Ngô Thanh Nhàn: Research Page

Ngô Thanh Nhàn
Computational Linguist

Linguistic String Project
Computer Science Department
New York University
715 Broadway, Room 1007
New York, New York 10003
Tel: +1 212 998-3099
Fax: +1 212 995-4123
Email: nhan@cs.nyu.edu, ntn1@nyu.edu

Last edited March 22, 2012

RESEARCH PAPERS
Academic Curriculum Vitae Computational Linguistics Linguistics and Computer Standardization Other Interests
RELATED LSP TOPICS
Linguistic String Project LSP Publications LSP Selected Publications String Program Reports
SAMPLES LSP WORKS
GRI Asthma Documents Checklist of GRI Asthma Management: Patient Document 007 Myocardial Infarction Documents A Hospital Pathology Reports Mayo Clinic Pathology Reports Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève: Lithiase Vésiculaire Computer Based Patient Record Exercises A Clinic Louvain Test QCHANGE Test Quick Clinic Queries

Academic Resumé

Education
Research experience
Professional Affiliation

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EDUCATION

1984: Ph.D. in Linguistics: Morphology (New York University, New York)
1977: Master of Arts: Theoretical Linguistics (San José State University, California)
1972: Bachelor of Arts: Russian (San José State University, California)
Minor languages: French, German
Minor subject: Music.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

June – September 2014
Field Team Digitization Specialist,
Pilot Digital Project, a joint project of the Temple University Libraries, the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, with the Thừa Thiên Huế General Library, Huế, Vietnam.
June 2013 – present
Adjunct Associate Director, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University.
March 2012
Proofreader, Từ điển Việt-Anh [A Vietnamese-English Dictionary], by Phan Văn Giưỡng, Hoàng Thị Tuyền Linh & Vũ Xuân Lương, Vietnam Lexicography Center, Social Sciences Publishing House. Hanoi: 2012. 960 pp., 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm.
September 2008
Co-editor, Kho chữ Hán-Nôm mã hoá [Unified Hán-Nôm coded repertoire], with Prof. Nguyễn Quang Hồng & Dr. Ngô Trung Việt, The Institute of Hán-Nôm Research (Hanoi) and the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation. Social Sciences Publishing House. 27cm x 19cm, pp. 648.
September 1, 2008 — September 1, 2010
Leading researcher for the British Library Endangered Archives Program EAP219 for digitization of endangered Hán Nôm archive of the Vietnam Institute of Social Science Information (formerly, Hán Nôm archive of the École Française d'Extrême Orient) and the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society of Temple University. Full catalog of 2,056 digitized Nôm books.
April 11-12, 2008
Member of the Organizing Committee for A Nôm Studies Conference, at the 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA). The Conference was supported by the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, the College of Liberal Arts and the Henry Luce Foundation.
January 26, 2008
National Lifetime Contribution Award for US-Vietnam people-to-people relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam.
June 6, 2007–present
Member of the Scientific Commission
Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Quốc học [National Center for Vietnamese Studies], Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
December 2005
Co-editor, An XML Medical Knowledge Lexicon, by David Rothwell, MD, Richard Wheeler, MD and Ngô Thanh Nhàn, 1,126 pp, © 2006.
September 2005
Co-editor, Nôm Na Coded Character Set, Nôm Na, the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam. 586 pp. © 2005.
August, 2005—present
Member of the Organizing Committee for the June 2006 Second International Nôm Conference in Huế, Vietnam.
The Conference was jointly organized by the Thừa Thiên-Huế Offices of Science & Technology and Culture & Information, the Institute of Hán Nôm Research (Vietnam) and the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.
June 2005—2009
Member of the Coordinating & Program Committees of Research & Innovation — Vision for the Future:
— RIVF'07 5th International Conference in Computing Sciences, March 05-09, 2007 Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam.
— RIVF'06 4th International Conference in Computing Sciences, February 05-09, 2006 Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam.
November 12-14, 2004
Member of the Organizing Committee for the First International Nôm Conference at the National Library in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Co-editor of the Conference Proceedings, Nghiên cứu chữ Nôm, September 2006 , 442 pp., Hanoi: The Social Science Publishing House. The Conference was jointly organized by the Institute of Hán Nôm Studies (Vietnam) and the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.
Sept 2004
Co-Editor of the fourth edition of Giúp đọc Nôm và Hán-Việt by Father Anthony Trần Văn Kiệm, with Dr Ngô Trung Việt and the Nôm Na Group. Sponsored by the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.
1984-Present
IT Standardization Expert
Character encoding, font and keyboard designs, sorting algorithms, etc. for Vietnamese (latin based), Nôm (ideographic) and Chàm (indic) scripts.
9/2003–present
Visiting Scholar
N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Computer Science.
March 18, 2003
Medal of Sciences by the Vietnam Union of Sciences and Technologies, the Linguistic Society of Vietnam.
Jan 2004-Apr 2006
Co-editor of Thời Đại Mới (New Era).
1998-2006
Co-coordinator of Summer Seminar Series
New York University 1998, University of Leuven (Liège, Belgium) 1999, New York University 2000, University of Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France) 2001, University of Maine 2002, L.M. University of Munich (Germany) 2003, New York University 2004, Đà Nẵng (Vietnam) 2005, Humboldt State University (CA) 2006.
2/1998-2003
Conferee/Guest
N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
2/1992-2/1998
Computational Linguist
Linguistic String Project - N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Automatic semantic pattern collection from clinical data.
Automatic dictionary consistency and updating procedures.
Automatic encoding into SNOMED III: programming.
Independent automatic error checking on LSP medical language processing.
Independent automatic error recovery using segment parsing strategy.
2/1988-1992
Associate Research Scientist
N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Joint Project: Automatic Encoding of Clinical Narratives of NYU Linguistic String Project and Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève, with Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique.
Responsible for robust, automatic error checking formatting text into CTABLEs for INGRES and INFORMIX standard dBMS.
2/1984-1/1988
Associate Research Scientist
N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Responsible for natural language transportable system analysis and robust parsing using graded acceptability: English medical grammar selection, relaxation mechanisms,...
1983-1985
Assistant Editor of Vietnam Culture Journal, New York.
1978-1984
Assistant Research Scientist
N.Y.U. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Responsible for parsing and updating grammar for the English Question-Answering System.
Computer experience:
- Hardwares: Sun Sparc, VAX 8600+, HP-UX, IBM, PC, Mac Power PC
- Operating systems: SunOS 5+, VAX/VMS V5+, HP-UX Epicure, DOS, Windows 95, Mac-OS
- Databases: FoxPro, Informix, MS Access, MS Excel, Lotus, dBASE, SGML free text and retrievals
- Tools: sed, awk, perl, [Symantec] C++, Java, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Lisp, Prolog
- Internet tools: CGI, HTML 3+, XML, specialized SGML
- Networking: Novell NetWare 4 (IPX), AppleTalk
- Teaching and training users.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

