Gerard de Melo

Selected Publications

R2D2: Recursive Transformer based on Differentiable Tree for Interpretable Hierarchical Language Modeling BibTeX arXiv
Xiang Hu, Haitao Mi, Zujie Wen, Yafang Wang, Yi Su, Jing Zheng, Gerard de Melo (2021)
In: Proc. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Acceptance rate: 21%
Assessing Emoji Use in Modern Text Processing Tools 👨🏽‍🔬 BibTeX arXiv
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Gerard de Melo (2021)
In: Proc. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Data Augmentation with Adversarial Training for Cross-Lingual NLI BibTeX
Xin Dong, Yaxin Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Dongkuan Xu, Gerard de Melo (2021)
In: Proc. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Context-Aware Interaction Network for Question Matching BibTeX arXiv
Zhe Hu, Zuohui Fu, Yu Yin, Gerard de Melo, Cheng Peng (2021)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2021 (Short Paper).
Guilt by Association: Emotion Intensities in Lexical Representations BibTeX arXiv
Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo
In: Proc. EMNLP 2021 (Short Paper).
TIME: Text and Image Mutual-Translation Adversarial Networks BibTeX arXiv Slides
Bingchen Liu, Kunpeng Song, Yizhe Zhu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2021)
In: Proc. AAAI 2021.
Acceptance rate: 21%
Contrastive Visual-Linguistic Pretraining BibTeX arXiv Code
Lei Shi, Kai Shuang, Shijie Geng, Peng Su, Zhengkai Jiang, Peng Gao, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Sen Su (2021)
In: Proc. ACM MM 2021.
Acceptance rate: ~27.9%
EXACTA: Explainable Column Annotation BibTeX
Yikun Xian, Handong Zhao, Tak Yeon Lee, Sungchul Kim, Ryan Rossi, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, S. Muthukrishnan (2021)
In: Proc. KDD 2021 (Applied Data Science Track). ACM.
Acceptance rate: 19.6%
Faithfully Explainable Recommendation via Neural Logic Reasoning BibTeX arXiv Code
Yaxin Zhu, Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2021)
In: Proc. NAACL-HLT 2021 (Short Paper). ACL.
Popcorn: Human-in-the-loop Popularity Debiasing in Conversational Recommender Systems BibTeX
Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Shijie Geng, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2021)
In: Proc. CIKM 2021. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 21.7%
Knowledge Graphs BibTeX Website arXiv Data
Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez, Claudia d'Amato, Gerard de Melo, Claudio Gutierrez, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Sabrina Kirrane, Sebastian Neumaier, Axel Polleres, Roberto Navigli, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Sabbir M. Rashid, Anisa Rula, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Juan Sequeda, Steffen Staab, Antoine Zimmermann (2021)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 54:4, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery.
Impact factor: 7.990 (2019)
Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification BibTeX
Xiang Long, Gerard de Melo, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Zhizhen Chi, Shilei Wen, Chuang Gan (2021) (to appear)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021.
Impact factor: 17.861 (2019)
Semantics-Aware Typographical Choices via Affective Associations BibTeX
Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2021)
Language Resources and Evaluation 55:1, 2021, p. 105–126. Springer Verlag.
Personality Predictive Lexical Cues and their Correlations BibTeX
Xiaoli He, Gerard de Melo (2021)
In: Proc. RANLP 2021 (Short Paper).
Fast and Effective Biomedical Entity Linking Using a Dual Encoder BibTeX arXiv Code
Rajarshi Bhowmik, Karl Stratos, Gerard de Melo (2021)
In: Proc. LOUHI 2021: The 12th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, colocated with EACL 2021. ACL.
Exploiting Image–Text Synergy for Contextual Image Captioning BibTeX Code
Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Rajarshi Bhowmik, Hareesh Ravi, Gerard de Melo, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum (2021)
In: Proc. 3rd Workshop Beyond Vision and Language: Integrating Real-world Knowledge (LANTERN), colocated with EACL 2021. ACL.
🏆 Best Paper Award
Forecasting mit Artificial Intelligence BibTeX
Nicole de Melo, Gerard de Melo (2021)
REthinking: Finance 2, 2021. Handelsblatt Fachmedien.
HOOPS: Human-in-the-Loop Graph Reasoning for Conversational Recommendation BibTeX Data
Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Yaxin Zhu, Shuyuan Xu, Zelong Li, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2021)
In: Proc. SIGIR 2021 (Resource Track). ACM.
