Publications
2023 | SORBETMatcher results for OAEI 2023 (Top system in several tracks) The 18th International Workshop on Ontology Matching |
2023 | Assessing the Generalization Capabilities of Neural Machine Translation Models for SPARQL Query Generation The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) |
2023 | SORBET: a Siamese Network for Ontology Embeddings using a Distance-based Regression Loss and BERT (Best paper award nomination) The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) |
2023 | Comparing Heuristic Rules and Masked Language Models for Entity Alignment in the Literature Domain Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage |
2022 | A Copy Mechanism for Handling Out-of-Vocabulary Elements in SPARQL Neural Machine Translation AACL 2022 |
2022 | SEBMatcher Results for OAEI 2022 OAEI @ISWC 2022 |
2022 | Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models through Local Structure Probes EMNLP 2022 (Findings) |
2022 | Local Structure Matters Most in Most Languages AACL 2022 |
2022 | Local Structure Matters Most: Perturbation Study in NLU Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2022, pages 3712-3731, Association for Computational Linguistics |
2022 | Learning to Rank with BERT for Argument Quality Evaluation The 35th International FLAIRS Conference, 35. https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.v35i.130643 |
2021 | Taxonomy Extraction Using Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Hierarchical Clustering (Best Paper Award) 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing(836–844), ACM |
2021 | MLMLM: Link Prediction with Mean Likelihood Masked Language Model Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021, pages 4321–4331, Association for Computational Linguistics |
2021 | Integrating Heterogeneous Data About Quebec Literature into an IFLA LRM Knowledge Base. International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (pp. 373-391). Springer, Cham |
2021 | Masked Language Model Entity Matching for Cultural Heritage Data Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage(SWODCH 2021), Vol. 2949,CEUR-WS, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2949/paper5.pdf |
2021 | Demystifying Neural Language Models' Insensitivity to Word-Order arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13955 |
2020 | Learnersourcing Quality Assessment of Explanations for Peer Instruction. 15th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning EC-TEL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12315. Springer, Cham. |
2020 | Extraction of a Knowledge Graph from French Cultural Heritage Documents. TPDL 2020, ADBIS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1260. Springer, Cham. |
2020 | What is the schema of your knowledge graph?: leveraging knowledge graph embeddings and clustering for expressive taxonomy learning (Invited) SBD '20: Proceedings of The International Workshop on Semantic Big Data. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3391274.3393637 |
2020 | Ontology matching using convolutional neural networks Proceedings of the 12th language resources and evaluation conference, 5648–5653, ACL |
2020 | Using BERT and XLNET for the Automatic Short Answer Grading Task. 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education CSEDU, 58-67 |
2020 | A Dataset of Learnersourced Explanations from an Online Peer Instruction Environment 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2020,pp. 350-355 |
2019 | An analysis of the semantic annotation task on the linked data cloud International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO); 13(4): 317 - 329, InderScience Publishers |
2019 | Mining Concept Map from Text in Portuguese Brazilian Journal of Computers in Education 27(1), 83-103. DOI: 10.5753/RBIE.2019.27.01.83 |
2019 | A Comparison of Word Embeddings and N-gram Models for DBpedia Type and Invalid Entity Detection Information 10.1 (2018): 6. |
2019 | Comprehensive analysis of discussion forum participation: from speech acts to discussion dynamics and course outcomes IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 13(1): 38-51, IEEE |
2019 | An Exploration of Disciplinary Literacy in Learners’ Short Answers 2nd International Workshop on eliciting Adaptive Sequences for Learning (WeASeL) - Held in conjunction with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Springer. |
2018 | Automatic Identification of Relations in Quebec Heritage Data. 7th EUROMED 2018 conference – Progress in Cultural Heritage. (pp. 188-199). Springer, Cham. |
2018 | A Machine Learning Filter for the Slot Filling Task Information 2018, 9(6), 133 |
2018 | FICLONE: Improving DBpedia Spotlight Using Named Entity Recognition and Collective Disambiguation Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW) 5.1 (2018): 12-28. |
2018 | Towards Technological Approaches for Concept Maps Mining from Text CLEI Electronic Journal. 21(1): 1-16. |
2018 | Hybrid Question Answering Using Heuristic Methods and Linked Data Schema I2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), 2018, pp. 446-451, doi: 10.1109/WI.2018.00-54. |
2018 | A Comparison of Features for the Automatic Labeling of Student Answers to Open-Ended Questions International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (11th, Raleigh, NC, Jul 16-20, 2018), International Educational Data Mining Society. |
2018 | A Language Adaptive Method for Question Answering In: Buscaldi, D., Gangemi, A., Reforgiato Recupero, D. (eds) Semantic Web Challenges. SemWebEval 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 927. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00072-1_9 |
