sheets and Recombinant HTML: Better Encapsulation and Retargeting of Web Content Edward Benson, David Karger

WWW / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013

Mockup Driven Web Development Edward Benson

WWW / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013

Quantifying and Reducing the Cost of Web Edits Edward Benson

CHI / Paris, France 2013

The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions Eirik Bakke, Edward Benson

CIDR / Asilomar, CA 2011

Sync Kit: A Persistent Client-Side Database Caching Toolkit for Data Intensive Websites Edward Benson, Adam Marcus, David Karger, Sam Madden

WWW / Raleigh, NC 2010

Semantic Web

Talking about Data: Sharing Richly Structured Information through Blogs and Wikis Edward Benson, Adam Marcus, David Karger

ISWC / Shanghai, China 2010

Visualizing Temporal Data for Diagnostic Feedback in Adaptive Logistics Systems Edward Benson

CHI / Boston, MA 2009

Bridging the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 with Representational State Transfer Robert Battle, Edward Benson

Journal of Web Semantics / 2008

A Framework for Multiresolutional Knowledge Dissemination and Collection in Large Dynamic Multi-Agent Societies Edward Benson, Jeff Berliner, Marshall Brinn

KIMAS / Boston, MA 2007

Application of Ontology Translation Jim Ressler, Mike Dean, Edward Benson, Eric Dorner, Chris Morris

ISWC / Busan, Korea 2007

Evaluation of UDDI as a Provider of Resource Discovery Services for OGSA-based Grids Edward Benson, Glenn Wasson, Marty Humphrey

IPDPS / Rhodes Island, Greece 2006