Gerard de Melo

Selected Publications

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Image Tokens Matter: Mitigating Hallucination in Discrete Tokenizer-based Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Editing BibTeX arXiv
Weixing Wang, Zifeng Ding, Jindong Gu, Rui Cao, Christoph Meinel, Gerard de Melo, Haojin Yang (2025)
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.
Mitigate the Gap: Improving Cross-Modal Alignment in CLIP BibTeX Code
Sedigheh Eslami, Gerard de Melo (2025)
In: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).
Vector Grimoire: Codebook-based Shape Generation under Raster Image Supervision BibTeX Website arXiv Poster
Marco Cipriano, Moritz Feuerpfeil, Gerard de Melo (2025)
In: Proc. ICML 2025.
NLSR: Neuron-Level Safety Realignment of Large Language Models Against Harmful Fine-Tuning BibTeX arXiv Code
Xin Yi, Shunfan Zheng, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo, Xiaoling Wang, Liang He (2025)
In: Proc. AAAI 2025. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 23.4%
Hierarchical Divide-and-Conquer for Fine-Grained Alignment in LLM-Based Medical Evaluation BibTeX Data
Shunfan Zheng, Xiechi Zhang, Gerard de Melo, Xiaoling Wang, Linlin Wang (2025)
In: Proc. AAAI 2025. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 23.4%
A process-oriented perspective on pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy and their motivational messages: Using large language models to classify teachers’ speech BibTeX
Olivia Metzner, Yindong Wang, Wendy Symes, Yizhen Huang, Lena Keller, Gerard de Melo, Rebecca Lazarides (2025)
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025.
Segmentation and Processing of German Court Decisions from Open Legal Data BibTeX Data
Harshil Darji, Martin Heckelmann, Christina Kratsch, Gerard de Melo (2025)
In: Proc. JURIX 2025.
I Don’t Know: Explicit Modeling of Uncertainty with an [IDK] Token BibTeX arXiv
Roi Cohen, Konstantin Dobler, Eden Biran, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. NeurIPS 2024.
NextLevelBERT: Masked Language Modeling with Higher-Level Representations for Long Documents BibTeX arXiv Code
Tamara Czinczoll, Christoph Hönes, Maximilian Schall, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. ACL 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.
MaskAnyone Toolkit: Offering Strategies for Minimizing Privacy Risks and Maximizing Utility in Audio-Visual Data Archiving BibTeX
Babajide Alamu Owoyele, Martin Schilling, Rohan Sawahn, Niklas Kaemer, Pavel Zherebenkov, Bhuvanesh Verma, Wim Pouw, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. ICIS 2024. Association for Information Systems.
CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation BibTeX arXiv Data Code
Maximilian Schall, Tamara Czinczoll, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). IEEE Computer Society.
🏆 IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
On the Challenges and Opportunities in Generative AI BibTeX
Laura Manduchi, Kushagra Pandey, Robert Bamler, Ryan Cotterell, Sina Däubener, Sophie Fellenz, Asja Fischer, Thomas Gärtner, Matthias Kirchler, Marius Kloft, Yingzhen Li, Christoph Lippert, Gerard de Melo, Eric Nalisnick, Björn Ommer, Rajesh Ranganath, Maja Rudolph, Karen Ullrich, Guy Van den Broeck, Julia E Vogt, Yixin Wang, Florian Wenzel, Frank Wood, Stephan Mandt, Vincent Fortuin (2024)
ArXiv 2403.00025, 2024.
Data Scientists Discuss AI Risks and Opportunities BibTeX
David Banks, Gerard de Melo, Sam (Xinwei) Gong, Yongchan Kwon, Cynthia Rudin (2024)
Harvard Data Science Review 6:3, 2024. The MIT Press.
Efficient Parallelization Layouts for Large-Scale Distributed Model Training BibTeX arXiv Code
Johannes Hagemann, Samuel Weinbach, Konstantin Dobler, Maximilian Schall, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. COLM 2024. OpenReview.
