Vincent Ng

Coreference researchers: Consider submitting your work to the COLING 2020 Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2020).

UT Dallas CS undergrads: If you received an A or A+ in one or more of my courses and are interested in the Ph.D. program, feel free to come talk to me.

Potential Ph.D. applicants: Owing to the large number of emails I have to process every day, I will not be able to respond to your emails. Feel free to email me after you are admitted.

Upcoming Events

• Visit to Kyoto University, NAIST, and Riken AI Research (March 22-31)
• Visit to Texas A&M University (April 18)
• Visit to Tencent Seattle AI Lab (June 25)
• Visit to Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Symposium on NLP (July 12-13)
• Summer School at Peking University (July 25-Aug 5): Artificial Intelligence
• Visit to Nanjing University (August 6-9)
• Visit to Carnegie Mellon University (October 4-5)
• Joint NSF-JST-DATAIA Symposium, Kyoto, Japan (March 10-13)
• Visit to University of Central Oklahoma (April 4): additional info forthcoming

• text mining and NLP applications
• opinion and argumentation mining
• anaphora and coreference resolution
• information extraction

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:

• software engineering
• AI planning
• health informatics

Some items that may be of interest:

• Selected papers: in chronological order, grouped by topic, grouped by venue, in DBLP, in Google Scholar, in the ACL Anthology, in Semantic Scholar
• Datasets
• Code and software
• Talk slides

• Journal editorial boards
  • Action editor, Transactions of the ACL (2020-2022)
  • Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low Resource Language Information Processing (2016-2020)
  • Editorial board member, Computational Linguistics (2014-2016)
• Current conference committees
  • Student Workshop Co-Chair, AACL-IJCNLP 2020
  • Senior Area Chair (Discourse and Pragmatics), EMNLP 2020
  • Area Chair (Discourse and Pragmatics), AACL-IJCNLP 2020
  • Area Chair (NLP), IJCAI-PRICAI 2020
  • Area Chair (NLP Applications), ACL 2020
  • Senior Program Committee (NLP), AAAI 2020
• Recent conference committees
  • Best Paper Award Committee, COLING 2016, NLPCC 2017
  • Program Co-Chair, NLPCC 2018, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
  • Area Chair/Co-Chair, ACL 2012, NAACL HLT 2015, COLING 2016, NLPCC 2017, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, NAACL HLT 2019, ACL 2019, IJCAI 2019
  • Senior Program Committee, AAAI 2016, AAAI 2017, AAAI 2018, AAAI 2019
  • Workshop Co-Chair, EMNLP 2018
  • Tutorial Co-Chair, IJCNLP 2013
  • Student Scholarship Chair and Student Volunteer Coordinator, EMNLP 2016
  • Steering Committee, SemEval 2017
• Recent tutorials
  • AAAI 2018 Tutorial (Feb 3, 2018): Recent Advances and Applications in Markov Logic Networks (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
  • IJCAI 2017 Tutorial (Aug 21, 2017): Markov Logic Networks: Recent Advances and Practical Applications (with D. Venugopal)
  • EMNLP 2016 Tutorial (Nov 1, 2016): Advanced Markov Logic Techniques for Scalable Joint Inference in NLP (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
  • IJCAI 2016 Tutorial (July 11, 2016): Coreference Resolution: Successes and Challenges
  • Tutorial given at the 10th CIPS Summer School on Human Language Technology (July 24, 2015): Coreference Resolution
• Workshop co-organizer
  • NAACL HLT 2019 Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2019)
  • NAACL HLT 2018 Workshop on Computational models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC 2018)
  • ACL 2018 Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-5)
  • EACL 2017 Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2017)
  • COLING 2016 Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLP-TEA-3)
  • NAACL HLT 2016 Workshop on Coreference Resolution Beyond OntoNotes (CORBON 2016)
  • The 8th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-8)
• University committees
  • Member, Committee on Qualifications (2019-2020)
  • Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Effective Teaching (2015-2017)
  • Member, UT Dallas ROTA selection committee (2017)
  • Member, selection committee for President's Award for Undergraduate Teaching for Tenured/Tenure-track and Contingent Faculty (2017)
• Miscellaneous
  • Site coordinator, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) Dallas site (2009-2019)
  • National Science Foundation CISE IIS review panel (2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2019)
  • Information officer, SIGHAN (2014-2018)
  • Journal referee [I am overwhelmed with reviewing and cannot accept journal review requests at this time unless they are from TACL.]
• More ...

• Computer Science Rankings: a ranking of CS departments based on the number of top conference publications
• CSRankings by citation: a ranking of CS departments based on the number of citations
• Most Influential Scholars: a ranking of CS researchers by the cumulative number of citations of top conference papers
• I am the professor of artificial intelligence for the undergrads. I have had some good times with them in events like this and this.
• I was asked many times whether Andrew Ng is my brother. He isn't, but we were introduced to each other by a common friend when we were undergrads.
• In case you want to know whether you are my doctoral cousin, here is my doctoral ancestry (and the years in which they obtained their degrees): Claire Cardie (1994) → Wendy Lehnert (1977) → Roger Schank (1969) → Jacob Mey (1960) → Louis Hjelmslev (1923) → Holger Pedersen (1897).

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