2024-04-10
Prof. Zouaq is the co leader of the IVADO R3AI NLP regroupement
The LAMA-WeST lab specializes in all aspects of natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a special focus on Semantic Web technologies. Semantic Web knowledge bases can represent a large-scale source of knowledge for artificial intelligence models and can be used, among other things, to ensure the validity of information, and the explainability of artificial intelligence models.
Our various research projects tackle challenges related to representation learning, natural language interfaces and question answering, automated reasoning, knowledge base learning and alignment, ontology learning, knowledge engineering and modeling, and information extraction and generation to name a few.
Our lab is funded through government and industry institutions including NSERC, FRQS, SSHRC, IVADO and MITACS. It provides a fertile ground and learning opportunities for students and visiting researchers.
Led by Prof. Amal Zouaq, The LAMA-WeST lab is welcoming new collaborations in the academic and industrial community.
Prospective Students:
We are looking for strong Masters and PhD students to work in the following areas: natural language processing, machine learning, and semantic web. Prior experience in these domains is a plus. The candidates should also have strong Python programming skills.
Women, non binary people and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply.
If you are interested in the LAMA-WeST lab, send your detailed CV, transcripts, and a summary of your research interests to amal dot zouaq at polymtl dot ca. Your email should have [RESEARCH_APPLICATION_POSTDOC OR PhD OR MASTER] in the subject.
Please note that we will contact only the students whose application matches the requirements / needs of the lab.
Some open research projects are detailed here
Postdocs:
I am currently looking for postdocs.
Ph.D./Masters Students:
We are looking for strong Ph.D. students. Ph.D. and Masters admissions' deadlines are indicated here: deadlines
Interns and Visiting Students:
I am currently not taking any interns.
- 2024-04-01Mehrnaz Moslemi has successfully defended her masters thesis on Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models. See the seminars tab for more details.
- 2024-04-08Our paper TagDebias Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models is accepted at NAACL 2024 (Findings). See the publications tab for more details.
- 2024-04-04Our paper Contextual Embeddings and Graph Convolutional Networks for Concept Prerequisite Learning is accepted at the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2024)Artificial Intelligence for Education. See the publications tab for more details.
- 2024-04-04Our paper MVP Minimal Viable Phrase for Long Text Understanding is accepted at LREC-COLING 2024. See the publications tab for more details.