Invited Talk by Gerard de Melo
2 November 2016, by Reinhard Zierke
The Language Technology group is happy to announce an invited talk by Gerard de Melo in the informatics colloquium lecture series. The talk will be held in English, everybody is cordially invited to attend.
Title: Making Semantic Technology Intelligent
Date: Mo. 28.11.2016, 17:15h
Place: Informatikum, room D-125
Abstract:
Semantic technology, once a niche academic endeavour, has evolved to the
point of becoming an important asset for big organizations and
enterprises. Yet, it remains unclear how to relate existing knowledge
graphs to the vast amounts of text and structured data available online.
In this talk, I will argue that this challenge calls for a move towards
more cognitive approaches, including 1) better knowledge integration
methods, 2) an increased reliance on linguistic knowledge, and 3) neural
modeling. The talk will showcase several of our contributions towards
this goal. These include our work on large multilingual knowledge graphs
such as the Universal Wordnet, on integrated semantic resources such as
FrameBase, and on large-scale common-sense resources such as WebChild.
Biography:
Gerard de Melo is joining Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey as
an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He
previously served as an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University,
Beijing, heading the Web Mining and Language Technology group. Over the
years, he has published over 70 research papers, with Best Paper awards
at CIKM 2010, ICGL 2008, and the NAACL 2015 Workshop on Vector Space
Modeling, as well as an ACL 2014 Best Paper Honorable Mention, a Best
Student Paper Award nomination at ESWC 2015, and the WWW 2011 Best
Demonstration Award, among others. Prior to joining Tsinghua, de Melo
had spent two years as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, working in the
ICSI AI group. He received his doctoral degree at the Max Planck
Institute for Informatics. For more information, please refer to his
home page at http://gerard.demelo.org.