Curriculum Vitae and Publications Dr. Mehwish Alam

Dr. Mehwish Alam is a Post-Doctoral Researcher/Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) with Prof. Dr. Harald Sack. Before that she has conducted her Post-Doctoral Research at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), Paris, France (2016-2017) and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy (2017-2019) with Prof. Dr. Aldo Gangemi . The focus of her research is to apply or develop Data Mining, Machine Learning/Deep Learning techniques for Semantic Web and Text Processing. Before her Post-Doc, she was PhD student in the field of Computer Science (2011-2015) in LORIA, INRIA, Nancy Grand-Est, France. Her PhD thesis was supervised by Dr. Amedeo Napoli and Dr. Malika-Smail Tabbone. She completed her prestigious Erasmus Mundus Research Masters in Language Communication and Technology in the discipline of Natural Language Processing. She completed her Masters in collaboration with University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands and University of Nancy 2, Nancy, France. Her publications are accessible on DBLP and Google Scholar.

She has served as a proceedings chair as well as publicity chair for the ESWC'18, Poster and Demo Session chair in SEMANTiCS Conference 2019, Program Chair of International Conference in Conceptual Structures (ICCS'19), Assistant Tutor in International Semantic Web Summer School (ISWS'18). She has also been one of the organizers of the Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG'19) at ESWC 2019 and Fourth International Workshop at ESWC 2018 on Sentic Computing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion mining and Emotion Detection. She is part of the program committee of major conferences such as IJCAI, AAAI, EKAW, ESWC etc. and served as a reviewer in many journals and workshops.

Conference and Workshop Chairs

2020

• Chair of the Special Track on Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at SEMANTiCS 2020, Amsterdam
• General Chair of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2020)
• Workshop Chair of DL4KG, Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs, collocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020)

2019

• Program Chair of International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS)
• Poster and Demo Session Chair at SEMANTiCS 2019
• Workshop Chair of DL4KG, Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs, collocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2019
• Workshop Chair of NL4AI-2019, 3rd Work shop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, collocated with the 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2019)

2018

• Publicity Chair and Proceedings Chair at ESWC 2018, 15th European Semantic Web Conference 2018
• Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Sentic Computing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion mining and Emotion Detection, collocated with ESWC 2018
• Assistant Tutor at ISWS 2018, International Semantic Web Summer School 2018

Editorships

• Information, ISSN: 2078-2489, Special Issue on Conceptual Structures 2019 (to be published)
• Future Generation Computer Systems, ISSN: 0167-739X, Special Issue on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs (to be published) 

Program Committees

2020

• ESWC, 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference, 2020
• ECIR, 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2020
• ECAI, the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
• AAAI-20 Student Abstract and Poster Program, 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
• AAAI-20, 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019

• AAAI-19, 33th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
• CoopIS 2019, 27th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, 2019
• CLiC-it 2019, 6th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics, AILC, 2019
• GEM 2019, workshop on Graph Embedding and Mining, collocated with ECML-PKDD 2019, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2019
• KCAP Knowledge CAPture
• ISWC 2019, 18th International Semantic Web Conference 2019

2018

• AAAI-18, 32th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018

2017

• 2017-present: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - European Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-ECAI
• 2017-present: ESWC, European Conference on Semantic Web
• IJCRS 2017, International Joint Conference On Rough Sets 2017
• ISMIS 2017, 23rd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2017
• 9th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP 2017

2016

• 2016-present: EKAW, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
• 2016-2018: FCA4AI, What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?
• 2016-2018: WebNLG, Web Natural Language Generation

Reviewer (International Journals and Conferences)

2018

• 2018-present: SWJ, Semantic Web Journal

2017

• DAM, Discrete and Applied Mathematics
• IJAI, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
• 2017-present: JWS, Journal of Web Semantics

Zitate

Mehwish Alam @ Google Scholar

Mehwish Alam @ DBLP

Mehwish Alam @ Scopus

2020

• T. Tietz, J. Waitelonis, M. Alam, H. Sack: Knowledge Graph based Analysis and Exploration of Historical Theatre Photographs, In Proc. of the Conference on Digital Curation Technologies 2020 (Qurator 2020), Berlin, Germany, January 20th to 21st, 2020. [local copy (PDF)]

