LAMA-WeST Lab

Artificial Intelligence
Natural language processing
Semantic web

Publications

2024

Unless stated otherwise, the LAMA-WeST publications follow this policy: the order of authors reflects the amount of their contributions.

2024

GeoCoder - Solving Geometry Problems by Generating Modular Code through Vision-Language Models

Aditya Sharma, Aman Dalmia, Mehran Kazemi, Amal Zouaq, Christopher J. Pal

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13510

2024

Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors to Achieve Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs

Megh Thakkar, Yash More, Quentin Fournier, Matthew Riemer, Pin-Yu Chen, Amal Zouaq, Payel Das, Sarath Chandar

NeurIPS - Adaptive Foundation Models: Evolving AI for Personalized and Efficient Learning AFM 2024

2024

Ontology-Constrained Generation of Domain-Specific Clinical Summaries

Gaya Mehenni and Amal Zouaq

24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) 2024

2024

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Neural SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions

Karou Diallo, Samuel Reyd and Amal Zouaq

IEEE Access 2024

2024

A deep-dive into the tradeoffs of preference alignment with PEFT

Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew Riemer, Pin-Yu Chen, Amal Zouaq, Payel Das, and Sarath Chandar

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024

2024

Contextual Embeddings and Graph Convolutional Networks for Concept Prerequisite Learning

Jean-Charles Layoun, Amal Zouaq and Michel Desmarais

The 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2024): Artificial Intelligence for Education

2024

An Exploration of IFLA LRM for Literature Data Representation

Michel Gagnon, Ludovic Font and Amal Zouaq

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, ACM

2024

TagDebias: Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models

Mehrnaz Moslemi and Amal Zouaq

2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings)

2024

MVP: Minimal Viable Phrase for Long Text Understanding

Louis Clouâtre, Amal Zouaq and Sarath Chandar

The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation

2023

SORBETMatcher results for OAEI 2023 (Top system in several tracks)

Francis Gosselin and Amal Zouaq

The 18th International Workshop on Ontology Matching

2023

Assessing the Generalization Capabilities of Neural Machine Translation Models for SPARQL Query Generation

Samuel Reyd and Amal Zouaq

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)

Francis Gosselin and Amal Zouaq

The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)

2023

Comparing Heuristic Rules and Masked Language Models for Entity Alignment in the Literature Domain

Dominique Piché, Ludovic Font, Amal Zouaq and Michel Gagnon

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

2022

A Copy Mechanism for Handling Out-of-Vocabulary Elements in SPARQL Neural Machine Translation

Rose Hirigoyen, Amal Zouaq and Samuel Reyd

AACL 2022

2022

SEBMatcher Results for OAEI 2022

Francis Gosselin, Amal Zouaq

OAEI @ISWC 2022

2022

Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models through Local Structure Probes

Louis Clouatre, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

EMNLP 2022 (Findings)

2022

Local Structure Matters Most in Most Languages

Louis Clouatre, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

AACL 2022

2022

Local Structure Matters Most: Perturbation Study in NLU

Louis Clouatre, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

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

Charles-Olivier Favreau, Amal Zouaq, Sameer Bhatnagar

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)

Martel, F. and Zouaq, A.

36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing(836–844), ACM

2021

MLMLM: Link Prediction with Mean Likelihood Masked Language Model

Louis Clouatre, Philippe Trempe, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

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.

Font, L., Piché, D., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M.

International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (pp. 373-391). Springer, Cham

2021

Masked Language Model Entity Matching for Cultural Heritage Data

Piché, D., Font, L., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M.

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

Louis Clouatre, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Amal Zouaq, Sarath Chandar

arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13955

2020

Learnersourcing Quality Assessment of Explanations for Peer Instruction.

Bhatnagar S., Zouaq A., Desmarais M.C., Charles E.

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.

Marchand E., Gagnon M., Zouaq A.

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)

Zouaq, A. and Martel, F. (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

Alexandre Bento, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

Proceedings of the 12th language resources and evaluation conference, 5648–5653, ACL

2020

Using BERT and XLNET for the Automatic Short Answer Grading Task.

