Curriculum Vitae

• From 2013 to 2016, I was an Assistant Professor heading the Web Mining and Language Technology group at Tsinghua University, which is generally considered mainland China's #1 Science & Engineering university, and ranks 1st in the world in the U.S. News & World Report Computer Science ranking (2019), 9th in the world on CSRankings.org (as of 2019-04), 14th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Reputation Ranking 2018, and 17th in the world in the QS World University Ranking (2019). This was as part of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, which is led by Turing award winner Andrew Yao and conducts interdisciplinary computer science and quantum computing research.
  
  
• Before that, I spent two years as a post-doctoral research scholar at UC Berkeley working in the AI/FrameNet group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). I also spent 4 months at the Machine Learning and Perception Group (headed by Christopher Bishop) at Microsoft Research Cambridge, working with Thore Graepel and Gjergji Kasneci.
  
  
• Prior to that, I was a member of the Databases and Information Systems Group headed by Gerhard Weikum at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, receiving my doctoral degree from Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany in 2010.
  
  
• Citizenship: German

Grants, Awards, and Recognition

Awards

• Rutgers Computer Science Graduate Student Society's Best Professor Award, along with Yongfeng Zhang
  in the Teaching, Advising, and Overall categories, 2017–2018
  
  
• Best Paper Award (out of 945 full paper submissions)
  19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010) [certificate]
  
  
• Best Paper Award
  International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2008) [picture]
  
  
• Best Paper Award
  NAACL 2015 Workshop on Vector Space Modeling for NLP (sponsored by Google DeepMind and TextKernel)
  
  
• Best Paper Honorable Mention
  52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014)
  
  
• Best Student Paper Nominee (top 3)
  ESWC 2015
  
  
• Best Paper Nominee (with Tugba Kulahcioglu)
  12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Laguna Hills, CA, 2018
  
  
• Best Demonstration Award (with Johannes Hoffart, Fabian Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, Edwin Lewis-Kelham, Gerhard Weikum)
  20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011)
  
  
• Nominee for Best German/Swiss/Austrian Computer Science Dissertation 2010 (GI-Dissertationspreis 2010)
  
  
• Dr. Eduard Martin Prize
  awarded for best Saarland University dissertations across all disciplines
  
  
• Distinguished Senior PC Member
  IJCAI 2018
  
  
• Outstanding Reviewer
  NAACL-HLT 2018
  
  
• Best Reviewer Award
  PIKM 2012 (5th Workshop for Ph.D. Students at ACM CIKM 2012) [certificate]
  
  

Research Grants and Scholarships

• Hasso-Plattner-Institut Future SOC Lab, Computing Resources: 2018/9
  P.I.
  
  
• Adobe, Unrestricted Gift: 2018/9
  P.I.
  
  
• DARPA Grant: 2017--
  Co-P.I., SocialSim program ($2,029,752)
  
  
• Samsung Research Grant: 2016/7
  P.I. (with Samsung Co-P.I.)
  
  
• National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant: 2016
  P.I., Grant #61550110504
  
  
• Microsoft Research Visiting Researcher Program: 2014
  Microsoft Research Asia-funded collaboration
  
  
• National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant: 2014-2015
  P.I., Grant #61450110088
  
  
• Post-Doctoral Research Grant: 2011-2013
  DAAD
  
  
• Scholarship (Doctoral Studies): 2007-2010
  IMPRS-CS
  
  
• Scholarship (Foreign Studies): 2004-2005, Université de Montréal, Canada
  German National Academic Foundation / Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  
  
• Scholarship (Merit): 2003-2006
  German National Academic Foundation / Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  
  
• Scholarship (Online Scholarship): alumnus
  e-fellows.net
  
  

