News

• New position: I am moving to the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University!
  Get in touch with me if you are seeking PhD or Post-Doc opportunities at one of the top universities for computer science research, located in the Greater New York region, which is currently one of the most exciting areas for artificial intelligence and data science in the world.
  
  
• Editorial Board Member for Springer Language Resources and Evaluation journal.
  
  
• Best Paper Award at the NAACL 2015 Workshop on Vector Space Modeling for NLP (which was sponsored by Google DeepMind and TextKernel) for our paper Semantic Information Extraction for Improved Word Embeddings!
  
  
• Our paper about FrameBase was a Best Student Paper Award Nominee (i.e, top 3) at ESWC 2015!
  
  
• Honoured to serve as an Editorial Board Member for Computational Intelligence together with people such as Yoshua Bengio and Junichi Tsujii. Also serving as Area Chair for the Semantics Track of ACL 2016.
  
  
• Our paper 'Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation' (with Mohit Bansal, David Burkett, Dan Klein) received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACL 2014.
  
  
• Just found out that Google Translate is using our OpenWN-PT project. Great to see our work contributing to helping people understand each other.
  
  
• Dear Students: Please contact me if you are interested in research projects related to web mining, natural language processing, or machine learning!

Curriculum Vitae

• Prior to joining Rutgers, 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 5th in the world in the U.S. News & World Report Computer Science ranking, 26th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Reputation Ranking 2015, and 24th in the world in the QS World University Ranking. 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

Current Research Foci

I am leading the Web Mining and Language Technology group, which conducts interdisciplinary research in computer science and beyond. The vision driving this research is the idea that there is now so much digital data out there that machines ought to be able to learn to guide us in almost every aspect of our daily life, e.g. by addressing our information needs and helping us make more informed decisions. This, however, requires novel algorithms that simultaneously learn and integrate information from multiple heterogeneous data sources in order to make sense of human language and more generally of the world. More specifically, my research interests include: Data Mining, Graph Algorithms, and Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing Big Data Approaches to Web and Text Mining Data Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Technologies, Information Retrieval Multilingual and cross-lingual natural language processing

Awards and Recognition

• 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 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
  
  
• Best Reviewer Award
  PIKM 2012 (5th Workshop for Ph.D. Students at ACM CIKM 2012) [certificate]
  
  
• Samsung Research Grant: 2016/7
  P.I. (with Samsung Co-P.I.)
  
  
• National Science Foundation of China Grant: 2016
  P.I., Grant #61550110504
  
  
• Microsoft Research Visiting Researcher Program: 2014
  Microsoft Research Asia-funded collaboration
  
  
• National Science Foundation of China Grant: 2014-2015
  P.I., Grant #61450110088
  
  
• Tsinghua 221 Talent Program (2014)
  
  
• 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
  
  

Projects and Downloads

• UWN/MENTA: One of the largest multilingual knowledge graphs, transforming the well-known WordNet database into a massively multilingual resource covering over 1 million words and several million named entities in a single semantically organized hierarchy. Our derivative project OpenWN-PT is being used by Google Translate.
  
  
• Lexvo.org: Contributes information about words and other language-related entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web, leading to a Web of Data in which the British Library, the Spanish National Library, and others have linked their data to Lexvo.org, and Lexvo.org in turn connects its own data to other valuable resources.
  
  
• YAGO-SUMO Integration: An ontology providing an enormous body of axiomatized world knowledge based on YAGO as well as the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). YAGO was used in IBM's famous Jeopardy!-winning system Watson.
  
  
• FrameBase: FrameBase uses frame semantics, a theory of natural language semantics, to represent knowledge about the world in a consistent way. I also developed a new browsing interface for the FrameNet lexical resource, which FrameBase relies on.
  
  
• WebChild: Large amounts of common-sense knowledge extracted from the Web.
  
  
• SPASS-XDB: Online interface to the SPASS-XDB reasoning system, which combines state-of-the-art theorem proving with support for large-scale knowledge sources
  
  
• MTRoget: Thesauri in many languages, obtained by translating Roget's Thesaurus using task-specific statistical techniques
  
  
• Etymological Wordnet: A database of etymological and derivational relationships between words in different languages, mined from Wiktionary.
  
