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Dr. Terry Lima Ruas
Data & Knowledge Engineering Group
University of Wuppertal
School of Electrical,
Information and Media Engineering
Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21
D-42119 Wuppertal
Office: FC 1.18
Phone: +49 (0)202 439 1880
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Dr. Terry Lima Ruas
Senior Researcher for Document Semantic Similarity
Office: FC 1.18
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Terry Ruas has completed his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan – Dearborn in the USA, where he also worked as Graduate Student Instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses. He completed his MSc and BSc in Information Engineering and Computer Science respectively at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in Brazil. During his graduate studies, he also worked in the industry for IBM for five years. He was also a Ph.D. intern at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan and a summer teaching assistant at VelTech in Chennai, India.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Terry’s research interest is the result of an overlap between natural language processing, data science, and machine learning applied to text mining to extract semantic features. He explores how semantic features can be used to solve different NLP downstream tasks and real-world problems. More specifically, he is interested in how to improve scientific paper mining and recommendation using semantics. Terry’s primary research interest topics are:
- Natural language processing
- Machine learning
- Scientific paper mining
- Scientometrics
- Data Science
SHORT CV
| 09/2019 – present | Senior researcher Data & Knowledge Engineering Group, University of Wuppertal, Germany |
| 09/2015 – 08/2019 | Computer and Information Science, Ph.D. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Michigan, USA |
| 01/2018 – 07/2018 | Visiting Researcher National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan |
| 12/2009 – 07/2015 | Product Manager; IT Specialist IBM, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 02/2012 – 10/2013 | Information Engineering, M.Sc. Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil |
| 01/2007 – 12/2010 | Computer Science and Science & Technology, B.Sc. Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil |
TEACHING & PROJECTS
[WS19]
Applied Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
[SS20]
Key Concepts in Computer Science
[WS20]
Students projects
- The slides below are examples of student research projects that I'm currently offering. Please let me know if you are interested in these projects or you have another project ideas.
- All projects are available as one PDF file
PUBLICATIONS
The full list of my publications is available here.
- Math-Word Embedding in Math Search and Semantic Extraction.
A. Greiner-Petter, A. Youssef, T. Ruas, B. Miller R., M. Schubotz, A. Aizawa, B. Gipp.
In Scientometrics , an International Journal for all Quantitative Aspects of the Science of Science, Communication in Science and Science Policy. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03502-9. 2020 (accepted for publication). - Pairwise Multi-Class Document Classification for Semantic Relations between Wikipedia Articles.
M. Ostendorff, T. Ruas, M. Schubotz, and B. Gipp.
In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2020. (PDF) - Enhanced word embeddings using multi-semantic representation through lexical chains.
Ruas, T.; Ferreira, C.H.; Grosky, W.; França F. O.; Medeiros, D. M. R..
In: International Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier. V. 532, p.16-32. DOI:10.1016/j.ins.2020.04.048. 2020 - Detecting Machine-Obfuscated Plagiarism.
T. Foltynek, T. Ruas, P. Scharpf, N. Meuschke, M. Schubotz, W. Grosky, and B. Gipp.
In Sustainable Digital Communities - iConference. Springer International Publishing, 2020, vol. 12051 LNCS, pp. 816-827. (PDF) - Multi-Sense Embeddings Through a Word Sense Disambiguation Process
Ruas, T.; Grosky, W.; Aizawa, A.
International Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier. V. 136, p.288-303.
DOI:10.1016/j.eswa.2019.06.026. 2019