Publications

• M. Blanc, V. Yanick, J. Massé, R. Khoury, J. A. Gramaccia, “Les femmes en temps de pandémie dans les médias”, Communication, vol. 41 no. 2, December 2024.

• D. Beauchemin, Z. Gagnon, R. Khoury, “Quebec Automobile Insurance Question-Answering With Retrieval-Augmented Generation”, Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop, pp. 48–60, November 2024.

• T. Berteloot, R. Khoury, A. Durand, “Association Rules Mining with Auto-Encoders”, 25th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, 20-22 November 2024.

• K. Essaied, S. Mellouli, Sehl, R. Khoury, “Predicting User Frustration during Interaction with Conversational Systems”, 2024 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August 2024. 

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• D. Beauchemin, H. Saggion, R. Khoury, “MeaningBERT: assessing meaning preservation between sentences”, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 6, September 2023.

• P.-L. Deziel, M. Simard, C. Sirois, S. Auclair, R. Khoury, “Applying Contextual Integrity to the Development of Polypharmacy Indicators in Canada”, 5th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, September 2023.

• D. Beauchemin, R. Khoury, “RISC: Generating Realistic Synthetic Bilingual Insurance Contract”, 36th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June 2023.

• A. Larouche, A. Durand, R. Khoury, C. Sirois, “Neural Bandits for Data Mining: Searching for Dangerous Polypharmacy”, Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Medicine, pp. 57-74. February 2023.

• F. Gélinas-Gascon, R. Khoury, “Modeling and Moderation of COVID-19 Social Network Chat”, Information, vol. 14 no. 2, February 2023.

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• E. Dube, S. E. MacDonald, T. Manca, J.A. Bettinger, S. M. Driedger, J. Graham, D. Greyson, N. E. MacDonald, S. B. Meyer, G. Roch, M. Vivion, L. Aylsworth, H. Witteman, F. Gélinas-Gascon, L. Marques Sathler Guimaraes, H. Hakim, D. Gagnon, B. Béchard, J. A. Gramaccia, R. Khoury, S. Tremblay  “Understanding the Influence of Web-Based Information, Misinformation, Disinformation, and Reinformation on COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Protocol for a Multicomponent Study”, JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 11, no. 10, 2022.

• Z. Trabelsi, S. Mellouli, R. Khoury. "Online content moderation and the challenge of conceptualizing cyberbullying", 28th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 2022.

• V. Primpied, D. Beauchemin, R. Khoury, “Quantifying French Document Complexity”, 35th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May-June 2022.

• M. AlMousa, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, “A Novel Word Sense Disambiguation Approach Using WordNet Knowledge Graph”, Computer Speech & Language, vol. 74, January 2022.

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• M.-A. Larochelle, É. Brassard-Gourdeau, Z. Trabelsi, R. Khoury, S. Mellouli, L. Wood, C. Priebe. “Protecting Online Communities from Harmful Behaviors”, Médias sociaux : perspectives sur les défis liés à la cybersécurité, la gouvernementalité algorithmique et l’intelligence artificielle, Schallum Pierre & Jaafar Fehmi (eds.), Presses de l’Université Laval, ISBN : 978-2-7637-5328-7, pp.149-166, 2021.

• C. Sirois, R. Khoury, A. Durand, P.-L. Deziel, O. Bukhtiyarova, Y. Chiu, D. Talbot, A. Bureau, P. Despres, C. Gagne, F. Laviolette, A.-M. Savard, J. Corbeil. T. Badard, S. Jean, M. Simard, “Exploring polypharmacy with artificial intelligence: data analysis protocol”, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 21 no. 219, July 2021. 

• T. Racicot, R. Khoury, C. Pere, “Estimation of uncertainty bounds on disparate treatment when using proxies for the protected attribute”, 34th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May 2021. 

• E. Brassard-Gourdeau, R. Khoury, “Using Sentiment Information for Preemptive Detection of Harmful Comments in Online Conversations”, 34th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May 2021.

• R. Avila, R. Khoury, R. Khoury, F. Petrillo, “Use of Security Logs for Data Leak Detection: A Systematic Literature Review”, Security and Communication Networks, vol. 2021 no. 1, March 2021.  