  
• PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation of summary quality using Automated Knowledge extraction — A method for evaluating the quality of a summary (e.g., one written by students) using the Pyramid method, which is known to be significantly more reliable than the ROUGE method when evaluating individual summaries.
  
  
• Other resources
  • Online Transliteration Service: A service that for instance will transliterate the Greek "ψυχολογία" into "psychología".
  • Wikipedia IMDb Mappings: Mappings between Wikipedia articles and corresponding Internet Movie Database entries (Download)
  • GD View: File Viewer (for DOS) supporting over 400 different file formats.

Publications

• Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNs  PDF   BibTeX
  Linlin Wang, Zhu Cao, Gerard de Melo, Zhiyuan Liu (2016)
  In: Proc. ACL 2016.
  
  
• Detecting Cross-Cultural Differences Using a Multilingual Topic Model  PDF   BibTeX
  Elkin Darío Gutiérrez, Ekaterina Shutova, Patricia Lichtenstein, Gerard de Melo, Luca Gilardi (2016)
  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 4, 2016, p. 47-60. ACL.
  Acceptance rate: ~20%
  
  
• Morphological Segmentation with Window LSTM Neural Networks  PDF   BibTeX
  Linlin Wang, Zhu Cao, Yu Xia, Gerard de Melo (2016)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
  
  
• PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation via Automated Knowledge Extraction  PDF   BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Qian Yang, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Gerard de Melo (2016)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
  
  
• Concepts Not Alone: Exploring Pairwise Relationships for Zero-Shot Video Activity Recognition  PDF   BibTeX
  Chuang Gan, Ming Lin, Yi Yang, Gerard de Melo, Alexander G. Hauptmann (2016)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
  
  
• WebBrain: Joint Neural Learning of Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge  BibTeX
  Jiaqiang Chen, Niket Tandon, Charles Darwis Hariman, Gerard de Melo (2016)
  In: Proc. ISWC 2016.
  Acceptance rate: 18%
  
  
• Heuristics for Connecting Heterogeneous Knowledge via FrameBase  PDF   BibTeX   Website   Presentation Video
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2016)
  In: Proc. ESWC 2016. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  Acceptance rate: 23%
  
  
• ShapeLearner: Towards Shape-Based Visual Knowledge Harvesting  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Kang Feng, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Andrei Sharf, Baoquan Chen (2016)
  In: Proc. ECAI 2016.
  Acceptance rate: 27%
  
  
• Summary Generation for Temporal Extractions  PDF   BibTeX
  Yafang Wang, Zhaochun Ren, Martin Theobald, Maximilian Dylla, Gerard de Melo (2016)
  In: Proc. 27th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2016).
  
  
• Medical Concept Embeddings via Labeled Background Corpora  PDF   BibTeX   Supplementary Data   Code
  Eneldo Loza Mencía, Gerard de Melo, Jinseok Nam (2016)
  In: Proc. 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016).
  
  
• The Open Linguistics Working Group: Developing the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud  PDF   BibTeX
  John Philip McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Francis Bond, Philipp Cimiano, Thierry Declerck, Gerard de Melo, Jorge Gracia, Sebastian Hellmann, Bettina Klimek, Steven Moran, Petya Osenova, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Jonathan Pool (2016)
  In: Proc. 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016).
  
  
• Seeing is Believing: The Quest for Multimodal Knowledge  PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Niket Tandon (2016)
  ACM SIGWEB Newsletter Spring 2016, 2016. ACM.
  
  
• Data Integration Beyond Alignments Between Two Sources  PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2016)
  Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS) 4, 2016.
  
  
• ShapeExplorer: Querying and Exploring Shapes using Visual Knowledge  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Tong Ge, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Andrei Sharf, Baoquan Chen (2016)
  In: Proc. EDBT 2016 (Demonstration Paper).
  
  
• Visualizing and Curating Knowledge Graphs over Time and Space  PDF   BibTeX
  Tong Ge, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Haofeng Li (2016)
  In: Proc. ACL 2016 (Demonstration Paper). ACL.
  
  
• Klint: Assisting Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge  PDF   BibTeX
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2016)
  In: Proc. IJCAI 2016 (Demonstration Paper).
  
  
• Complex Schema Mapping and Linking Data: Beyond Binary Predicates  PDF   BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2016)
  In: Proc. WWW 2016 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2016).
  
