Gerard de Melo's Publications

Publications: NLP

Publications by Topic: All | NLP | Knowledge Graphs | Computer Vision/Multimodality | IR/Social Media | Theory | Source Code

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).
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%
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%
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
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
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%
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%
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%
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).
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)
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
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).
Cross-Domain Learning for Classifying Propaganda in Online Contents BibTeX Data/Code
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 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%
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.
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.
Integrating Implicative Commitments BibTeX Order
Valeria de Paiva, Gerard de Melo (2019)
In: Tokens of Meaning: Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen. CSLI Publications.
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/Code arXiv Slides Presentation Video
Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. ACL 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Acceptance rate: 24.9%
Video Captioning with Multi-Faceted Attention BibTeX arXiv
Xiang Long, Chuang Gan, Gerard de Melo (2018)
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 6, 2018, p. 173–184.
Acceptance rate: 19%
Cross-Lingual Propagation for Deep Sentiment Analysis BibTeX Website
Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 25%
Co-PACRR: A Context-Aware Neural IR Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval BibTeX Website/Code arXiv
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 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.
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 LNCS.
Five Shades of Untruth: Finer-Grained Classification of Fake News (Poster Paper) BibTeX
Liqiang Wang, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2018)
In: Proc. ASONAM 2018.
Mapping Ordinances and Tweets using Smart City Characteristics to Aid Opinion Mining BibTeX
Manish Puri, Xu Du, Aparna Varde, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. WWW 2018 Workshop on Social Sensing and Enterprise Intelligence (SSEI 2018). ACM.
OpenWordNet-PT: Taking Stock BibTeX Website Code
Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Livy Real, Fabricio Chalub, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. NLCS 2018.
Visualizing Multi-Document Semantics via Open Domain Information Extraction BibTeX Website Presentation Video
Yongpan Sheng, Zenglin Xu, Yafang Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Jia Jia, Zhonghui You, Gerard de Melo (2018)
In: Proc. ECML-PKDD 2018 (Demonstration Paper). Springer LNCS.
Multiple-Weight Recurrent Neural Networks BibTeX
Zhu Cao, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. IJCAI 2017.
Acceptance rate: 26%
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.
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 46:4, 2017, p. 49–52.
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.
Position-Aware Representations for Relevance Matching in Neural Information Retrieval BibTeX
Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Poster Paper). 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.
Multilingual Vector Representations of Words, Sentences, and Documents (Tutorial Abstract) BibTeX
Gerard de Melo (2017)
In: Proc. IJCNLP 2017.
Relation Classification via Multi-Level Attention CNNs BibTeX
Linlin Wang, Zhu Cao, Gerard de Melo, Zhiyuan Liu (2016)
In: Proc. ACL 2016.
Acceptance rate: 25.4%
Detecting Cross-Cultural Differences Using a Multilingual Topic Model 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 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 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)
Heuristics for Connecting Heterogeneous Knowledge via FrameBase 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%
Summary Generation for Temporal Extractions 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). Springer International Publishing.
Acceptance rate: 28%
Medical Concept Embeddings via Labeled Background Corpora BibTeX 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 BibTeX Website
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).
Klint: Assisting Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge BibTeX Website
Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2016)
In: Proc. IJCAI 2016 (Demonstration Paper).
Complex Schema Mapping and Linking Data: Beyond Binary Predicates 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 BibTeX Website Slides
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo, Abir De, Gerhard Weikum (2015)
In: Proc. CIKM 2015. ACM.
Acceptance rate: 18% (KR Track)
Perceptually Grounded Selectional Preferences 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 BibTeX
Linlin Wang, Kang Liu, Zhu Cao, Jun Zhao, Gerard de Melo (2015)
In: Proc. ACL 2015.
Acceptance rate: 25%
FrameBase: Representing N-ary Relations using Semantic Frames 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%
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)
Wiktionary-Based Word Embeddings BibTeX
Gerard de Melo (2015)
In: Proc. MT Summit XV. AMTA.
Dissertation Research Problems in Data Management and Related Areas BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde (2015)
SIGMOD Record 44:4, 2015, p. 53–56.
Neural Word Representations from Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge BibTeX
Jiaqiang Chen, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2015)
In: Proc. WI 2015 (Short Paper).
Lights, Camera, Action: Knowledge Extraction from Movie Scripts BibTeX Data
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 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 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 BibTeX Website Slides
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 BibTeX Website Slides
