Gerard de Melo's Publications

Publications

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  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%
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  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.
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  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.
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  TIME: Text and Image Mutual-Translation Adversarial Networks   BibTeX   arXiv   Slides
  Bingchen Liu, Kunpeng Song, Yizhe Zhu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2021)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2021.
  Acceptance rate: 21%
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  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%
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  EXACTA: Explainable Column Annotation   BibTeX
  Yikun Xian, Handong Zhao, Tak Yeon Lee, Sungchul Kim, Ryan Rossi, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, S. Muthukrishnan (2021)
  In: Proc. KDD 2021 (Applied Data Science Track). ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 19.6%
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  Faithfully Explainable Recommendation via Neural Logic Reasoning   BibTeX   arXiv   Code
  Yaxin Zhu, Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2021)
  In: Proc. NAACL-HLT 2021 (Short Paper). ACL.
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  Knowledge Graphs   BibTeX   Website   arXiv   Data
  Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez, Claudia d'Amato, Gerard de Melo, Claudio Gutierrez, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Sabrina Kirrane, Sebastian Neumaier, Axel Polleres, Roberto Navigli, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Sabbir M. Rashid, Anisa Rula, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Juan Sequeda, Steffen Staab, Antoine Zimmermann (2021)
  ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 54:4, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery.
  Impact factor: 7.990 (2019)
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  Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification   BibTeX
  Xiang Long, Gerard de Melo, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Zhizhen Chi, Shilei Wen, Chuang Gan (2021) (to appear)
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021.
  Impact factor: 17.861 (2019)
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  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.
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  Assessing Correlations Between Personality Predictive Lexical Cues   BibTeX
  Xiaoli He, Gerard de Melo (2021)
  In: Proc. RANLP 2021 (Short Paper).
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  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.
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  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
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  Forecasting mit Artificial Intelligence   BibTeX
  Nicole de Melo, Gerard de Melo (2021)
  REthinking: Finance 2, 2021. Handelsblatt Fachmedien.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Context-Aware Interaction Network for Question Matching   BibTeX
  Zhe Hu, Zuohui Fu, Yu Yin, Gerard de Melo, Cheng Peng (2021)
  ArXiv 2104.08451, 2021.
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  Guilt by Association: Emotion Intensities in Lexical Representations   BibTeX
  Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo (2021)
  ArXiv 2104.08679, 2021.
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  Should You Take Investment Advice From WallStreetBets? A Data-Driven Approach   BibTeX
  Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2021)
  ArXiv 2105.02728, 2021.
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  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)
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  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%
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  OOGAN: Disentangling GAN with One-Hot Sampling and Orthogonal Regularization   BibTeX   Website/Code   arXiv
  Bingchen Liu, Yizhe Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2020)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 20.6%
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  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%
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  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%
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  SCALOR: Generative World Models with Scalable Object Representations   BibTeX   Website   arXiv   Slides   Code
  Jindong Jiang, Sepehr Janghorbani, Gerard de Melo, Sungjin Ahn (2020)
  In: Proc. ICLR 2020. OpenReview.net.
  Acceptance rate: 26.5%
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  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)
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  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%
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  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%
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  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%
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  HID: Hierarchical Multiscale Representation Learning for Information Diffusion   BibTeX   Code
  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.
  Acceptance rate: 12.6%
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  Fairness-Aware Explainable Recommendation over Knowledge Graphs   BibTeX   arXiv
  Zuohui Fu, Yikun Xian, Ruoyuan Gao, Jieyu Zhao, Qiaoying Huang, Yingqiang Ge, Shuyuan Xu, Shijie Geng, Chirag Shah, Yongfeng Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  In: Proc. SIGIR 2020. ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
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  CAFE: Coarse-to-Fine Neural Symbolic Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation   BibTeX   arXiv   Presentation Video
  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.
  Acceptance rate: 21%
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  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%
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  Cross-Lingual Emotion Lexicon Induction using Representation Alignment in Low-Resource Settings   BibTeX   Website
  Arun Ramachandran, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  In: Proc. COLING 2020.
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  Sentence Analogies: Linguistic Regularities in Sentence Embeddings   BibTeX   arXiv
  Xunjie Zhu, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  In: Proc. COLING 2020.
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  Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicons Induced from Labeled Documents   BibTeX
  SM Mazharul Islam, Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  In: Proc. COLING 2020.
