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Mitigate the Gap: Improving Cross-Modal Alignment in CLIP   BibTeX
Sedigheh Eslami, Gerard de Melo (2025)
In: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

NLSR: Neuron-Level Safety Realignment of Large Language Models Against Harmful Fine-Tuning   BibTeX
Xin Yi, Shunfan Zheng, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo, Xiaoling Wang, Liang He (2025)
In: Proc. AAAI 2025. AAAI Press.

NextLevelBERT: Masked Language Modeling with Higher-Level Representations for Long Documents   BibTeX
Tamara Czinczoll, Christoph Hönes, Maximilian Schall, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. ACL 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation   BibTeX
Maximilian Schall, Tamara Czinczoll, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE Computer Society.
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award

LLMs Cannot (Yet) Match the Specificity and Simplicity of Online Communities in Long Form Question Answering   BibTeX
Kris-Fillip Kahl, Tolga Buz, Russa Biswas, Gerard De Melo (2024)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Highly Regarded Investors? Mining Predictive Value from the Collective Intelligence of Reddit’s WallStreetBets   BibTeX
Tolga Buz, Moritz Schneider, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: ACM Web Science Conference (Websci ’24), May 21–24, 2024, Stuttgart, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Best Paper Award First Runner-Up

GUIDE: Creating Semantic Domain Dictionaries for Low-Resource Languages   BibTeX
Jonathan Janetzki, Gerard de Melo, Joshua Nemecek, Daniel Whitenack (2024)
In: Proc. 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024).

FOCUS: Effective Embedding Initialization for Monolingual Specialization of Multilingual Models   BibTeX
Konstantin Dobler, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Proceedings EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Connecting the Dots: What Graph-Based Text Representations Work Best for Text Classification using Graph Neural Networks?   BibTeX
Margarita Bugueño, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.

PubMedCLIP: How Much Does CLIP Benefit Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain?   BibTeX
Sedigheh Eslami, Christoph Meinel, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Resolving Elliptical Compounds in German Medical Text   BibTeX
Niklas Kammer, Florian Borchert, Silvia Winkler, Gerard de Melo, Matthieu-P. Schapranow (2023)
In: 22nd Workshop on Biomedical NLP at ACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Harnessing Neighborhood Modeling and Asymmetry Preservation for Digraph Representation Learning   BibTeX
Honglu Zhou, Advith Chegu, Samuel S. Sohn, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2023)
In: Proc. IJCAI 2023.

D-HYPR: Harnessing Neighborhood Modeling and Asymmetry Preservation for Digraph Representation Learning   BibTeX
Honglu Zhou, Advith Chegu, Samuel Sohn, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2022)
In: Proc. CIKM 2022. ACM.
Best Paper Award

NL-Augmenter 🦎 → 🐍: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation   BibTeX
Kaustubh Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Aadesh Gupta, Zhenhao Li, Saad Mahamood, Abinaya Mahadiran, Simon Mille, Ashish Shrivastava, Samson Tan, Tongshang Wu, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jinho D. Choi, Eduard Hovy, Ondřej Dušek, Sebastian Ruder, Sajant Anand, Nagender Aneja, Rabin Banjade, Lisa Barthe, Hanna Behnke, Ian Berlot-Attwell, Connor Boyle, Caroline Brun, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, et al. (2023)
Northern European Journal of Language Technology 9:1, 2023.

Fast-R2D2: A Pretrained Recursive Neural Network based on Pruned CKY for Grammar Induction and Text Representation   BibTeX
Xiang Hu, Haitao Mi, Liang Li, Gerard de Melo (2022)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Art Creation with Multi-Conditional StyleGANs   BibTeX
Konstantin Dobler, Florian Hübscher, Jan Westphal, Alejandro Sierra-Múnera, Gerard de Melo, Ralf Krestel (2022)
In: Proc. IJCAI-ECAI 2022 (Special Track on AI, the Arts and Creativity).

Frozen CLIP Models are Efficient Video Learners   BibTeX
Ziyi Lin, Shijie Geng, Renrui Zhang, Peng Gao, Gerard de Melo, Xiaogang Wang, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, Hongsheng Li (2022)
In: Proc. ECCV 2022. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Masked-Piper: Masking personal identities in visual recordings while preserving multimodal information   BibTeX
Babajide Owoyele, James Trujillo, Gerard de Melo, Wim Pouw (2022)
SoftwareX, 2022. Elsevier.

Dense Contrastive Visual-Linguistic Pretraining   BibTeX
Lei Shi, Kai Shuang, Shijie Geng, Peng Su, Zhengkai Jiang, Peng Gao, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Sen Su (2021)
In: Proc. ACM Multimedia (MM) 2021.