  
• Knowlywood: Mining Activity Knowledge from Hollywood Narratives  PDF   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Abir De, Gerhard Weikum (2015)
  In: Proc. CIKM 2015.
  Acceptance rate: 18% (KR Track)
  
  
• Perceptually Grounded Selectional Preferences  PDF   BibTeX   Poster
  Ekaterina Shutova, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. ACL 2015.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
  
  
• Sentiment-Aspect Extraction based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines  PDF   BibTeX
  Linlin Wang, Kang Liu, Zhu Cao, Jun Zhao, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. ACL 2015.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
  
  
• DynaDiffuse: A Dynamic Diffusion Model for Continuous Time Constrained Influence Maximization  PDF   BibTeX
  Miao Xie, Qiusong Yang, Qing Wang, Gao Cong, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2015. AAAI.
  Acceptance rate: 26.67%
  
  
• FrameBase: Representing N-ary Relations using Semantic Frames  PDF   BibTeX   Website   Slides   Presentation Video
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2015)
  In: Proc. ESWC 2015. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  Best Student Paper Nominee (top 3)
  Acceptance rate: 23%
  
  
• Wiktionary-Based Word Embeddings  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. MT Summit XV. AMTA.
  
  
• Lexvo.org: Language-Related Information for the Linguistic Linked Data Cloud  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Gerard de Melo (2015)
  Semantic Web 6:4, 2015, p. 393-400. IOS Press.
  
  
• Dissertation Research Problems in Data Management and Related Areas  PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde (2015)
  SIGMOD Record 44:4, 2015.
  
  
• Neural Word Representations from Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge  PDF   BibTeX
  Jiaqiang Chen, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. WI 2015 (Short Paper).
  
  
• Lights, Camera, Action: Knowledge Extraction from Movie Scripts  PDF   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Abir De, Gerhard Weikum (2015)
  In: Proc. WWW 2015 (Poster Paper).
  Acceptance rate: 30%
  
  
• Semantic Information Extraction for Improved Word Embeddings  PDF   BibTeX
  Jiaqiang Chen, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. NAACL Workshop on Vector Space Modeling for NLP.
  Best Paper Award
  
  
• Representing Specialized Events with FrameBase  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2015)
  In: Proc. 4th International Workshop on Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2015) at ESWC 2015.
  
  
• Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation  PDF   BibTeX
  Mohit Bansal, David Burkett, Gerard de Melo, Dan Klein (2014)
  In: Proc. ACL 2014. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  Best Paper Honorable Mention
  Acceptance rate: 26.2%
  
  
• Acquiring Comparative Commonsense Knowledge from the Web  PDF   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2014. AAAI.
  Acceptance rate: 28%
  
  
• WebChild: Harvesting and Organizing Commonsense Knowledge from the Web  PDF   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Fabian M. Suchanek, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
  In: Proc. ACM WSDM 2014.
  Acceptance rate: 18%
  
  
• Taxonomic Data Integration from Multilingual Wikipedia Editions  Manuscript PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2014)
  Knowledge and Information Systems 39:1, 2014, p. 1-39. Springer Verlag.
  Impact factor: 1.782 (2014)
  
  
• Frames, Constructions, and Computation  
  Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin, Tiago Timponi Torrent (Eds.) (2014)
  Constructions and Frames Special Issue. John Benjamins Publishing.
  
  
• Proceedings of the 7th Workshop for Ph.D. Students at CIKM 2014 (PIKM 2014)  Website   Online
  Gerard de Melo, Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde (Eds.) (2014)
  ACM, 2014.
  
  
• PIKM 2014: The 7th ACM Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (Workshop Summary)  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Gerard de Melo, Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde (2014)
  In: Proc. CIKM 2014. ACM.
  
  
• Etymological Wordnet: Tracing the History of Words  PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
  
  
• NomLex-PT: A Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Valeria de Paiva, Livy Real, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
  
  
• Bring vs. MTRoget: Evaluating Automatic Thesaurus Translation  PDF    BibTeX
  Lars Borin, Jens Allwood, Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
  
  
• Sense-Specific Implicative Commitments  PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Valeria de Paiva (2014)
  In: Proc. 15th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2014). Springer LNCS.
  Acceptance rate: ~27%
  
  
• Frame Semantics in Natural Language Processing: A Workshop in Honor of Chuck Fillmore (1929–2014). Proceedings of the Workshop.  Website
  Miriam R.L. Petruck, Gerard de Melo (Eds.) (2014)
  Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014.
  