Acceptance rate: 28.8%
WallStreetBets: Assessing the Collective Intelligence of Reddit for Investment Advice BibTeX
Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2024)
ACM Transactions on Social Computing 7:1–4, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.
CliMedBench: A Large-Scale Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Large Language Models in Clinical Scenarios BibTeX Website arXiv
Zetian Ouyang, Yishuai Qiu, Linlin Wang, Gerard De Melo, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Liang He (2024)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.
MedBench: A Large-Scale Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Large Language Models BibTeX arXiv
Yan Cai, Linlin Wang, Ye Wang, Gerard de Melo, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Liang He (2024)
In: Proc. AAAI 2024.
Design and Evaluation of an AI-Augmented Screening System for Venture Capitalists BibTeX
Marc Maurer, Tolga Buz, Christian Dremel, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. ECIS 2024. Association for Information Systems.
Investigating Wit, Creativity, and Detectability of Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Writing Style Adaptation of Reddit’s Showerthoughts BibTeX arXiv
Tolga Buz, Benjamin Frost, Nikola Genchev, Moritz Schneider, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. *SEM 2024. ACL.
LLMs Cannot (Yet) Match the Specificity and Simplicity of Online Communities in Long Form Question Answering BibTeX Data Code
Kris-Fillip Kahl, Tolga Buz, Russa Biswas, Gerard De Melo (2024)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.
ArtQuest: Countering Hidden Language Biases in ArtVQA BibTeX Presentation Video
Tibor Bleidt, Sedigheh Eslami, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: Proc. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2024).
Democratisation of retail trading: a data-driven comparison of Reddit’s WallStreetBets to investment bank analysts BibTeX arXiv
Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2024)
Journal of Business Analytics, 2024. Taylor & Francis.
Acceptance rate: 14%
A Corpus of Persian Literary Text BibTeX Data
Shahab Raji, Malihe Alikhani, Gerard de Melo, Matthew Stone (2024)
Language Resources and Evaluation 58:2, 2024, p. 409-425.
Generating Persona-Aware Empathetic Responses With Retrieval-Augmented Prompt Learning BibTeX
Zhengjie Huang, Pingsheng Liu, Gerard de Melo, Liang He, Linlin Wang (2024)
In: Proc. ICASSP 2024.
Highly Regarded Investors? Mining Predictive Value from the Collective Intelligence of Reddit’s WallStreetBets BibTeX Code
Tolga Buz, Moritz Schneider, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Gerard de Melo (2024)
In: ACM Web Science Conference (Websci ’24), May 21–24, 2024, Stuttgart, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
🏆 Best Paper Award First Runner-Up
Knowledge Acquisition through Continued Pretraining is Difficult: A Case Study on r/AskHistorians BibTeX
Jan Hoffbauer, Sylwester Sawicki, Marc Ulrich, Tolga Buz, Konstantin Dobler, Moritz Schneider, Gerard De Melo (2024)
In: Proc. 1st Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Language Models (KnowLLM 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Wiki-VEL: Visual Entity Linking for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons BibTeX
Philipp Bielefeld, Jasmin Geppert, Necdet Güven, Melna John, Adrian Ziupka, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Russa Biswas, Gerard De Melo (2024)
In: Proc. 3rd Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR). Association for Computational Linguistics.
GUIDE: Creating Semantic Domain Dictionaries for Low-Resource Languages BibTeX Code
Jonathan Janetzki, Gerard de Melo, Joshua Nemecek, Daniel Whitenack (2024)
In: Proc. 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024).
