Writing

I did my M.S. and Ph.D. in the Haystack Group at MIT CSAIL, advised by David Karger. I focused on two separate areas that I believe the future will show are deeply related: natural language processing and low-code programming frameworks.

These are my publications from that time period.

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

Edward Benson, David Karger

CHI / Toronto, Canada 2014

Spreadsheet Driven Web Applications

Edward Benson, Amy Zhang, David Karger

UIST / Honolulu, Hawaii 2014

Quantifying and Reducing the Cost of Web Edits

Edward Benson

CHI / Paris, France 2013

Mockup Driven Web Development

Edward Benson

WWW / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013

Cascading Tree Sheets and Recombinant HTML: Better Encapsulation and Retargeting of Web Content

Edward Benson, David Karger

WWW / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2013

Voice Query Refinement

Cyril Allauzen, Edward Benson, Ciprian Chelba, Michael Riley, Johan Schalkwyk

INTERSPEECH / Portland, OR 2012

The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions

Eirik Bakke, Edward Benson

CIDR / Asilomar, CA 2011

In-domain Relation Discovery with Meta-constraints via Posterior Regularization

Harr Chen, Edward Benson, Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay

ACL / Portland, OR 2011

Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds

Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay

ACL / Portland, OR 2011

Talking about Data: Sharing Richly Structured Information through Blogs and Wikis

Edward Benson, Adam Marcus, David Karger

ISWC / Shanghai, China 2010

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

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

Application of Ontology Translation

Jim Ressler, Mike Dean, Edward Benson, Eric Dorner, Chris Morris

ISWC / Busan, Korea 2007

A Framework for Multiresolutional Knowledge Dissemination and Collection in Large Dynamic Multi-Agent Societies

Edward Benson, Jeff Berliner, Marshall Brinn

KIMAS / Boston, MA 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