MC Ghavidel, Hadi Abdi, Zouaq, Amal and Desmarais, Michel

12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education CSEDU, 58-67

2020

A Dataset of Learnersourced Explanations from an Online Peer Instruction Environment

Sameer Bhatanagar, Michel C Desmarais, Amal Zouaq, Elizabeth Charles

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

Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq, Francisco Aranha, Faezeh Ensan, Ludovic Jean-Louis

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO); 13(4): 317 - 329, InderScience Publishers

2019

Mining Concept Map from Text in Portuguese

Camila Zacche de Aguiar, Davidson Cury, Amal Zouaq

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

Zhou Hanqing, Amal Zouaq, Diana Inkpen

Information 10.1 (2018): 6.

2019

Comprehensive analysis of discussion forum participation: from speech acts to discussion dynamics and course outcomes

Srećko Joksimović, Jelena Jovanović, Vitomir Kovanović, Dragan Gašević, Nikola Milikić, Amal Zouaq, Jan Paul Van Staalduinen

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 13(1): 38-51, IEEE

2019

An Exploration of Disciplinary Literacy in Learners’ Short Answers

Jean-Philippe Corbeil, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

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.

François Ferry, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

7th EUROMED 2018 conference – Progress in Cultural Heritage. (pp. 188-199). Springer, Cham.

2018

A Machine Learning Filter for the Slot Filling Task

Kevin Lange Di Cesare, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Ludovic Jean-Louis

Information 2018, 9(6), 133

2018

FICLONE: Improving DBpedia Spotlight Using Named Entity Recognition and Collective Disambiguation

Mohamed Chabchoub, Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq

Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW) 5.1 (2018): 12-28.

2018

Towards Technological Approaches for Concept Maps Mining from Text

Camila Zacche de Aguiar, Davidson Cury, Amal Zouaq

CLEI Electronic Journal. 21(1): 1-16.

2018

Hybrid Question Answering Using Heuristic Methods and Linked Data Schema

Rawan Bahmid, Amal Zouaq

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

Jesus Gerardo Mantecon, Hadi Abdi Ghavidel, Amal Zouaq, Jelena Jovanovic, Jenny McDonald

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

Nikolay Radoev, Amal Zouaq, Mathieu Tremblay, Michel Gagnon

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

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Ludovic Jean-Louis

Information Systems, Volume 71, p. 228-239

2017

An Empirical Study of Embedding Features in Learning to Rank

Faezeh Ensan, Ebrahim Bagheri, Amal Zouaq, Alexandre Kouznetsov

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)

Nikolay Radoev, Mathieu Tremblay, Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq

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

Nikolay Radoev, Mathieu Tremblay, Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq

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

Hanqing Zhou, Amal Zouaq, Diana Inkpen

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

Jenny McDonald, Rebecca J Bird, Amal Zouaq, Adon Moskal

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 33.4 (2017): 306-319

2017

Assessing and Improving Domain Knowledge Representation in DBpedia

Ludovic Font, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW), 4(1) : p. 1-19

2017

Linked data for learning analytics: Potentials and challenges

Amal Zouaq, Jelena Jovanovic, Srécko Joksimovic, D Gasevic

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

Min Kyu Kim, Amal Zouaq, So Mi Kim

Computers & Education 101 (2016): 55-69

2016

Collective disambiguation and Semantic Annotation for Entity Linking and Typing - Winner of the Open Knowledge Extraction challenge)

Mohamed Chabchoub, Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq

ESWC-16 Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge, Heraklion, Greece

2016

Automatic construction of concept maps from text

Camila Z. Aguiar, Davidson Cury, Amal Zouaq

7th International Conference on Concept Mapping. Vol 2, pp. 20-30

2016

Ontomap: from concept maps to shallow owl ontologies

Guilherme N. Pinotte, Davidson Cury, Amal Zouaq

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

Lara Haidar-Ahmad, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

2016

Semantic Annotation for the Analysis of Political Debates: A Graph-based Approach

Edoukou Philippe Armel N'Techobo, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

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

Lara Haidar-Ahmad, Ludovic Font, Amal Zouaq, M. Gagnon

ESWC-16 Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge, Heraklion, Greece

2016

A Machine learning Filter for Relation Extraction

Kevin Lange Di Cesare, Amal Zouaq, Ludovic Jean-Louis, Michel Gagnon

25th World Wide Web Conference, Montreal

2016

Étude Prospective d’un Système Tutoriel à l’aide du Modèle des Espaces de Travail Mathématique

Nicolas Leduc, Michèle Tessier-Baillargeon, Jean-Philippe Corbeil, Philippe R. Richard, Michel Gagnon

Proceedings Fifth ETM Symposium

2015

OntoMap: De Mapas Conceituais a Ontologias OWL

Guilherme N. Pinotte, Davidson Cury, Amal Zouaq

In Proceedings of TISE 2015, pp. 172-180.

