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Zouaq, Amal

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Amal Zouaq (84)

Journal articles (21)
- 2024
  - Diallo, P. A. K. K., Reyd, S., & Zouaq, A. (2024). A comprehensive evaluation of neural SPARQL query generation from natural language questions. IEEE Access, 3453215 (22 pages).
  - Gagnon, M., Font, L., & Zouaq, A. (2024). An Exploration of IFLA LRM for Literature Data Representation. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage.
  - Moslemi, M., & Zouaq, A. (2024). TagDebias: Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, 1553-1567.
- 2023
  - Piché, D., Font, L., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2023). Comparing Heuristic Rules and Masked Language Models for Entity Alignment in the Literature Domain. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(3), 18 pages.
- 2022
  - Clouâtre-Latraverse, L., Parthasarathi, P., Zouaq, A., & Chandar, S. (2022). Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models through Local Structure Probes. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 5375-5396.
- 2018
  - Lange Di Cesare, K., Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Jean-Louis, L. (2018). A machine learning filter for the slot filling task. Information, 9(6).
  - Chabchoub, M., Gagnon, M., & Zouaq, A. (2018). FICLONE : Improving DBpedia spotlight using named entity recognition and collective disambiguation. Open Journal of Semantic Web, 5(1), 12-26.
  - Aguiar, C. Z. , Cury, D., & Zouaq, A. (2018). Towards technological approaches for concept maps mining from text. CLEI Electronic Journal, 21(1).
- 2017
  - Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Jean-Louis, L. (2017). An assessment of open relation extraction systems for the semantic web. Information Systems, 71(Supplement), 228-239.
  - Font, L., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2017). Assessing and Improving Domain Knowledge Representation in DBpedia. Open Journal of Semantic Web, 4(1).
  - McDonald, J., Bird, R. J., Zouaq, A., & Moskal, A. C. M. (2017). Short answers to deep questions: supporting teachers in large-class settings. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 33(4), 306-319.
- 2016
  - Kim, M. K., Zouaq, A., & Kim, S. M. (2016). Automatic detection of expert models: The exploration of expert modeling methods applicable to technology-based assessment and instruction. Computers & Education, 101, 55-69.
- 2013
  - Gašević, D., Zouaq, A., & Janzen, R. (2013). Choose Your Classmates, Your GPA Is at Stake!”:The Association of Cross-Class Social Ties and Academic Performance. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1460-1479.
- 2011
  - Gašević, D., Zouaq, A., Torniai, C., Jovanović, J., & Hatala, M. (2011). An Approach to Folksonomy-Based Ontology Maintenance for Learning Environments. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 4(4), 301-314.
  - Zouaq, A., Gasevic, D., & Hatala, M. (2011). Towards open ontology learning and filtering. Information Systems, 36(7), 1064-1081.
- 2010
  - Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Ozell, B. (2010). Semantic analysis using dependency-based grammars and upper-level ontologies. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, 1(1-2), 85-101.
  - Zouaq, A. (2010). Towards Explicit Semantics in Learning Objects. IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter.
- 2009
  - Zouaq, A., & Nkambou, R. (2009). Enhancing Learning Objects with an Ontology-Based Memory. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(6), 881-893.
  - Zouaq, A., & Nkambou, R. (2009). Evaluating the Generation of Domain Ontologies in the Knowledge Puzzle Project. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(11), 1559-1572.
- 2008
  - Zouaq, A., & Nkambou, R. (2008). Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 1(1), 49-62.
- 2007
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007). An Integrated Approach for Automatic Aggregation of Learning Knowledge Objects. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects (IJKLO), 3(1), 135-162.
Conference papers (58)
- 2024
  - Layoun, J.-C., Zouaq, A., & Desmarais, M. C. (2024, April). Contextual Embeddings and Graph Convolutional Networks for Concept Prerequisite Learning [Paper]. 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2024), New York, NY, USA.
  - Clouâtre, L., Zouaq, A., & Chandar, S. (2024, May). MVP: Minimal Viable Phrase for Long Text Understanding [Paper]. Joint 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 14th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Hybrid, Torino, Italy.
