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The WeST lab@uOttawa
is specialized in all areas related to Semantic Web, data mining, knowledge
extraction, natural language processing, ontology engineering and learning,
and learning analytics.
The WeST Lab is located at the University of Ottawa (WeST@uOttawa) and at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. WeST@uOttawa
is led by Prof. Amal Zouaq and WeST@polymtl
is led by Prof. Michel Gagnon. Several students are
co-supervised by Prof. Amal Zouaq
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Current
Students
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PhD. students:
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1. Hadi Abdi Ghavidel
(2017) – Knowledge Graph Extraction
from Teaching and Learning Materials (University of Ottawa) 2. Trevor Deley (2017)
- (University of Ottawa) |
Msc.
Students:
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1. Gerardo Mantecon (2017) - Readability
Feature Extraction in Open Students Responses (University of Ottawa) 2. Rawan Bahmid (2016) - Hybrid
Question Answering on the Linked Open Data Cloud (University of Ottawa) 3. Hanqing Zhou (2016) - A
Framework for DBpedia Quality Enhancement using Deep Learning (University
of Ottawa) |
Undergraduate
Students:
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1.
Anthony Garant (2017) - Ranking Answer in the QALD challenge,
co-supervisor (Ecole Polytechnique
de Montreal) 2. Mathieu Tremblay (2017) - Answering Natural Language Questions in
French on an RDF Knowledge base – co-supervisor (Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal) 3. Nikolay
Radoev (2017) - Answering Natural Language Questions in French on an RDF
Knowledge base – co-supervisor (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal) |
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Past Students
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Postdocs:
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1. Alexandre Kouznetsov (Postdoc), Learning
to Rank for Information Retrieval, June. 2016 – March 2017 (Ryerson
University) – co-supervisor 2. Alexandre Kouznetsov (Postdoc), Machine
learning models for keyword and relation extraction, Sept. 2013 (Royal
Military College of Canada) Dec. 2014 – supervisor 3. Faezeh Ensan (Postdoc), A
comprehensive evaluation of semantic annotators, Jan. 2013 – Jan. 2014
(Royal Military College of Canada) – supervisor 4. Ludovic Jean-louis (Postdoc), Semantic
annotators for the keyword extraction task, Jan. 2013 -June 2014 (Ecole Polytechnique de
Montréal) – co-supervisor |
Msc.
Students:
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1. Lara Haidar (Msc.),
Enriching DBpedia with OWL Axioms from
Wikipedia, September 2015 – April 2017 (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal) – Supervisor 2. Ludovic Font (Msc.), Enriching
and Evaluating DBpedia quality for Domain Knowledge. Sept. 2014 – April 2016 (Ecole Polytechnique de
Montréal) – supervisor 3. Mohamed Chabchoub
(Msc.), A
Methodology for Entity Linking Using Collective Disambiguation, May 2015
– August 2016 (Ecole Polytechnique
de Montréal) – co-supervisor 4. Edoukou
Philippe Armel N'techobo (Msc.), A Graph-based Approach for the
Summarization of Political Debates- May 2014 – April 2016 (Ecole Polytechnique de
Montréal) – supervisor 5. Guilherme Pinotte (Msc.), OntoMap - Converting
concept maps into OWL, May 2015 -
Dec 2016 (Federal University of Espirito Santo) –
co-supervisor 6. Camila Zacche de
Aguiar (Msc.), Concept maps extraction
from text, May 2016 – March 2017 (Federal University of Espirito Santo) – co-supervisor 7. Sheenam
Sharma (Msc. – project option), Topic Detection and Clustering using
Semantic Annotation on Canadian Parliamentary Debates, May 2016 -
December 2016 (University of Ottawa, CSI6900). 8. Kevin Lange Di
Cesare (Msc.), Syntactic
and Semantic Features for Relation Extraction, May 2014 – April 2016 (Ecole Polytechnique de
Montréal) – co-supervisor 9. Paul Geeseman (Msc.), NeCO: Ontology Alignment using Near-miss Clone
Detection, Nov 2012-January 2014 (Queen’s University) – co-supervisor 10. François-Xavier
Desmarais (Msc.), Comparing a Rule-Based and a Machine Learning Approach for Semantic
Analysis, June 2010 - Aug. 2012 (Ecole Polytechnique de
Montréal) – co-supervisor |
Undergraduate
Students:
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Chris Beauclair (University of Ottawa, Fall
2016), Wikipedia-based Topic Models for Page Recommendation, September
– December 2016 - supervisor 2.
Jeffrey
Nerad (University of Ottawa, Fall 2016), Type inference from Wikipedia
abstracts and DBpedia, September – December 2016 – supervisor 3.
Joshua Saunders (University of Ottawa, Winter 2017),
Building a classifier for entity type induction, January – April 2017
– supervisor 4.
Jiuzhou Wu, Haolong Zhang (University of Ottawa,
Winter 2017), A Classifier for Class and Instance Recognition in Wikipedia,
January – April 2017 – supervisor |
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