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Gerard de Melo

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 5: Databases and Information Systems
Campus E1 4, Room 421
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

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Email: demelo	@		mpi-inf.de

Phone: +49 681 9325 521
Fax: +49 681 9325 599

Research Interests

Semantic Resources, especially Lexical Knowledge Bases and Ontologies
Text Mining, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Graph Algorithms

Publications

Constructing and Utilizing Wordnets using Statistical Methods
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (accepted)
Journal Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Progress Towards Effective Automated Reasoning with World Knowledge
Geoff Sutcliffe, Martin Suda, Alexandra Teyssandier, Nelson Dellis, Gerard de Melo (2010)
In: Proc. 23rd International FLAIRS Conference, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Towards Universal Multilingual Knowledge Bases BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2010)
In: Proc. 5th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC 2010), Mumbai, India.
Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidence PDF BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
In: Proc. 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, China.
Extracting Sense-Disambiguated Example Sentences From Parallel Corpora PDF BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2009)
In: Proc. Workshop on Definition Extraction at RANLP 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria.
External Sources of Axioms in Automated Theorem Proving PDF 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-Verlag (LNAI).
Integrating YAGO into the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (Short Paper) PDF BibTeX Technical Report
Gerard de Melo, Fabian Suchanek, Adam Pease (2008)
In: Proc. 20th IEEE ICTAI 2008, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
Language as a Foundation of the Semantic Web (Poster Paper) PDF BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
In: Proc. Poster And Demonstration Session of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), CEUR Vol. 401, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Mapping Roget's Thesaurus and WordNet to French BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2008)
In: Proc. 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco.
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), Hong Kong, China.
**Best Paper Award**
On the Utility of Automatically Generated Wordnets PDF BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum (2007)
In: Proc. Fourth Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2008), Szeged, Hungary.
Multilingual Text Classification using Ontologies PDF BibTeX
Gerard de Melo, Stefan Siersdorfer (2007)
In: Proc. 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2007), Springer-Verlag (LNCS 4425), Rome, Italy.
Adaptive Multilingual Text Classification using Ontologies
Gerard de Melo (2006)
Diplomarbeit (Master Thesis). Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Resources

UWN: large-scale multilingual lexical knowledge base (wordnet) built using statistical methods
Lexvo.org: The Lexvo.org site provides fundamental language-related URIs for the Semantic Web, which are not only highly interconnected but also linked to a variety of resources on the Web.
YAGO-SUMO Integration: The integrated YAGO-SUMO ontology provides an enormous body of axiomatized world knowledge based on YAGO as well as the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO).
SPASS-XDB: online interface to the SPASS-XDB reasoning system, which combines state-of-the-art theorem proving with support for large-scale knowledge sources

Misc.

Activities: AP-CAP 2009 (Reviewer), CLA 2009 (Programme Committee Member), 20th IEEE ICTAI 2008 (Session Chair for AI Algorithms I session)
Memberships: IEEE, ACM, BCS-IRSG, ACL SIGLEX, GWA
Scholarships: German National Academic Foundation / Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Alumnus), IMPRS-CS
Teaching Assistant for Lecture Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Universität des Saarlandes, Winter 2007/08
Profiles: LinkedIn profile, FOAF file, URI
Other Interests: philosophy of language, epistemology, learning languages
Erdős Number: 3
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