Team
Lab Director
Faculty (Collaborators)
Postdoctoral researchers
- Parvin Ahmadi
Year: 2024
Topic: Large Pretrained Language Models and Ontologies for Insider Threat Detection
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq / Frédéric Cuppens
PhD Students
- Louis Clouâtre
Year: Sept 2019-
Topic: NLP, sequential information, LLMs capabilities
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq /Sarath Chandar
- Papa Abdou Karim Karou Diallo
Year: Sept 2022 -
Topic: NLP, Knowledge Bases, Query generation
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
- Aditya Sharma
Year: Sept 2023 -
Topic: Knowledge graphs, automated reasoning, NLP
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq / Christopher Pal
- Fabrice Lamarche
Year: Sept 2024 -
Topic: AI and Digital Health, LLMs, Non parametric memories
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
- Davide Baldelli
Year: January 2025 -
Topic: LLMs, explainability
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Sarath Chandar / Amal Zouaq
Masters Students
- Gaya Mehenni
Year: September 2023 -
Topic: Clinical Notes Summarization and Adaptation
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
- Edouard Albert-Roulhac
Year: September 2023 -
Topic: Knowledge Base Learning from Pretrained Language Models
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq
- Alexis Brissard
Year: Sept 2023 -
Topic: Language Models for Internal Threat Detection
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Amal Zouaq / Frédéric Cuppens
- Arnaud Delage-Reid
Year: Sept 2024 -
Topic: CSP and Constrained Generation
Supervisor / Co-supervisor: Gilles Pesant / Amal Zouaq
Alumni
Postdoctoral researchers
- Mohamed Yassin (2021) (Bram Adams - Amal Zouaq - Jinghui Chen): AIRUDI - Automatic NLP Methods for Human Resource Management
- Alexandre Kouznetsov (2017): Neural Information Retrieval
- Ludovic Jean-Louis (2015): Keyword and Relation extraction and Knowledge Base Population
- Alexandre Kouznetsov (2014): Using machine learning for open keyword and relation extraction
- Faezeh Ensan (2014): A framework for the evaluation of semantic annotators
Research Associates
- Charles-Olivier Favreau (2022) (Amal Zouaq): Argument Quality Evaluation
- Ludovic Font (2020-2021) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): MCCQ - Generation of a Knowledge Base about Quebec literature
- Yan Bodain (2021) (Amal Zouaq): Conova AI - Ontologies for the representation of competencies and professional paths
- Nicolas Leduc (2019) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Lab management
PhD Students
- Amos Noel (internship) (May 2024 - August 2024) (Amal Zouaq): AI and Digital Health
- Sameer Bathnagar (2021) (Michel Desmarais - Amal Zouaq): Technology Mediated Peer Instruction: https://publications.polymtl.ca/6597/
Masters Students
- Maziar Sargodi (Sept 2021 - April 2024) (Sarath Chandar and Amal Zouaq (co-supervisor)): Constraint satisfaction using neural networks
- Simon Durocher (Janv 2021 - April 2023) (Amal Zouaq): Fine-grained named entity recognition
- Francis Gosselin (Sept 2021 - April 2024 ) (Amal Zouaq): Neural schema alignment using pretrained language models (Jury congratulations - thesis accepted without any revision)
- Samuel Reyd (Sept 2021 - August 2023) (Amal Zouaq): SPARQL query generation with pretrained language models
- Mehrnaz Moslemi (Sept 2022 - April 2024 ) (Amal Zouaq and Jinghui Cheng (co-supervisor)): Bias detection and mitigation using pretrained language models (thesis accepted without any revision)
- Jean-Charles Layoun (Sept 2021 - April 2024) (Michel Desmarais and Amal Zouaq (co-supervisor)): Prerequisite learning using neural networks
- Maxime Rousseau (Janvier 2022 - April 2023) (Nelly Huynh - Amal Zouaq): Question Answering for Orthodontics
- Jean-Simon Marocco (October 2022 - December 2023) (Gabriela Nicolescu and Amal Zouaq (co-supervisor)): Anomaly Detection using Transformers
- Rose Hirigoyen (2022) (Amal Zouaq): Automatic query generation from natural language (Nomination for the Best Master's Thesis Award, congratulations of the jury, thesis accepted without any revision))
- Dominique Piché (2022) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): Automatic alignment of knowledge bases in cultural heritage (Congratulations of the jury, thesis accepted without any revision): https://publications.polymtl.ca/10327/
- Charles-Olivier Favreau (2022) (Amal Zouaq - Sameer Bathnagar): Learning to rank convincing explanations (Congratulations of the jury, thesis accepted without any revision): https://publications.polymtl.ca/10296/
- Hadi Abdi Ghavidel (2021) (Amal Zouaq): Automatic short answer grading using Transformers: https://publications.polymtl.ca/5608/
- Félix Martel (2020) (Amal Zouaq): Taxonomy Extraction using Knowledge Graph Embeddings (Nomination for the Best Master's Thesis Award, Congratulations of the jury, thesis accepted without any revision)): https://publications.polymtl.ca/5361/