  - Mehenni, G., & Zouaq, A. (2024, November). Ontology-Constrained Generation of Domain-Specific Clinical Summaries [Paper]. 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2024), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Published in Lecture notes in computer science.
- 2023
  - Reyd, S., & Zouaq, A. (2023, November). Assessing the Generalization Capabilities of Neural Machine Translation Models for SPARQL Query Generation [Paper]. 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023), Athens, Greece.
  - Gosselin, F., & Zouaq, A. (2023, November). SORBET: A Siamese Network for Ontology Embeddings Using a Distance-Based Regression Loss and BERT [Paper]. 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023), Athens, Greece.
- 2022
  - Hirigoyen, R., Zouaq, A., & Reyd, S. (2022, November). A Copy Mechanism for Handling Knowledge Base Elements in SPARQL Neural Machine Translation [Paper]. 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, (AACL-IJCNLP 2022) (11 pages).
  - Clouâtre, L., Parthasarathi, P., Zouaq, A., & Anbil Parthipan, S. C. (2022, May). Local Structure Matters Most: Perturbation Study in NLU [Paper]. 60th Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, IRELAND.
- 2021
  - Font, L., Piché, D., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2021, December). Integrating Heterogeneous Data About Quebec Literature into an IFLA LRM Knowledge Base [Paper]. 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2021).
  - Piché, D., Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Font, L. (2021, September). Masked language model entity matching for cultural heritage data [Paper]. International Joint Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2021) (12 pages).
  - Clouatre, L., Trempe, P., Zouaq, A., & Anbil Parthipan, S. C. (2021, August). MLMLM: link prediction with mean likelihood masked language model [Paper]. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), Bangkok, Thailand.
  - Martel, F., & Zouaq, A. (2021, March). Taxonomy extraction using knowledge graph embeddings and hierarchical clustering [Paper]. 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2021).
- 2020
  - Bhatanagar, S., Zouaq, A., Desmarais, M. C., & Charles, E. (2020, July). A Dataset of Learnersourced Explanations from an Online Peer Instruction Environment [Paper]. 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020).
  - Marchand, E., Gagnon, M., & Zouaq, A. (2020, August). Extraction of a Knowledge Graph from French Cultural Heritage Documents [Paper]. 24th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2020), the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2020), and the 16th Workshop on Business Intelligence and Big Data (EDA 2020), Lyon, France.
  - Bhatnagar, S., Zouaq, A., Desmarais, M. C., & Charles, E. (2020, September). Learnersourcing quality assessment of explanations for peer instruction [Paper]. 15th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2020), Heidelberg, Germany.
  - Ghavidel, H. A., Zouaq, A., & Desmarais, M. C. (2020, May). Using BERT and XLNET for the automatic short answer grading task [Paper]. 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2020).
  - Zouaq, A., & Martel, F. (2020, June). What is the schema of your knowledge graph?: Leveraging knowledge graph embeddings and clustering for expressive taxonomy learning [Paper]. International Workshop on Semantic Big Data (SBD 2020), Portland, OR (6 pages).
- 2018
  - Mantecon, J. G. A., Abdi Ghavidel, H. A., Zouaq, A., Jovanovic, J., & MacDonald, J. (2018, July). A Comparison of Features for the Automatic Labeling of Student Answers to Open-ended Questions [Paper]. 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Buffalo, NY, USA.
  - Radoev, N., Zouaq, A., Tremblay, M., & Gagnon, M. (2018, June). A Language Adaptive Method for Question Answering on French and English [Paper]. 5th Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge (SemWebEval 2018), Heraklion, Greece.
  - Bahmid, R., & Zouaq, A. (2018, December). Hybrid Question Answering Using Heuristic Methods and Linked Data Schema [Paper]. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2018), Santiago, Chile.
  - Radoev, N., Tremblay, M., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2018, June). LAMA: a Language Adaptive Method for Question Answering [Paper]. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018), Heraklion, Greece.
- 2017
  - Ensan, F., Bagheri, E., Zouaq, A., & Kouznetsov, A. (2017, November). An Empirical Study of Embedding Features in Learning to Rank [Paper]. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore.
