Dat Quoc Nguyen is a Senior Research Scientist and the Head of the Natural Language Processing department at VinAI Research, Vietnam. He was an Honorary Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where previously he was a Research Fellow. Before that, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Macquarie University, Australia.
Dat Quoc Nguyen is the author of 70 peer-reviewed publications covering core NLP problems, ML methods for NLP and their applications for low-resource languages and specific domains, with over 5000 citations and an h-index of 33 (Google Scholar). He released many ML/NLP toolkits and datasets, which are widely used in both academia and industry. He also created large language models and other foundation models, including PhoGPT, PhoBERT, BARTpho, XPhoneBERT and BERTweet, with millions of downloads.

Education

• 06/14 — 05/17: Ph.D. Student, Macquarie University, Australia.
• Principal supervisor: Mark Johnson & Associate supervisor: Mark Dras.
• Thesis (accepted as it is): Modeling Topics and Knowledge Bases with Vector Representations.
• Thesis submitted for examination on 30/05/2017; Ph.D. qualified on 20/09/2017; Ph.D. conferred on 17/04/2018.
• 09/05 — 06/09: B.Sc. Student (Hons), VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam.

Experience

• 12/19 — Present: Senior Research Scientist, VinAI Research, Vietnam.
• 12/19 — 11/21: Honorary Fellow, School of CIS, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
• 12/17 — 11/19: Research Fellow, School of CIS, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
• 07/09 — 05/14: Researcher & Teaching Assistant, Faculty of IT, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam.
• 08/12 — 11/12: Research Intern, CNGL/NCLT centre, Dublin City University, Ireland.
• 11/11 — 05/12: Research Intern, UKP lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

Awards

• 2019: ALTA 2019 Best Paper Award.
• 02/15 — 05/17: National ICT Australia's Research Project Award.
• 06/14 — 05/17: International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship.
• 06/14 — 05/17: Australian Government's International Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
• 2009: Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, VNU University of Engineering and Technology.
• 2009: First Prize at the VNU University of Engineering and Technology's Undergraduate Research Conference.

Resources

• JPIS (ICASSP 2024): Implementation of the joint model JPIS for profile-based intent detection and slot filling with slot-to-intent attention.
• MISCA (EMNLP 2023 Findings): Implementation of the joint model MISCA for multiple intent detection and slot filling with intent-slot co-attention.
• XPhoneBERT (INTERSPEECH 2023): A pre-trained multilingual model for phoneme representations for text-to-speech.
• WGE (ESWC 2023): Implementation of the two-view graph neural network model WGE for knowledge graph completion.
• DFUIC (2023): A system for diabetic foot ulcer image classification, supported by an Urgo Foundation APAC DFD 2022 grant.
• JMAC (EMNLP 2022 Findings): Implementation of the JMAC model for joint multilingual knowledge graph completion and alignment.
• NoGE (WSDM 2022): Implementation of the node co-occurrence based graph neural network model NoGE for knowledge graph completion.
• ChemTables (J. Cheminf. 2021): A dataset for semantic classification on tables in chemical patents.
• JointIDSF (INTERSPEECH 2021): Implementation of the BERT-based model JointIDSF for joint intent detection and slot filling with intent-slot attention mechanism.
• BERTweet (EMNLP 2020): A pre-trained language model for English Tweets.
• Caps2NE (CIKM 2020): Implementation of the capsule network-based model Caps2NE for learning graph node embeddings.
• LAAT (IJCAI 2020): Implementation of the label attention model LAAT for ICD coding from clinical text.
• COVID19Tweet (WNUT 2020): A dataset released for the WNUT 2020 Shared Task on "Identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets".
• ChEMU (ECIR 2020): A dataset for named entity recognition and event extraction of chemical reactions from patents.
• CapsE (NAACL 2019): Implementation of the capsule network-based model CapsE of entities and relationships for knowledge graph completion.
• ChemPatentEmbeddings (BioNLP 2019): An ELMo language model and Word2Vec word embeddings pre-trained on a chemical patent corpus of 1B words.
• BioPosDep (BMC Bioinform. 2019): A processing pipeline of tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging and dependency parsing for biomedical texts.
• jointRE (ECIR 2019): Implementation of a neural network model for joint extraction of named entities and their semantic relations.
• ConvKB (NAACL 2018): Implementation of the convolutional neural network-based model ConvKB for knowledge graph completion.
• IronyDetectionInTwitter (SemEval 2018): Implementation of a simple and accurate neural network model for irony detection on Tweets.
• jPTDP (CoNLL 2017-2018): Implementations of neural network models for joint POS tagging and dependency parsing. jPTDP provides pre-trained joint models for the general English and biomedical domains, as well as for universal POS tagging and dependency parsing on 40+ languages.
• EventPrediction (IJCNLP 2017): Datasets for predicting an event description from a preceding sentence in a text.
• TransE-NMM (CoNLL 2016): Implementation of the neighborhood mixture model TransE-NMM for knowledge graph completion.
• STransE (NAACL 2016): Implementation of the embedding model STransE for knowledge graph completion.
• jLDADMM (2015): A Java package for LDA and DMM topic models. jLDADMM is released to provide choices for topic modeling on normal or short texts. It contains implementations of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model and the one-topic-per-document Dirichlet Multinomial Mixture model (i.e. the mixture of unigrams), using collapsed Gibbs sampling. Also, jLDADMM supplies a document clustering evaluation to compare topic models.
• MAP4LDA (ALTA 2015): Implementation of a MAP estimation approach to improve topic coherence of LDA with word embeddings.
• LFTM (TACL 2015): Implementations of latent feature topic models LF-LDA and LF-DMM, which extend the LDA and DMM topic models with word embeddings.
• RDRPOSTagger (EACL 2014): A fast and accurate toolkit for POS and morphological tagging. RDRPOSTagger provides pre-trained models for fine-grained POS and morphological tagging for 13 languages including Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Vietnamese. RDRPOSTagger also provides pre-trained universal POS tagging models for 40+ languages.
• SAR14 (WASSA 2014): A sentiment analysis dataset of 234K IMDb movie reviews.
• Timeline17 (WWW 2013): A timeline summarization dataset of 17 manually-created timelines and their associated news articles.