2017 | An assessment of open relation extraction systems for the semantic web Information Systems, Volume 71, p. 228-239 |
2017 | An Empirical Study of Embedding Features in Learning to Rank The 26th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 2059-2062. ACM. |
2017 | Answering Natural Language Questions on RDF Knowledge base in French. (1st place of QALD 2017 – Question answering in French) Question Answering over Linked Data Challenge (QALD2017 Challenge - ESWC 2017). https://project-hobbit.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/QALD_Paper_3.pdf |
2017 | AMAL: Answering French Natural Language Questions using DBpedia In: Dragoni, M., Solanki, M., Blomqvist, E. (eds) Semantic Web Challenges. SemWebEval 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 769. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69146-6_9 |
2017 | DBpedia Entity Type Detection Using Entity Embeddings and N-Gram Models In: Różewski, P., Lange, C. (eds) 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web. KESW 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69548-8_21 |
2017 | Short answers to deep questions: supporting teachers in large‐class settings Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 33.4 (2017): 306-319 |
2017 | Assessing and Improving Domain Knowledge Representation in DBpedia Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW), 4(1) : p. 1-19 |
2017 | Linked data for learning analytics: Potentials and challenges Handbook of Learning Analytics, pp. 347-355 |
2016 | Automatic detection of expert models: The exploration of expert modeling methods applicable to technology-based assessment and instruction Computers & Education 101 (2016): 55-69 |
2016 | Collective disambiguation and Semantic Annotation for Entity Linking and Typing - Winner of the Open Knowledge Extraction challenge) ESWC-16 Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge, Heraklion, Greece |
2016 | Automatic construction of concept maps from text 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping. Vol 2, pp. 20-30 |
2016 | Ontomap: from concept maps to shallow owl ontologies 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping, Vol 2, pp. 164-174. |
2016 | Automatic Extraction of Axioms from Wikipedia Using SPARQL Lara Haidar-Ahmad, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon |
2016 | Semantic Annotation for the Analysis of Political Debates: A Graph-based Approach International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text, Dubrovnik |
2016 | Entity Typing and Linking using SPARQL Patterns and DBpedia - Winner of the Open Knowledge Extraction challenge ESWC-16 Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge, Heraklion, Greece |
2016 | A Machine learning Filter for Relation Extraction 25th World Wide Web Conference, Montreal |
2016 | Étude Prospective d’un Système Tutoriel à l’aide du Modèle des Espaces de Travail Mathématique Proceedings Fifth ETM Symposium |
2015 | OntoMap: De Mapas Conceituais a Ontologias OWL In Proceedings of TISE 2015, pp. 172-180. |
2015 | Assessing the Quality of Domain Concepts Descriptions in DBpedia 12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Bangkok, p. 254-261 |
2015 | Short Answers to Deep Questions: Insights from Tutorial Dialogue ALASI 2015 |
2015 | What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media? A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 2015) |
2014 | A Comparison of Graph-based and Statistical Metrics for Learning Domain Keywords. 13th Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop - PKAW 2014, pp. 260-268, Gold Coast, Australia. |
2014 | An Assessment of Online Semantic Annotators for the Keyword Extraction Task The 13rd Pacific Rim Internationl Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Gold Coast, Australia. |
2014 | Mutual Disambiguation for Entity Linking 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore |
2014 | A multimodal interpreter for 3D visualization and animation of verbal concepts 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. |
2014 | Improving Entity Linking using Surface Form Refinement 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland |
2014 | Using Collaborative Tagging for Text Classification to Opinion Mining Informatic,vol. 1, no. 1 |
2013 | Analyse d’un système tutoriel intelligent en tant qu’espace de travail géométrique idoine Revista latinoamericana de investigación en matemática educativa, vol. 17, Numero Extraordinario 1, p. 179-190 |
2013 | “Choose Your Classmates, Your GPA Is at Stake!”: The Association of Cross-Class Social Ties and Academic Performance American Behavioral Scientist 57.10 (2013): 1460-1479 |
2013 | Trois recettes d’apprentissage automatique pour un système d’extraction d’information et de classification de recettes de cuisine 9e DÉfi Fouille de Textes (DEFT 2013), Les Sables d'Olonne |
2013 | Les bibliothèques numériques sont-elles solubles dans le Web sémantique? Documentation et bibliothèques, vol. 59, no. 3 |
2013 | Ontology Learning to Analyze Research Trends in Learning Analytics Publications Proceedings Of the Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK Data Challenge(Best paper award, 3rd prize) |
2013 | An empirical evaluation of ontology-based semantic annotators K-CAP '13 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Knowledge capture p.109-112 |
2013 | Means of choice for interactive management of dynamic geometry problems based on instrumented behaviour American Journal of Computational Mathematics, vol. 3, p. 41-51 |
