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2026
Congratulations to Alexis Brissard for successfully defending his thesis!
We have just launched our new website! Explore the new design and updated content across all sections.
Aditya Sharma is presenting his paper “Reducing hallucinations in language model-based SPARQL query generation using post-generation memory retrieval” at EACL 2026 (Findings).
2024
Check our paper GeoCoder- Solving Geometry Problems by Generating Modular Code through Vision-Language Models. See the publications tab for more details.
Our paper Ontology-Constrained Generation of Domain-Specific Clinical Summaries is accepted at EKAW 2024. See the publications tab for more details.
Our paper Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors to Achieve Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs is accepted at NeurIPS-AFM 2024. See the publications tab for more details.
We are happy to welcome Zacharie Garnier Cuchet as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
We are happy to welcome Odette Rios Ibacache as a PhD student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
We are happy to welcome Fabrice Lamarche as a PhD student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
We are happy to welcome Arnaud Delage-Reid as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
Our paper A Comprehensive Evaluation of Neural SPARQL Query Generation from Natural Language Questions is accepted at IEEE Access. See the publications tab for more details.
Prof. Zouaq is the co leader of the IVADO R3AI NLP regroupement
Our 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.
Our 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.
Mehrnaz Moslemi has successfully defended her masters thesis on Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models. See the seminars tab for more details.
2023
Our paper SORBET - A Siamese Network for Ontology Embeddings Using a Distance-Based Regression Loss and BERT à ISWC23 was nominated for the best paper award. Congratulations Francis!
Our system SORBETMatcher participates to the OAEI 2023 competition and is the best system in several tracks. Congratulations Francis!
We are happy to welcome Gaya Mehenni as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
We are happy to welcome Edouard Albert-Roulhac as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
We are happy to welcome Alexis Brissard as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
We are happy to welcome Aditya Sharma as a PhD student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.
2022
Our paper Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models through Local Structure Probes is accepted at EMNLP (Findings) 2022. Congratulations Louis!
Our system SEBMatcher participates to the OAEI 2022 competition. Congratulations Francis!
Our paper Local Structure Matters Most in Most Languages is accepted at AACL 2022. Congratulations Louis!
Our paper A Copy Mechanism for Handling Out-of-Vocabulary Elements in SPARQL Neural Machine Translation is accepted at AACL 2022. Congratulations Rose and Samuel!
Two papers accepted at the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)! (See the publications’ section)
Prof. Amal Zouaq is the new FRQS (dual) chair in AI and Digital Health. We are looking for several graduate students and postdocs.
Our NSERC Alliance project on cyber-security (Internal Threat), with Prof Frederic and Nora Cuppens, is starting next Fall. We are looking for several graduate students.