Ngoc Quang Luong Email & Phone Number

Antwerp, Be

I am participating in some European projects which offer AI-driven solutions in logistics, including COOCK SMART PORT (https://www.thebeacon.eu/innovation/projects/coock-smart-port-2025/) and PIONEERS (https://pioneers-ports.eu/). These projects tackle various operational bottlenecks of the current logistic chain, ranging from the deep-sea, short sea, intra-port services, to hinterland transportation networks. We are integrating data coming from multiple stakeholders and training predictive models to mitigate the scheduling margins, dwelling, delay and the suboptimal use of assets, which bring value to all stakeholders involved in the chain.

Belgium

Research Deep Learning solutions for leveraging rich context in Question Answering and Dialog models.Extract and compress context from dialog history (user questions and/or interpretations)Combine the history with the current context of the selected template in order to generated grammatically-correct and natural textual output at runtime.Continuous learning: Employ the predicted values to train the embedded model (inside the car, when connectivity is not guaranteed or low latency is needed)Tune pretrained DL models (e.g. BERT) using in-domain logged data to tackle language specific issues (mainly applied for English and German)

Belgium

• Conduct Machine Learning and Data Clustering methods to prepare training data for Text Normalization. • Implement grammatical and morphological agreement in Natural Language Generation outputs.

Switzerland

I joined MODERN project since December 2014. My main task, as defined in the project report, is to exploit Discourse Entity and Relation model to enhance Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) decoder. So far, my work lies principally on the use of discourse information and morphological features for enhancing the quality of pronoun translation, specifically applying for English – French language pair. The research can be divided into three sub-missions, mainly based on the type of knowledge and the manner they contribute to this target. The first method post-edits the current anaphora translations of SMT systems based on two scores, one comes from the gender and number of the antecedent of the target pronoun, and the other comes from the decoder’s search graph. Among all possible translations, the candidate with the highest global score, which is the linear combination of two above scores, will be chosen as the post-edition of the anaphora. The second method integrates a Coreference Model, which encodes (on a large training corpus) the probabilities of translating a source anaphora into the target counterpart given the gender and number of the target antecedent, into the SMT decoder. The new decoder uses its conventional phrase table every time it encounters all the other words than pronouns (“it” and “they”), and this new model with such words.The third method predicts the proper target translation for each source pronoun. The predictor is built from a set of morphological features, coming from the gender, number, person of preceding and following words of each source pronoun. It also takes into account the partial and absolute agreements on these attributes among such words.

Hanoi

I gave lectures for undergraduates and did research on Natural Language Processing

Hanoi

I worked as instructor at FPT - Aptech Computer Education center. I was in charge of providing lectures and guiding projects on C#.NET modules.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Ph.D. Dissertation: Word Confidence Estimation for Statistical Machine Translation

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Master Thesis: Vietnamese Text Categorization Using Lexical Chains

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Excellent

Final course Report: Building an English -Vietnamese Example-based Machine Translation system.