2013 | Full Syntactic Parsing for Enrichment of RDF dataset Linked Data for Information Extraction (LD4IE), Workshop at The 12th International Semantic Web Conference, Sydney |
2013 | Can we use Linked Data Semantic Annotators for the Extraction of Domain-Relevant Expressions? 2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities, Rio |
2013 | Influence des annotations sémantiques sur un système de détection de coréférence à base de perceptron multi-couches TALN 2013, Les Sables d’Olonne, France |
2013 | Trois recettes d'apprentissage automatique pour un système d'extraction d'information et de classification de recettes de cuisines DeFT 2013, Les sables d'Olonne, France |
2013 | A knowledge-base oriented approach for automatic keyword extraction 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Samos |
2012 | Voting Theory for Concept Detection Proceedings of the 9th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications ESWC 2012: 315-329, Springer-Verlag |
2011 | Ontology Alignment with Near-Miss Clone Detection Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2012, Toronto, Canada |
2012 | Les démarches fondamentales d'un espace de travail pour l'apprentissage de la géométrie à l'école secondaire Troisième symposium ETM - Espace de travail mathématique, Montréal |
2012 | Levels of teaching intervention and the development of geogebraTUTOR system in a secondary school experiment World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (E-Learn 2012), Montréal |
2012 | A disambiguation resource extracted from Wikipedia for semantic annotation LREC 2012, Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul |
2012 | Comparing a Rule-Based and a Machine Learning Approach for Semantic Analysis The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2012), Barcelone |
2011 | Answer Set Programming and Blackboard System International Workshop on Learning, Agents and Formal Languages, Lyon |
2011 | Drugs and Disorders: From specialized resources to Web data Workshop on Web Scale Knowledge Extraction, 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn |
2011 | Unresolved issues in ontology learning - Position paper CSWS 2011: Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, p.52-57 |
2011 | Towards open ontology learning and filtering Information Systems, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp. 1064–1081 |
2011 | Ontologizing concept maps using graph theory SAC '11 Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing p.1687-1692 |
2011 | An Approach to Folksonomy-based Ontology Maintenance for Learning Environments IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 301–314, IEEE |
2011 | Development of an Ontology-Based E-Recruitment Application That Integrates Social Web Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges, Ejub Kajan (ed.), IGI Global |
2011 | Poly-co: a multilayer perceptron approach for coreference detection Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, Portland |
2011 | Didactic and theoretical-based perspectives in the experimental development of an intelligent tutorial system for the learning of geometry ZDM, The International Journal on Mathematics Education, vol.43, no.3, p.425-439 |
2011 | Automatic Semantic Web annotation of named entities Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2011, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
2011 | Génération automatique de motifs de détection d’entités nommées en utilisant des contenus encyclopédiques TALN 2010, Montpellier |
2011 | La validité du diagnostic issu d'un mariage entre didactique et mesure sur un test existant, in G. Raîche, K. Paquette-Côté et D. Magis (Dirs) Des mécanismes pour assurer la validité de l'interprétation de la mesure en éducation, volume 1, Ste-Foy, Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec |
2010 | The Cortex automatic summarization system at the QA@INEX track 2010 Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval (INEX 2010), p.228-232 |
2010 | Poly-co : an unsupervised co-reference detection system GREC Challenges 2010, 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Dublin |
2010 | Theoretical Fundaments for an Intelligent Tutorial System Towards the Learning of Geometry at a High School Level Interoperable Interactive Geometry Conference (I2GEO 2010), Hluboká nad Vltavou, République Tcheque |
2010 | Improving Communication Using 3D Animation Workshop on 3D Visualisation of Natural Language, 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2010), Cardiff |
2010 | A preprocessing system to include imaginative animations according to text in educational applications 3rd workshop on multimodal output generation, Dublin |
2010 | Contribution of a computer algebra system (CAS) in the solving of problems in geometry with the help of an emerging tutorial system Computer Algebra and Dynamic Geometry Systems in Mathematics Education (CADGME), Hluboká nad Vltavou, République Tcheque |
2010 | Extension d'un système d'étiquetage d'entités nommées en étiqueteur sémantique TALN 2010, Montréal |
2010 January | Semantic Analysis using Dependency-based Grammars and Upper-Level Ontologies Int. Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, 1(1-2) : 85-101, Bahri Publications |
2010 | Grammaire de dépendances et ontologies de haut niveau: vers un processus modulaire pour l'analyse sémantique 10th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT2010), Rome |
2010 January | Can Syntactic and Logical Graphs help Word Sense Disambiguation? In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), p.3230-3236 |