  
• Embedding NomLex-BR Nominalizations into OpenWN-PT  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Livy Real, Alexandre Rademaker, Valeria de Paiva, Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2014) (Short Paper).
  
  
• OpenWordNet-PT: A Project Report  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Alexandre Rademaker, Valeria de Paiva, Gerard de Melo, Livy Real, Maira Gatti (2014)
  In: Proc. 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2014).
  
  
• Extending a Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations with Data from Corpora  PDF   BibTeX
  Cláudia Freitas, Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo, Livy Real, Anne Silva (2014)
  In: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. Proc. PROPOR 2014. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  
  
• Exploratory Information Extraction from a Historical Dictionary  PDF   BibTeX
  Valeria de Paiva, Dário Oliveira, Suemi Higuchi, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. Workshop on Digital Humanities and e-Science at the 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science.
  
  
• Not Quite the Same: Identity Constraints for the Web of Linked Data  PDF   BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Gerard de Melo (2013)
  In: Proc. 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013). AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 29%
  
  
• Good, Great, Excellent: Global Inference of Semantic Intensities  PDF   BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Mohit Bansal (2013)
  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 1:July 2013, 2013, p. 279-290. ACL. Oral presentation at ACL 2013.
  Acceptance rate: ~23.9%
  
  
• Searching the Web of Data (Tutorial Abstract)  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2013)
  In: Proc. ECIR 2013. Springer LNCS.
  
  
• Graph-based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration  Order online   Order via Amazon   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2012)
  universaar - Saarland University Press, Saarbrücken, Germany. 192 pages. ISBN 978-3-86223-028-0.
  
  
  
• Constructing and Utilizing Wordnets using Statistical Methods   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2012)
  Language Resources and Evaluation Journal 46:2, p. 287-311, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
  
  
• Source-Path-Goal: Investigating the Cross-Linguistic Potential of Frame-Semantic Text Analysis    BibTeX
  Oliver Čulo, Gerard de Melo (2012)
  it - Information Technology 54(3), Oldenbourg.
  
  
• LINDA: Distributed Web-of-Data-Scale Entity Matching  PDF   BibTeX
  Christoph Böhm, Gerard de Melo, Felix Naumann, Gerhard Weikum (2012)
  In: Proc. ACM CIKM 2012 (Short Paper). ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 27.8%
  
  
• OpenWordNet-PT: An Open Brazilian WordNet for Reasoning  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: Proc. COLING 2012 (Demonstration Paper).
  
  
• Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo
  In: Proc. COLING 2012 Tutorial Notes.
  
  
• UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base  PDF    BibTeX   Poster
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2012)
  In: Proc. ACL 2012 (Demonstration Paper).
  
  
• Empirical Comparisons of MASC Word Sense Annotations   PDF    BibTeX   Blog
  Gerard de Melo, Collin F. Baker, Nancy Ide, Rebecca Passonneau, Christiane Fellbaum (2012)
  In: Proc. LREC 2012. ELRA.
  
  
• Precedes: A Semantic Relation in FrameNet   PDF    BibTeX
  Miriam R.L. Petruck, Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: Proc. LREC 2012 Workshop on Language Resources for Public Security Applications.
  
  
• Markov Chains for Robust Graph-based Commonsense Information Extraction  PDF   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: Proc. COLING 2012 (Demonstration Paper).
  
  
• Deriving a Web-Scale Common Sense Fact Database  PDF   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2011)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2011. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
  
  
• YAGO2: Exploring and Querying World Knowledge in Time, Space, Context, and Many Languages  PDF   BibTeX
  Johannes Hoffart, Fabian M. Suchanek, Klaus Berberich, Edwin Lewis-Kelham, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2011)
  In: Proc. 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011) (Demonstration Paper). ACM.
  Best Demonstration Award
  
  
• Graphenbasierte Methoden zur multilingualen Wissensintegration   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2011)
  In: Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2010, Gesellschaft für Informatik LNI D-11.
  