TeamS at VQA-Med 2021: BBN-Orchestra for Long-tailed Medical Visual Question Answering BibTeX
Sedigheh Eslami, Gerard de Melo, Christoph Meinel (2021)
In: CLEF 2021 Working Notes. CEUR-WS.org CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
🏆 Ranked 3rd in ImageCLEF VQA-Med 2021
Should You Take Investment Advice From WallStreetBets? A Data-Driven Approach BibTeX
Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2021)
ArXiv 2105.02728, 2021.
Incorporating Pragmatic Reasoning Communication into Emergent Language BibTeX arXiv
Yipeng Kang, Tonghan Wang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. NeurIPS 2020 (Spotlight Paper).
Acceptance rate: 20% (4% for spotlight/oral)
ABSent: Cross-Lingual Sentence Representation Mapping with Bidirectional GANs BibTeX arXiv
Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Shijie Geng, Yingqiang Ge, Yuting Wang, Xin Dong, Guang Wang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 20.6%
OOGAN: Disentangling GAN with One-Hot Sampling and Orthogonal Regularization BibTeX Website/Code arXiv
Bingchen Liu, Yizhe Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2020)
In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 20.6%
Long Short-Term Sample Distillation BibTeX arXiv
Liang Jiang, Zujie Wen, Zhongping Liang, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Zhe Li, Liangzhuang Ma, Jiaxing Zhang, Xiaolong Li, Yuan Qi (2020)
In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 20.6%
Asymmetrical Hierarchical Networks with Attentive Interactions for Interpretable Review-based Recommendation BibTeX arXiv
Xin Dong, Jingchao Ni, Wei Cheng, Zhengzhang Chen, Bo Zong, Dongjin Song, Yanchi Liu, Haifeng Chen, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 20.6%
SCALOR: Generative World Models with Scalable Object Representations BibTeX Website arXiv Slides Code
Jindong Jiang, Sepehr Janghorbani, Gerard de Melo, Sungjin Ahn (2020)
In: Proc. ICLR 2020. OpenReview.net.
Acceptance rate: 26.5%
What Sparks Joy: The AffectVec Emotion Database BibTeX Website Presentation Video
Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. The Web Conference 2020 (Short Paper). ACM.
Acceptance rate: <25% (Short Papers)
Fonts Like This but Happier: A New Way to Discover Fonts BibTeX
Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. ACM Multimedia 2020. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 27.8%
A Joint Framework for Inductive Representation Learning and Explainable Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs BibTeX Website/Code arXiv
Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. ISWC 2020.
Acceptance rate: 22%
EmoTag1200 👍: Understanding the Association between Emojis 😄 and Emotions 😻 BibTeX Website arXiv Slides Presentation Video
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Acceptance rate: 24.6%
HID: Hierarchical Multiscale Representation Learning for Information Diffusion BibTeX Code
Honglu Zhou, Shuyuan Xu, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang, Mubbasir Kapadia (2020)
In: Proc. IJCAI 2020. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization.
Acceptance rate: 12.6%
Fairness-Aware Explainable Recommendation over Knowledge Graphs BibTeX arXiv
Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Ruoyuan Gao, Jieyu Zhao, Qiaoying Huang, Yingqiang Ge, Shuyuan Xu, Shijie Geng, Chirag Shah, Yongfeng Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. SIGIR 2020. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 26%
CAFE: Coarse-to-Fine Neural Symbolic Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video Code
Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, Handong Zhao, Yingqiang Ge, Xu Chen, Qiaoying Huang, Shijie Geng, Zhou Qin, Gerard de Melo, S. Muthukrishnan, Yongfeng Zhang (2020)
In: Proc. CIKM 2020. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 21%
Leveraging Adversarial Training in Self-Learning for Cross-Lingual Text Classification BibTeX arXiv Data
Xin Dong, Yaxin Zhu, Yupeng Zhang, Zuohui Fu, Dongkuan Xu, Sen Yang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. SIGIR 2020 (Short Paper). ACM.
Acceptance rate: 30%
Cross-Lingual Emotion Lexicon Induction using Representation Alignment in Low-Resource Settings BibTeX Website
Arun Ramachandran, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
Sentence Analogies: Linguistic Regularities in Sentence Embeddings BibTeX arXiv
Xunjie Zhu, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020.
Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons Induced from Labeled Documents BibTeX
SM Mazharul Islam, Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020.
Data Augmentation for Multiclass Utterance Classification – A Systematic Study BibTeX
Binxia Xu, Siyuan Qiu, Jie Zhang, Yafang Wang, Xiaoyu Shen, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020.