For Vietnamese:

• PhoWhisper (ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers): ASR models for Vietnamese.
• PhoGPT (2023): Pre-trained generative models for Vietnamese.
• VinAI Writer (IUI 2023): A system for punctuation restoration, capitalization and spelling correction in Vietnamese.
• PhoDisfluency (WNUT 2022): A disfluency detection dataset with two disfluency types for Vietnamese.
• PhoATIS_Disfluency (INTERSPEECH 2022): A dataset for investigating the influence of disfluency detection on downstream intent detection and slot filling tasks.
• PhoST (INTERSPEECH 2022): A high-quality and large-scale dataset for English-Vietnamese speech translation.
• VinAI_Translate (INTERSPEECH 2022): Pre-trained text translation models for Vietnamese-to-English and English-to-Vietnamese.
• BARTpho (INTERSPEECH 2022): Pre-trained sequence-to-sequence models for Vietnamese.
• PhoMT (EMNLP 2021): A high-quality and large-scale benchmark dataset for Vietnamese-English machine translation.
• PhoATIS (INTERSPEECH 2021): An intent detection and slot filling dataset for Vietnamese.
• PhoNLP (NAACL 2021): A BERT-based multi-task learning toolkit for Vietnamese POS tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing.
• PhoNER_COVID19 (NAACL 2021): A dataset for Vietnamese named entity recognition.
• ViText2SQL (EMNLP 2020 Findings): A dataset for Vietnamese Text2SQL semantic parsing.
• PhoBERT (EMNLP 2020 Findings): Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese.
• PhoW2V (2020): Pre-trained Word2Vec syllable- and word-level embeddings for Vietnamese.
• VnCoreNLP (NAACL 2018): A Vietnamese NLP pipeline of word (and sentence) segmentation, POS tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing.
• RDRsegmenter (LREC 2018): A fast and accurate Vietnamese word segmenter.
• VnMarMoT (ALTA 2017): A pre-trained Vietnamese POS tagging model.
• VnDT (NLDB 2014): A Vietnamese dependency treebank.
• A list of my papers for Vietnamese NLP

Publications

Last updated: 22/02/2024. See my Google Scholar profile for an up-to-date list of publications.

[2024]
• Vo Nhu, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dung Le, Massimo Piccardi and Wray Buntine. 2024. Improving Vietnamese-English Medical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), to appear.
• Thanh-Thien Le, Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2024. PhoWhisper: Automatic Speech Recognition for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of the ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers track, to appear. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{PhoWhisper,
    title     = {{PhoWhisper: Automatic Speech Recognition for Vietnamese}},
    author    = {Thanh-Thien Le and Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers track},
    year      = {2024}
}

• Thinh Pham and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2024. JPIS: A Joint Model for Profile-based Intent Detection and Slot Filling with Slot-to-Intent Attention. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), to appear. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{JPIS,
    title     = {{JPIS: A Joint Model for Profile-based Intent Detection and Slot Filling with Slot-to-Intent Attention}},
    author    = {Thinh Pham and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
    year      = {2024}
}

[2023]
• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Linh The Nguyen, Chi Tran, Dung Ngoc Nguyen, Dinh Phung and Hung Bui. 2023. PhoGPT: Generative Pre-training for Vietnamese. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2311.02945. [BibTeX] [Software]

@article{phogpt,
  title    = {{PhoGPT: Generative Pre-training for Vietnamese}},
  author   = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Linh The Nguyen and Chi Tran and Dung Ngoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung and Hung Bui},
  journal  = {arXiv preprint},
  volume   = {arXiv:2311.02945},
  year     = {2023}
}

• Thinh Pham, Chi Tran and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2023. MISCA: A Joint Model for Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling with Intent-Slot Co-Attention. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 12641-12650. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{MISCA,
    title     = {{MISCA: A Joint Model for Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling with Intent-Slot Co-Attention}},
    author    = {Thinh Pham and Chi Tran and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023},
    year      = {2023},
    pages     = {12641--12650}
}

• Linh The Nguyen, Thinh Pham and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2023. XPhoneBERT: A Pre-trained Multilingual Model for Phoneme Representations for Text-to-Speech. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pages 5506-5510. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{xphonebert,
    title     = {{XPhoneBERT: A Pre-trained Multilingual Model for Phoneme Representations for Text-to-Speech}},
    author    = {Linh The Nguyen and Thinh Pham and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association},
    year      = {2023},
    pages     = {5506--5510}
}

• Hung Bui, Minh Hoai Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Linh Pham and Dinh Phung. 2023. Building and Nurturing AI Development in Vietnam. Communications of the ACM, 66(7):75-76. [BibTeX]

@article{vinaicacm,
    title     = {{Building and Nurturing AI Development in Vietnam}},              
    author    = {Hung Bui and Minh Hoai Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Linh Pham and Dinh Phung},              
    journal   = {Communications of the ACM}, 
    year      = {2023},
    volume    = {66},
    number    = {7},
    pages     = {75--76}
}

