Gerard de Melo's Publications

Publications

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

• 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%
• OOGAN: Disentangling GAN with One-Hot Sampling and Orthogonal Regularization  BibTeX   Website   arXiv
  Bingchen Liu, Yizhe Zhu, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Ahmed Elgammal (2020)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2020. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 20.6%
• Long Short-Term Sample Distillation  BibTeX
  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%
• Scalable Object-Oriented Sequential Generative Models  BibTeX   Website   arXiv
  Jindong Jiang, Sepehr Janghorbani, Gerard de Melo, Sungjin Ahn (2020)
  In: Proc. ICLR 2020.
  Acceptance rate: 26.5%
• MDSES: A Multi-Document Semantic Extraction System using News Data  BibTeX   Website
  Yongpan Sheng, Zenglin Xu, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  WWW Journal, 2020. Springer Verlag.
  Impact factor: 1.77
• Extending Universal Semantic Tags  BibTeX
  Da Huo, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  In: Proc. 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020).
• Typographical Error Generation using Real-World Statistics  BibTeX
  Kshitij Shah, Gerard de Melo (2020)
  In: Proc. 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020).
• 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.
• 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.
• IntentDial: An Intent Graph based Multi-Turn Dialogue System with Reasoning Path Visualization  BibTeX   Presentation Video
  Zengguang Hao, Jie Zhang, Binxia Xu, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Xiaolong Li (2020)
  In: Proc. The Web Conference 2020 (Demonstration Paper). 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 (Demonstration Paper). ACM.
• 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
  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   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%
• Reinforcement Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation  BibTeX   arXiv   Code
  Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, S. Muthukrishnan, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2019)
  In: Proc. SIGIR 2019. ACM.
  Acceptance rate: 20%
• EmoTag – Towards an Emotion-Based Analysis of Emojis  BibTeX
  Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo (2019)
  In: Proc. RANLP 2019.
• CITE: A Corpus Of Text-Image Discourse Relations  BibTeX   Website   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
  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   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.
• Knowledge Fusion via Joint Tensor and Matrix Factorization  BibTeX
  Zengguang Hao, Yafang Wang, Zining Liu, Gerard de Melo, Zenglin Xu (2019)
  Cognitive Computation, 2019. Springer Verlag.
  Impact factor: 4.287
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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   arXiv   Slides   Presentation Video
  Rajarshi Bhowmik, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. ACL 2018.
  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%
• Attention Clusters: Purely Attention Based Local Feature Integration for Video Classification  BibTeX   arXiv   Supplemental Material
  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%
• Cross-Lingual Propagation for Deep Sentiment Analysis  BibTeX   Website
  Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo (2018)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2018. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 25%
• 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%
• 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%
• Co-PACRR: A Context-Aware Neural IR Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval  BibTeX   Website   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
  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
  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.
• 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.
• Multiple-Weight Recurrent Neural Networks  BibTeX
  Zhu Cao, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. IJCAI 2017.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
• 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%
• A Position-Aware Deep Model for Relevance Matching in Information Retrieval  BibTeX   arXiv   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). ACM.
• Inducing Conceptual Embedding Spaces from Wikipedia  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: Proc. WWW 2017 (Cognitive Computing Track). ACM.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• RE-PACRR: A Context and Density-Aware Neural Information Retrieval Model  BibTeX   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
  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.
• Knowledge Graphs: Venturing Out into the Wild  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2017)
  In: ISWC 2016: Knowledge Graphs and Language Technology. Springer International Publishing.
• 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   Slides
  Qian Yang, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Gerard de Melo (2016)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
• Concepts Not Alone: Exploring Pairwise Relationships for Zero-Shot Video Activity Recognition  BibTeX
  Chuang Gan, Ming Lin, Yi Yang, Gerard de Melo, Alexander G. Hauptmann (2016)
  In: Proc. AAAI 2016. AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 26%
• WebBrain: Joint Neural Learning of Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge  BibTeX   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%
• 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%
• 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).
  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
  John Philip McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Francis Bond, Philipp Cimiano, Thierry Declerck, Gerard de Melo, Jorge Gracia, Sebastian Hellmann, Bettina Klimek, Steven Moran, Petya Osenova, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Jonathan Pool (2016)
  In: Proc. 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2016).
• Seeing is Believing: The Quest for Multimodal Knowledge  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Niket Tandon (2016)
  ACM SIGWEB Newsletter Spring 2016, 2016, p. 4:1–4:9. ACM.
• Data Integration Beyond Alignments Between Two Sources  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2016)
  Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS) 4, 2016.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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
  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%
• 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%
• 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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
  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
  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
  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
  Cláudia Freitas, Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo, Livy Real, Anne Silva (2014)
  In: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. Proc. PROPOR 2014. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Exploratory Information Extraction from a Historical Dictionary  BibTeX
  Valeria de Paiva, Dário Oliveira, Suemi Higuchi, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2014)
  In: Proc. Workshop on Digital Humanities and e-Science at the 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science.
• Not Quite the Same: Identity Constraints for the Web of Linked Data  BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Gerard de Melo (2013)
  In: Proc. 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013). AAAI Press.
  Acceptance rate: 29%
• Good, Great, Excellent: Global Inference of Semantic Intensities  BibTeX   Website   Slides
  Gerard de Melo, Mohit Bansal (2013)
  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 1:July 2013, 2013, p. 279–290. ACL. Oral presentation at ACL 2013.
  Acceptance rate: ~23.9%
• Searching the Web of Data (Tutorial Abstract)  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo, Katja Hose (2013)
  In: Proc. ECIR 2013. Springer LNCS.
• Graph-based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration  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.
• 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%
• OpenWordNet-PT: An Open Brazilian WordNet for Reasoning  BibTeX   Website
  Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker, Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: Proc. COLING 2012 (Demonstration Paper).
• Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP  BibTeX
  Gerard de Melo (2012)
  In: COLING 2012 Tutorial Notes.
• UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base  BibTeX   Website   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
  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
  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.
• 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.
• 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   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.
• External Sources of Axioms in Automated Theorem Proving  BibTeX
  Martin Suda, Geoff Sutcliffe, Patrick Wischnewski, Manuel Lamotte-Schubert, Gerard de Melo (2009)
  In: Proc. 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009). Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
  Acceptance rate: 31.8%
• 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
  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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