  - Radoev, N., Tremblay, M., Gagnon, M., & Zouaq, A. (2017, May). Answering Natural Language Questions on RDF Knowledge Base in French [Paper]. Question Answering over Linked Data Challenge (QALD2017 Challenge - ESWC 2017), Portoroz, Slovenia.
  - Zhou, H., Zouaq, A., & Inkpen, D. (2017, November). DBpedia Entity Type Detection using Word Embeddings [Paper]. 8th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (KESW 2017), Szczecin, Poland.
- 2016
  - Lange Di Cesare, K., Gagnon, M., Zouaq, A., & Jean-Louis, L. (2016, April). A machine learning filter for relation extraction [Paper]. 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montréal, Québec.
  - Aguiar, Z. C., Cury, D., & Zouaq, A. (2016, September). Automatic Construction of Concept Maps from Texts [Paper]. 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping, Tallinn, Estonia.
  - Haidar-Ahmad, L., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2016, May). Automatic extraction of axioms from wikipedia using SPARQL [Paper]. 13th International Conference on Semantic Web (ESWC 2016 - Satellite Events), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  - Chabchoub, M., Gagnon, M., & Zouaq, A. (2016, May). Collective disambiguation and semantic annotation for entity linking and typing [Paper]. 3rd Semantic Web Challenges Conference (ESWC 2016), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  - Haidar-Ahmad, L., Font, L., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2016, May). Entity typing and linking using SPARQL patterns and DBpedia [Paper]. 3rd Semantic Web Challenges Conference (ESWC 2016), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  - Pinotte, G., Cury, D., & Zouaq, A. (2016, September). Ontomap: from concept maps to shallow owl ontologies [Paper]. 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping (CMC 2016), Tallinn, Estonia.
  - N'techebo, P., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2016, July). Semantic Annotation for the Analysis of Political Debates: A Graph-based Approach [Paper]. International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text (PolText), Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- 2015
  - Font, L., Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2015, November). Assessing the quality of domain concepts descriptions in DBpedia [Paper]. 11th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2015), Bangkok, Thailand.
  - Pinotte, G., Cury, D., & Zouaq, A. (2015, December). OntoMap: De Mapas Conceituais a Ontologias OWL [Paper]. Nuevas Ideas en Informática Educativa (TISE 2015), Santiago, Chile.
  - McDonald, J., Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Bird, R. (2015, November). Short Answers to Deep Questions: Insights from Tutorial Dialogue [Paper]. Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute (ALASI 2015), Sydney, Australia.
  - Joksimović, S., Kovanović, V., Jovanović, J., Zouaq, A., Gašević, D., & Hatala, M. (2015, March). What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media? A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC [Paper]. 5th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, Scaling up: big data to big impact, Poughkeepskie, NY, USA.
- 2014
  - Jean-Louis, L., Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Ensan, F. (2014, December). An Assessment of Online Semantic Annotators for the Keyword Extraction Task [Paper]. Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2014), Gold Coast, Australia.
- 2013
  - Joksimović, S., Jovanović, J., Gašević, D., Zouaq, A., & Jeremić, Z. (2013, June). An empirical evaluation of ontology-based semantic annotators [Paper]. 7th International conference on Knowledge capture (K-CAP 2013), Banff, AB, Canada.
  - Gagnon, M., Zouaq, A., & Jean-Louis, L. (2013, May). Combining Linked-data Semantic Annotators for Extraction of Relevant Expressions [Paper]. 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  - Geesaman, P. L., Cordy, J. R., & Zouaq, A. (2013, May). Light-weight ontology alignment using best-match clone detection [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA (7 pages).
  - Zouaq, A., Bagheri, E., & Guizzardi, R. (2013, September). Message from VORTE 2013 Workshop Chairs [Paper]. 17th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW 2013), Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  - Zouaq, A., Joksimović, S., & Gaševic, D. (2013, April). Ontology learning to analyze research trends in learning analytics publications [Paper]. 3rd Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2013), Leuven, Belgium.