- Dylan Farvacque (2020) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): Open Domain Question Answering: https://publications.polymtl.ca/5396/
- Erwan Marchand (2020) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Knowledge Base Extraction from Patrimonial Documents: https://publications.polymtl.ca/5225/
- Nikolay Radoev (2019) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): Multilingual SPARQL Query Generation Using Lexico-Syntactic Patterns (Congratulations of the jury): https://publications.polymtl.ca/3852/
- Gerardo Mantecon (2019) (Amal Zouaq): Towards the Automatic Classification of Student Answers to Open-ended Questions: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/39093
- François Ferry (2018) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Relation extraction from digital heritage documents: https://publications.polymtl.ca/3301/
- Rawan Bahmid (2018) (Amal Zouaq): Hybrid Question Answering over Linked Data: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/37976
- Hanqing Zhou (2018) (Amal Zouaq - Diana Inkpen): DBpedia Type and Entity Detection Using Word Embeddings and N-gram Models: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/37324
- Lara Haidar-Hamad (2017) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): Logical Axiom Extraction from Wikipedia (Nomination for the Best Master's Thesis Award, Congratulations of the jury): https://publications.polymtl.ca/2566/
- Ludovic Font (2016) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): DBpedia Quality Evaluation: https://publications.polymtl.ca/2409/
- Camila Zacche de Aguiar (2016) (Davidson Cury - Amal Zouaq): Automatic Extraction of Concept Maps from Text
- Guilherme Pinotte (2016) (Davidson Cury - Amal Zouaq): Generating OWL ontologies from Concept Maps
- Mohamed Chabchoub (2016) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Enhancement of semantic annotators' performance using coherence and confidence scores: https://publications.polymtl.ca/2373/
- Kevin Lange Di Cesare (2016) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Automatic relation extraction for knowledge base population - The KBP Task: https://publications.polymtl.ca/2115/
- Philippe Armel N'Techobo (2016) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): Knowledge Graph Extraction from Political Debates: https://publications.polymtl.ca/2180/
- Paul Geesaman (2013) (Jim Cordy - Amal Zouaq): Ontology Alignment using Near-miss Clone Detection
- François-Xavier Desmarais (2012) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Semantic analysis using machine learning and rule-based methods: https://publications.polymtl.ca/1049/
Prof. Masters Students
- Mathias Ramos (2021) (Bram Adams and Amal Zouaq): Towards a Fully Automated Bilingual Job Recommendation Platform
- Brieuc Dandin (2021): Data mining methods for popularity detection
- Sheenam Sharma (2018): Topic Detection and Clustering using Semantic Annotation on Canadian Parliamentary Debates
Interns - Research Assistants
- Alaleh Hamidi (2021) (Bram Adams and Amal Zouaq): Towards a Fully Automated Bilingual Job Recommendation Platform
- Philippe Trempe (2020-2021) (Amal Zouaq): Resume Representation Learning and Graph Embedding For Career Path Recommendation
- Vincent Gagnon (2021) (Michel Desmarais - Amal Zouaq): Prerequisite association learning
- Carmen Sofiane (2021) (Amal Zouaq - Michel Gagnon): A Semantic Web application for the retrieval of Quebec authors and books
- Grégoire Derveaux (2020) (Amal Zouaq): Automatic extraction of authors' information from Wikipedia
- Julien Arès (2020) (Amal Zouaq): Neural convolutional networks for entity alignment in the domain of Quebec literature
- Alexandre Bento (2019) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Ontology alignment using convolutional neural networks
- Rob Janzen (2013) (Dragan Gasevic - Amal Zouaq): Generating semantic learning paths
Undergrad Students
- Francis Granger (2020) (Amal Zouaq): Axiom extraction from natural language
- Hugo Bourret-Desmarais (2018-2019) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): A machine learning approach for relation extraction in the cultural domain
- Nikolay Radoev (2017) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Answering Natural Language Questions in French on an RDF Knowledge Base
- Mathieu Tremblay (2017) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Answering Natural Language Questions in French on an RDF Knowledge Base
- Wu Jiuzhou (2017) (Amal Zouaq): A Classifier for Class and Instance Recognition in Wikipedia
- Zhang Haolong (2017) (Amal Zouaq): A Classifier for Class and Instance Recognition in Wikipedia
- Anthony Garant (2016-2017) (Michel Gagnon - Amal Zouaq): Multilingual question answering
- Beauclair Christopher Hughie (2016) (Amal Zouaq): Building an LSA and LDA model on Wikipedia
- Nerad Jeffrey Douglas (2016) (Amal Zouaq): A machine learning classifier for type detection on DBpedia
- Gardner Megan (2013) (Amal Zouaq): A semantic media wiki for ontology learning