2019

• G. A. Gesese, R. Biswas, M. Alam, H. Sack: A Survey on Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Literals: Which model links better Literal-ly?, submitted to Semantic Web Journal, Oct 25, 2019 (under review) [Copy at arxiv.org]
• M. Alam, R. Usbeck, T. Pellegrini, H. Sack, Y. Sure-Vetter (Eds.): Proceedings of the Posters and Demo Track of the 15th International Conference on Semantic Systems
  co-located with 15th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9th to 12th, 2019.
• D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Alam, D. Buscaldi, A. Grezka and F. Tavazoee:
  Frame-Based Detection of Figurative Language in Tweets, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2019 [to be published].
• D. Endres, M. Alam, D. Şotropa :
  Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2019, Springer Cham 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23182-8
• M. Alam, D. Buscaldi, M. Cochez, F. Osborne, D. Reforgiato Recupero, H. Sack: Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG2019), Co-located with the 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2019 (ESWC 2019), CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 2377, CEUR-WS.org, online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2377/
• M. Alam: Can Knowledge Graphs and Deep Learning Approaches help in Representing, Detecting and Interpreting Metaphors?, Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG2019), co-located with of the 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2019), CEUR workshop proceedings, vol. 2377, pp. 71-73, CEUR-WS.org, online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2377/), [local copy (PDF)].
• T. Abderrahmani Ghor, E. Agrawal, M. Alam, O. Alqawasmeh, C. D'amato, A. Annane, A. Azzam, A. Berezovskyi, R. Biswas, M. Bonduel, Q. Brabant, C. Bucur, E. Camossi, V. Carriero, S. Chari, D. Fraga, F. Ciroku, M. Cochez, H. Curien, V. Cutrona, R. Dandan, D. Dess, V. Carlo, A. Djebri, M. Van Erp, F. Falakh, A. Izquierdo, G. Futia, A. Gangemi, S. Gasperoni, A. Grall, L. Heling, P. Henri, N. Herradi, S. Issa, S. Jozashoori, N. Juniarta, L. Kaffee, I. Keles, P. Khare, V. Kovtun, V. Leone, S. Li, S. Lieber, P. Lisena, T. Makhalova, L. Marinucci, T. Minier, B. Moreau, A. Moya Loustaunau, D. Nandini, Ozdowska, S.; De Moura, A.; Padhee, S.; Palma, G.; Del Pozo Jimnez, P.; Presutti, V.; Reda, R.; Rizza, E.; Rosales-mndez, H.; Rudolph, S.; Sack, H.; Sciullo, L.; Simanjuntak, H.; Stomeo, C.; T. Thanapalasingam, T. Tietz, D. Varanka, M. Vidal, M. Wolowyk, M. Zocholl: Linked Open Data Validity -- A Technical Report from ISWS 2018, arXiv e-prints, arXiv:1903.12554, 2019 [local copy (PDF)].

2018

• M. Alam, A. Buzmakov, A. Napoli:
  Exploratory knowledge discovery over Web of Data, In Discrete Applied Mathematics 249 (2018) 2–17. DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2018.03.041, [local copy (PDF)]
• J. Reynaud, Galbrun, E.; M. Alam, Y. Toussaint, A. Napoli:
  Définir les catégories de DBpédia avec des règles d'associations et des redescriptions. Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC 2018) Paris, France, January 23-26, 2018: 335-340
• A. Gangemi, M. Alam, V. Presutti:
  Amnestic Forgery: An Ontology of Conceptual Metaphors, In Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, (FOIS 2018), Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-910-2-159, [local copy (PDF)]
• A. Gangemi, M. Alam, V. Presutti:
  Linked Metaphors, In Proceedings of the ISWC 2018 Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Blue Sky Ideas Tracks co-located with 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), Monterey, USA, October 8th - to - 12th, 2018. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2180/paper-17.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Dragoni, D. Buscaldi, M. Alam, E. Cambria (Eds.):
  Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Sentic Computing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, and Emotion Detection (EMSASW 2018) Co-located with the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2018 (ESWC 2018), Heraklion, Greece, June 4, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2111, CEUR-WS.org 2018, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2111
• A. Gangemi, R. Navigli, M.-E. Vidal, P. Hitzler, R. Troncy, L. Hollink, A. Tordai, M. Alam:
  The Semantic Web - 15th International Conference, ESWC 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10843, Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-93416-7, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93417-4
• A. Gangemi, A. L. Gentile, A. G. Nuzzolese, S. Rudolph, M. Maleshkova, H. Paulheim, J. Z. Pan, M. Alam:
  The Semantic Web: ESWC 2018 Satellite Events - ESWC 2018 Satellite Events, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 3-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11155, Springer 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-98191-8, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98192-5
• A. Gangemi, M. Alam, V. Presutti:
  Amnestic Forgery: An Ontology of Conceptual Metaphors, In CoRR abs/1805.12115 2018.
• M. Alam, A. Gangemi, V. Presutti, D. Reforgiato Recupero:
  Semantic Role Labeling for Knowledge Graph Extraction from Text, In CoRR abs/1811.01409 (2018)

