Research Interests:
- Data, Text, and Web Mining: data & information extraction; classification & clustering; topic analysis; content matching & online contextual advertising
- Machine Learning Models and Their Applications: maximum entropy, conditional random fields (CRFs), latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), etc. and applications
- Natural Language Processing (NLP): word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and phrase chunking; large-scale computational models for NLP applications
- Biomedical NLP: biomedical literature retrieval & analysis; disease & virus association mining; entity, relation, event, & pathway extraction
Research Projects:
- Main researcher: "Accelerating our understanding of the causal pathways to cerebral palsy with a computer supported system", 2008-2010, funded by Cerebral Palsy Institute, Sydney, Australia - AUD 120,000
- Member: "On the development of fundamental resources and tools for Vietnamese language and speech processing" (VLSP), 2007-2009, funded by the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, KC01.01/06-10.
- Principal investigator: "Information extraction and management on the Web for large-scale applications", 2006-2008, funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), No.P06366 - 11,360,000 YEN (about USD 150,000)
- Member: "Research and development of content filtering supporting content management and security on the Internet", 2006-2008, funded by the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology, KC01.02/06-10.
Professional Services:
- PC member: Hanoi-ICT 2007, Hanoi-ICT 2008, PRICAI 2008, PRICAI EMALP 2008, WISM 2009, WISM 2010, WISM 2011, KSE 2011, KSE 2012
- Reviewer: ECML 2005, ICML 2005, ICML 2006, PAKDD 2007, RIVF 2007, ACM SIGKDD 2008, ACL-IJCNLP ARL7 2009, IEEE ICDM 2009, ACM CIKM 2009, AMIA 2009, HIC 2009, Journal of Natural Language Processing (JNLP)