Selected Publications

• Rhetorically Controlled Encoder-Decoder for Modern Chinese Poetry Generation  BibTeX
  Zhiqiang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Jie Cao, Gerard de Melo, Yik-Cheung Tam, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou (2019)
  In: Proc. ACL 2019.
  Acceptance rate: 22.7%
• Be Concise and Precise: Synthesizing Open-Domain Entity Descriptions from Facts  BibTeX
  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   Code
  Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, S. Muthukrishnan, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2019)
  In: Proc. SIGIR 2019.
  Acceptance rate: 20%
• OOGAN: Disentangling GAN with One-Hot Sampling and Orthogonal Regularization  BibTeX
  Bingchen Liu, Yizhe Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2019)
  ArXiv abs/1905.10836, 2019.
• EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis  BibTeX
  Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo (2019)
  In: Proc. RANLP 2019.
• CITE: A Corpus Of Text-Image Discourse Relations  BibTeX   Website
  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%
• Using Multi-Sense Vector Embeddings for Reverse Dictionaries  BibTeX   Website
  Michael Aloys Hedderich, Andrew Yates, Dietrich Klakow, Gerard de Melo (2019)
  In: Proc. IWCS 2019.
• 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), 2019. Springer.
• Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019), May 20–23, Leipzig, Germany  BibTeX
  Maria Eskevich, Gerard de Melo, Christian Fäth, John P. McCrae, Paul Buitelaar, Christian Chiarcos, Bettina Klimek, Milan Dojchinovski (Eds.) (2019)
  OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), vol. 70. Dagstuhl Publishing.
• 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%
• Generating Fine-Grained Open Vocabulary Entity Type Descriptions  BibTeX   Website
  Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. ACL 2018.
  Acceptance rate: 24.9%
• Video Captioning with Multi-Faceted Attention  BibTeX
  Xiang Long, Chuang Gan, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 6, 2018, p. 173–184.
  Acceptance rate: 19%
• Attention Clusters: Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification  BibTeX
  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%
• Link Prediction via Subgraph Embedding-Based Convex Matrix Completion  BibTeX   Slides
  Zhu Cao, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
• Multimodal Keyless Attention Fusion for Video Classification  BibTeX
  Xiang Long, Chuang Gan, Gerard de Melo, Xiao Liu, Yandong Li, Fu Li, Shilei Wen (2018)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
  🏆  Backbone of 3rd place ($20,000 prize) solution in the Google Cloud & YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge
  Acceptance rate: 25%
• Co-PACRR: A Context-Aware Neural IR Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval  BibTeX   Website
  Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. WSDM 2018. ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 16%
• Addressing Structural and Linguistic Heterogeneity in the Web  BibTeX   Website
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2018)
  AI Communications 31:1, 2018, p. 3–18. IOS Press.
• 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
• Metaphor Suggestions based on a Semantic Metaphor Repository  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• FontLex: A Typographical Lexicon based on Affective Associations  BibTeX   Website
  Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
• Exploring Semantic Properties of Sentence Embeddings (Short Paper)  BibTeX
  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.
• Context-Based Few-Shot Word Representation Learning (Short Paper)  BibTeX
  Chenxing Li, Gerui Wang, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing.
• Smart Governance Through Opinion Mining of Public Reactions on Ordinances  BibTeX
  Manish Puri, Xu Du, Aparna Varde, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. IEEE ICTAI 2018. IEEE.
• Social Media vs. News Media: Analyzing Real-world Events from Different Perspectives (Short Paper)  BibTeX
  Liqiang Wang, Ziyu Guo, Yafang Wang, Zeyuan Cui, Shijun Liu, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. DEXA 2018. Springer Verlag.
• Visualizing Multi-Document Semantics via Open Domain Information Extraction  BibTeX   Website
  Yongpan Sheng, Zenglin Xu, Yafang Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Jia Jia, Zhonghui You, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. ECML-PKDD 2018 (Demonstration Paper). Springer.
• Should Algorithms for Random SAT and Max-SAT be Different?  BibTeX   Slides
  Sixue Liu, Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2017. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 24.6%
• A Position-Aware Deep Model for Relevance Matching in Information Retrieval  BibTeX   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). ACM.
• Inducing Conceptual Embedding Spaces from Wikipedia  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Cognitive Computing Track). ACM.
• 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)
• Commonsense Knowledge in Machine Intelligence  BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Aparna Varde, Gerard de Melo (2017)
  SIGMOD Record December, 2017.
• RE-PACRR: A Context and Density-Aware Neural Information Retrieval Model  BibTeX   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
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2017)
  In: Proc. ACL 2017 (Demonstration Paper). ACL.
• PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation via Automated Knowledge Extraction  BibTeX   Website   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
  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
  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
  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   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
  In: Proc. 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009). ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 14.5%