Faithfully Explainable Recommendation via Neural Logic Reasoning   BibTeX
Yaxin Zhu, Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2021)
In: Proc. NAACL-HLT 2021 (Short Paper). ACL.

Fast and Effective Biomedical Entity Linking Using a Dual Encoder   BibTeX
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
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

OOGAN: Disentangling GAN with One-Hot Sampling and Orthogonal Regularization   BibTeX
Bingchen Liu, Yizhe Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2020)
In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.

SCALOR: Generative World Models with Scalable Object Representations   BibTeX
Jindong Jiang, Sepehr Janghorbani, Gerard de Melo, Sungjin Ahn (2020)
In: Proc. ICLR 2020. OpenReview.net.

A Joint Framework for Inductive Representation Learning and Explainable Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs   BibTeX
Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. ISWC 2020.

HID: Hierarchical Multiscale Representation Learning for Information Diffusion   BibTeX
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.

CAFE: Coarse-to-Fine Neural Symbolic Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation   BibTeX
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.

GitEvolve: Predicting the Evolution of GitHub Repositories   BibTeX
Honglu Zhou, Hareesh Ravi, Carlos M. Muniz, Vahid Azizi, Linda Ness, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2020)
ArXiv 2010.04366, 2020.

Cross-Domain Learning for Classifying Propaganda in Online Contents   BibTeX
Liqiang Wang, Xiaoyu Shen, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2020)
In: Proc. Conference on Truth and Trust Online (TTO) 2020.

Facts That Matter: Dynamic Fact Retrieval for Entity-Centric Search Queries   BibTeX
Atharva Prabhat Paranjpe, Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. International Semantic Web Conference 2020 (ISWC 2020) (Poster Paper). CEUR-WS.

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. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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.

Reinforcement Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation   BibTeX
Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, S. Muthukrishnan, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2019)
In: Proc. SIGIR 2019. ACM.

CITE: A Corpus Of Text-Image Discourse Relations   BibTeX
Malihe Alikhani, Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury, Gerard de Melo, Matthew Stone (2019)
In: Proc. NAACL-HLT 2019 (Short Paper). Association for Computational Linguistics.

A Robust Self-Learning Framework for Cross-Lingual Text Classification   BibTeX
Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (Short Paper). ACL.

Using Multi-Sense Vector Embeddings for Reverse Dictionaries   BibTeX
Michael Aloys Hedderich, Andrew Yates, Dietrich Klakow, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Proc. IWCS 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Generating Fine-Grained Open Vocabulary Entity Type Descriptions   BibTeX
Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. ACL 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Co-PACRR: A Context-Aware Neural IR Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval   BibTeX
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. WSDM 2018. ACM.

OpenWordNet-PT: Taking Stock   BibTeX
Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Livy Real, Fabricio Chalub, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. NLCS 2018.

Embedding NomLex-BR Nominalizations into OpenWN-PT   BibTeX
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   BibTeX
Alexandre Rademaker, Valeria de Paiva, Gerard de Melo, Livy Real, Maira Gatti (2014)
In: Proc. 7th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2014).

OpenWordNet-PT: An Open Brazilian WordNet for Reasoning   BibTeX
Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2012)
In: Proc. COLING 2012 (Demonstration Paper).

PACRR: A Position-Aware Neural IR Model for Relevance Matching   BibTeX
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

RE-PACRR: A Context and Density-Aware Neural Information Retrieval Model   BibTeX
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. Neu-IR 2017 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval. ACM.

PEAK: Pyramid Evaluation via Automated Knowledge Extraction   BibTeX
Qian Yang, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Gerard de Melo (2016)
In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.

Medical Concept Embeddings via Labeled Background Corpora   BibTeX
Eneldo Loza Mencía, Gerard de Melo, Jinseok Nam (2016)
In: Proc. 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016).

Lexvo.org: Language-Related Information for the Linguistic Linked Data Cloud   BibTeX
Gerard de Melo (2015)
Semantic Web 6:4, 2015, p. 393-400. IOS Press.

Language as a Foundation of the Semantic Web   BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
In: Proc. 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) (Poster Paper). CEUR WS.

NomLex-PT: A Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations   BibTeX
Valeria de Paiva, Livy Real, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2014)
In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.

Extending a Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations with Data from Corpora   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.

Good, Great, Excellent: Global Inference of Semantic Intensities   BibTeX
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.

UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base   BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2012)
In: Proc. ACL 2012 (Demonstration Paper). Association for Computational Linguistics.

Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidence   BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
In: Proc. 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009). ACM.