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM 2024) BibTeX
Russa Biswas, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Oshin Agarwal, Pasquale Minervini, Sameer Singh, Gerard de Melo (Eds.) (2024)
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Multilingual Knowledge Graphs and Low-Resource Languages: A Review BibTeX
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Russa Biswas, C. Maria Keet, Edlira Kalemi Vakaj, Gerard de Melo (2023)
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge 1:1, 2023, p. 10:1–10:19. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
Knowledge Graph Embeddings: Open Challenges and Opportunities BibTeX
Russa Biswas, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Michael Cochez, Stefania Dumbrava, Theis E. Jendal, Matteo Lissandrini, Vanessa Lopez, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Edlira Kalemi Vakaj, Gerard de Melo (2023)
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge 1:1, 2023, p. 4:1–4:32. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: Opportunities and Challenges BibTeX arXiv
Jeff Z. Pan, Simon Razniewski, Jan-Christoph Kalo, Sneha Singhania, Jiaoyan Chen, Stefan Dietze, Hajira Jabeen, Janna Omeliyanenko, Wen Zhang, Matteo Lissandrini, Russa Biswas, Gerard de Melo, Angela Bonifati, Edlira Vakaj, Mauro Dragoni, Damien Graux (2023)
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge 1:1, 2023, p. 2:1–2:38. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
Connecting the Dots: What Graph-Based Text Representations Work Best for Text Classification using Graph Neural Networks? BibTeX arXiv Code
Margarita Bugueño, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Efficient Parallelization Layouts for Large-Scale Distributed Model Training BibTeX arXiv Code
Johannes Hagemann, Samuel Weinbach, Konstantin Dobler, Maximilian Schall, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Workshop on Advancing Neural Network Training: Computational Efficiency, Scalability, and Resource Optimization (WANT@NeurIPS 2023) (Oral). OpenReview.
🏆 Best Paper Award
A Disentangled-Attention Based Framework with Persona-Aware Prompt Learning for Dialogue Generation BibTeX
Pingsheng Liu, Zhengjie Huang, Zhang Xiechi, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo, Xin Lin, Liang Pang, Liang He (2023)
In: Proc. AAAI 2023. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 19.6%
Disentangled CVAEs with Contrastive Learning for Explainable Recommendation BibTeX
Zefeng Cai, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo, Zhu Cao, Liang He (2023)
In: Proc. AAAI 2023. AAAI Press.
Acceptance rate: 19.6%
Multi-Modal Bias: Introducing a Framework for Stereotypical Bias Assessment beyond Gender and Race in Vision–Language Models BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video
Sepehr Janghorbani, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Proc. EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
PubMedCLIP: How Much Does CLIP Benefit Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain? BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video Data Code
Sedigheh Eslami, Christoph Meinel, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Model-Agnostic Bias Measurement in Link Prediction BibTeX Presentation Video
Lena Schwertmann, Manoj Prabhakar Kannan Ravi, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
ViLPAct: A Benchmark for Compositional Generalization on Multimodal Human Activities BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video
Terry Yue Zhuo, Yaqing Liao, Yuecheng Lei, Lizhen Qu, Gerard de Melo, Xiaojun Chang, Yazhou Ren, Zenglin Xu (2023)
In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
A Closer Look at Transformer Attention for Multilingual Translation BibTeX
Jingyi Zhang, Hongfei Xu, Kehai Chen, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Proc. 8th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2023). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Resolving Elliptical Compounds in German Medical Text BibTeX Code
Niklas Kammer, Florian Borchert, Silvia Winkler, Gerard de Melo, Matthieu-P. Schapranow (2023)
In: 22nd Workshop on Biomedical NLP at ACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
FARSEC: A Reproducible Framework for Automatic Real-Time Vehicle Speed Estimation Using Traffic Cameras BibTeX
Lucas Liebe, Franz Sauerwald, Sylwester Sawicki, Matthias Schneider, Leo Schuhmann, Tolga Buz, Paul Boes, Ahmad Ahmadov, Gerard de Melo (2023)
ArXiv 2309.14468, 2023.
IntentDial: An Intent Graph based Multi-Turn Dialogue System with Reasoning Path Visualization BibTeX
Zengguang Hao, Jie Zhang, Binxia Xu, Yafang Wang, Gerard de Melo, Xiaolong Li (2023)
ArXiv 2310.11818, 2023.
