Curriculum Vitae

  • Vũ Huy Hiển (Huy Hien Vu)
    • Known as Hien Vu, Huy-Hien Vu, Vu Huy Hien or Hien Vu Huy
    • Email: hienvuhuy [at] gmail.com / vu.huy_hien.va9 [at] is.naist.jp
  • Ph.d candidate at Natural Language Processing Lab
    • Division of Information Science
    • Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara. 630-0192 JAPAN.

Research Interest

  • Machine Translation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models, Large Vision Language Models, Multimodal, Foundation Models

Education

  • 2021 - present: Ph.d candidate, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan.
  • 2019 - 2021: Research Student, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
    • Miyao Group – Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
    • Advisor: Prof. Yusuke Miyao
  • 2011 - 2014: Master in Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • 2007 - 2011: Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Work and Research Experience

Research Experience

  • 2021 - present: Research Graduate Student
    • Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) – supervised by Prof. Taro Watanabe and Assoc. Prof. Hidetaka Kamigaito
      • Coreference-guided Neural Machine Translation We proposed a novel method to exploit coreference information in the decoder side of the encoder–decoder based machine translation system at document level.
      • Context-Aware Machine Translation with Coreference Information We introduced a model that explains the decisions made for translation by predicting coreference features in the source input [paper].
  • 2012 – 2019: Researcher
    • University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University – supervised by Assoc. Prof. Phuong-Thai Nguyen
      • Japanese–Vietnamese Machine Translation System in Business Do- mains(granted by Department of Science and Technology - Hanoi city) We developed a specialized translation system targeting small and medium enterprises in diverse business sectors, focusing on accuracy and ambiguity resolution in cross-cultural communications. [paper].
      • Vietnamese Wordnet We proposed a two-phase methodology for constructing the Vietnamese WordNet, leveraging existing linguistic resources and preserving unique Vietnamese linguistic and cultural nuances. [paper].
      • Statistical Machine Translation for FPT Company: Developed a domain- specific system, sponsored by FPT Company, to streamline Japanese document translation, effectively halving the workload for human translators
      • Using Word Sense Disambiguation in Statistical Machine Translation system We proposed an integration of a Word Sense Disambiguation module into the Statistical Machine Translation system, achieving precise word selection based on context for improved translation accuracy. [paper].

Internship

Teaching Experience

  • 2011 - 2016: Teaching Assistant
    • University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University
    • Classes: Fundamental Informatics, Theory of Information, Compiler, Advanced Pro- gramming, Data structure and Algorithms, and Real-time Programming for embedded systems

Other Experience

  • 2014 - 2015: Natural Language Processing Engineer
    • Datasection Vietnam, Hanoi – South East Asian Branch of D.A.Consortium Inc., Japan.

    • Position Responsibilities:

      • Efficient Vietnamese Word Segmentation for Social Networks: Developed a high-performance word segmentation system tailored for processing Social Network Services data, optimizing for speed and accuracy in Vietnamese text analysis.
      • Sentiment Analysis System for Advertising Insights: Engineered an advanced sentiment analysis platform, providing key advertising insights through in-depth emotional and contextual evaluation of textual data.

Awards

  • 2019 – 2024: Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT)
  • 2012 – 2013: Pony Chung Scholarship for Excellent Researchers and Master Students
  • 2011 – 2012: TOSHIBA Scholarship for Excellent Master Students
  • 2007 – 2011: Title of Outstanding Students, by UET/Coltech – Vietnam National University Hanoi
  • 2009 – 2010: The consolation prize in “Student’s Scientific Research” at University of Engineering and Technology – Vietnam National University Hanoi
  • 2007 – 2011: Vietnamese Government Fellowship for excellent students in the Honor program
  • 2007 – 2011: Vietnamese Government Fellowship for excellent students

Certificates

  • 2010: IBM Certified Solution Designer – Object Oriented Analysis and Design, UML ver.2
  • 2010: JITEC’s Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Skill Standards (FE certificate)

Publications

Journal

  • Huy Hien Vu, Hidetaka Kamigaito and Taro Watanabe. 2024. Context-Aware Machine Translation with Source Coreference Explanation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (to appear).

Conference

  • Huy Hien Vu, Hidetaka Kamigaito and Taro Watanabe. 2024. Coreference-Guided Neural Machine Translation. Under review.
  • Hiroyuki Deguchi, Kenji Imamura, Masahiro Kaneko, Yuto Nishida, Yusuke Sakai, Justin Vasselli, Huy Hien Vu, Taro Watanabe:NAIST-NICT-TIT WMT22 General MT Task Submission. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT). 2022: 244 – 250
  • Hoang–Quan Nguyen, Thuan–Minh Nguyen, Huy–Hien Vu, Van–Vinh Nguyen, Phuong–Thai Nguyen, Kieu–Hue Tran, Khac–Quy Dinh: An effective coverage approach for attention-based neural machine translation. NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS). 2019: 240 – 245
  • Minh–Thuan Nguyen, Van TanBui, Huy–Hien Vu, Phuong–Thai Nguven, Chi–Mai Luong: Enhancing the quality of Phrase-table in Statistical Machine Translation for Less-Common and Low-Resource Languages. International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP). 2018: 165 – 170
  • Phuong–Thai Nguyen, Van–Lam Pham, Thi–Thu–Ha Truong, Hoang–An Nguyen, Huy–Hien Vu, and Ngoc–Anh Tran: A Two–Phase Approach for Building Vietnamese WordNet. The 8th Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2016) 2016: 259 – 264
  • Hien Vu Huy, Phuong–Thai Nguyen, Tung–Lam Nguyen and M.L Nguyen: Bootstrapping Phrase–based Statistical Machine Translation via WSD Integration. International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) 2013: 1042 – 1046

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