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 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)
Frames, Constructions, and Computation (Special Issue) BibTeX
Lars Borin, Gerard de Melo, Karin Friberg Heppin, Tiago Timponi Torrent (Eds.) (2014)
Constructions and Frames 6:1, 2014. John Benjamins Publishing.
Etymological Wordnet: Tracing The History of Words BibTeX Website
Gerard de Melo (2014)
In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
NomLex-PT: A Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations BibTeX Website/Code
Valeria de Paiva, Livy Real, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2014)
In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
Bring vs. MTRoget: Evaluating Automatic Thesaurus Translation BibTeX
Lars Borin, Jens Allwood, Gerard de Melo (2014)
In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
Sense-Specific Implicative Commitments 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 BibTeX Website
Miriam R.L. Petruck, Gerard de Melo (Eds.) (2014)
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Embedding NomLex-BR Nominalizations into OpenWN-PT BibTeX Website/Code Slides
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 Website Code
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 BibTeX Code
Cl\'audia 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 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.
Good, Great, Excellent: Global Inference of Semantic Intensities BibTeX Website/Code 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%
Graph-based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration BibTeX Order
Gerard de Melo (2012)
universaar – Saarland University Press. 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 46:2, 2012, p. 287–311. Springer Verlag.
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, 2012, p. 147-152. Oldenbourg.
OpenWordNet-PT: An Open Brazilian WordNet for Reasoning BibTeX Website Code
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 (2012)
In: COLING 2012 Tutorial Notes.
UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base BibTeX Website/UWN API Code Poster
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2012)
In: Proc. ACL 2012 (Demonstration Paper). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Empirical Comparisons of MASC Word Sense Annotations BibTeX Website Blog
Gerard de Melo, Collin F. Baker, Nancy Ide, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Christiane Fellbaum (2012)
In: Proc. LREC 2012. ELRA.
Precedes: A Semantic Relation in FrameNet BibTeX Website
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 BibTeX
Niket Tandon, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Gerard de Melo (2012)
In: Proc. COLING 2012 (Demonstration Paper).
Deriving a Web-Scale Common Sense Fact Database BibTeX Slides
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 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)
Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2010 D-11, 2011, p. 221–230. Gesellschaft für Informatik Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI).
An Application: Extending SUMO with Wikipedia BibTeX Website
Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Adam Pease (2011)
In: Ontology: A Practical Guide. Articulate Software Press.
Graph-based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration   BibTeX
Gerard de Melo (2010)
Doctoral Dissertation. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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 Prize 2012
MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia BibTeX Website
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%
Untangling the Cross-Lingual Link Structure of Wikipedia BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
In: Proc. ACL 2010. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Acceptance rate: 25%
Providing Multilingual, Multimodal Answers to Lexical Database Queries BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
In: Proc. LREC 2010. ELRA.
Towards Universal Multilingual Knowledge Bases BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
In: Principles, Construction, and Applications of Multilingual Wordnets. Proc. 5th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2010). Narosa Publishing.
Information Extraction from Web-Scale N-Gram Data BibTeX Slides
Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2010)
In: Proc. Web N-gram Workshop at SIGIR 2010. ACM.
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%
Extracting Sense-Disambiguated Example Sentences From Parallel Corpora BibTeX Slides
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
In: Proc. Workshop on Definition Extraction at RANLP 2009. INCOMA.
Integrating YAGO into the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology BibTeX Website Slides Technical Report
Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Adam Pease (2008)
In: Proc. 20th IEEE ICTAI 2008 (Short Paper). IEEE Computer Society.
Language as a Foundation of the Semantic Web BibTeX Website Lexvo API
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
In: Proc. 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) (Poster Paper). CEUR WS.
Mapping Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet to French BibTeX Website
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
In: Proc. LREC 2008. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
A Machine Learning Approach to Building Aligned Wordnets BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
In: Proc. International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources (ICGL 2008).
🏆 Best Paper Award
On the Utility of Automatically Generated Wordnets BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2007)
In: Proc. Fourth Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2008). University of Szeged.
Multilingual Text Classification Using Ontologies BibTeX Slides
Gerard de Melo, Stefan Siersdorfer (2007)
In: Proc. ECIR 2007. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Acceptance rate: 27.7%
Adaptive Multilingual Text Classification using Ontologies BibTeX
Gerard de Melo (2006)
Diplomarbeit (Master's Thesis). Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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