Gerard de Melo's Teaching

Tutorials and Lectures

• AI: Opportunities and Challenges
  Presentation for external students (co-presented with Jan Westphal), HPI, October 2021

• Neural Vector Representations Beyond Words: Sentence And Document Embeddings
  Tutorial at AAAI 2019, Honolulu, 2019 (Website with slides)

• Multilingual Vector Representations of Words, Sentences, and Documents
  Tutorial at IJCNLP 2017, Taipei, 2017
  Please email me to obtain a copy of the slides!

• Common Sense for Machine Intelligence: Text to Knowledge and Knowledge to Text
  Tutorial (with Niket Tandon, Aparna Varde) at CIKM 2017, Singapore, 2017 (Slides 1, Slides 2, Slides 3)

• Big Data + Deep Learning for Natural Language
  Guest Lecture in Rutgers CS 442/674 Data Storytelling course, Fall 2017

• Multilingual FrameNet
  Tutorial (co-taught with Collin Baker, Miriam Petruck et al.) at LREC 2016, Slovenia, 2016

• Academics in Germany
  Lecture, Tsinghua University, 2016

• Information Extraction and Knowledge Integration
  Course at 12th EUROLAN Summer School (Invited Professor), Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania, 2015

• Scalable Learning Technologies for Big Data Mining
  Tutorial (co-taught with Aparna Varde) at DASFAA 2015, 2015 (Slides, including Deep Learning and Learning Representations)

• Big Data
  Guest lecturer in 'Big Data' course, IIIS, Tsinghua University/Microsoft Research Asia, 2014

• Linked Data and the Semantic Web
  Tutorial (co-taught with Katja Hose) at American University of Beirut, March 2014

• Introduction to Data Mining
  Guest lecture at IIIS, Tsinghua University, 2013

• Semantic Resources for Natural Language Processing
  Tutorial at The Long Now Foundation's PanLex project, July 2013

• Searching the Web of Data
  Tutorial (co-taught with Katja Hose) at ECIR 2013 (Slides)

• Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP
  Tutorial at COLING 2012

• Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
  1-Week Course (co-taught with Valeria de Paiva) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, November 2011

• Information Retrieval and Data Mining
  Teaching Assistant, Saarland University, Winter 2007/08