2012-present: Member, Philadelphia Folklore Project
2011-present: Member, American Medical Informatics Association
2006-present: Member, Association for Asian Studies
6/2001-12/2002: The Vietnamese Unicode/ISO 10646 Committee (VUIC), Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Member
2000-present: Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education [NY non-profit], Board of Directors
1999-4/3/2007: The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation [FL non-profit], Executive Committee
2000-2005: Bowne Global Solutions (formerly, Berlitz GlobalNET)
1998-present: National Association of Judicial Interpreters and Translators
1998-2006: The Brecht Forum [NY non-profit organization], Board of Directors
1998-present: The Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action at the Manhattanville College [NY], Board of Directors
1995-present: Association of Asian American Studies
1994-present: The IEEE Computer Society
1991-Jan 2000: The Vietnamese Heritage Institute [CA non-profit organization], Director
1984-present: Association for Computational Linguistics
1983-present: Linguistic Society of America
1990-1995: American Friends Service Committee, Asia Panel
1993-1997: ISO JTC1/SC2/WG2 Ideographic Rapporteur Group - Chief Vietnamese Overseas Liaison
1992-1995: Linguistic Society of Vietnam, Executive Board
1995-1997: Chàm Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange
1993-1997: Subcommittee for Nôm Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences) — Vice Chairperson
1993-1997: Subcommittee for Vietnamese Standardization of Codes for Information and Interchange (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences) — Vice Chairperson
1993-1997: Subcommittee for Vietnamese Keyboard Standardization (Việt Nam State Committee for Sciences)
1993-1997: East Asian Subcommittee of the Unicode Technical Committee, Unicode Consortium — Chief Vietnamese Overseas Liaison
1993-1997: Việt Nam Information Technology —Technical Committee [Tiêu chuẩn Việt Nam] - TCVN/JTC 1 Vice Chairperson.