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MCPA Challenge Team member မ်ား၊ Myanmar NLP Team နွင့္ အျခား ဖိတ္ျကားထားသူမ်ားအတြက္ သီးသန့္ ျပုလုပ္ေပးေသာ workshop ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

တက္ေရာက္သူမ်ားကို MCPA မွ ေန့လည္စာျဖင့္ တည္ခင္း ဧည့္ခံပါမည္။

Date & Time                                                :            18th Dec, 2009 (9:00 – 5:00 PM) Seminar
Place                                                          :            Myanmar Info-Tech, Room 205

Speaker Name                                              :            Dr. Choochart Haruechaiyasak

Education & Qualification                          :            

- Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami, FL,    U.S.A.

- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, U.S.A.

-  Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester, NY, U.S.A.  

   Current Rank:               Team Leader, Intelligent Information Infrastructure section

Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)

Workshop Topic/Title: Research and Development of Thai NLP: NECTEC's Experience

 

Brief Description of Workshop Topic :            

Abstract

The Human Language Technology Laboratory (HLT) of the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) under Thailand's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is one of the leading research groups in Thailand, which has long experience in performing R&D in Thai NLP. We have many successful collaborations with domestic and international organizations, both academic and private companies. Our R&D areas include speech technology (speech recognition & synthesis), machine translation, search engine, question answering system, and language resource and tools. The main goal of this talk is to give an overview of our current R&D progress of Thai NLP. In particular, this talk will focus and present details on the following topics:

(1)   Thai word segmentation competition under BEST (Benchmark for Enhancing the Standard of Thai language processing)

(2)   LexTo & TLex: Dictionary-based and machine-learning based Thai Word segmentation

(3)   Sansarn: Thai Open-Source Search Engine

(4)   ABDUL (Artificial Buddy U Love): a platform for building QA and online help desk systems

(5)   Opinion mining in Thai language