• Vinh Tong, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2023. Two-view Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Graph Completion. In Proceedings of the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), pages 262–278. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{wge,
    title     = {{Two-view Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Graph Completion}},
    author    = {Vinh Tong and Dai Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference},
    year      = {2023},
    pages     = {262--278}
}

• Thien Hai Nguyen, Thinh Pham, Khoi Minh Le, Manh Luong, Nguyen Luong Tran, Hieu Man, Dang Minh Nguyen, Tuan Anh Luu, Thien Huu Nguyen, Hung Bui, Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2023. A Vietnamese Spelling Correction System. In Companion Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages 158–161. [BibTeX] [Demo system]

@inproceedings{vinaiwriter,
    title     = {{A Vietnamese Spelling Correction System}},
    author    = {Thien Hai Nguyen and Thinh Pham and Khoi Minh Le and Manh Luong and Nguyen Luong Tran and Hieu Man and Dang Minh Nguyen and Tuan Anh Luu and Thien Huu Nguyen and Hung Bui and Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
    year      = {2023},
    pages     = {158--161}
}

[2022]
• Vinh Tong, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Trung Thanh Huynh, Tam Thanh Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen and Mathias Niepert. 2022. Joint Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion and Alignment. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 4675-4687. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{jmac,
    title     = {{Joint Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion and Alignment}},
    author    = {Vinh Tong and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Trung Thanh Huynh and Tam Thanh Nguyen and Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen and Mathias Niepert},
    booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {4675--4687}
}  

• Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. Investigating the Impact of ASR Errors on Spoken Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Transcript Understanding, pages 34-39. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{sidrr,
    title     = {{Investigating the Impact of ASR Errors on Spoken Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition}},
    author    = {Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Transcript Understanding},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {34--39} 
}  

• Mai Hoang Dao, Thinh Hung Truong and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. Disfluency Detection for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT), pages 194-200. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{PhoDisfluency,
    title     = {{Disfluency Detection for Vietnamese}},
    author    = {Mai Hoang Dao and Thinh Hung Truong and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {194--200} 
}  

• Mai Hoang Dao, Thinh Hung Truong and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. From Disfluency Detection to Intent Detection and Slot Filling. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pages 1106-1110. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{PhoATIS_Disfluency,
    title     = {{From Disfluency Detection to Intent Detection and Slot Filling}},
    author    = {Mai Hoang Dao and Thinh Hung Truong and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {1106--1110}
}

• Linh The Nguyen*, Nguyen Luong Tran*, Long Doan*, Manh Luong and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. A High-Quality and Large-Scale Dataset for English-Vietnamese Speech Translation. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pages 1726-1730. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{PhoST,
    title     = {{A High-Quality and Large-Scale Dataset for English-Vietnamese Speech Translation}},
    author    = {Linh The Nguyen and Nguyen Luong Tran and Long Doan and Manh Luong and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {1726--1730}
}

• Nguyen Luong Tran, Duong Minh Le and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. BARTpho: Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pages 1751-1755. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{bartpho,
    title     = {{BARTpho: Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Vietnamese}},
    author    = {Nguyen Luong Tran and Duong Minh Le and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {1751--1755}
}

• Thien Hai Nguyen, Tuan-Duy H. Nguyen, Duy Phung, Duy Tran-Cong Nguyen, Hieu Minh Tran, Manh Luong, Tin Duy Vo, Hung Hai Bui, Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. A Vietnamese-English Neural Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association: Show and Tell (INTERSPEECH), pages 5543-5544. [BibTeX] [Software] [Demo system]

@inproceedings{vinaitranslate,
    title     = {{A Vietnamese-English Neural Machine Translation System}},
    author    = {Thien Hai Nguyen and Tuan-Duy H. Nguyen and Duy Phung and Duy Tran-Cong Nguyen and Hieu Minh Tran and Manh Luong and Tin Duy Vo and Hung Hai Bui and Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {5543--5544}
}

• Tin Duy Vo, Manh Luong, Duong Minh Le, Hieu Minh Tran, Nhan Tri Do, Tuan-Duy H. Nguyen, Thien Hai Nguyen, Hung Hai Bui, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung. 2022. Vietnamese Speech-based Question Answering over Car Manuals. In Companion Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), pages 117–119. [BibTeX] [Demo video]

@inproceedings{qacarmanual,
    title     = {{Vietnamese Speech-based Question Answering over Car Manuals}},
    author    = {Tin Duy Vo and Manh Luong and Duong Minh Le and Hieu Minh Tran and Nhan Tri Do and Tuan-Duy H. Nguyen and Thien Hai Nguyen and Hung Hai Bui and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung},
    booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {117--119}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen*, Vinh Tong*, Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2022. Node Co-occurrence based Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 1589-1592. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{NoGE,
    author    = {Dai Quoc Nguyen and Vinh Tong and Dinh Phung and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    title     = {{Node Co-occurrence based Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},
    year      = {2022},
    pages     = {1589--1592}
}

[2021]
• Zenan Zhai, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Saber A. Akhondi, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Trevor Cohn and Karin Verspoor. 2021. ChemTables: A dataset for semantic classification on tables in chemical patents. Journal of Cheminformatics, 13:97:1-20. (SCIE, JCR IF: 5.514) [BibTeX] [Data]

@article{ChemTables,
    title     = {{ChemTables: A dataset for semantic classification on tables in chemical patents}},              
    author    = {Zenan Zhai and Christian Druckenbrodt and Camilo Thorne and Saber A. Akhondi and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Trevor Cohn and Karin Verspoor},              
    journal   = {Journal of Cheminformatics}, 
    year      = {2021},
    volume    = {13},
    pages     = {97:1-20}
}