  
• An Application: Extending SUMO with Wikipedia  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Adam Pease (2011)
  In: Adam Pease. Ontology: A Practical Guide (Book Chapter). Articulate Software, USA. ISBN: 1-889455-10-5.
  
  
• Graph-based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2010)
  Doctoral Dissertation, Saarland University, 2010.
  PhD Committee: Gert Smolka, Gerhard Weikum, Hans Uszkoreit, Hinrich Schütze
  Grade: summa cum laude
  Nominee for Best German/Swiss/Austrian Computer Science Dissertation 2010 (GI-Dissertationspreis 2010)
  Dr.-Eduard-Martin Preis 2012
  
  
• MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia  PDF   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
  In: Proc. 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010). ACM.
  Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (out of 945 full paper submissions)
  Acceptance rate: 13.3%
  
  
• Information Extraction from Web-Scale N-Gram Data   PDF    BibTeX   Slides
  Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2010)
  In: Proc. Web N-gram Workshop at SIGIR 2010.
  
  
• Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
  In: Proc. 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
  
  
• Providing Multilingual, Multimodal Answers to Lexical Database Queries   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
  In: Proc. 7th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010), ELRA, Paris, France.
  
  
• Progress Towards Effective Automated Reasoning with World Knowledge  PDF   BibTeX   Website
  Geoff Sutcliffe, Martin Suda, Alexandra Teyssandier, Nelson Dellis, Gerard de Melo (2010)
  In: Proc. 23rd International FLAIRS Conference. AAAI Press.
  
  
• Towards Universal Multilingual Knowledge Bases   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
  In: Principles, Construction, and Applications of Multilingual Wordnets. Proc. 5th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC 2010), Narosa Publishing, New Delhi, India.
  
  
• Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidence   PDF    BibTeX   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
  In: Proc. 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, China. ACM, New York, USA.
  Acceptance rate: 14.5%
  
  
• Extracting Sense-Disambiguated Example Sentences From Parallel Corpora   PDF    BibTeX   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
  In: Proc. Workshop on Definition Extraction at RANLP 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria.
  
  
• External Sources of Axioms in Automated Theorem Proving   PDF   BibTeX
  Martin Suda, Geoff Sutcliffe, Patrick Wischnewski, Manuel Lamotte-Schubert, Gerard de Melo (2009)
  In: Proc. 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009), Springer-Verlag (LNAI 5803), Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany.
  Acceptance rate: 31.8%
  
  
• Integrating YAGO into the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology  PDF   BibTeX   Technical Report   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Adam Pease (2008)
  In: Proc. 20th IEEE ICTAI 2008 (Short Paper), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
  
  
• Language as a Foundation of the Semantic Web  PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
  In: Proc. Poster And Demonstration Session of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) (Poster Paper), CEUR Vol. 401, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  
  
• Mapping Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet to French   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
  In: Proc. 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), ELRA, Paris, France.
  
  
• A Machine Learning Approach to Building Aligned Wordnets   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
  In: Proc. International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2008), Hong Kong, China.
  Best Paper Award
  
  
• On the Utility of Automatically Generated Wordnets   PDF    BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2007)
  In: Proc. Fourth Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2008), Szeged, Hungary.
  
  
• Multilingual Text Classification using Ontologies   PDF    BibTeX   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Stefan Siersdorfer (2007)
  In: Proc. 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2007), Rome, Italy, Springer-Verlag (LNCS 4425), Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany.
  Acceptance rate: 27.7%
  
  
• Adaptive Multilingual Text Classification using Ontologies
  Gerard de Melo (2006)
  Diplomarbeit (Master's Thesis). Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Public Lectures and Invited Talks

Keynote and Invited Talks at Events

(not including regular paper presentations at conferences and workshops)

• Knowledge Graphs: Venturing out into the Wild
  Keynote Talk at ISWC 2016 NLP&DBpedia Workshop
  
  
• N/A
  Invited Talk for BMW China Tour, 2016
  
  
• Learning Semantics with Heterogeneous Supervision
  Invited Talk at Nuance Research Conference 2016
  
  
• Towards Deep Learning with Heterogeneous Supervision
  Invited Talk at UESTC Symposium on Research Frontiers in AI, Chengdu, China, 2015
  
  
• Heterogeneous Supervision and Data Integration for NLP
  Invited Talk at Beijing-Melbourne Workshop on Multilingual NLP and Social Media Analytics, Beijing, China, 2015
  