• M. AlMousa, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, “Exploiting non-taxonomic relations for measuring semantic similarity and relatedness in WordNet”, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 212, January 2021. 

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• M.-A. Larochelle, R. Khoury, “Generalisation of Cyberbullying Detection”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, pp. 296-300, December 2020.

• D. T. Vo, R. Khoury, “Language Identification on Massive Datasets of Short Messages using an Attention Mechanism CNN”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, pp. 16-23, December 2020.

• N. Garneau, D. Beauchemin, E. Gaumond, P.-L. Déziel, L. Lamontagne, R. Khoury, “Generating Intelligible Plumitifs Summaries: Use Case Application with Ethical Considerations”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, December 2020.

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• E. Brassard-Gourdeau, R. Khoury, “Subversive Toxicity Detection using Sentiment Information”, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online, pp. 1-10, August 2019.

 

• M. AlMousa, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, “NLP-Enriched Automatic Video Segmentation”, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, May 2018.

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• U. Coté-Allard, G. Dubé, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, B. Gosselin, F. Laviolette, “Time Adaptive Dual Particle Swarm Optimization”, Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 2017.

• S. Zong, R. Khoury, R. Benlamri, “Local and Global Influence on Twitter”, Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10233, pp. 45-50, May 2017.

• L. Gan, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, “Improved Sentiment Classification by Multi-modal Fusion”, Proceedings of the IEEE Third International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, pp. 11-16, April 2017.

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• B. J. Oommen, R. Khoury, A. Schmidt, “Text Classification Using “Anti”-Bayesian Quantile Statistics-Based Classifiers”, Transactions on Computational Intelligence XXV, pp 101-126, September 2016,.

• J. Li, S. Fong, Y. Zhuang, R. Khoury, “Hierarchical Classification in Text Mining for Sentiment Analysis”, Soft Computing: A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol. 20 no. 9, pp 3411–3420, September 2016,

• R. Khoury, F. Sapford, “Latin Word Stemming using Wiktionary”, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31 no. 2, pp. 368–373, June 2016.

• V. Jahjah, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, “Word Normalization Using Phonetic Signatures”, Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 9673, pp.180-185. May-June 2016.

• J. Bergeron, A. Schmidt, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne “Building User Interest Profiles Using DBpedia In A Question Answering System”, Proceedings of the 29th International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 14-19, May 2016.

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• R. Khoury, D. Hayes, “Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays”, Digital Medievalist, vol. 10, October 2015.

• R. Khoury, “Microtext Normalization using Probably-Phonetically-Similar Word Discovery”, Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing, pp. 392-399, October 2015.

• B. J. Oommen, R. Khoury, A. Schmidt, “Text Classification Using Novel "Anti-Bayesian" Techniques”, Computational Collective Intelligence, September 2015.

• R. Khoury, “Phonetic Normalization of Microtext”, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, pp. 1600-1601, August 2015.

• U. Côté Allard, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, J. Bergeron, F. Laviolette, A. Bergeron-Guyard, “Optimizing Question-Answering Systems Using Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings of the 28th International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 32-37, May 2015.

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• C. Wei, R. Khoury, S. Fong, “Recommendation Systems for Web 2.0 Marketing”, Studies in Big Data Volume 3: Data Mining for Service, Katsutoshi Yada (ed.), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-45252-9, pp 171-196, 2014.

• H. Chinaei, L. Lamontagne, F. Laviolette, R. Khoury, “A Topic Model Scoring Approach for Personalized QA Systems”, Text, Speech and Dialogue, vol. 8655, pp. 84-92, September 2014.

• J. Li, S. Fong, Y. Zhuang, R. Khoury, “Hierarchical Classification in Text Mining for Sentiment Analysis”, Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence, September 2014.

• R. Khoury, R. Khoury, W. Hamou-Lhadj, “Microtext Processing”, Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining , Reda Alhajj & Jon Rokne (ed.), Springer, ISBN: 978-1-4614-6169-2, pp. 894-904, August 2014.

• L. Lamontagne, F. Laviolette, R. Khoury, A. Bergeron-Guyard, “A Framework for Building Adaptive Intelligent Virtual Assistants”, Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, February 2014.