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  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.
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  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).
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  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).
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  Affect-Aware Word Clouds   BibTeX
  Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2020. ACM.
  Impact factor: 1.63 (2020)
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  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
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  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)
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  Hydroinformatics and the Web: Analytics and Dissemination of Hydrology Data for Climate Change and Sustainability   BibTeX
  Drashti Pathak, Aparna S. Varde, Gerard de Melo, Clement Alo (2020)
  ACM SIGWEB Newsl. Autumn, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery.
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  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
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  Knowledge Graphs   BibTeX   Website
  Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez, Claudia d'Amato, Gerard de Melo, Claudio Gutierrez, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Sabrina Kirrane, Sebastian Neumaier, Axel Polleres, Roberto Navigli, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Sabbir M. Rashid, Anisa Rula, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Juan Sequeda, Steffen Staab, Antoine Zimmermann (2020)
  ArXiv 2003.02320, 2020.
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  GitEvolve: Predicting the Evolution of GitHub Repositories   BibTeX   Code
  Honglu Zhou, Hareesh Ravi, Carlos M. Muniz, Vahid Azizi, Linda Ness, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2020)
  ArXiv 2010.04366, 2020.
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  Character Matters: Video Story Understanding with Character-Aware Relations   BibTeX
  Shijie Geng, Ji Zhang, Zuohui Fu, Peng Gao, Hang Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  ArXiv 2005.08646, 2020.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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).
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Employing Shadows for Multi-Person Tracking Based on a Single RGB-D Camera   BibTeX
  Wei Gai, Meng Qi, Mingcong Ma, Lu Wang, Chenglei Yang, Juan Liu, Yulong Bian, Gerard de Melo, Shijun Liu, Xiangxu Meng (2020)
  Sensors 20:4, 2020, p. 1056. MDPI.
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  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.
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  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.
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  MR Environments Constructed for a Large Indoor Physical Space   BibTeX
  Huan Xing, Chenglei Yang, Xiyu Bao, Sheng Li, Wei Gai, Meng Qi, Juan Liu, Yuliang Shi, Gerard de Melo, Fan Zhang, Xiangxu Meng (2020)
  In: CGI 2020: Advances in Computer Graphics. Springer International Publishing.
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  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%
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  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%
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  Paralinguistic Recommendations for Affective Word Clouds   BibTeX   Presentation Video
  Tugba Kulahcioglu, Gerard de Melo (2019)
  In: Proc. ACM IUI 2019. ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
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  Reinforcement Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation   BibTeX   arXiv   Presentation Video   Code
  Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, S. Muthukrishnan, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2019)
  In: Proc. SIGIR 2019. ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 20%
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  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)
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  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%
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  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%
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Integrating Implicative Commitments   BibTeX   Order
  Valeria de Paiva, Gerard de Melo (2019)
  In: Tokens of Meaning: Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen. CSLI Publications.
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  Leveraging Blowing as a Directly Controlled Interface   BibTeX
  Yeqing Chen, Yulong Bian, Chenglei Yang, Xiyu Bao, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo (2019)
  In: Proc. IEEE SmartWorld 2019 (Short Paper). IEEE.
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  Catch the Shadow: Person Tracking Under Occlusion with a Single RGB-D Camera   BibTeX
  Wei Gai, Meng Qi, Lu Wang, Chenglei Yang, Mingcong Ma, Juan Liu, Yulong Bian, Gerard de Melo, Shijun Liu, Xiangxu Meng (2019)
  In: Proc. IEEE SmartWorld 2019 (Short Paper). IEEE.
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  Optimization Strategies for Real-Time Rendering of Virtual Scenes on Heterogeneous Mobile Devices   BibTeX
  Wei Gai, Xiyu Bao, Meng Qi, Yafang Wang, Juan Liu, Gerard de Melo, Lu Wang, Lizhen Cui, Chenglei Yang, Xiangxu Meng (2019)
  In: Proc. IEEE SmartWorld 2019 (Visual Perception and Visual Computing Paper). IEEE.
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  Rotbav: A Toolkit for Constructing Mixed Reality Apps with Real-Time Roaming in Large Indoor Physical Spaces   BibTeX
  Huan Xing, Xiyu Bao, Fan Zhang, Wei Gai, Meng Qi, Juan Liu, Yuliang Shi, Gerard de Melo, Chenglei Yang, Xiangxu Meng (2019)
  In: Proc. IEEE VR 2019 (Poster Paper). IEEE.
