Gerard de Melo's Talks and Activities
Public Speaking / Invited Talks
Keynote and Invited Talks at Events
(not including regular paper presentations at conferences and workshops)
- Wie KI aus Text und Bildern lernt
Invited Talk at Science Notes "Künstliche Intelligenz" at Berlin Science Week 2022, SO36, Berlin
- Learning from Heterogeneous Data
Invited Talk at HPI@UCI 2022 Symposium, UC Irvine, CA, USA
- Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Introduction
Keynote Talk at HPI-OAU Fundamentals of NLP Bootcamp held at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria, 2022
- Recent Techniques for Multimodal AI
Invited Talk at the Envision Bootcamp: A Hands-on Introduction to Multimodal (Signal) Analysis Techniques To gain Qualitative and Quantitative Understanding of Team Dynamics, Potsdam + online, 2021.
- How Can I Help You? Knowledge Graphs for Explainable Recommendation
Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS) at RecSys 2021
- Appearances Matter: Enhancing the Presentation of Text using Cross-Modal Representation Learning and Emotion Analysis
Keynote Speaker at the AAAI-21
Workshop on Content Authoring and Design (CAD21)
Talk Slides
- Explainable AI
Invited Talk at HPI Research Symposium 2020, HPI, Germany
- Putting AI to work – How AI is disrupting the workplace
Panel Speaker at Cluj Innovation Days 2020
- Toward More Fine-Grained Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Text
Speaker at Strata Data Conference New York 2019
- Knowledge Integration based on Human Language Technology
Invited Speaker at 3rd Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-19)
- Deep Sentiment Analysis Across Language Boundaries
Speaker at O'Reilly AI New York 2018
- Learning Meaning from Web-Scale Big Data
Speaker at Strata Data Conference New York 2017
- Knowledge Graphs: Venturing out into the Wild
Keynote Talk at ISWC 2016 NLP&DBpedia Workshop
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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
- From Artificial Intelligence to Intelligent Systems
Inaugural Lecture, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam, Germany, 2022
- Can Artificial Intelligence be Creative?
German International School of Silicon Valley, CA, USA, 2021
- Explainable AI using Knowledge Graphs
SAP, 2021
- Digging Deeper: Representation Learning for Fine-Grained Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Text
Duke University, USA, 2020
- Towards Interpretable Semantics and Knowledge in NLP
Bloomberg, New York City, USA, 2019
- Digging Deeper: Representations for Fine-Grained Affective Text Analysis
Montclair State University, USA, 2019
- Knowledge Integration for Real-World Big Data
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 2019
- Summarizing and Connecting Content across Modalities
Heidelberg University, Germany, 2019
- Towards Interpretable and Explicit Semantics in NLP
Google, New York City, 2018
- Representation Learning from Text, Knowledge, Networks, and Videos
SRI, Princeton, 2018
- Learning Semantics and Commonsense Knowledge from Heterogeneous Data
New York University, 2017
- Making Semantic Technology Intelligent
Universität Hamburg, Germany, 2016
- Neural Knowledge Modeling from Web-Scale Data
L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, 2016
- 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 Journal of Web Semantics
- Editorial Board Member for Springer Language Resources and Evaluation (-2020)
- Editorial Board Member for Language Science Press Book Series "Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing" (TMNLP)
- Partner in Global FrameNet initiative
- Co-organizer for 4th Workshop of Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems at RecSys 2022
- Co-organizer for Envision Workshop: Multimodal Research for Design using Machine Learning at DRS 2022
- Co-organizer for Envision Bootcamp – A Hands-on Introduction to Multimodal (Signal) Analysis Techniques to Gain Qualitative and Quantitative Understanding of Team Dynamics, Potsdam, 2021
- Co-organizer for AAAI 2022 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services
- Co-organizer for AAAI 2021 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services
- Co-organizer for Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies (DL4KGS) at ESWC 2018
- 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)
- Scientific Advisory Committee Member for LDK 2019
- Advisory Board Member for International AIQT Foundation, Switzerland, 2020-
- Advisory Committee Member for PanLex (The Long Now Foundation)
- Steering Committee Member for SemEval 2016
Senior-Level Programme Committee Activities
Conference Programme Committee Memberships
Workshop Programme Committee Memberships
Memberships
Note: Some of these may have expired.