- 2012
  - Desmarais, F. X., Gagnon, M., & Zouaq, A. (2012, September). Comparing a rule-based and a machine learning approach for semantic analysis [Paper]. 6th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2012), Barcelona, Spain.
  - Geesaman, P. L., Cordy, J. R., & Zouaq, A. (2012, November). Ontology Alignment with Near-Miss Clone Detection [Paper]. Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER 2012), Toronto, Canada.
  - Zouaq, A., Gašević, D., & Hatala, M. (2012, May). Voting Theory for Concept Detection [Paper]. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- 2011
  - Zouaq, A., Gašević, D., & Hatala, M. (2011, March). Ontologizing concept maps using graph theory [Paper]. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, TaiChung, Taiwan.
  - Zouaq, A., Gašević, D., & Hatala, M. (2011, August). Unresolved Issues in Ontology Learning - Position Paper [Paper]. 3rd Canadian Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2011), Vancouver, B.C..
- 2010
  - Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Ozell, B. (2010, May). Can syntactic and logical graphs help word sense disambiguation? [Paper]. 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Valletta, Malta.
  - Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Ozell, B. (2010, June). Grammaire de dépendances et ontologies de haut niveau : vers un processus modulaire pour l'analyse sémantique [Paper]. 10th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2010), Sapienza, Rome.
- 2009
  - Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Ozell, B. (2009, November). A SUMO-based semantic analysis for knowledge extraction [Paper]. 4th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2009), Poznan, Poland.
  - Zouaq, A., & Gagnon, M. (2009, November). Textual Cartography and Deep Linguistic Analysis as Necessary Tools for eLearning Development [Paper]. 6eme colloque du CIRTA, Québec, Québec.
  - Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M., & Ozell, B. (2009, November). Unsupervised and open ontology-based semantic analysis [Paper]. 4th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2009), Poznan, Poland.
- 2008
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2008, June). Bridging the Gap between ITS and eLearning: Towards Learning Knowledge Objects [Paper]. International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2008), Montréal, Québec.
- 2007
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007, June). A Framework for the Capitalization of e-Learning Resources [Paper]. EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2007, Vancouver, B.C..
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007, September). Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes [Paper]. European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2007), Crete, Greece.
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007, May). Document Semantic Annotation for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Concept Mapping Approach [Paper]. 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2007), Key West, Florida.
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007, July). Towards Learning Knowledge Objects [Paper]. 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), Los Angeles, California.
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007, June). Une architecture d'acquisition et d'exploitation des connaissances pour les EIAH [Paper]. Environnement Informatique pour l'Apprentissage Humain (EIAH 2007), Lausanne, Suisse.
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2007, July). Using a Competence Model to Aggregate Learning Knowledge Objects [Paper]. 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007), Niigata, Japan.
- 2006
  - Zouaq, A., Nkambou, R., & Frasson, C. (2006, November). The Knowledge Puzzle: An Integrated Approach of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Knowledge Management [Paper]. 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2006), Arlington, VA, USA.
Book chapters (3)
- 2017
  - Zouaq, A., Jovanović, J., Gašević, D., & Joksimović, S. (2017). Linked Data for Learning Analytics: Potentials and Challenges. In Lang, C., Siemens, G., Wise, A. F., & Gaševic, D. (eds.), The Handbook of Learning Analytics (pp. 347-355).
- 2011
  - Zouaq, A. (2011). An Overview of Shallow and Deep Natural Language Processing for Ontology Learning. In Wilson, W., Wei, L., & Mohammed, B. (eds.), Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances (pp. 16-37).
- 2010
  - Zouaq, A., & Nkambou, R. (2010). A Survey of Domain Ontology Engineering: Methods and Tools. In Nkambou, R., Bourdeau, J., & Mizoguchi, R. (eds.), Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (Vol. 308, pp. 103-119).
Reports (1)
- 2009
  - Zouaq, A. (2009). A state of the art in the automatic generation of 3D animations from texts. (Technical Report).
Datasets (1)
- 2020
  - Martel, F., & Zouaq, A. (2020). Supplemental Material for Paper 'Taxonomy Extraction Using Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Hierarchical Clustering' [Dataset].

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