Query Distillation: BERT-based Distillation for Ensemble Ranking BibTeX
Wangshu Zhang, Junhong Liu, Zujie Wen, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020 (Industry Track).
Interactive Question Clarification in Dialogue via Reinforcement Learning BibTeX arXiv
Xiang Hu, Zujie Wen, Yafang Wang, Xiaolong Li, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020 (Industry Track).
Affect-Aware Word Clouds BibTeX
Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2020)
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2020. ACM.
Impact factor: 1.63 (2020)
MuReX: Multi-Document Semantic Relation Extraction for News Analytics BibTeX Website
Yongpan Sheng, Zenglin Xu, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
WWW Journal 23, 2020, p. 2043–2077. Springer Verlag.
Impact factor: 1.77
Reinforcement Learning over Knowledge Graphs for Explainable Dialogue Intent Mining BibTeX Website
Kai Yang, Kong Xinyu, Yafang Wang, Jie Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
IEEE Access 8, 2020, p. 85348–85358. IEEE.
Impact factor: 4.098 (2018 JCR)
Hydroinformatics and the Web: Analytics and Dissemination of Hydrology Data for Climate Change and Sustainability BibTeX
Drashti Pathak, Aparna S. Varde, Gerard de Melo, Clement Alo (2020)
ACM SIGWEB Newsl. Autumn, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery.
Knowledge Fusion via Joint Tensor and Matrix Factorization BibTeX
Zengguang Hao, Yafang Wang, Zining Liu, Gerard de Melo, Zenglin Xu (2020)
Cognitive Computation 12:3, 2020, p. 642–653. Springer Verlag.
Impact factor: 4.287
Knowledge Graphs BibTeX Website
Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez, Claudia d'Amato, Gerard de Melo, Claudio Gutierrez, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Sabrina Kirrane, Sebastian Neumaier, Axel Polleres, Roberto Navigli, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Sabbir M. Rashid, Anisa Rula, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Juan Sequeda, Steffen Staab, Antoine Zimmermann (2020)
ArXiv 2003.02320, 2020.
GitEvolve: Predicting the Evolution of GitHub Repositories BibTeX Code
Honglu Zhou, Hareesh Ravi, Carlos M. Muniz, Vahid Azizi, Linda Ness, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2020)
ArXiv 2010.04366, 2020.
Character Matters: Video Story Understanding with Character-Aware Relations BibTeX
Shijie Geng, Ji Zhang, Zuohui Fu, Peng Gao, Hang Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
ArXiv 2005.08646, 2020.
COOKIE: A Dataset for Conversational Recommendation over Knowledge Graphs in E-Commerce BibTeX Website
Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Yaxin Zhu, Yongfeng Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
ArXiv 2008.09237, 2020.
Inducing Universal Semantic Tag Vectors BibTeX
Da Huo, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020). European Language Resources Association.
Correcting the Autocorrect: Context-Aware Typographical Error Correction via Training Data Augmentation BibTeX arXiv Data
Kshitij Shah, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020).
Facts That Matter: Dynamic Fact Retrieval for Entity-Centric Search Queries BibTeX Code
Atharva Prabhat Paranjpe, Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. International Semantic Web Conference 2020 (ISWC 2020) (Poster Paper). CEUR-WS.
Public Opinion Matters: Mining Social Media Text for Environmental Management BibTeX
Xu Du, Matthew Kowalski, Aparna Varde, Gerard de Melo, Robert W. Taylor (2020)
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter Autumn 2019, 2020. ACM.
EasyAug: An Automatic Textual Data Augmentation Platform for Classification Tasks BibTeX Presentation Video
Siyuan Qiu, Binxia Xu, Jie Zhang, Yafang Wang, Xiaoyu Shen, Gerard de Melo, Chong Long, Xiaolong Li (2020)
In: Proc. The Web Conference 2020 (Companion Volume) (Demonstration Paper). ACM WWW 2020.
Illustrate Your Story: Enriching Text with Images BibTeX Presentation Video
Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, William Cheng, Gerard de Melo, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum (2020)
In: Proc. WSDM 2020 (Demonstration Paper). ACM.
Rhetorically Controlled Encoder-Decoder for Modern Chinese Poetry Generation BibTeX Data/Code
Zhiqiang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Jie Cao, Gerard de Melo, Yik-Cheung Tam, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou (2019)
In: Proc. ACL 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Acceptance rate: 22.7%
Be Concise and Precise: Synthesizing Open-Domain Entity Descriptions from Facts BibTeX Website/Code arXiv
Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. The Web Conference 2019. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 18%
Paralinguistic Recommendations for Affective Word Clouds BibTeX Presentation Video
Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. ACM IUI 2019. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 25%
Reinforcement Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video Code
Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, S. Muthukrishnan, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2019)
In: Proc. SIGIR 2019. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 20%
EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis BibTeX Website Slides
Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. RANLP 2019.
