{"id":5,"date":"2017-10-24T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/thanhvu\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-04-09T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T22:34:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/thanhvu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a text mining specialist at <strong>NIHR Innovation Observatory<\/strong>, <strong>Newcastle University<\/strong>. I am working on information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning to build a\u00a0smart search system for clinical trials. Before that, I earned\u00a0my PhD degree in computer science from the <strong>Open University<\/strong>, where\u00a0I worked on dynamic user profiling for search personalisation.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/thanh-vu-5592aa31\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linkedin<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thanhtvu\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tienthanhdhcn\" target=\"_blank\">Github<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?hl=vi&amp;user=EidMOuEAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate\" target=\"_blank\">Google scholar<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h2>News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Apr 2018 &#8211; Our paper,\u00a0<em>NIHRIO at SemEval-2018 Task 3: A Simple and Accurate Neural Network Model for Irony Detection in Twitter<\/em>, has been accepted to Semeval 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NIHRIO\/IronyDetectionInTwitter\">[software]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apr 2018 &#8211; Our paper, <em>VnCoreNLP: A Vietnamese Natural Language Processing Toolkit<\/em>, has been accepted to NAACL 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vncorenlp\/VnCoreNLP\">[software]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feb 2018 &#8211; Ranked 5th in Semeval 2018 Task 3 on Irony Detection in English Tweets<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2017 &#8211; Our paper,\u00a0<em>A Fast and Accurate Vietnamese Word Segmenter<\/em>, has been accepted to LREC 2018<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2017 &#8211; Attended the\u00a0Search Solutions 2017<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2017 &#8211; Our paper,\u00a0<em>From Word Segmentation to POS Tagging for Vietnamese,\u00a0<\/em>has been accepted to ALTA 2017<\/li>\n<li>Sep 2017 \u2014 Started my job as a text mining specialist at NIHR Innovation Observatory<\/li>\n<li>Among top 10 semi-finalists CIKM cup\u00a02017 Track 3<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2017 \u2014 Ph.D\u00a0awarded on 7 Aug 2017<\/li>\n<li>Our paper, <em>Search Personalization with Embeddings<\/em>, has been accepted to ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK<\/li>\n<li>Our paper,\u00a0<em>Personalised Query Suggestion for Intranet Search with Temporal User Profiling<\/em>, has been accepted to CHIIR 2017,\u00a0Oslo, Norway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD in Computer Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Open University<\/a>, 2013 &#8211; 2017<br \/>\nSupervisors: Prof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www9.open.ac.uk\/mct\/people\/dawei.song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawei Song<\/a> and Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www9.open.ac.uk\/mct\/people\/alistair.willis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alistair Willis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>M.Sc. (hons) in Computer Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/e.uet.vnu.edu.vn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VNU-UET<\/a>, 2009 &#8211; 2012.<\/li>\n<li>B.Sc. (hons) in Information Technology, <a href=\"http:\/\/e.uet.vnu.edu.vn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VNU-UET<\/a>, 2005 &#8211; 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Experience<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Text mining specialist at <a href=\"http:\/\/nihrio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIHR Innovation Observatory<\/a>\u00a0(2017 &#8211; )<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Co-founder, Data Scientist at <a href=\"http:\/\/tripi.vn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tripi.vn &amp; Bitdealo.com<\/a>\u00a0(2015 &#8211; 2017)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Researcher at the <a href=\"http:\/\/vnlp.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge Technology Laboratory<\/a>, VNU-UET \u00a0(2009 &#8211; 2013)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Teaching Assistant at the <a href=\"http:\/\/e.uet.vnu.edu.vn\/taxonomy\/term\/5\/26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Information Technology<\/a>, VNU-UET (2010 &#8211; 2013)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Research Student at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nii.ac.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institute of Informatics<\/a>, Tokyo, Japan (2012)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Research Assistant at the <a href=\"http:\/\/vnlp.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge Technology Laboratory<\/a>, VNU-UET (2008 &#8211; 2009)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Senior Software Developer at World Tech Join Stock Company (2009 &#8211; 2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Information Retrieval: Search personalisation, Query suggestion, Learning to rank<\/li>\n<li>Natural Language Processing: Sentiment analysis, Named entity recognition (NER), POS tagging,<br \/>\nWord segmentation<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning: Topic modelling, Deep learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Awards &amp; Honors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ECIR 2015 Student Travel Grant<\/li>\n<li>Search Solutions 2014 Conference Fee Waiver<\/li>\n<li>Runner-Up Prize, The Open University Poster Competition, 2014, [<a href=\"http:\/\/researchposters.open.ac.uk\/winners_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winers<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/researchposters.open.ac.uk\/popup_image.php?folder=posters_2014&amp;img=enkv6v3ouc0qn76p_std.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>SIGIR 2014 Student Travel Grant<\/li>\n<li>Full-time Studentship, The Open University, UK, 2013 &#8211; 2016<\/li>\n<li>NII International Internship, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Activities<\/h2>\n<p><em>Machine Learning Challenges<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semeval 2018 Task 3 on Irony Detection in English Tweets: Ranked 5th out of about 50 teams<\/li>\n<li>CIKM 2017 AnalytiCup &#8211; Lazada Product Title Quality ChallengeAmong: Among top 10 semi-finalists (<a href=\"https:\/\/competitions.codalab.org\/forums\/13392\/2173\/\">7\/469<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a text mining specialist at NIHR Innovation Observatory, Newcastle University. 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