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2026

Congratulations to Alexis Brissard for his successful thesis defense
Congratulations to Alexis Brissard for his successful thesis defense!

Congratulations to Alexis Brissard for successfully defending his thesis!

New Website Launch
New Website Launch

We have just launched our new website! Explore the new design and updated content across all sections.

Aditya Sharma presents at EACL 2026
Aditya Sharma presents at EACL 2026

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

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

Check our paper GeoCoder- Solving Geometry Problems by Generating Modular Code through Vision-Language Models. See the publications tab for more details.

Ontology-Constrained Generation of Domain-Specific Clinical Summaries

Our paper Ontology-Constrained Generation of Domain-Specific Clinical Summaries is accepted at EKAW 2024. See the publications tab for more details.

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

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.

Welcome Zacharie Garnier Cuchet to the lab

We are happy to welcome Zacharie Garnier Cuchet as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome Odette Rios Ibacache to the lab

We are happy to welcome Odette Rios Ibacache as a PhD student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome Fabrice Lamarche to the lab

We are happy to welcome Fabrice Lamarche as a PhD student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome Arnaud Delage-Reid to the lab

We are happy to welcome Arnaud Delage-Reid as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

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

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 co-leads IVADO R3AI NLP regroupement

Prof. Zouaq is the co leader of the IVADO R3AI NLP regroupement

TagDebias accepted at NAACL 2024 (Findings)

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.

Concept Prerequisite Learning accepted at ACM SAC 2024

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 master’s thesis defense on social bias mitigation

Mehrnaz Moslemi has successfully defended her masters thesis on Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models. See the seminars tab for more details.

2023

SORBET ISWC23 best paper nomination

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!

SORBETMatcher participates in OAEI 2023

Our system SORBETMatcher participates to the OAEI 2023 competition and is the best system in several tracks. Congratulations Francis!

Welcome Gaya Mehenni to the lab

We are happy to welcome Gaya Mehenni as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome Edouard Albert-Roulhac to the lab

We are happy to welcome Edouard Albert-Roulhac as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome Alexis Brissard to the lab

We are happy to welcome Alexis Brissard as a master student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

Welcome Aditya Sharma to the lab

We are happy to welcome Aditya Sharma as a PhD student in the lab at Polytechnique Montréal.

2022

Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models accepted at EMNLP 2022

Our paper Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models through Local Structure Probes is accepted at EMNLP (Findings) 2022. Congratulations Louis!

SEBMatcher participates in OAEI 2022

Our system SEBMatcher participates to the OAEI 2022 competition. Congratulations Francis!

Local Structure Matters Most in Most Languages accepted at AACL 2022

Our paper Local Structure Matters Most in Most Languages is accepted at AACL 2022. Congratulations Louis!

Copy Mechanism for SPARQL NMT accepted at AACL 2022

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 ISWC 2023

Two papers accepted at the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)! (See the publications’ section)

FRQS chair in AI and Digital Health

Prof. Amal Zouaq is the new FRQS (dual) chair in AI and Digital Health. We are looking for several graduate students and postdocs.

NSERC Alliance project on cyber-security (Internal Threat)

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.