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• S. Fong, Y. Zhuang, J. Li, R. Khoury, “Sentiment Analysis of Online News using MALLET”, Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence, pp.301-304, August 2013.

• S. Fong, M. G. Da Costa Jr, R. Khoury, “Air Cargo Scheduling Using Genetic Algorithms”,  Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence, pp.170-173, August 2013.

• C. Wei, R. Khoury, S. Fong, “Web 2.0 Recommendation Service by Multi-Collaborative Filtering Trust Network Algorithm”, Information Systems Frontiers, vol. 15 no. 4, pp. 533-551, August 2013.

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• M. AlemZadeh, R. Khoury, F. Karray, “Query Classification using Wikipedia’s Category Graph”, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, vol.4 no. 3, pp. 207-220, August 2012.

• J. Luo, J. Kivinen, J. Malo, R. Khoury, “Architecture of a Cloud-Based Social Networking News Site”, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, vol. 4 no. 3, pp. 227-233, August 2012.

• M. Idris, A. Mehrabian, A. Hamou-Lhadj, R. Khoury, “Pattern-Based Trace Correlation Technique to Compare Software Versions”, in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, pp. 159-166, June 2012.

• M. AlemZadeh, K. Abida, R. Khoury, F. Karray, “Enhancement of the ROVER’s Voting Scheme Using Pattern Matching”, Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, pp. 167-174, June 2012.

• R. Khoury, “Sentence Clustering Using Parts-of-Speech”, International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business, vol. 4 no. 1, pp. 1-9, February 2012.

• N. Nematollahi, R. Khoury, “A Case Study in Key Measuring Software”, International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing, vol. 4 no. 1, pp. 1-11, February 2012.

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• R. Khoury, “A Learning Algorithm for Question Type Classification”, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 1, pp. 365-371, July 2011.

• R. Khoury, “Question Type Classification Using a Part-of-Speech Hierarchy”, Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, pp. 212-221, June 2011

• M. AlemZadeh, R. Khoury, F. Karray, “Exploring Wikipedia’s Category Graph for Query Classification”, Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, pp. 222-230, June 2011

• R. Khoury, “Query Classification using Wikipedia”, International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, vol. 5 no. 2, pp.143-163, April 2011.

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• R. Khoury, “Using Encyclopaedic Knowledge for Query Classification”, Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, pp. 857-862, July 2010.

• R. Khoury, “Exploiting Wikipedia in Query Understanding Systems”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Digital Information Management, pp. 292-297, July 2010.

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• R. Khoury, “The Impact Of Wikipedia On Scientific Research”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, pp. 2-11, September 2009.

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• R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Domain Representation using Possibility Theory: An Exploratory Study”, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 16 no. 6, pp. 1531-1541, December 2008.

• R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Keyword Extraction Rules Based on a Part-Of-Speech Hierarchy”, International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, vol. 2 no. 2, pp. 138-153, April 2008.

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• R. Khoury, F. Karray, Y. Sun, M. Kamel, O. Basir, “Semantic Understanding of General Linguistic Items by Means of Fuzzy Set Theory”, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 15 no. 5, pp. 757-771, October 2007.

• R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Keyword Extraction Rules Based on a Part-Of-Speech Hierarchy”, Proceedings of the 4th Annual Scientific Conference of the LORNET Research Network, November 2007. 

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• R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Extracting and Representing Actions in Text Using Possibility Theory”, Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Scientific Conference of the LORNET Research Network, November 2006.

• R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “A Methodology for Extracting and Representing Actions in Texts”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, p. 574-581, July 2006.

• R. Khoury, “An Enhanced Positioning Algorithm for a Self-Referencing Hand-Held 3D Sensor”, Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, p. 44, June 2006.

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• R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “A Fuzzy Classifier for Natural Language Text using Automatically-Learned Fuzzy Rules”, Proceedings of the second International Conference on Artificial & Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation - International Conference on Machine Intelligence, November 2005.

• Y. Sun, R. Khoury, F. Karray, O. Basir, “Semantic Context Classification by Means of Fuzzy Set Theory”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 250-255, October–November 2005.