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Amal Zouaq
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Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Phone: (514) 340-4711 Ext. 2228 Fax: (514) 340-5139 Room: M-3416
Areas of expertise
Artificial intelligence
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Research interests and affiliations

Research interests
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural Langage Processing
  • Semantic Web
  • Automatic extraction of knowledge bases
  • Learning analytics
Affiliation(s)
  • LAMA-WeST Lab, Director
  • Institut de valorisation des données (IVADO), Member
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 2800 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Computer Vision, use 2603)

Publications

Recent publications
Conference paper
Clouatre, L., Parthasarathi, P., Zouaq, A. & Anbil Parthipan, S.C. (2022). Local Structure Matters Most: Perturbation Study in NLU. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, IRELAND (pp. 3712-3731). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.293
Conference paper
Font, L., Piche, D., Zouaq, A. & Gagnon, M. (2021). Integrating Heterogeneous Data About Quebec Literature into an IFLA LRM Knowledge Base. Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2021), En ligne / Online (pp. 373-391). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91669-5_29
Conference paper
Piché, D., Zouaq, A., Gagnon, M. & Font, L. (2021). Masked language model entity matching for cultural heritage data. Paper presented at the International Joint Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2021) (12 pages).
Conference paper
Martel, F. & Zouaq, A. (2021). Taxonomy extraction using knowledge graph embeddings and hierarchical clustering. Paper presented at the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2021) (pp. 836-844). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1145/3412841.3441959
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Biography

Amal Zouaq is an Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, an IVADO professor (https://ivado.ca/en/) and an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, Semantic Web, and educational data mining. She is the director of the LAMA-WeST research lab (http://www.labowest.ca/), specialized in all aspects of natural language processing and artificial intelligence including knowledge extraction from unstructured knowledge sources, knowledge base learning and completion, question answering, and educational data mining. She serves as a member of the program committee in many conferences and journals in knowledge and data engineering, natural language processing, educational data mining and the Semantic Web. She is also a member of the editorial team for the International Journal of Educational Data Mining, The Open Journal of the Semantic Web and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence.

Supervision at Polytechnique

COMPLETED

  • Ph.D. Thesis (1)

  • Master's Thesis (15)

    • Favreau, C.-O. (2022). Learning to Rank with BERT for Argument Quality (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/10296/
    • Hirigoyen, R. (2022). Génération automatique de requêtes SPARQL à partir de questions en langue naturelle (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/10533/
    • Piché, D. (2022). Génération de base de connaissance à partir de données hétérogènes dans le monde culturel (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/10327/
    • Abdi Ghavidel, H. (2021). Automatic Short Answer Grading Using Transformers (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5608/
    • Farvacque, D. (2020). Re-BERT OQA : un système de question-réponse dans le domaine ouvert (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5396/
    • Marchand, E. (2020). Extraction automatique d'une base de connaissances à partir de documents archéologiques et patrimoniaux en français (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5225/
    • Martel, F. (2020). Extraction de taxonomie par regroupement hiérarchique de plongements vectoriels de graphes de connaissances (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/5361/
    • Radoev, N. (2019). Multilingual SPARQL Query Generation Using Lexico-Syntactic Patterns (Master's Thesis, Polytechnique Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/3852/
    • Ferry, F. (2018). Identification de relations entre personnes et biens immobiliers à partir de données textuelles (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/3301/
    • Haidar-Ahmad, L. (2017). Extraction d'axiomes et de règles logiques à partir de définitions de wikipédia en langage naturel (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2566/
    • Chabchoub, M. (2016). Amélioration des performances des annotateurs sémantiques (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2373/
    • Font, L. (2016). Évaluation et amélioration de la qualité de DBpedia pour la représentation de la connaissance du domaine (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2409/
    • Lange Di Cesare, K. (2016). Amélioration de la précision de systèmes d'extraction de relations en utilisant un filtre générique basé sur l'apprentissage statistique (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2115/
    • N'techobo, E.P.A. (2016). Annotations sémantiques et analyse de surface pour l'extraction de graphes d'abstraction de débats politiques (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2180/
    • Desmarais, F.-X. (2012). Comparaison d'une approche à base de règles avec une approche utilisant de l'apprentissage machine pour l'analyse sémantique (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/1049