  
• The Future of Knowledge Graphs: Moving beyond Simple Collections of Facts
  Keynote Speaker at 3rd Chinese Knowledge Graph Conference (KG 2015), Yichang, China, 2015
  
  
• Why Researchers are Managers
  Keynote Speaker at the PIKM 2015 Workshop at CIKM 2015, Melbourne, 2015
  
  
• Learning Multilingual Semantics from Big Data on the Web
  Keynote Speaker at the ACL 2015 Workshop 'Semantics-Driven Statistical Machine Translation: Theory and Practice' (S²MT), Beijing, 2015
  
  
• Cognitive Computing for Semantics
  Keynote Speaker at the ACL 2015 Fourth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra), Beijing, 2015
  
  
• Learning to Reason about the World using Big Data
  Invited Speaker at the Third Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science (NLCS), at ICALP/LICS, Kyoto, 2015
  
  
• Big Data Search and Analysis
  Invited Panelist for panel at DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam (Slides)
  
  
• Learning Meaning from Big Data on the Web
  Invited Speaker at BIT InfoTech-2015, Shenzhen, 2015
  
  
• Broad-Coverage Semantic Analysis using Big Data on the Web
  Invited Speaker at Shonan Meeting on Logical Analysis of Descriptions and their Representations, Japan, 2015
  
  
• From Linked Data to Tightly Integrated Data (Slides)
  Invited Speaker at LREC 2014 Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2014)
  
  
• Collecting Knowledge from the Web
  American University of Beirut Linked Data Workshop, 2014
  
  
• Tsinghua Meets the ILLC Panel Discussion
  Tsinghua Meets the ILLC Workshop, Beijing, 2013
  
  
• Tapping the Collective Intelligence of the Web
  Invited Speaker at The Creative Web, International Symposium on Computational Creativity as a Web-Service, KAIST, 2012
  
  
• Multilingual Linked Data & Language Resources
  Invited Panelist at Dagstuhl Multilingual Semantic Web Workshop, 2012
  
  
• Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia
  Invited Talk at ACL 2012 Workshop on Multilingual Modeling, Jeju, South Korea, 2012
  
  
• Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration
  Keynote Speaker at Logics and Ontologies for Portuguese Workshop. Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011
  
  

Invited Talks at Institutions

• Deep Learning and Embeddings
  Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2016
  
  
• Data Integration in NLP
  Samsung Research, Beijing, China, 2016
  
  
• Learning Semantics with Heterogeneous Supervision
  Nuance, Aachen, Germany, 2016
  
  
• Heterogeneous Supervision and Data Integration for NLP
  Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2015
  
  
• Algorithms for Large-Scale Semantic Knowledge Graphs
  University of Tokyo, Japan, 2014
  
  
• Algorithms for Large-Scale Semantic Knowledge Graphs
  NARA Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan, 2014
  
  
• Data-Driven Approaches to Semantics and Cognition
  Keio University, Japan, 2014
  
  
• Link Prediction in Big Knowledge Graphs
  Aarhus University, Denmark, 2014
  
  
• Link Prediction for Semantic Knowledge Graphs
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2014
  
  
• Joint Link Prediction Methods for Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge
  Télécom ParisTech University, Paris, 2014
  
  
• From Language to Knowledge and Vice Versa
  Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, 2014
  
  
• Beyond Information Extraction: Graph Algorithms for Better Knowledge Harvesting
  Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, 2013
  
  
• Link Prediction in Big Knowledge Graphs
  Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2013
  
  
• Data Integration and Reasoning on Real-World Big Data
  SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, 2013
  
  
• Beyond Information Extraction: Graph Algorithms for Better Knowledge Harvesting
  Google, Mountain View, CA, 2013
  
  
• Beyond Information Extraction: Graph Algorithms for Better Knowledge Harvesting
  Nuance Communications, Sunnyvale, CA, 2013
  
  
• Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of Big Data on the Web
  Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2013
  
  
• Data Integration and Reasoning on Real-World Big Data
  SRI International, Menlo Park, 2012
  
  
• Connecting the Dots: Data Integration for the Web of Data
  Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, 2012
  
  
• Making Sense of Words and Text in over 100 Languages
  University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012
  
  
• Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration
  University of Cambridge, UK, 2011
  