2015

Assessing the Quality of Domain Concepts Descriptions in DBpedia

Ludovic Font, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Bangkok, p. 254-261

2015

Short Answers to Deep Questions: Insights from Tutorial Dialogue

Jenny McDonald, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, R Bird

ALASI 2015

2015

What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media? A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC.

Srecko Joksimovic, Vitomir Kovanovic, Jelena Jovanovic, Amal Zouaq, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala

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.

Kouznetsov, A. and Zouaq, A.

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

Ludovic Jean-Louis, Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Faezeh Ensan

The 13rd Pacific Rim Internationl Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Gold Coast, Australia.

2013

“Choose Your Classmates, Your GPA Is at Stake!”: The Association of Cross-Class Social Ties and Academic Performance

Dragan Gasevic, Amal Zouaq, Robert Janzen

American Behavioral Scientist 57.10 (2013): 1460-1479

2013

Ontology Learning to Analyze Research Trends in Learning Analytics Publications

Amal Zouaq, Srecko Joksimovic, Dragan Gasevic

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

Srecko Joksimovic, Jelena Jovanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Amal Zouaq, Zoran Jeremic

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

Philippe R. Richard, Michel Gagnon, Josep Maria Fortuny

American Journal of Computational Mathematics, vol. 3, p. 41-51

2013

Full Syntactic Parsing for Enrichment of RDF dataset

Michel Gagnon, Caroline Barrière, Éric Charton

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?

Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq, Ludovic Jean-Louis

2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities, Rio

2012

Voting Theory for Concept Detection

Amal Zouaq, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala

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

Paul L. Geesaman, James R. Cordy, Amal Zouaq

Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2012, Toronto, Canada

2012

Comparing a Rule-Based and a Machine Learning Approach for Semantic Analysis

François-Xavier Desmarais, Michel Gagnon, Amal Zouaq

The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2012), Barcelone

2011

Unresolved issues in ontology learning - Position paper

Amal Zouaq, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala

CSWS 2011: Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, p.52-57

2011

Towards open ontology learning and filtering

Amal Zouaq, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala

Information Systems, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp. 1064–1081

2011

Ontologizing concept maps using graph theory

Amal Zouaq, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala

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

Dragan Gasevic, Amal Zouaq, Carlo Torniai, Jelena Jovanovic, Marek Hatala

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 301–314, IEEE

2010
January

Semantic Analysis using Dependency-based Grammars and Upper-Level Ontologies

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Benoît Ozell

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

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Benoit Ozell

10th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT2010), Rome

2010
January

Can Syntactic and Logical Graphs help Word Sense Disambiguation?

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Benoît Ozell

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

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon

Colloque CIRTA 2009: Recherche et pratique du e-learning en 2009, Québec

2009

A SUMO-based Semantic Analysis for Knowledge Extraction

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Benoit Ozell

4th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan

2009

Unsupervised and open ontology-based semantic analysis

Amal Zouaq, Michel Gagnon, Benoît Ozell

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

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1559-1572

2009

Enhancing Learning Objects with an Ontology-Based Memory

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou

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

N. Loye, F. Caron, J. Pineault, M. Tessier-Balliargeon, C. Burney-Vincent, M. Gagnon

Conférence au 77ème congrès de l'Acfas, Ottawa

2008
September

Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 1 (1): 49-62

2008

Bridging the Gap between ITS and eLearning: towards Learning Knowledge Objects

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008, p.448-458, Springer-Verlag

2007

An Integrated Approach for Automatic Aggregation of Learning Knowledge Objects

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects (IJKLO), 3: 135-162

2007

A Framework for the Capitalization of e-Learning Resources

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

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

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

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

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

In Proceedings of the 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2007) (pp. 380-385). AAAI Press

2007

Towards Learning Knowledge Objects

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

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

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

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

Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson

In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007) (pp. 836-840). IEEE Computer Society Press.