Huong Le Thanh, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Information Systems, School of Information and Communication Technology Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Tel: +84 (0)4 38696124 Email: huonglt@soict.hust.edu.vn, huongthanh@gmail.com

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Research Interest

• Computational Linguistics: syntactics, semantics, text and discourse theories, question answering, natural language generation, summarization, machine translation, information extraction
• Applications of NLP technologies to other domains
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Expert Systems and Knowledge Acquisition
  

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Publications

• Thai Nguyen Quoc, Huong Le Thanh, Hanh Pham Van (2023). Khmer-Vietnamese Neural Machine Translation Improvement Using Data Augmentation Strategies. Informatica (Slovenia). https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v47i3.4761
• Luu Minh Tuan, Le Thanh Huong, Hoang Minh Tan (2021). Một phương pháp kết hợp các mô hình học sâu va kỹ thuật học tăng cường hiệu quả cho tóm tắt văn bản hướng trích rút. Tạp chí Khoa học và Công nghệ Đại học Thái Nguyên, T. 226, S. 11 (2021), trang 208-215.
• Tuan Luu Minh, Huong Le Thanh, Tan Hoang Minh (2021). A hybrid model using the pre-trained BERT and deep neural networks with rich feature for extractive text summarization. Journal of Computer Scienceand Cybernetics. Volume 37, No.2, pp. 123-143.
• Nguyen Van Son, Le Thanh Huong, Nguyen Chi Thanh (2021). A two-phase plagiarism detection system based on multi-layer LSTM Networks. IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
• Minh-Tuan Luu, Thanh-Huong Le, Minh-Tan Hoang (2021). An effective deep learning approach for extractive text summarization. Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering. Vol. 12, No. 2, 2021, e-ISSN:0976-5166, p-ISSN:2231-3850, pp.434-444.
• Nguyen Van Son, Le Thanh Huong, Nguyen Chi Thanh (2018). Phương pháp trích rút từ khóa tìm tập ứng cử trong bào toán phát hiện đạo văn. Tạp chí Nghiên cứu KH&CN quân sự, Số Đặc san CNTT, trang 27-35, 11-2018.
• Huong Thanh Le, Nhan Trong Tran (2018). A Sentiment Analyzer for Informal Text in Social Media. Journal of Science & Technology 131 (2018) , pp. 6-12.
• Nguyen Van Son, Le Thanh Huong, Nguyen Chi Thanh (2017). Automatic keyword extraction using artificial neuron network and feature extraction. Journal of Military Science and Technology, Special Issue, No.48A.
• Pham Minh Chuan, Le Hoang Son, Mumtaz Ali, Tran Dinh Khang, Le Thanh Huong, Nilanjan Dey (2017). Link Prediction in Co-authorship Networks based on Hybrid Content Silarity Metric. Applied Intelligence, ISSN: 0924-669X. doi: 10.1007/s10489-017-1086-x. (SCI, 2016 IF = 1.904, Springer)
• Phạm Minh Chuẩn, Trần Đình Khang, Lê Thanh Hương, Trần Mạnh Tuấn, Lê Hoàng Sơn (2017). Dự đoán liên kết đồng tác giả sử dụng phân cụm bán giám sát mờ. Chuyên san Khoa học Tự nhiên – Kỹ thuật – Công nghệ (Đại học Thái Nguyên), Tập 173, số 13, ISSN 1859-2171, trang 45-50.
• Phạm Minh Chuẩn, Lê Hoàng Sơn, Trần Đình Khang, Lê Thanh Hương (2017). Đề xuất mô hình khuyến nghị cộng tác mới cho mạng đồng tác giả dựa trên chỉ số cộng tác và tương quan. Tạp chí Khoa học và Công nghệ Việt Nam, Tập 22, Số 11, 11.2017, ISSN 1859-4794, trang 9-14.
• Le Thanh Huong, Sam Chanrathany, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Thanh Long, Trinh Minh Dung (2014). Relation extraction in Vietnamese text using label propagation. Journal of Informatics and Cybernetics, Volume 30, No.1, pp. 15-27
• Sam Chanrathany, Le Thanh Huong, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Huu Thien (2012). Automatic information extraction in Vietnamese text. Journal of Informatics and Cybernetics.
• Phạm Minh Chuẩn , Lê Thanh Hương, Trần Đình Khang, Trần Ngọc Cương (2011). Hệ thống gợi ý bài báo. Tạp chí nghiên cứu KH&CN quân sự.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. An approach in automatically generating discourse structure of text. Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics, Vietnam. Volume 23(3), pp. 212-230.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. An approach to automatically generate different presentations of natural language paraphrases. Journal of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Volume 18 (3), pp. 74-82.
• Le Thanh Huong, Pham Hong Quang, and Nguyen Thanh Thuy. 2000. An approach to automatically analyze syntax of Vietnamese text. Journal of Informatics and Cybernetics, Volume 15, No.4.
  