  
• Graph-Based Data Integration Techniques for Knowledge about Words and Entities
  Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, 2011
  
  
• Large-Scale Data Integration Techniques for Knowledge about Words and Entities
  INRIA Saclay, Paris/Orsay, France, 2011
  
  
• Constructing Large-Scale Semantic Knowledge Bases
  Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2009

Professional Activities

• Organizational / Editorial Activities
  • Editorial Board Member for Computational Intelligence
  • Editorial Board Member for Springer Language Resources and Evaluation.
  • Editorial Board Member for Language Science Press Book Series "Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing" (TMNLP)
  • Co-organizer for Beijing-Melbourne Workshop on Multilingual NLP and Social Media Analytics, Tsinghua University, 2015 (with Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn)
  • Co-organizer for PIKM 2014 at CIKM 2014 (with Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde)
  • Co-organizer for Frame Semantics in Natural Language Processing: A Workshop in Honor of Chuck Fillmore (1929–2014) at ACL 2014 (with Miriam R.L. Petruck)
  • Co-organizer for International FrameNet Workshop 2013 (with Lars Borin, Karin Friberg Heppin, Miriam R.L. Petruck)
  • Advisory Committee Member for PanLex (The Long Now Foundation)
  • Steering Committee Member for SemEval 2016
• Senior-Level Programme Committee Activities
  • Area Chair for ACL 2016 (Semantics track)
  • Senior Programme Committee Member for IJCAI 2016
  • Area Chair for NLPCC 2016 (Knowledge Graph/IE/QA track)
  • Area Chair for CCKS 2016
  • Senior Programme Committee Member for NLDB 2015
  • Area Chair for *SEM 2014
  • Area Chair for KONVENS 2012
• Conference Programme Committee Memberships
  • EACL 2017
  • KDD 2016
  • AAAI 2016
  • ACM WSDM 2016
  • NAACL HLT 2016
  • 3rd International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp2016)
  • International Conference on Fuzzy Management Methods (ICFMsquare) 2016
  • KDD 2015
  • ACL-IJCNLP 2015
  • ACM WSDM 2015
  • ECML-PKDD 2015
  • ICWSM 2015
  • EMNLP 2015
  • ESWC 2015
  • ACM/IEEE ASONAM 2015
  • AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR 2015)
  • 28th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2015)
  • 10th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL 2015)
  • ACL 2014
  • WWW 2014
  • ACM WSDM 2014
  • ICWSM 2014
  • ECML-PKDD 2014
  • COLING 2014
  • EACL 2014
  • KONVENS 2014
  • ECML-PKDD 2013 (Demonstration Track)
  • ACL 2013
  • IJCNLP 2013
  • RANLP 2013
  • *SEM 2013
  • AIRS 2013
  • GSCL 2013
  • ACL 2012
  • WWW 2012
  • ESWC 2012
  • ECML-PKDD 2012 (Demonstration Track)
  • EMNLP-CoNLL 2012
  • *SEM 2012
  • AIRS 2012
  • CIKM 2011 (Demonstration Track)
  • ACL HLT 2011
  • CLA 2011
• Workshop Programme Committee Memberships
  • WWW 2016 Workshop on Open Data for Local Search (OD4LS)
  • NAACL 2016 Fourth Workshop on Metaphor in NLP
  • NAACL 2016 Workshop on Multilingual and Cross­lingual Methods in NLP
  • 5th Cogalex Workshop at COLING 2016
  • 5th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL 2016) at LREC 2016
  • 4th Workshop on Natural Language in Computer Science (NLCS 2016)
  • LexSem+Logics 2016 Workshop
  • MapLex 2015
  • 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WOLLIC 2015)
  • MOD 2015, International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data
  • NAACL 2015 Workshop on Metaphor in NLP
  • 4th Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web
  • ACL 2015 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2015)
  • Workshop on Social Media and the Web of Linked Data (RUMOUR-2015)
  • ACL 2014 Workshop on Metaphor in NLP
  • 4th Cogalex Workshop at COLING 2014
  • LREC 2014 Workshop on Collaborative approaches and technologies for language resource development for under-resourced languages
  • LREC 2014 Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2014)
  • FOIS 2014 Workshop on Logics and Ontologies for Natural Language (LogOnto 2014)
  • PROPOR 2014 Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish (ToRPorEsp)
  • WWW 2013 Web of Linked Entities (WoLE 2013) Workshop
  • EMNLP 2013 TextGraphs-8 Workshop
  • NAACL HLT 2013 Workshop on Metaphor in NLP
  • 6th PIKM Workshop (at ACM CIKM 2013)
  • International FrameNet Workshop 2013
  • Workshop on Forensic Text Analytics (Fortan) at European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2013)
  • 2nd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2013) at GL 2013
  • 5th PIKM Workshop (at ACM CIKM 2012)
  • ACL 2012 Workshop on The People’s Web meets NLP
  • DGfS 2012 Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics
  • ISWC 2011 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web
  • EMNLP 2011 Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties
  • CLA 2010
  • COLING 2010 Workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
  • CLA 2009
• Journal Reviewing
  • VLDB Journal (2016)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (2015/6)
  • PLOS ONE (2015)
  • Elsevier Artificial Intelligence Journal (2015)
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) (2015)
  • BMC Research Notes (2015)
  • Springer Language Resources and Evaluation (2015)
  • International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (2015)
  • Springer Language Resources and Evaluation (2014)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (2013)
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2013)
  • Veredas – Journal of Linguistic Studies (2013)
  • Springer Language Resources and Evaluation (2013)
  • CSLI Publications Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT) (2013)
  • Semantic Web Journal (2013)
  • Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics (2012)
  • Elsevier Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (2012)
  • Springer Journal Knowledge and Information Systems (2012)
  • Elsevier Artificial Intelligence Journal (2011)
  • Springer Language Resources and Evaluation (2011)
  • Elsevier Artificial Intelligence Journal (2010)
  • International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (2010)
• Misc. Reviewing
  • SemEval 2015
  • Croatian Unity Through Knowledge Fund, 2015
  • LREC 2014
  • Springer book 'The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources' (2012)
  • AP-CAP 2009

