Scientific Publications

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. Overcoming the Generalization Limits of SLM Finetuning for Shape-Based Extraction of Datatype and Object Properties. HAL Science 2025.

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. A systematic review of relation extraction task since the emergence of Transformers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03610.

Hanna Abi Akl. Investigating Language Model Capabilities to Represent and Process Formal Knowledge: A Preliminary Study to Assist Ontology Engineering. RuleML+RR 2025.

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. Kastor: Fine-tuned Small Language Models for Shape-based Active Relation Extraction. ESWC 2025.

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. Extensive Benchmark of Small Language Models for Datatype Properties Extraction and RDF Knowledge Graph Generation. Semantic Web 2025.

Hanna Abi Akl, Hugues de Mazancourt, Dominique Mariko. Ontology mapping and adaptation systems and methods. U.S. Patent No. 12,106,049.

Hanna Abi Akl, Dominique Mariko, Yann-Alan Pilatte, Stéphane Durfort, Nesrine Yahiaoui, Anubhav Gupta. Knowledge Graphs can play together: Addressing knowledge graph alignment from ontologies in the biomedical domain. KDIR 2024.

Hanna Abi Akl. Project SHADOW: Symbolic Higher-order Associative Deductive reasoning On Wikidata using LM probing. NATL 2024.

Hanna Abi Akl. DSTI at LLMs4OL 2024 Task A: Intrinsic versus extrinsic knowledge for type classification. LLMs40L at ISWC 2024.

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. Learning Pattern-Based Extractors from Natural Language and Knowledge Graphs Applying Large Language Models to Wikipedia & the Linked Open Data (POSTER). AAAI 2024.

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. 12 shades of RDF: Impact of Syntaxes on Data Extraction with Language Models. ESWC 2024.

Hanna Abi Akl. NeSy is alive and well: A LLM-driven symbolic approach for better code comment data generation and classification. GeNeSy at ESWC 2024.

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. Well-Written Knowledge Graphs. AAAI 2024.

Hanna Abi Akl. PSYCHIC: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Knowledge Graph Question-Answering Grounding. Scholarly QALD at ISWC 2023..

Hanna Abi Akl. A ML-LLM pairing for better code comment classification. FIRE 2023..

Célian Ringwald, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Franck Michel, Hanna Abi Akl. Learning RDF pattern extractors from natural language and knowledge graphs-application to Wikipedia and the LOD. ISWS 2023 & GEMSS 2023.

Hanna Abi Akl, Hugues de Mazancourt, Dominique Mariko, Valentin Pierart. Systems and methods for measuring automatability of report generation using a natural language generation system. U.S. Patent No. 11,734,517.

Dominique Mariko, Hanna Abi Akl, Hugues de Mazancourt. Techniques for generating natural language text customized to linguistic preferences of a user. U.S. Patent No. 11,501,088.

Hanna Abi Akl. The Path to Autonomous Learners. SAI Computing Conference 2023.

Rami Bou Khalil, Ramez Dagher, Myriam Zarzour, Ghassan Sleilaty, Hanna Abi Akl, Maya Kallab, Sami Richa. The impact of lockdown and other stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic on depression and anxiety in a Lebanese opportunistic sample: an online cross-sectional survey. Current Psychology.

Hanna Abi Akl, Dominique Mariko, Hugues de Mazancourt. Yseop at FinSim-3 Shared Task 2021: Specializing Financial Domain Learning with Phrase Representations. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing 2021.

Anubhav Gupta, Hanna Abi Akl, Hugues De Mazancourt. Not all titles are created equal: Financial document structure extraction shared task. Proceedings of the Third Financial Narrative Processing Workshop 2021.

Hanna Abi Akl, Dominique Mariko, Estelle Labidurie. Yseop at SemEval-2020 Task 5: Cascaded BERT Language Model for Counterfactual Statement Analysis. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2020.

Hanna Abi Akl, Dominique Mariko, Estelle Labidurie. SemEval-2020 Task 5: Detecting Counterfactuals by Disambiguation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08519.

Dominique Mariko, Estelle Labidurie, Yagmur Ozturk, Hanna Abi Akl, Hugues de Mazancourt. Data Processing and Annotation Schemes for FinCausal Shared Task. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02498.

Dominique Mariko, Hanna Abi Akl, Estelle Labidurie, Stéphane Durfort, Hugues de Mazancourt, Mahmoud El-Haj. Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2020). Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation 2020.

Hanna Abi Akl, Anubhav Gupta, Dominique Mariko. FinTOC-2019 shared task: Finding title in text blocks. Proceedings of the Second Financial Narrative Processing Workshop 2019.