Gerard de Melo
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Curriculum Vitae
- I am currently a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley working as a post-doc in the AI/FrameNet group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).
- Previously, I was a member of the Databases and Information Systems Group headed by Gerhard Weikum at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
receiving my doctoral degree from Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany in 2010.
- In 2011, I spent 4 amazing months at the Machine Learning and Perception Group of Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Current Research Foci
- Web and Text Mining, especially to produce large-scale repositories of semantic knowledge about entities and their relationships
- Integrating and ranking information from heterogeneous data sources
- Applications of Machine Learning, Graph Algorithms to Web, Natural Language Processing, and Data Integration Problems
Resources
- UWN/MENTA: A large-scale multilingual lexical knowledge base built using statistical methods, transforming the well-known
WordNet database into a massively multilingual resource covering over 1 million words and several million named entities
in a single large multilingual taxonomy.
- Lexvo.org: Contributes information about words and other language-related entities to the Linked Data Web and Semantic Web, leading to a Web of Data in which the
British Library, the Spanish National Library, and others have linked their data to Lexvo.org, and Lexvo.org in turn connects its own data to other valuable resources.
- YAGO-SUMO Integration: An ontology providing an enormous body of axiomatized world knowledge based on
YAGO as well as the
Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO).
- SPASS-XDB: Online interface to the SPASS-XDB reasoning system, which combines state-of-the-art theorem proving with
support for large-scale knowledge sources
- MTRogets: Thesauri in many languages, obtained by translating Roget's Thesaurus using task-specific statistical techniques
- Etymological Wordnet: A database of etymological and derivational relationships between words in different languages, mined from Wiktionary.
- Online Transliteration Service: A service that for instance will transliterate the Greek "ψυχολογία" into "psychología".
- Wikipedia IMDb Mappings: Mappings between Wikipedia articles and corresponding Internet Movie Database entries (Download)