2017

• J. Reynaud, M. Alam, Y. Toussaint, A. Napoli:
  A Proposal for Classifying the Content of the Web of Data Based on FCA and Pattern Structures, In Foundations of Intelligent Systems - 23rd International Symposium, ISMIS 2017, Warsaw, Poland, June 26-29, 2017, Proceedings, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60438-1_67, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Mongiovi, A. Gangemi, P. Ristoski:
  Event-based knowledge reconciliation using frame embeddings and frame similarity, In Knowledge-Based Systems 135 (2017) 192–203. DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2017.08.014, [local copy (PDF)]
• C. Santos, A. Gangemi, M. Alam:
  Detecting and Editing Privacy Policy Pitfalls on the Web, In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Technologies for Regulatory Compliance co-located with the 30th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2017), Luxembourg, December 13, 2017. 87-99, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2049/09paper.pdf
• M. Alam, D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Mongiovì, A. Gangemi, P. Ristosk:
  Frame Embeddings for Event-Based Knowledge Reconciliation, In Proceedings of the ISWC 2017 Posters & Demonstrations and Industry Tracks co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), Vienna, Austria, October 23rd - 25th, 2017, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1963/paper522.pdf
• M. Alam, D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Mongiovì, A. Gangemi, P. Ristoski :
  Reconciling Event-Based Knowledge Through RDF2VEC, In Joint Proceedings of the International Workshops on Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics, and Semantic Statistics co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference, HybridSemStats@ISWC 2017, Vienna, Austria October 22nd, 2017, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1923/article-03.pdf
• D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Alam, A. Gangemi, V. Presutti:
  Frame Semantic Parsing using Framester Knowledge Graphs, In Proceedings of the ISWC 2017 Posters & Demonstrations and Industry Tracks co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), Vienna, Austria, October 23rd - to - 25th, 2017, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1963/paper517.pdf

2016

• A. Gangemi, M. Alam, L. Asprino, V. Presutti, D. Reforgiato Recupero:
  Framester: A Wide Coverage Linguistic Linked Data Hub, In Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 20th International Conference, EKAW 2016, Bologna, Italy, November 19-23, 2016, Proceedings, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_16, [local copy (PDF)]
• A. Gangemi, M. Alam, V. Presutti:
  Word Frame Disambiguation: Evaluating Linguistic Linked Data on Frame Detection, In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction co-located with 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Kobe, Japan, October 18, 2016., 2016. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1699/paper-04.pdf
• M. Alam, TNN. Le, A. Napoli:
  LatViz: A New Practical Tool for Performing Interactive Exploration over Concept Lattices, In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Moscow, Russia, July 18-22, 2016., 2016. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1624/paper1.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, TNN. Le, A. Napoli:
  Steps Towards Interactive Formal Concept Analysis with LatViz, In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence"? co-located with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, FCA4AI@ECAI 2016, The Hague, the Netherlands, August 30, 2016., 2016. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1703/paper7.pdf

2015

• M. Alam:
  Interactive Knowledge Discovery over Web of Data. (Découverte interactive de connaissances dans le web des données), PhD thesis, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, 2015.
• M. Alam, M. Osmuk, A. Napoli:
  RV-Xplorer: A Way to Navigate Lattice-Based Views over RDF Graphs, In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Clermont-Ferrand, France, October 13-16, 2015., 2015. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1466/paper02.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, A. Buzmakov, A. Napoli, A. Sailanbayev:
  Revisiting Pattern Structures for Structured Attribute Sets, In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Clermont-Ferrand, France, October 13-16, 2015., 2015. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1466/paper20.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, A. Napoli:
  Interactive exploration over RDF data using formal concept analysis, In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSAA 2015, Campus des Cordeliers, Paris, France, October 19-21, 2015, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/DSAA.2015.7344838, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, A. Napoli:
  An Approach Towards Classifying and Navigating RDF data based on Pattern Structures, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal Concept Analysis and Applications, FCA&A 2015, co-located with 13th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2015), Nerja, Málaga, Spain, June 23-26, 2015., 2015. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1434/paper3.pdf
• M. Alam, A. Buzmakov, V. Codocedo, A. Napoli:
  Bridging DBpedia Categories and DL-Concept Definitions Using Formal Concept Analysis, In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?", FCA4AI 2015, co-located with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25, 2015., 2015. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1430/paper1.pdf
• M. Alam, A. Buzmakov, V. Codocedo, A. Napoli:
  Mining Definitions from RDF Annotations Using Formal Concept Analysis, In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015, 2015. [local copy (PDF)]