Teaching

Introduction to Data Science Undergraduate Course (with Christoph Schommer), IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2016 Big Data Analytics Undergraduate Course, IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2016 Multilingual FrameNet Tutorial (co-taught with Collin Baker, Miriam Petruck et al.) at LREC 2016, Slovenia, 2016 Introduction to Computer Science Undergraduate Course, IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2015/16 Introduction to Data Science Undergraduate Course (with Christoph Schommer), IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2015 Semantic Technologies Graduate Course, IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2015 Speech Science, Technology and Innovative Applications Undergraduate Course (co-taught with Tan Lee, Pak-chung Ching, Ken Ma, Helen Meng, William S.-Y. Wang), IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2015 Information Extraction and Knowledge Integration Course at 12th EUROLAN Summer School (Invited Professor), Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, 2015 Scalable Learning Technologies for Big Data Mining Tutorial (co-taught with Aparna Varde) at DASFAA 2015, 2015 (Slides, including Deep Learning and Learning Representations) Introduction to Computer Science Undergraduate Course, IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2014/15 Big Data Guest lecturer in 'Big Data' course, IIIS, Tsinghua University/Microsoft Research Asia, 2014 Linked Data and the Semantic Web Tutorial (co-taught with Katja Hose) at American University of Beirut, March 2014 Introduction to Data Mining Guest lecture at IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2013 Semantic Resources for Natural Language Processing Tutorial at The Long Now Foundation's PanLex project, July 2013 Searching the Web of Data Tutorial (co-taught with Katja Hose) at ECIR 2013 (Slides) Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP Tutorial at COLING 2012 Text Mining and Natural Language Processing 1-Week Course (co-taught with Valeria de Paiva) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, November 2011 Information Retrieval and Data Mining Teaching Assistant, Saarland University, Winter 2007/08 PhD Advisor for several students, see WebLT group

Misc.

• Memberships: ACL, ACM, IEEE, GI, BCS-IRSG, ACL SIGLEX, GWA
• Profiles: LinkedIn profile, Twitter, FOAF file, URI
• Programming Languages: Scala, Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.
• Other Interests:
  • philosophy of language (LinkedIn group, general LinkedIn group)
  • metaphysics
  • epistemology (LinkedIn group)
  • learning languages
  • lexical semantics
  • philosophy of mind (LinkedIn group)
• Erdős Number: 3
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