Acceptance rate: 8.7% (Long Presentation Papers)
CITE: A Corpus Of Text-Image Discourse Relations BibTeX Website/Code arXiv
Malihe Alikhani, Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Gerard de Melo, Matthew Stone (2019)
In: Proc. NAACL-HLT 2019 (Short Paper). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Acceptance rate: 21.3%
A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification BibTeX Code
Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (Short Paper). ACL.
Acceptance rate: 20.5%
Using Multi-Sense Vector Embeddings for Reverse Dictionaries BibTeX Website/Code arXiv
Michael Aloys Hedderich, Andrew Yates, Dietrich Klakow, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. IWCS 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Understanding Archetypes of Fake News by Fine-grained Classification BibTeX
Liqiang Wang, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2019)
Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) 9:1, 2019, p. 37. Springer.
A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis BibTeX Website
Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. ACL 2018.
Acceptance rate: 24.9%
Attention Clusters: Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification BibTeX arXiv Supplemental Material Data
Xiang Long, Chuang Gan, Gerard de Melo, Jiajun Wu, Xiao Liu, Shilei Wen (2018)
In: Proc. CVPR 2018.
🏆 Backbone of winning solution in ActivityNet 2017 Kinetics Challenge
Acceptance rate: 29.6%
Cross-Lingual Propagation for Deep Sentiment Analysis BibTeX Website
Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 25%
Predicting Semantic Signatures of Fonts BibTeX Website
Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing.
🏆 Best Paper Nominee
Exploring Semantic Properties of Sentence Embeddings (Short Paper) BibTeX Slides Presentation Video
Xunjie Zhu, Tingfeng Li, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. ACL 2018.
Acceptance rate: 24.9%
Public Opinion Spamming: A Model for Content and Users on Sina Weibo (Short Paper) BibTeX
Ziyu Guo, Liqiang Wang, Yafang Wang, Guohua Zeng, Shijun Liu, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. WebSci 2018. ACM.
PACRR: A Position-Aware Neural IR Model for Relevance Matching BibTeX arXiv Slides Presentation Video Code
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2017. ACL.
🏆 Backbone of winning TREC 2017 Complex Answer Retrieval Competition submission
Acceptance rate: 26%
HiText: Text Reading with Dynamic Salience Marking BibTeX
Qian Yang, Yong Cheng, Sen Wang, Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Digital Learning Track). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
FrameBase: Enabling Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge BibTeX Website
Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2017)
Semantic Web 8:6, 2017, p. 817–850. IOS Press.
Impact factor: 2.889 (2017)
RE-PACRR: A Context and Density-Aware Neural Information Retrieval Model BibTeX Slides Code
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. Neu-IR 2017 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval. ACM.
WebChild 2.0: Fine-Grained Commonsense Knowledge Distillation BibTeX Website
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2017)
In: Proc. ACL 2017 (Demonstration Paper). ACL.
PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation via Automated Knowledge Extraction BibTeX Website/Code Slides
Qian Yang, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Gerard de Melo (2016)
In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 26%
WebBrain: Joint Neural Learning of Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge BibTeX Website
Jiaqiang Chen, Niket Tandon, Charles Darwis Hariman, Gerard de Melo (2016)
In: Proc. ISWC 2016.
Acceptance rate: 18% (Research Track)
Lexvo.org: Language-Related Information for the Linguistic Linked Data Cloud BibTeX Website Lexvo API
Gerard de Melo (2015)
Semantic Web 6:4, 2015, p. 393-400. IOS Press.
Impact factor: 1.786 (2016)
WebChild: Harvesting and Organizing Commonsense Knowledge from the Web BibTeX Website Slides
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
In: Proc. ACM WSDM 2014. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 18%
Taxonomic Data Integration from Multilingual Wikipedia Editions BibTeX Website
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
Knowledge and Information Systems 39:1, 2014, p. 1-39. Springer Verlag.
Impact factor: 1.782 (2014)
Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidence BibTeX Website/UWN API Code Slides
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
In: Proc. 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009). ACM.
Acceptance rate: 14.5%

Position:	Professor, Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

Secondary:	Visiting Professor at Rutgers University — New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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