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 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13510 |
| 2024 | Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors to Achieve Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs NeurIPS - Adaptive Foundation Models: Evolving AI for Personalized and Efficient Learning AFM 2024 |
| 2024 | Ontology-Constrained Generation of Domain-Specific Clinical Summaries 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) 2024 |
| 2024 | A Comprehensive Evaluation of Neural SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions IEEE Access 2024 |
| 2024 | A deep-dive into the tradeoffs of preference alignment with PEFT Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024 |
| 2024 | Contextual Embeddings and Graph Convolutional Networks for Concept Prerequisite Learning 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 Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, ACM |
| 2024 | TagDebias: Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings) |
| 2024 | MVP: Minimal Viable Phrase for Long Text Understanding The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2010 janvier | 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 janvier | 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 septembre | 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 |
| 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. |