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  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%
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  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%
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  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%
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  Attention Clusters: Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification   BibTeX   arXiv   Supplemental Material   Data
  Xiang Long, Chuang Gan, Gerard de Melo, Jiajun Wu, Xiao Liu, Shilei Wen (2018)
  In: Proc. CVPR 2018.
  🏆  Backbone of winning solution in ActivityNet 2017 Kinetics Challenge
  Acceptance rate: 29.6%
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  Cross-Lingual Propagation for Deep Sentiment Analysis   BibTeX   Website
  Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
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  Link Prediction via Subgraph Embedding-Based Convex Matrix Completion   BibTeX   Slides
  Zhu Cao, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
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  Multimodal Keyless Attention Fusion for Video Classification   BibTeX
  Xiang Long, Chuang Gan, Gerard de Melo, Xiao Liu, Yandong Li, Fu Li, Shilei Wen (2018)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
  🏆  Backbone of 3rd place ($20,000 prize) solution in the Google Cloud & YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge
  Acceptance rate: 25%
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  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%
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  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.
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  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
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  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).
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  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).
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  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%
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  OpenWordNet-PT: Taking Stock   BibTeX   Website   Code
  Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Livy Real, Fabricio Chalub, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. NLCS 2018.
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  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.
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  Proceedings of the First Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies (DL4KGS)   BibTeX
  Michael Cochez, Thierry Declerck, Gerard de Melo, Luis Espinosa Anke, Besnik Fetahu, Dagmar Gromann, Mayank Kejriwal, Maria Koutraki, Freddy Lecue, Enrico Palumbo, Harald Sack (Eds.) (2018)
  CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2106. CEUR-WS.
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  Multiple-Weight Recurrent Neural Networks   BibTeX
  Zhu Cao, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. IJCAI 2017.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
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  Should Algorithms for Random SAT and Max-SAT be Different?   BibTeX   arXiv   Slides
  Sixue Liu, Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2017. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 24.6%
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  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%
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  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.
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  Inducing Conceptual Embedding Spaces from Wikipedia   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Cognitive Computing Track). ACM.
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  Multimodal Question Answering over Structured Data with Ambiguous Entities   BibTeX
  Huadong Li, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Changhe Tu, Baoquan Chen (2017)
  In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Cognitive Computing Track). ACM.
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  Enabling Participatory Design of 3D Virtual Scenes on Mobile Devices   BibTeX
  Xiaowen Sun, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Wei Gai, Yuliang Shi, Lu Zhao, Yulong Bian, Juan Liu, Chenglei Yang, Xiangxu Meng (2017)
  In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Games, Simulations and Interactive Environments Track). ACM.
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  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)
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  Commonsense Knowledge in Machine Intelligence   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Aparna Varde, Gerard de Melo (2017)
  SIGMOD Record 46:4, 2017, p. 49–52.
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  Link Prediction by Exploiting Network Formation Games in Exchangeable Graphs   BibTeX
  Liqiang Wang, Yafang Wang, Bin Liu, Lirong He, Shijun Liu, Gerard de Melo, Zenglin Xu (2017)
  In: Proc. IJCNN 2017.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Multilingual Vector Representations of Words, Sentences, and Documents (Tutorial Abstract)   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. IJCNLP 2017.
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  Knowledge Graphs: Venturing Out into the Wild   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: ISWC 2016: Knowledge Graphs and Language Technology. Springer International Publishing.
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  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%
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  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%
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  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%
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  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%
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  Concepts Not Alone: Exploring Pairwise Relationships for Zero-Shot Video Activity Recognition   BibTeX
  Chuang Gan, Ming Lin, Yi Yang, Gerard de Melo, Alexander G. Hauptmann (2016)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
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  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)
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  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%
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  ShapeLearner: Towards Shape-Based Visual Knowledge Harvesting   BibTeX   Website
  Huayong Xu, Yafang Wang, Kang Feng, Gerard de Melo, Wei Wu, Andrei Sharf, Baoquan Chen (2016)
  In: Proc. ECAI 2016. IOS Press Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications.
  Acceptance rate: 27%
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  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%
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  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).
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  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).