WallStreetBets: An Analysis of Investment Advice Democratization BibTeX
Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2023)
In: Proc. HICSS 2023.
Harnessing Neighborhood Modeling and Asymmetry Preservation for Digraph Representation Learning BibTeX Code
Honglu Zhou, Advith Chegu, Samuel S. Sohn, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2023)
In: Proc. IJCAI 2023.
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models BibTeX Website arXiv
Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao, Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Abubakar Abid, Adam Fisch, Adam R. Brown, Adam Santoro, Aditya Gupta, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Agnieszka Kluska, Aitor Lewkowycz, Akshat Agarwal, Alethea Power, Alex Ray, Alex Warstadt, Alexander W. Kocurek, Ali Safaya, Ali Tazarv, Alice Xiang, Alicia Parrish, Allen Nie, Aman Hussain, Amanda Askell, Amanda Dsouza, et al. (2023)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023.
🏆 Finalist for TMLR Outstanding Paper 2024
NL-Augmenter 🦎 → 🐍: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation BibTeX Website/Code arXiv Presentation Video
Kaustubh Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Aadesh Gupta, Zhenhao Li, Saad Mahamood, Abinaya Mahadiran, Simon Mille, Ashish Shrivastava, Samson Tan, Tongshang Wu, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jinho D. Choi, Eduard Hovy, Ondřej Dušek, Sebastian Ruder, Sajant Anand, Nagender Aneja, Rabin Banjade, Lisa Barthe, Hanna Behnke, Ian Berlot-Attwell, Connor Boyle, Caroline Brun, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, et al. (2023)
Northern European Journal of Language Technology 9:1, 2023.
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 (2022)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 54:4, 2022, p. 71:1–71:37. Association for Computing Machinery.
Impact factor: 7.990 (2019)
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 (2022)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 44:4, 2022, p. 2140–2154.
Impact factor: 17.861
D-HYPR: Harnessing Neighborhood Modeling and Asymmetry Preservation for Digraph Representation Learning BibTeX arXiv Slides Code
Honglu Zhou, Advith Chegu, Samuel Sohn, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Mubbasir Kapadia (2022)
In: Proc. CIKM 2022. ACM.
🏆 Best Paper Award
Acceptance rate: 23%
Fast-R2D2: A Pretrained Recursive Neural Network based on Pruned CKY for Grammar Induction and Text Representation BibTeX arXiv Code
Xiang Hu, Haitao Mi, Liang Li, Gerard de Melo (2022)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Curriculum Prompt Learning with Self-Training for Abstractive Dialogue Summarization BibTeX Slides
Changqun Li, Linlin Wang, Xin Lin, Gerard de Melo, Liang He (2022)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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 (2022)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 44:4, 2022, p. 2140–2154.
Impact factor: 17.861 (2019)
Improving Personalized Explanation Generation through Visualization BibTeX
Shijie Geng, Zuohui Fu, Yingqiang Ge, Lei Li, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2022)
In: Proc. ACL 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Multi-Scale Distribution Deep Variational Autoencoder for Explanation Generation BibTeX
ZeFeng Cai, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo, Fei Sun, Liang He (2022)
In: Findings of ACL 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Art Creation with Multi-Conditional StyleGANs BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video Code
Konstantin Dobler, Florian Hübscher, Jan Westphal, Alejandro Sierra-Múnera, Gerard de Melo, Ralf Krestel (2022)
In: Proc. IJCAI-ECAI 2022 (Special Track on AI, the Arts and Creativity).
Path Language Modeling over Knowledge Graphs for Explainable Recommendation BibTeX Presentation Video
Shijie Geng, Zuohui Fu, Juntao Tan, Yingqiang Ge, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2022)
In: Proc. ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW 2022). ACM.
