NG Hwee Tou
Provost's Chair Professor- Ph.D. (Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.)
- M.S. (Computer Science, Stanford University, U.S.A.)
- B.Sc. (Computer Science for Data Management (High Distinction), University of Toronto, Canada)
Professor Hwee Tou NG is Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research focuses on natural language processing. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). He has published papers in premier journals and conferences, including Computational Linguistics, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI. His papers received the Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2011 and SIGIR 1997. He is an associate editor of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and an action editor of ACL Rolling Review. He served as the editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics (July 2018 - January 2024) and ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) (May 2007 - May 2013). He also served as an editorial board member of Computational Linguistics and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), the book review editor of Computational Linguistics, and an action editor of the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). He was an elected member of the ACL executive committee and a former secretary of ACL SIGNLL. He was a program co-chair of EMNLP 2008, ACL 2005, and CoNLL 2004 conferences, and has served as an area chair of ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI conferences and as a session chair and program committee member of many past conferences including ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI.
RESEARCH AREAS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Natural Language Processing
RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH GROUPS
TEACHING INNOVATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Chollampatt, Shamil, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2018. A Multilayer Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Neural Network for Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI 2018. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Kundu, Souvik, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2018. A Question-Focused Multi-Factor Attention Network for Question Answering. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI 2018. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- He, Ruidan, Lee, Wee Sun, Ng, Hwee Tou, & Dahlmeier, Daniel. 2017. An Unsupervised Neural Attention Model for Aspect Extraction. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2017 pp. 388-397. Vancouver, Canada.
- Hadiwinoto, Christian, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2017. A Dependency-Based Neural Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI 17 pp. 109-115. San Francisco, California, USA.
- Taghipour, Kaveh, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2016. A Neural Approach to Automated Essay Scoring. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2016 pp. 1882-1891. Austin, Texas, USA.
- Chollampatt, Shamil, Hoang, Duc Tam, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2016. Adapting Grammatical Error Correction Based on the Native Language of Writers with Neural Network Joint Models. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2016 pp. 1901-1911. Austin, Texas, USA.
- Chollampatt, Shamil, Taghipour, Kaveh, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2016. Neural Network Translation Models for Grammatical Error Correction. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2016. pp. 2768-2774. New York, New York, USA.
- Wang, Pidong, Nakov, Preslav, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2016. Source Language Adaptation Approaches for Resource-Poor Machine Translation. Computational Linguistics, 422, 277-306.
- Taghipour, Kaveh, & Ng, Hwee Tou 2015. Semi-Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Word Embeddings in General and Specific Domains. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL 2015, pp. 314-323, Denver, Colorado, USA.
AWARDS & HONOURS
Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012
Best Paper Award, EMNLP 2011
Best Paper Award, SIGIR 1997
Defence Technology Prize 2007 (Team R&D Award)
MODULES TAUGHT
CS4248
Natural Language Processing
CS6207
Advanced Natural Language Processing