Vincent Ng

Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Member, Human Language Technology Research Institute

[ Contact | Research (Interests, Papers, Data, Code/Software, Talks) | Professional Activities | Teaching | Miscellany ]

Contact Information

Office hours for Spring 2013 (ends on May 1):
Mondays and Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 PM

Office: ECSS 3.404
Phone: 972-883-4581 (office), 972-883-2349 (fax)
Email: vince at hlt dot utdallas dot edu

Postal address:

Computer Science Department
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road, MS EC31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA

Research Interests

My general research area is machine learning of natural language. My recent projects have focused primarily on developing unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning techniques for natural language processing, with the goal of reducing the amount of annotated data needed to build NLP applications and process resource-scarce languages. Areas in which my students and I have been working include:

More recently, I have collaborated with other research groups and worked on non-NLP problems. I am particularly interested in developing and applying search and learning techniques to computational problems that arise in areas such as:

Research

Recent papers

Resolving Complex Cases of Definite Pronouns: The Winograd Schema Challenge.
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng.
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2012.

Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution.
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng.
Main Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2012.

Learning the Fine-Grained Information Status of Discourse Entities.
Altaf Rahman and Vincent Ng.
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-12), 2012.
(Almost) complete list of papers (in chronological order, grouped by topic, grouped by venue, ranked by citation count)
Datasets
Code and software
Talk slides

Professional Activities

Local organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) Dallas site (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Current program committees and conference/workshop review panels
- IJCNLP 2013, RANLP 2013, GSCL 2013, AAAI 2013, IJCAI 2013, ACL 2013, NAACL HLT 2013, SIGDial 2013, CICLing 2013
Journal referee (recent)
- Transactions of the ACL (2013; 2 articles), Computational Linguistics (2013)
Review panel, National Science Foundation (2008, 2009, 2010)
More ...

Teaching

CS 4365: Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
CS 4365h: Artificial Intelligence Honors (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
CS 4375: Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
CS 6364: Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2009, Spring 2011)
CS 6375: Machine Learning (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2010)

Miscellaneous Stuff

Thanks to the area chairs' nominations for a best reviewer award at EMNLP 2010, EMNLP 2011, and EMNLP-CoNLL 2012. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell which area chair(s) made these nominations since I reviewed for multiple tracks in each of these conferences.
I am the professor of artificial intelligence for the undergrads. I have had some good times with them in events like this and this.
Wanna solve some puzzles? Here is one for you.
I have never seen someone in NLP who is so genuinely interested in a bag of words.

Last modified: Fri May 3 23:17:56 2013