• Long Doan*, Linh The Nguyen*, Nguyen Luong Tran*, Thai Hoang and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2021. PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 4495-4503. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{PhoMT,
    title     = {{PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation}},
    author    = {Long Doan and Linh The Nguyen and Nguyen Luong Tran and Thai Hoang and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {4495--4503}
}

• Mai Hoang Dao*, Thinh Hung Truong* and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2021. Intent Detection and Slot Filling for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), pages 4698-4702. [BibTeX] [Data] [Software]

@inproceedings{JointIDSF,
    title     = {{Intent Detection and Slot Filling for Vietnamese}},
    author    = {Mai Hoang Dao and Thinh Hung Truong and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {4698--4702}
}

• Thinh Hung Truong, Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2021. COVID-19 Named Entity Recognition for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), pages 2146-2153. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{PhoNER_COVID19,
    title     = {{COVID-19 Named Entity Recognition for Vietnamese}},
    author    = {Thinh Hung Truong and Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {2146--2153}
}

• Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2021. PhoNLP: A joint multi-task learning model for Vietnamese part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations (NAACL), pages 1-7. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{phonlp,
    title     = {{PhoNLP: A joint multi-task learning model for Vietnamese part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing}},
    author    = {Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {1--7}
}

• Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor. 2021. ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods are Effective for Information Extraction from Chemical Patents. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 6:654438:1-28. [BibTeX]

@article{chemujournalpaper,
    title     = {{ChEMU 2020: Natural Language Processing Methods are Effective for Information Extraction from Chemical Patents}},              
    author    = {Jiayuan He and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Saber A. Akhondi and Christian Druckenbrodt and Camilo Thorne and Ralph Hoessel and Zubair Afzal and Zenan Zhai and Biaoyan Fang and Hiyori Yoshikawa and Ameer Albahem and Lawrence Cavedon and Trevor Cohn and Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor},              
    journal   = {Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics}, 
    year      = {2021},
    volume    = {6},
    pages     = {654438:1--28}
}

[2020]
• Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2020. A survey of embedding models of entities and relationships for knowledge graph completion. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs), pages 1-14. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{Nguyen2020KGC,
    title     = {A survey of embedding models of entities and relationships for knowledge graph completion},              
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen},              
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing}, 
    year      = {2020},
    pages     = {1--14}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu and Anh Tuan Nguyen. 2020. BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (EMNLP), pages 9-14. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{bertweet,
    title     = {{BERTweet: A pre-trained language model for English Tweets}},
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Thanh Vu and Anh Tuan Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},
    year      = {2020},
    pages     = {9--14}
}

• Anh Tuan Nguyen, Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2020. A Pilot Study of Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing for Vietnamese. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 4079-4085. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{vitext2sql,
    title       = {{A Pilot Study of Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing for Vietnamese}},
    author      = {Anh Tuan Nguyen and Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle   = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020},
    year        = {2020},
    pages       = {4079--4085}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen and Anh Tuan Nguyen. 2020. PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 1037-1042. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{phobert,
    title       = {{PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese}},
    author      = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Anh Tuan Nguyen},
    booktitle   = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020},
    year        = {2020},
    pages       = {1037--1042},
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Thanh Vu*, Afshin Rahimi, Mai Hoang Dao, Linh The Nguyen and Long Doan. 2020. WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT), pages 314-318. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{covid19tweet,
    title     = {{WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets}},
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Thanh Vu and Afshin Rahimi and Mai Hoang Dao and Linh The Nguyen and Long Doan},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text},
    year      = {2020},
    pages     = {314--318}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Tu Dinh Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung. 2020. A Capsule Network-based Model for Learning Node Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 3313–3316. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Software]

@InProceedings{Caps2NE,
    author    =     {Dai Quoc Nguyen and Tu Dinh Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung},
    title     =     {{A Capsule Network-based Model for Learning Node Embeddings}},
    booktitle =     {Proceedings of the  29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
    pages     =     {3313--3316},
    year      =     {2020}
}

• Thanh Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Anthony Nguyen. 2020. A Label Attention Model for ICD Coding from Clinical Text. In Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pages 3335-3341. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{ijcai2020-461,
    title     = {{A Label Attention Model for ICD Coding from Clinical Text}},
    author    = {Vu, Thanh and Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Nguyen, Anthony},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    pages     = {3335--3341},
    year      = {2020},
    url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/461}
}

• Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Zubair Afzal, Zenan Zhai, Biaoyan Fang, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Ameer Albahem, Lawrence Cavedon, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor. 2020. Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF), pages 237-254. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{ChEMUoverview,
    author    = {He, Jiayuan and Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Akhondi, Saber A. and Druckenbrodt, Christian and Thorne, Camilo and Hoessel, Ralph and Afzal, Zubair and Zhai, Zenan and Fang, Biaoyan and Yoshikawa, Hiyori and Albahem, Ameer and Cavedon, Lawrence and Cohn, Trevor and Baldwin, Timothy and Verspoor, Karin},
    title     = {{Overview of ChEMU 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the CLEF Association},
    year      = {2020},
    pages     = {237--254}
} 

• Jiayuan He, Dat Quoc Nguyen and others. 2020. An Extended Overview of the CLEF 2020 ChEMU Lab: Information Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. In Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2020 — Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum. [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{clef2020wn,
    author    = {Jiayuan He and Dat Quoc Nguyen and others},
    title     = {{An Extended Overview of the CLEF 2020 ChEMU Lab: Information Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2020-Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum},
    year      = {2020}
}

• Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2020. VinAI at ChEMU 2020: An accurate system for named entity recognition in chemical reactions from patents. In Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2020 — Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum. [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{clef2020vinai,
    author    = {Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    title     = {{VinAI at ChEMU 2020: An accurate system for named entity recognition in chemical reactions from patents}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2020-Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum},
    year      = {2020}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Zenan Zhai, Hiyori Yoshikawa, Biaoyan Fang, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Ralph Hoessel, Saber A. Akhondi, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor. 2020. ChEMU: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents. In Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pages 572-579. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Data]

@InProceedings{NguyenECIR2020,
    author    ={Nguyen, Dat Quoc
      and Zhai, Zenan
      and Yoshikawa, Hiyori
      and Fang, Biaoyan
      and Druckenbrodt, Christian
      and Thorne, Camilo
      and Hoessel, Ralph
      and Akhondi, Saber A.
      and Cohn, Trevor
      and Baldwin, Timothy
      and Verspoor, Karin},
    title     ={{ChEMU: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents}},
    booktitle ={{Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval}},
    year      ={2020},
    pages     ={572--579}
}

[2019]
• Hiyori Yoshikawa, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Zenan Zhai, Christian Druckenbrodt, Camilo Thorne, Saber A. Akhondi, Timothy Baldwin and Karin Verspoor. 2019. Detecting Chemical Reactions in Patents. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), pages 100-110 (Best Paper Award). [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{Yoshikawa-et-al-ALTA2019,
    title     = {{Detecting Chemical Reactions in Patents}},
    author    = {Hiyori Yoshikawa and 
      Dat Quoc Nguyen and 
      Zenan Zhai and 
      Christian Druckenbrodt and 
      Camilo Thorne and 
      Saber A. Akhondi and 
      Timothy Baldwin and  
      Karin Verspoor},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association},
    year      = {2019},
    pages     = {100--110}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2019. A neural joint model for Vietnamese word segmentation, POS tagging and dependency parsing. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), pages 28-34. [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{NguyenALTA2019,
    title     = {{A neural joint model for Vietnamese word segmentation, POS tagging and dependency parsing}},
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association},
    year      = {2019},
    pages     = {28--34}
}

• Zenan Zhai, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Saber A. Akhondi, Camilo Thorne, Christian Druckenbrodt, Trevor Cohn, Michelle Gregory and Karin Verspoor. 2019. Improving Chemical Named Entity Recognition in Patents with Contextualized Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 18th ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), pages 328–338. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{zhai-etal-2019-improving,
    title = "Improving Chemical Named Entity Recognition in Patents with Contextualized Word Embeddings",
    author = "Zhai, Zenan  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Akhondi, Saber A. and
      Thorne, Camilo  and
      Druckenbrodt, Christian  and
      Cohn, Trevor  and
      Gregory, Michelle  and
      Verspoor, Karin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th BioNLP Workshop and Shared Task",
    year = "2019",
    pages = "328--338"
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Tu Dinh Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung. 2019. A Capsule Network-based Embedding Model for Knowledge Graph Completion and Search Personalization. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), pages 2180-2189. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2019-capsule,
    title = "A Capsule Network-based Embedding Model for Knowledge Graph Completion and Search Personalization",
    author = "Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Vu, Thanh  and
      Nguyen, Tu Dinh  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Phung, Dinh",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    year = "2019",
    pages = "2180--2189"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor. 2019. End-to-end neural relation extraction using deep biaffine attention. In Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pages 729-738. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Software]

@InProceedings{NguyenK_ECIR2019,
    title     = {{End-to-end neural relation extraction using deep biaffine attention}},
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval},
    year      = {2019},
    pages     = {729--738}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor. 2019. From POS tagging to dependency parsing for biomedical event extraction. BMC Bioinformatics, 20:72:1-13. (SCIE, JCR IF: 2.511) [BibTeX] [Software]

@article{NguyenV19bmcbi,
    title     = {{From POS tagging to dependency parsing for biomedical event extraction}},
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor},
    journal   = {BMC Bioinformatics},
    volume    = {20},
    pages     = {72:1--13},
    year      = {2019}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Tu Dinh Nguyen and Dinh Phung. 2019. A convolutional neural network-based model for knowledge base completion and its application to search personalization. Semantic Web, 10(5):947-960. (SCIE, JCR IF: 3.524) [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@article{SWJ318,
    title = {{A convolutional neural network-based model for knowledge base completion and its application to search personalization}},
    author = {Dai Quoc Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Tu Dinh Nguyen and Dinh Phung},
    journal = {Semantic Web},
    volume = {10},
    number = {5},
    pages = {947--960},
    year = {2019}
}

[2018]
• Zenan Zhai, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor. 2018. Comparing CNN and LSTM character-level embeddings in BiLSTM-CRF models for chemical and disease named entity recognition. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI), pages 38-43. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{zhai-etal-2018-comparing,
    title = {{Comparing CNN and LSTM character-level embeddings in BiLSTM-CRF models for chemical and disease named entity recognition}},
    author = "Zhai, Zenan  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Verspoor, Karin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "38--43"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor. 2018. An improved neural network model for joint POS tagging and dependency parsing. In Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies (CoNLL), pages 81-91. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-verspoor-2018-improved,
    title = {{An improved neural network model for joint POS tagging and dependency parsing}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Verspoor, Karin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "81--91"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen and Karin Verspoor. 2018. Convolutional neural networks for chemical-disease relation extraction are improved with character-based word embeddings. In Proceedings of the 17th ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), pages 129-136. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{nguyen-verspoor-2018-convolutional,
    title = "Convolutional neural networks for chemical-disease relation extraction are improved with character-based word embeddings",
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Verspoor, Karin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "129--136"
}