Acceptance rate: 17.7%
Frozen CLIP Models are Efficient Video Learners BibTeX arXiv Code
Ziyi Lin, Shijie Geng, Renrui Zhang, Peng Gao, Gerard de Melo, Xiaogang Wang, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, Hongsheng Li (2022)
In: Proc. ECCV 2022. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Assessing Combinational Generalization of Language Models in Biased Scenarios BibTeX
Yanbo Fang, Zuohui Fu, Xin Dong, Yongfeng Zhang, Gerard de Melo (2022)
In: Proc. AACL-IJCNLP 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Temporal Event Reasoning using Multi-Source Auxiliary Learning Objectives BibTeX Poster
Xin Dong, Tanay Kumar Saha, Ke Zhang, Joel Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes, Gerard de Melo (2022)
In: Proc. ECIR 2022 (Short Paper). Springer-Verlag.
Acceptance rate: 22%
WallStreetBets Beyond GameStop, YOLOs, and the Moon: The Unique Traits of Reddit’s Finance Communities BibTeX Blog Presentation Video
Pratik Agrawal, Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2022)
In: Proc. AMCIS 2022. Association for Information Systems.
🏆 Best AMCIS 2022 Top 25% Complete Papers
Masked-Piper: Masking personal identities in visual recordings while preserving multimodal information BibTeX Code
Babajide Owoyele, James Trujillo, Gerard de Melo, Wim Pouw (2022)
SoftwareX, 2022. Elsevier.
Impact factor: 3.4 (2022)
Die digitale Vermessung der Zukunft BibTeX
Steffen Bauer, Ingo Kollosche, André Uhl, Gerard de Melo, Kerstin Fritzsche (2022)
CO:DINA Positionspapier 9.
Fourth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop (KaRS) BibTeX Website
Vito Walter Anelli, Pierpaolo Basile, Gerard de Melo, Francesco Maria Donini, Antonio Ferrara, Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, Azzurra Ragone, Markus Zanker (2022)
In: RecSys ’22: Proc. Sixteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. ACM.
Knowledge Graphs BibTeX Website Order Data
Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez, Claudia d’Amato, Gerard de Melo, Claudio Gutierrez, Sabrina Kirrane, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Roberto Navigli, Sebastian Neumaier, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Axel Polleres, Sabbir M. Rashid, Anisa Rula, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Juan Sequeda, Steffen Staab, Antoine Zimmermann (2021)
Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics, and Knowledge. Morgan & Claypool.
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 (2021)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2021 (Short Paper). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Guilt by Association: Emotion Intensities in Lexical Representations BibTeX arXiv
Shahab Raji, Gerard de Melo (2021)
In: Proc. EMNLP 2021 (Short Paper). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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%
Dense 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 Multimedia (MM) 2021.
Acceptance rate: ~27.9%
EXACTA: Explainable Column Annotation BibTeX Presentation Video
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%
Faithfully Explainable Recommendation via Neural Logic Reasoning BibTeX arXiv Poster Code
Yaxin Zhu, Yikun Xian, Zuohui Fu, Gerard de Melo, Yongfeng Zhang (2021)
In: Proc. NAACL-HLT 2021 (Short Paper). ACL.
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 Poster 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
Forecasting mit Artificial Intelligence BibTeX
Nicole de Melo, Gerard de Melo (2021)
REthinking: Finance 2, 2021. Handelsblatt Fachmedien.
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 CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
🏆 Ranked 3rd in ImageCLEF VQA-Med 2021
Should You Take Investment Advice From WallStreetBets? A Data-Driven Approach BibTeX
Tolga Buz, Gerard de Melo (2021)
ArXiv 2105.02728, 2021.
Incorporating Pragmatic Reasoning Communication into Emergent Language BibTeX arXiv Presentation Video
Yipeng Kang, Tonghan Wang, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. NeurIPS 2020 (Spotlight Paper).
Acceptance rate: 20% (4% for spotlight/oral)
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
Sentence Analogies: Linguistic Regularities in Sentence Embeddings BibTeX arXiv
Xunjie Zhu, Gerard de Melo (2020)
In: Proc. COLING 2020.
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)
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)
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.
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 Presentation Video 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 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%
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.
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%
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
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%
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%
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.
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)
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)
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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