Lê Thanh Hương Dr. Huong LeThanh Department of Information Systems, School of Information and Communication Technology Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam Tel: +84 (0)4 38696124 Email: huonglt-fit@mail.hut.edu.vn

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Research Interest

• Computational Linguistics: syntactics, semantics, text and discourse theories, question answering, natural language generation, summarization, machine translation, information extraction
• Applications of NLP technologies to other domains
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Expert Systems and Knowledge Acquisition
  

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Projects

Current Projects

2009-2011. Logical approaches in information representation and processing. Funded by NAFOSTED.

2009 - 2011. Research and implement intelligent robots, applying in exploiting multimedia information. A government project.

Previous Projects

2009 - 2010. Implementing a system to gather and extract information from Internet. (Chief Investigator). Funded by the Ministry of Education and Training.

2007-2009. Research and develop an open source Vietnamese syntactic parser for public usage - a branch project of the government project "Construct typical and essential products on Vietnamese text and speech processing".

2006 - 2008. NLI4DB - A Natural Language Interface for Querying Database and Automatically Generating Reports (Chief Investigator). Funded by the Flemish Interuniversity Council for University Development Cooperation (VLIR UOS).

2006-2007. Develop a system using natural language to query database and automatically generate reports. Funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Hanoi.

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Publications

• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. An approach in automatically generating discourse structure of text. Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, Vietnam. Volume 23(3), pp. 212-230.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. An approach to automatically generate different presentations of natural language paraphrases. Journal of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Volume 18 (3), pp. 74-82.
• Le Thanh Huong, Pham Hong Quang, and Nguyen Thanh Thuy. 2000. An approach to automatically analyze syntax of Vietnamese text. Journal of Informatics and Cybernetics, Volume 15, No.4.
  

Conferences/Workshops

• Chan Rathany Sam, Thanh Huong Le, Thanh Thuy Nguyen, Anh Dung Le and Thi Minh Ngoc Nguyen. 2011. Semi-Supervised Learning for Relation Extraction in Vietnamese Text. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Oct. 13-14, 2011, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Rathany Chan Sam, Huong Thanh Le, Thuy Thanh Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen. 2011. Combining Proper Name-Coreference with Conditional Random Fields for Semi-supervised Named Entity Recognition in Vietnamese Text. The 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), pp. 512-525.
• Huong Thanh Le, Rathany Chan Sam and Phuc Trong Nguyen. 2010. Extracting Phrases in Vietnamese Document for Summary Generation. The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Dec 28-30, 2010, Harbin, China.
• Rathany Chan Sam, Huong Thanh Le, Thuy Thanh Nguyen, The Minh Trinh. 2010. Relation Extraction in Vietnamese Text using Conditional Random Fields.The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS), Dec.1-3, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Huong Thanh Le, Lam Ba Do, Nhung Thi Pham. 2010. Efficient Syntactic Parsing with Beam Search. The 2010 IEEE RIVF conference, Nov. 01-04, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Huong Thanh Le, Thien Huu Nguyen. 2010. Name Entity Recognition using Inductive Logic Programming. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Aug. 27-28, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Dung Dao T., Huong Le T. 2008. Applying Information Extraction To Automatic Web Advertising. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Nov. 12-14, 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Lam Do B., Huong Le T. 2008. Implementing A Vietnamese Syntactic Parser Using HPSG. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Nov. 12-14, 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• Anh Nguyen Kim, Huong Thanh Le. 2008. Natural Language Interface Construction using Semantic Grammars. The 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Nguyen Trong Phuc, Le Thanh Huong. 2008. Vietnamese text summarisation using discourse structures. The ICT.rda conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Do Ba Lam, Le Thanh Huong. 2008. Implementing a Vietnamese syntactic parser using HPSG. In Proceedings of the ICT.rda conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Do Ba Lam, Le Thanh Huong. 2008. Improvement of Earley parsing for Vietnamese language. The ICT.rda conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. A study on Vietnamese Syntactic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 4th International AIST-VAST Scientific Workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Huong LeThanh. 2007. A frame-based approach to Text Generation. In Proceedings of the PACLIC21 conference, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 1-3, 2007
• Nguyen Quoc The, Le Thanh Huong. 2007. Vietnamese syntactic parsing using the Lexicalized Probabilistic Context-free Grammar. In Proceedings of the FAIR conference, Nha Trang, Vietnam, Aug. 9-10, 2007.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. A study on generating natural language answers from query's result tables. FAIR conference, Nhatrang, Vietnam, Aug. 9-10, 2007.
• Huong LeThanh and Geetha Abeysinghe. 2004. Using Syntactic Structures and Cohesive Devices in Recognizing Discourse Structure of Text. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of Vietnamese Society of AI, SIGKBS JSAI, ICS IPSJ and IEICE SIGAI on Active Mining, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 4 7, 2004.
• Huong LeThanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck. 2004. Generating Discourse Structures for Written Texts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland.
• Huong LeThanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck. 2004. Automated Discourse Segmentation by Syntactic Information and Cue Phrases. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2004), Innsbruck, Austria.
• Huong T. Le and Geetha Abeysinghe. 2003. A Study to Improve the Efficiency of a Discourse Parsing System. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing'03), Mexico. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) N 2588, A. Gelbukh, Ed., Springer Verlag.
• Huong LeThanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck. 2003. Using Cohesive Devices to Recognize Rhetorical Relations in Text. In Proceedings of 4th Computational Linguistics UK Research Colloquium (CLUK 4), University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Nguyen Huu Duc, Le Thanh Huong, Phan Dinh Hieu, Nguyen Quang Huy, Dinh Lan Anh. Building a virtual parallel computing system to apply in image processing. In Proceedings of Conference of Selective Problems in Information Technology, Hue city, Vietnam, 1999.

• Automatic Discourse Structure Generation Using Rhetorical Structure Theory. 2004. Ph.D. dissertation, Middlesex University, U.K.
• Robotics - Unsupervised Learning for Controlling a Robot-hand. 2001. Master thesis, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium.
• Vietnamese syntactic parser. 1999. Master thesis, Hanoi University of Technology.
• Applying Groupware Technology to developing distributed database systems. 1997. Undergraduate thesis, Hanoi University of Technology.

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For students

Master courses

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Discrete Mathematics
• Semantic Web and Data Mining

Undergraduate courses

• Artficial Intelligence
• Artficial Intelligence - Hedspi program
• C Programming Language
• Informatics
• Data structures and Algorithms
• Introduction to Information Technology (Nhập môn Công nghệ Thông tin)
• Natural Language Processing
• Ontology and Semantic Web

Research topics for undergraduated students and master students (click here)

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