2014

• M. Alam, A. Napoli:
  Defining Views with Formal Concept Analysis for Understanding SPARQL Query Results, In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Košice, Slovakia, October 7-10, 2014., 2014. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1252/cla2014_submission_32.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, A. Napoli:
  Lattice-Based Views over SPARQL Query Results, In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery co-located with European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2014), Nancy, France, September 19th, 2014., 2014. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1232/paper5.pdf

2013

• MW. Chekol, M. Alam, A. Napoli:
  A Study on the Correspondence between FCA and ELI Ontologies, In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, La Rochelle, France, October 15-18, 2013., 2013. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1062/paper20.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, MW. Chekol, A. Coulet, A. Napoli, M. Smaïl-Tabbone:
  Lattice Based Data Access (LBDA): An Approach for Organizing and Accessing Linked Open Data in Biology, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Mining on Linked Data, with Linked Data Mining Challenge collocated with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, September 23, 2013., 2013. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1082/paper5.pdf

2012

• M. Alam, A. Coulet, A. Napoli, M. Smaïl-Tabbone:
  Formal Concept Analysis Applied to Transcriptomic Data, In Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Fuengirola (Málaga), Spain, October 11-14, 2012, 2012. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-972/paper_short1.pdf, [local copy (PDF)]
• M. Alam, A. Coulet, A. Napoli, M. Smaïl-Tabbone:
  Formal Concept Analysis Applied to Transcriptomic Data, In Proceedings of the International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?", FCA4AI@ECAI 2012, Montpellier, France, August 28, 2012, 2012. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-939/paper2.pdf

2010

• X. Yao, I. Borisova, M. Alam:
  PDTB XML: the XMLization of the Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, 17-23 May 2010, Valletta, Malta, 2010. [local copy (PDF)]

• December 2019, Mehwish Alam, “Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs and it's Applications”, Keynote at the 3rd AFIA-ARIA joint workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, [local copy (PDF)].
   
• November 2018, Mehwish Alam, “Interactive Knowledge Discovery over the Web of Data”, University of La Rochelle, France.
   
• November 2018, Mehwish Alam, “Basics of Semantic Recommender Systems”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
   
• February 2018, Mehwish Alam, “Everything2Vec : Generating Embeddings for Measuring Semantic Similarities”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
   
• June 2017, Mehwish Alam, “Interactive Knowledge Discovery over Web of Data”, Ernst and Young, Paris, France.
   
• October 2016, Mehwish Alam, “Framester : A Wide Coverage Linguistic Linked Data Hub”, Project Meeting PEPS, Prefute (CNRS 2015-2016) Interactive Data Mining based on User Preferences, (PREFerences UTilisatEur) et Mastodons HyQual, INRIA-Rennes, France.
   
• July 2016, Mehwish Alam, “Interactive Knowledge Discovery over Web of Data”, Semantic Technology Lab CNR, Catania, Italy.
   
• November 2015, Mehwish Alam, “Interactive Knowledge Discovery over Web of Data”, Project Meeting PEPS Prefute, (CNRS 2015-2016) Interactive Data Mining based on User Preferences (PREFerences UTilisatEur) et Mastodons HyQual, LORIA, Nancy, France.
   
• July 2013, Mehwish Alam, “Formal Concept Analysis and its application to Biological Data”, Bio-Intelligence, Dassault Systemes, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.
   
• 2013, Mehwish Alam, “Formal Concept Analysis and its application to Biological Data”, Bio-Intelligence, Dassault Systemes, Paris, France.
   
• July 2012, Mehwish Alam, “Formal Concept Analysis Applied to Transcriptomic Data”, Bio-Intelligence Project, Dassault Systemes, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.
   
• June 2010, Mehwish Alam, “Analysis of Textual Documents for the Design of Ontological Resources”, Seminar, NaTAL, LORIA/INRIA, Nancy Grand-Est, France.

Bachelor Theses 

• Marc Jepsen: Temporal Signature Dataset from Wikipedia, 2019

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