• Thanh Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Xuan-Son Vu, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Michael Catt and Michael Trenell. 2018. NIHRIO at SemEval-2018 Task 3: A Simple and Accurate Neural Network Model for Irony Detection in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), pages 525-530. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{vu-etal-2018-nihrio,
    title = {{NIHRIO at SemEval-2018 Task 3: A Simple and Accurate Neural Network Model for Irony Detection in Twitter}},
    author = "Vu, Thanh  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Vu, Xuan-Son  and
      Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Catt, Michael  and
      Trenell, Michael",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "525--530"
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Tu Dinh Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dinh Phung. 2018. A Novel Embedding Model for Knowledge Base Completion Based on Convolutional Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), pages 327-333. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2018-novel,
    title = "A Novel Embedding Model for Knowledge Base Completion Based on Convolutional Neural Network",
    author = "Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Tu Dinh  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Phung, Dinh",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "327--333"
}

• Thanh Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson. 2018. VnCoreNLP: A Vietnamese Natural Language Processing Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations (NAACL), pages 56-60. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{vu-etal-2018-vncorenlp,
    title = {{VnCoreNLP: A Vietnamese Natural Language Processing Toolkit}},
    author = "Vu, Thanh  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Dras, Mark  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "56--60"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson. 2018. A Fast and Accurate Vietnamese Word Segmenter. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pages 2582-2587. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2018-fast,
    title = {{A Fast and Accurate Vietnamese Word Segmenter}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Vu, Thanh  and
      Dras, Mark  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "2582--2587"
}

[2017]
• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson. 2017. From Word Segmentation to POS Tagging for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), pages 108-113. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2017-word,
    title = {{From Word Segmentation to POS Tagging for Vietnamese}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Vu, Thanh  and
      Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Dras, Mark  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association",
    year = "2017",
    pages = "108--113"
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Cuong Xuan Chu, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. 2017. Sequence to Sequence Learning for Event Prediction. In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), pages 37-42. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2017-sequence,
    title = "Sequence to Sequence Learning for Event Prediction",
    author = "Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Chu, Cuong Xuan  and
      Thater, Stefan  and
      Pinkal, Manfred",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    year = "2017",
    pages = "37--42"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2017. Modeling Topics and Knowledge Bases with Vector Representations. PhD thesis, Macquarie University, Australia. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@thesis{DatQuocNguyen_PHD_Thesis,
    title = {{Modeling Topics and Knowledge Bases with Vector Representations}},
    author = {Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    type = {PhD thesis},
    institution = {Macquarie University, Australia},
    year = {2017}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson. 2017. A Novel Neural Network Model for Joint POS Tagging and Graph-based Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies (CoNLL), pages 134-142. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2017-novel,
    title = {{A Novel Neural Network Model for Joint POS Tagging and Graph-based Dependency Parsing}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Dras, Mark  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the {CoNLL} 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies",
    year = "2017",
    pages = "134--142"
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Ashutosh Modi, Stefan Thater and Manfred Pinkal. 2017. A Mixture Model for Learning Multi-Sense Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), pages 121-127. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2017-mixture,
    title = "A Mixture Model for Learning Multi-Sense Word Embeddings",
    author = "Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Modi, Ashutosh  and
      Thater, Stefan  and
      Pinkal, Manfred",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics",
    year = "2017",
    pages = "121--127"
}

• Thanh Vu*, Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Mark Johnson, Dawei Song and Alistair Willis. 2017. Search Personalization with Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), pages 598-604. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{Vu-etal-ECIR2017,
    title     = {{Search Personalization with Embeddings}},
    author    = {Thanh Vu and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Mark Johnson and Dawei Song and Alistair Willis},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval},
    year      = {2017},
    pages     = {598--604}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Dai Quoc Nguyen* and Son Bao Pham. 2017. Ripple Down Rules for Question Answering. Semantic Web, 8(4):511-532. (SCIE, JCR IF: 2.224) [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@article{NguyenNP_SWJ,
    title = {{Ripple Down Rules for Question Answering}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Pham, Son Bao},
    journal = {Semantic Web},
    volume = {8},
    number = {4},
    pages = {511--532},
    year = {2017}
}

[2016]
• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Mark Dras and Mark Johnson. 2016. An empirical study for Vietnamese dependency parsing. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), pages 143-149. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2016-empirical,
    title = {{An empirical study for Vietnamese dependency parsing}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Dras, Mark  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association",
    year = "2016",
    pages = "143--149"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts, Lizhen Qu and Mark Johnson. 2016. Neighborhood Mixture Model for Knowledge Base Completion. In Proceedings of the 20th SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 40-50. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2016-neighborhood,
    title = {{Neighborhood Mixture Model for Knowledge Base Completion}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Sirts, Kairit  and
      Qu, Lizhen  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {SIGNLL} Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning",
    year = "2016",
    pages = "40--50"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts, Lizhen Qu and Mark Johnson. 2016. STransE: a novel embedding model of entities and relationships in knowledge bases. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), pages 460-466. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2016-stranse,
    title = {{STransE: a novel embedding model of entities and relationships in knowledge bases}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Sirts, Kairit  and
      Qu, Lizhen  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    year = "2016",
    pages = "460--466"
}

• Didi Surian, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Georgina Kennedy, Mark Johnson, Enrico Coiera and Adam G. Dunn. 2016. Characterizing Twitter Discussions About HPV Vaccines Using Topic Modeling and Community Detection. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(8):e232. (SCIE, JCR IF: 5.175) [BibTeX]