Conferences/Workshops

• Anh Pham Duy, Huong Le Thanh (2023). A Question-Answering System for Vietnamese Public Administrative Services. SOICT '23: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology. https://doi.org/10.1145/3628797.3628965
• Thang Duc Phan, Huong Thanh Le (2023). Utilize Pre-Trained PhoBERT to Compute Text Similarity and Rerank Documents for Question-Answering Task. 12th International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2023).
• Quang Nhat Nguyen and Huong Thanh Le (2023). Building an Efficient Retriever System with Limited Resources. Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ICTA 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 847. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49529-8_5
• Tuan Anh Phan, Ngoc Dung Nguyen, Huong Le Thanh, Khac-Hoai Nam Bui (2022). Neural Inverse Text Normalization with Numerical Recognition for Low Resource Scenarios. ACIIDS 2022: Intelligent Information and Database Systems.
• Hanh Pham Van, Huong Le Thanh (2022). Improving Khmer-Vietnamese Machine Translation with Data Augmentation methods. SoICT 2022: The 11th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology.
• Vinh Van Nguyen, Ha Nguyen, Huong Thanh Le, Thai Phuong Nguyen, Tan Van Bui, Luan Nghia Pham, Anh Tuan Phan, Cong Hoang-Minh Nguyen, Viet Hong Tran and Anh Huu Tran (2022). KC4MT: A High-Quality Corpus for Multilingual Machine Translation. The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
• Huong T. Le, Dung T. Cao, Trung H. Bui, Long T. Luong and Huy Q. Nguyen (2021). Improve Quora Question Pair Dataset for Question Similarity Task. RIVF 2021.
• Huong T. Le, Que X. Bui (2021). Keyphrase Extraction Using PageRank and Word Features. RIVF 2021.
• Hai Cao Manh, Huong Le Thanh, Tuan Luu Minh (2019). Extractive Multi-document Summarization using K-means, Centroid-based Method, MMR, and Sentence Position . SoICT 2019.
• Viet Nguyen Quoc, Huong Le Thanh and Tuan Luu Minh (2019). Abstractive Text Summarization using LSTMs with Rich Features. In: Nguyen LM., Phan XH., Hasida K., Tojo S. (eds) Computational Linguistics. PACLING 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1215., pp. 28-40. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6168-9_3
• Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, Le Thanh Huong, Duong Viet Hung (2017). Enhancing extractive summarization using non-negative matrix factorization with semantic aspects and sentence features. SoICT 2017, pp.78-83
• Huong T. Le, Son V. Nguyen, Lam N. Pham, Duy D. Nguyen and An N. Nguyen. 2016. Semantic Text Alignment based on Topic Modeling. RIVF 2016. (Best runner paper award)
• Huong Le Thanh, Luan Tran Van, Hoai Nguyen Xuan, Hien Nguyen Thi. 2015. Optimizing Genetic Algorithm in Feature Selection for Named Entity Recognition. SoICT 2015.
• Phạm Minh Chuẩn, Lê Thanh Hương, Trần Đình Khang, Nguyễn Văn Hậu. 2015. Hệ thống gợi ý sử dụng thuật toán tối ưu bầy đàn. Hội nghị KHQG NCCB & Ứng dụng CNTT (FAIR'8)
• Huong Thanh Le, Rathany Chan Sam, Hoan Cong Nguyen, Thuy Thanh Nguyen. 2013. Named Entity Recognition in Vietnamese Text Using Label Propagation. In Procs. of the 5th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2013)
• Huong Thanh Le, Tien Manh Le. 2013. An approach to Abstractive Text Summarization. In Procs. of the 5th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2013)
• Huong Thanh Le, Luan Van Tran. 2013. Automatic Feature Selection for Named Entity Recognition Using Genetic Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT 2013).
• Đỗ Bá Lâm, Lê Thanh Hương. 2012. Xây dựng CSDL về cộng đồng nghiên cứu CNTT Việt Nam. Kỷ yếu chương trình hội thảo quốc gia lần thứ 15 “Một số vấn đề chọn lọc của CNTT&TT”.
• Chan Rathany Sam, Huong Thanh Le, Thanh Thuy Nguyen, Anh Dung Le and Thi Minh Ngoc Nguyen. 2011. Semi-Supervised Learning for Relation Extraction in Vietnamese Text. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Oct. 13-14, 2011, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Rathany Chan Sam, Huong Thanh Le, Thuy Thanh Nguyen, Thien Huu Nguyen. 2011. Combining Proper Name-Coreference with Conditional Random Fields for Semi-supervised Named Entity Recognition in Vietnamese Text. The 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), pp. 512-525.
• Huong Thanh Le, Rathany Chan Sam and Phuc Trong Nguyen. 2010. Extracting Phrases in Vietnamese Document for Summary Generation. The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Dec 28-30, 2010, Harbin, China.
