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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
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Gerard de Melo

Gerard de Melo
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Website | @gdm3000

Gerard de Melo is an assistant professor of computer science at Rutgers University, where he heads a team of researchers working on big data analytics, natural language processing, and web mining. Gerard’s research projects include UWN/MENTA, one of the largest multilingual knowledge bases, and Lexvo.org, an important hub in the web of data. Previously, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University, one of China’s most prestigious universities, where he headed the Web Mining and Language Technology Group, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, where he worked in the ICSI AI Group. He serves as an editorial board member for Computational Intelligence, the Journal of Web Semantics, the Springer Language Resources and Evaluation journal, and the Language Science Press TMNLP book series. Gerard has published over 80 papers, with best paper or demo awards at WWW 2011, CIKM 2010, ICGL 2008, and the NAACL 2015 Workshop on Vector Space Modeling, as well as an ACL 2014 best paper honorable mention, a best student paper award nomination at ESWC 2015, and a thesis award for his work on graph algorithms for knowledge modeling. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Sessions

4:00pm–4:40pm Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Deep sentiment analysis across language boundaries
Models and Methods
 Location: Grand Ballroom East
Gerard de Melo (Rutgers University)
Across the globe, people are voicing their opinion online. However, sentiment analysis is challenging for many of the world's languages, particularly with limited training data. Gerard de Melo demonstrates how to exploit large amounts of surrogate data to learn advanced word representations that are custom-tailored for sentiment and shares a special deep neural architecture to use them. Read more.