@Article{jmir_6045,
    title={{Characterizing Twitter Discussions About HPV Vaccines Using Topic Modeling and Community Detection}},
    author="Surian, Didi
      and Nguyen, Dat Quoc
      and Kennedy, Georgina
      and Johnson, Mark
      and Coiera, Enrico
      and Dunn, Adam G.",
    journal="Journal of Medical Internet Research",
    year="2016",
    volume="18",
    number="8",
    pages="e232"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Dai Quoc Nguyen*, Dang Duc Pham and Son Bao Pham. 2016. A Robust Transformation-Based Learning Approach Using Ripple Down Rules for Part-Of-Speech Tagging. AI Communications, 29(3):409-422. (SCIE, JCR IF: 0.654) [.pdf] [BibTeX]
  

@article{NguyenNPP_AICom,
    title     = {{A Robust Transformation-Based Learning Approach Using Ripple Down Rules for Part-Of-Speech Tagging}},
    author    = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Dai Quoc Nguyen and Dang Duc Pham and Son Bao Pham},
    journal   = {AI Communications},
    volume    = {29},
    number    = {3},
    pages     = {409--422},
    year      = {2016}
}

[2015]
• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Kairit Sirts and Mark Johnson. 2015. Improving Topic Coherence with Latent Feature Word Representations in MAP Estimation for Topic Modeling. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), pages 116-121. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2015-improving,
    title = {{Improving Topic Coherence with Latent Feature Word Representations in MAP Estimation for Topic Modeling}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Sirts, Kairit  and
      Johnson, Mark",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association",
    year = "2015",
    pages = "116--121"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Richard Billingsley, Lan Du and Mark Johnson. 2015. Improving Topic Models with Latent Feature Word Representations. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 3:299-313. [BibTeX] [Software] [Data]

@article{TACL582,
    title = {{Improving Topic Models with Latent Feature Word Representations}},
    author = {Dat Quoc Nguyen and Richard Billingsley and Lan Du and Mark Johnson},
    journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
    volume = {3},
    year = {2015},
    pages = {299--313}
}

[2014 and before]
• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Son Bao Pham, Phuong-Thai Nguyen and Minh Le Nguyen. 2014. From Treebank Conversion to Automatic Dependency Parsing for Vietnamese. In Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), pages 196-207. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Data]

@InProceedings{Nguyen2014NLDB,
    title = {{From Treebank Conversion to Automatic Dependency Parsing for Vietnamese}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Pham, Son Bao and Nguyen, Phuong-Thai and Nguyen, Minh Le},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems},
    year = {2014},
    pages = {196-207}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Thanh Vu and Son Bao Pham. 2014. Sentiment Classification on Polarity Reviews: An Empirical Study Using Rating-based Features. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA), pages 128-135. [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2014-sentiment,
    title = {{Sentiment Classification on Polarity Reviews: An Empirical Study Using Rating-based Features}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Vu, Thanh  and
      Pham, Son Bao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis",
    year = "2014",
    pages = "128--135"
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dang Duc Pham and Son Bao Pham. 2014. RDRPOSTagger: A Ripple Down Rules-based Part-Of-Speech Tagger. In Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), pages 17-20. [BibTeX] [Software]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2014-rdrpostagger,
    title = {{RDRPOSTagger: A Ripple Down Rules-based Part-Of-Speech Tagger}},
    author = "Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Pham, Dang Duc  and
      Pham, Son Bao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 14th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    year = "2014",
    pages = "17--20"
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Son Bao Pham. 2013. A Two-Stage Classifier for Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), pages 897-901. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2013-two,
    title = "A Two-Stage Classifier for Sentiment Analysis",
    author = "Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and
      Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and
      Pham, Son Bao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing",
    year = "2013",
    pages = "897--901"
}

• Giang Binh Tran, Mohammad Alrifai and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2013. Predicting Relevant News Events for Timeline Summaries. In Companion Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), pages 91-92. [.pdf] [BibTeX] [Data]

@inproceedings{TranWWW2013,
    title = {{Predicting Relevant News Events for Timeline Summaries}},
    author = {Tran, Giang Binh and Alrifai, Mohammad and Nguyen, Dat Quoc},
    booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web},
    year = {2013},
    pages = {91--92}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen and Son Bao Pham. 2013. KbQAS: A Knowledge-based QA System. In Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demonstrations Track (ISWC), pages 109-112. [BibTeX] [Demo video]

@InProceedings{NguyenISWC2013NP,
    title     = {{KbQAS: A Knowledge-based QA System}},
    author    = {Nguyen, Dat Quoc  and  Nguyen, Dai Quoc  and  Pham, Son Bao},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference: Posters and Demonstrations Track}},
    year      = {2013},
    pages     = {109--112}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Son Bao Pham. 2012. A Vietnamese Text-based Conversational Agent. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), pages 699-708. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{NguyenIEAAIE2012a,
    title = {{A Vietnamese Text-based Conversational Agent}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Pham, Son Bao},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems},
    year = {2012},
    pages = {699--708}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Son Bao Pham. 2012. A Semantic Approach for Question Analysis. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), pages 156-165. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{NguyenIEAAIE2012b,
    title = {{A Semantic Approach for Question Analysis}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Pham, Son Bao},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems},
    year = {2012},
    pages = {156--165}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Son Bao Pham and Dang Duc Pham. 2011. Ripple Down Rules for Part-Of-Speech Tagging. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), pages 190-201. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{NguyenNPP2011,
    title = {{Ripple Down Rules for Part-of-Speech Tagging}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Pham, Son Bao and Pham, Dang Duc},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics - Volume Part I},
    year = {2011},
    pages = {190--201}
}

• Thanh Vu and Dat Quoc Nguyen. 2011. A Vietnamese Information Retrieval System for Product-Price. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC), pages 691-696. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{VuN11,
    title = {{A Vietnamese Information Retrieval System for Product-Price}},
    author = {Tien-Thanh Vu and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing},
    year = {2011},
    pages = {691--696}
} 

• Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Dai Quoc Nguyen* and Son Bao Pham. 2011. Systematic Knowledge Acquisition for Question Analysis. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), pages 406-412. [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2011-systematic,
    title = {{Systematic Knowledge Acquisition for Question Analysis}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Pham, Son Bao},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing},
    year = {2011},
    pages = {406--412}
}

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Khoi Trong Ma and Son Bao Pham. 2011. Automatic Ontology Construction from Vietnamese text. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE), pages 485-488. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@InProceedings{NguyenNMP11, 
    title = {{Automatic Ontology Construction from Vietnamese text}},
    author = {Dai Quoc Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen and Khoi Trong Ma and Son Bao Pham}, 
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering},
    year = {2011},
    pages = {485--488}
} 

• Dai Quoc Nguyen, Dat Quoc Nguyen and Son Bao Pham. 2009. A Vietnamese Question Answering System. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), pages 26-32. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{Nguyen2009NP,
    title = {{A Vietnamese Question Answering System}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Pham, Son Bao},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering},
    year = {2009},
    pages = {26--32}
}

• Dat Quoc Nguyen, Dai Quoc Nguyen, Son Bao Pham and The Duy Bui. 2009. A Fast Template-based Approach to Automatically Identify Primary Text Content of a Web Page. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), pages 232-236. [.pdf] [BibTeX]

@inproceedings{Nguyen2009NPB,
    title = {{A Fast Template-Based Approach to Automatically Identify Primary Text Content of a Web Page}},
    author = {Nguyen, Dat Quoc and Nguyen, Dai Quoc and Pham, Son Bao and Bui, The Duy},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering},
    year = {2009},
    pages = {232--236}
}

Talks & Panels

• 12/2023 — "An overview of foundation models for Vietnamese language processing", talk at the 10th workshop on Vietnamese Language and Speech Processsing VLSP 2023.
• 04/2023 — "XPhoneBERT: A Pre-trained Multilingual Model for Phoneme Representations for Text-to-Speech", talk at the Japan-Vietnam AI Forum 2023.
• 01/2023 — Panel discussion on "The breakthrough of ChatGPT" at Machine Learning Day 2023.
• 11/2022 — "From Disfluency Detection to Intent Detection and Slot Filling for Vietnamese", guest lecture at the VinUniversity's Machine Learning Course COMP3020.
• 10/2022 — "Recent Advances in English-Vietnamese Text and Speech Translation", talk at the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (BK.AI) and guest lecture at the VietAI advanced class in NLP.
• 08/2022 — "Recent Advances in Pre-trained Models for Vietnamese Language Processing", tutorial at AI Day 2022.
• 11/2021 — "BERTweet: The First Large-scale Pre-trained Language Model for English Tweets", talk at the NVIDIA GTC 2021 Conference.
• 08/2021 — Panel discussion on "AI Education in Vietnam" at AI Day 2021.
• 04/2021 — "Recent advances in Vietnamese language modeling and understanding", talk at the Summer School on Advances in DS&AI 2021.
• 11/2020 — Panel discussion on "Low-Resource NLP" at the 3rd annual edition of the Singapore Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SSNLP 2020).
• 11/2020 — "Recent advances in Vietnamese language modeling and understanding", keynote talk at the 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2020).
• 09/2020 — Panel discussion on "Challenges in Vietnamese Speech and NLP" at AI Day 2020.
• 09/2020 — "PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese", talk at AI Day 2020.
• 12/2019 — "A neural joint model for Vietnamese word segmentation, POS tagging and dependency parsing", talk at the Sydney NLP Meetup.
• 07/2019 — Giving a talk at Oracle Digital Assistant, Oracle Australia.
• 10/2018 — "Joint models for POS tagging and dependency parsing, and for NER and relation classification", NLP seminar talk at The University of Melbourne + talk at Elsevier Information Systems GmbH.
• 04/2018 — "A convolutional neural network-based model for knowledge base completion", NLP seminar talk at The University of Melbourne + LTG seminar talk at Macquarie University.
• 01/2018 — "A rule-based framework for sequence labeling tasks and its application to Vietnamese NLP", NLP seminar talk at The University of Melbourne.
• 10/2017 — "A rule-based framework for sequence labeling tasks and its application to Vietnamese NLP", LTG seminar talk at Macquarie University.
• 12/2016 — "Modeling multi-relational data from knowledge bases with embeddings", PRaDA Seminar Series talk at Deakin University.
• 11/2016 — "Modeling topics and knowledge bases with embeddings", talk at the Sydney NLP Meetup.
• 08/2016 — "Modeling topics and knowledge bases with embeddings", talk at the UKP lab at TU Darmstadt + FEAST Series talk the COLI department at Saarland University.
• 11/2015 — "Improving topic models with latent feature word representations", talk at the National ICT Australia.

Academic service

• Action editor: ACL Rolling Review (10/2021-present).
• Program Committee: NAACL (2018-2019, 2021, 2022 AC, 2024 AC), ACL (2019-2021, 2022 AC, 2023), EMNLP (2019-2022), EACL (2021, 2023), AACL (2020), AAAI (2020), LREC (2020), ACL SRW workshop (2018-2022), NAACL SRW workshop (2021), WNUT (2020-2022), CoNLL Shared Task (2017-2018).
• Journal reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2018), BMC Bioinformatics (2019), Neurocomputing (2021).
• Co-organizer: VinAI Winter Workshop 2022, VinAI Spring Workshop 2022, VinAI NLP workshop 2021, WNUT-2020 COVID19Tweet task, CLEF-2020 ChEMU task.