2009 | Cartographie textuelle et analyse linguistique profonde: Des techniques indispensables au développement du e-Learning Colloque CIRTA 2009: Recherche et pratique du e-learning en 2009, Québec |
2009 | A SUMO-based Semantic Analysis for Knowledge Extraction 4th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan |
2009 | Unsupervised and open ontology-based semantic analysis LTC'09 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Human language technology: challenges for computer science and linguistics p.245-256 |
2009 | Evaluating the Generation of Domain Ontologies in the Knowledge Puzzle Project IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1559-1572 |
2009 | Enhancing Learning Objects with an Ontology-Based Memory IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 881-893 |
2009 | La validité d'un diagnostic issu du mariage entre didactique et mesure Conférence au 77ème congrès de l'Acfas, Ottawa |
2008 September | Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 1 (1): 49-62 |
2008 | Bridging the Gap between ITS and eLearning: towards Learning Knowledge Objects In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008, p.448-458, Springer-Verlag |
2008 | Adaptive Test Design with a Naive Bayes Frame-work 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2008), Montréal |
2008 | Annotation d'expressions temporelles et d'événements en français Traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN 2008), Avignon |
2007 | GeogebraTutor: Une nouvelle approche pour la recherche sur l'apprentissage compétentiel et instrumenté de la géométrie à l'école secondaire World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007, Chesapeake, VA |
2007 | An Integrated Approach for Automatic Aggregation of Learning Knowledge Objects Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects (IJKLO), 3: 135-162 |
2007 | A Framework for the Capitalization of e-Learning Resources In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (Ed-media 2007) (pp. 1241-1247). AACE |
2007 | Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Technology-enhanced Learning (p. 393-407). Springer-Verlag |
2007 | Document Semantic Annotation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: a Concept Mapping Approach In Proceedings of the 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2007) (pp. 380-385). AAAI Press |
2007 | Towards Learning Knowledge Objects In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007) (pp. 674-676). IOS Press |
2007 | Une architecture d’acquisition et d’exploitation des connaissances pour les EIAH In Proceedings of the third International Conference on « Environnement Informatique pour l'Apprentissage Humain » (EIAH 2007), pp. 131-136, Lausanne |
2007 | Using a Competence Model to Aggregate Learning Knowledge Objects In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007) (pp. 836-840). IEEE Computer Society Press. |
2006 | Learned student models with item to item knowledge structures User modeling and user adapted interaction, vol.16, no.5, p.430-434 |
2006 | Data mining and students models The AAAI-06 Workshop on Educational Data Mining held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston |
2006 | Towards a Formalization of Tense and Aspect for the Generation of Portuguese Sentences 7th Workshop on Computational Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
2006 | Text Compression by Syntactic Pruning 19th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Québec |
2005 | Text Summarization by Sentence Extraction and Syntactic Pruning Computational Linguistics in the North-East, Gatineau |
2005 | Implementação de um Sistema Gerador de Frase para o Domínio de Tráfego Aéreo Utilizando Ontologias Congresso Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação, Florianópolis, Brazil |
2004 | Introduction au web sémantique (tutoriel) Première conférence scientifique annuelle du Réseau de banques d'objet d'apprentissage LORNET, Montréal |
2004 | Towards a Semantic Web Site for an Academic Department Première conférence scientifique annuelle du Réseau de banques d'objet d'apprentissage LORNET, Montréal |
2004 | Evaluation and Documentation of Natural Language Grammars by Feature Propagation Flow Analysis Première conférence scientifique annuelle du Réseau de banques d'objet d'apprentissage LORNET, Montréal |
2004 | Feature Value Propagation Analysis for Natural Language Grammars Sixteenth International Conference of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Workshop on Knowledge-Oriented Maintenance,Banff |
2003 | Formalizando as ambiguidades do adjunto adverbial temporal Fórum linguístico, Universidade Federal de Santa-Catarina |
2003 | Interpretation of the Verbal Form Estar+ Past Participle in Portuguese 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg |
2002 | Interpretação semântica do objeto nulo no Português do Brasil I Workshop de Teses e Dissertações em Inteligência Artificial, Recife |
2001 | Formalizando as ambigüidades do advérbio temporal ATÉ X Conferência sobre polissemia e Indeterminação semântica, Florianópolis |
2001 | A Compositional Approach for the Interpretation of Temporal Adjuncts 8th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLliC), Brasilia |
2001 | An implementation of DRT for a compositional interpretation of the progressive in Portuguese 4th International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg |
1998 | A Case Study in Implementing Dependency Grammars Processing of Dependency-Based Grammars - Proceedings of the Workshop. COliNG-ACL |
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