• Rathany Chan Sam, Huong Thanh Le, Thuy Thanh Nguyen, The Minh Trinh. 2010. Relation Extraction in Vietnamese Text using Conditional Random Fields.The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS), Dec.1-3, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Huong Thanh Le, Lam Ba Do, Nhung Thi Pham. 2010. Efficient Syntactic Parsing with Beam Search. The 2010 IEEE RIVF conference, Nov. 01-04, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Huong Thanh Le, Thien Huu Nguyen. 2010. Name Entity Recognition using Inductive Logic Programming. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Aug. 27-28, 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Dung Dao T., Huong Le T. 2008. Applying Information Extraction To Automatic Web Advertising. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Nov. 12-14, 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Lam Do B., Huong Le T. 2008. Implementing A Vietnamese Syntactic Parser Using HPSG. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), Nov. 12-14, 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• Anh Nguyen Kim, Huong Thanh Le. 2008. Natural Language Interface Construction using Semantic Grammars. The 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Nguyen Trong Phuc, Le Thanh Huong. 2008. Vietnamese text summarisation using discourse structures. The ICT.rda conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Do Ba Lam, Le Thanh Huong. 2008. Implementing a Vietnamese syntactic parser using HPSG. In Proceedings of the ICT.rda conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Do Ba Lam, Le Thanh Huong. 2008. Improvement of Earley parsing for Vietnamese language. The ICT.rda conference, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. A study on Vietnamese Syntactic Parsing. In Proceedings of the 4th International AIST-VAST Scientific Workshop, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Huong LeThanh. 2007. A frame-based approach to Text Generation. In Proceedings of the PACLIC21 conference, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 1-3, 2007
• Nguyen Quoc The, Le Thanh Huong. 2007. Vietnamese syntactic parsing using the Lexicalized Probabilistic Context-free Grammar. In Proceedings of the FAIR conference, Nha Trang, Vietnam, Aug. 9-10, 2007.
• Le Thanh Huong. 2007. A study on generating natural language answers from query's result tables. FAIR conference, Nhatrang, Vietnam, Aug. 9-10, 2007.
• Huong LeThanh and Geetha Abeysinghe. 2004. Using Syntactic Structures and Cohesive Devices in Recognizing Discourse Structure of Text. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of Vietnamese Society of AI, SIGKBS JSAI, ICS IPSJ and IEICE SIGAI on Active Mining, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 4 7, 2004.
• Huong LeThanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck. 2004. Generating Discourse Structures for Written Texts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004), Geneva, Switzerland.
• Huong LeThanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck. 2004. Automated Discourse Segmentation by Syntactic Information and Cue Phrases. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2004), Innsbruck, Austria.
• Huong T. Le and Geetha Abeysinghe. 2003. A Study to Improve the Efficiency of a Discourse Parsing System. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing'03), Mexico. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) N 2588, A. Gelbukh, Ed., Springer Verlag.
• Huong LeThanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck. 2003. Using Cohesive Devices to Recognize Rhetorical Relations in Text. In Proceedings of 4th Computational Linguistics UK Research Colloquium (CLUK 4), University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Nguyen Huu Duc, Le Thanh Huong, Phan Dinh Hieu, Nguyen Quang Huy, Dinh Lan Anh. Building a virtual parallel computing system to apply in image processing. In Proceedings of Conference of Selective Problems in Information Technology, Hue city, Vietnam, 1999.

• Automatic Discourse Structure Generation Using Rhetorical Structure Theory. 2004. Ph.D. dissertation, Middlesex University, U.K.
• Robotics - Unsupervised Learning for Controlling a Robot-hand. 2001. Master thesis, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium.
• Vietnamese syntactic parser. 1999. Master thesis, Hanoi University of Technology.
• Applying Groupware Technology to developing distributed database systems. 1997. Undergraduate thesis, Hanoi University of Technology.

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Teaching

Master courses

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Discrete Mathematics
• Semantic Web and Data Mining

Undergraduate courses

• Artficial Intelligence
• Artficial Intelligence for ICT students
• C Programming Language
• Data structures and Algorithms
• Introduction to Information and Communication Technology
• Natural Language Processing

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