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  Seeing is Believing: The Quest for Multimodal Knowledge   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Niket Tandon (2016)
  ACM SIGWEB Newsletter Spring 2016, 2016, p. 4:1–4:9. ACM.
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  Data Integration Beyond Alignments Between Two Sources   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2016)
  Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS) 4, 2016.
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  ShapeExplorer: Querying and Exploring Shapes using Visual Knowledge   BibTeX   Website
  Tong Ge, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Zengguang Hao, Andrei Sharf, Baoquan Chen (2016)
  In: Proc. EDBT 2016 (Demonstration Paper).
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  Visualizing and Curating Knowledge Graphs over Time and Space   BibTeX
  Tong Ge, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Haofeng Li (2016)
  In: Proc. ACL 2016 (Demonstration Paper). ACL.
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  Klint: Assisting Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge   BibTeX   Website
  Jacobo Rouces, Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2016)
  In: Proc. IJCAI 2016 (Demonstration Paper).
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  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).
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  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)
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  Perceptually Grounded Selectional Preferences   BibTeX   Poster
  Ekaterina Shutova, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. ACL 2015.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
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  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%
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  DynaDiffuse: A Dynamic Diffusion Model for Continuous Time Constrained Influence Maximization   BibTeX
  Miao Xie, Qiusong Yang, Qing Wang, Gao Cong, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2015. AAAI.
  Acceptance rate: 26.67%
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  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%
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  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)
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  Wiktionary-Based Word Embeddings   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. MT Summit XV. AMTA.
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  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.
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  Neural Word Representations from Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge   BibTeX
  Jiaqiang Chen, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo (2015)
  In: Proc. WI 2015 (Short Paper).
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  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%
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  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
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  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.
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  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%
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  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%
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  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%
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  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)
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  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.
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  Proceedings of the 7th Workshop for Ph.D. Students (PIKM '14), co-located with CIKM 2014   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde (Eds.) (2014)
  ACM.
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  PIKM 2014: The 7th ACM Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (Workshop Summary)   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Mouna Kacimi, Aparna Varde (2014)
  In: Proc. CIKM 2014. ACM.
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  Etymological Wordnet: Tracing The History of Words   BibTeX   Website
  Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
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  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.
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  Bring vs. MTRoget: Evaluating Automatic Thesaurus Translation   BibTeX
  Lars Borin, Jens Allwood, Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. LREC 2014. ELRA.
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  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%
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  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.
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  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).
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  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).
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  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.
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  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.
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  Not Quite the Same: Identity Constraints for the Web of Linked Data   BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Gerard de Melo (2013)
  In: Proc. 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013). AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 29%
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  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%
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  Searching the Web of Data (Tutorial Abstract)   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2013)
  In: Proc. ECIR 2013. Springer LNCS.
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  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.
  
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  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.
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  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.
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  LINDA: Distributed Web-of-Data-Scale Entity Matching   BibTeX
  Christoph Böhm, Gerard de Melo, Felix Naumann, Gerhard Weikum (2012)
  In: Proc. ACM CIKM 2012 (Short Paper). ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 27.8%
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  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).
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  Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: COLING 2012 Tutorial Notes.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Markov Chains for Robust Graph-based Commonsense Information Extraction   BibTeX
  Niket Tandon, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: Proc. COLING 2012 (Demonstration Paper).
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  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%
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  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
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  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).
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  An Application: Extending SUMO with Wikipedia   BibTeX   Website
  Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Adam Pease (2011)
  In: Ontology: A Practical Guide. Articulate Software Press.
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  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
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  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%
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  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%
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  Providing Multilingual, Multimodal Answers to Lexical Database Queries   BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
  In: Proc. LREC 2010. ELRA.
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  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.
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  Progress Towards Effective Automated Reasoning with World Knowledge   BibTeX   Website
  Geoff Sutcliffe, Martin Suda, Alexandra Teyssandier, Nelson Dellis, Gerard de Melo (2010)
  In: Proc. 23rd International FLAIRS Conference. AAAI Press.
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  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.
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  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%
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  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.
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  External Sources of Axioms in Automated Theorem Proving   BibTeX   Website
  Martin Suda, Geoff Sutcliffe, Patrick Wischnewski, Manuel Lamotte-Schubert, Gerard de Melo (2009)
  In: Proc. 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009). Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
  Acceptance rate: 31.8%
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  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.
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  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.
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  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).
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  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
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  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.
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  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%
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  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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