Cong Duy Vu Hoang


2018

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Improved Neural Machine Translation using Side Information
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Gholamreza Haffari | Trevor Cohn
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018

In this work, we investigate whether side information is helpful in neural machine translation (NMT). We study various kinds of side information, including topical information, personal trait, then propose different ways of incorporating them into the existing NMT models. Our experimental results show the benefits of side information in improving the NMT models.

2017

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Towards Decoding as Continuous Optimisation in Neural Machine Translation
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Gholamreza Haffari | Trevor Cohn
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We propose a novel decoding approach for neural machine translation (NMT) based on continuous optimisation. We reformulate decoding, a discrete optimization problem, into a continuous problem, such that optimization can make use of efficient gradient-based techniques. Our powerful decoding framework allows for more accurate decoding for standard neural machine translation models, as well as enabling decoding in intractable models such as intersection of several different NMT models. Our empirical results show that our decoding framework is effective, and can leads to substantial improvements in translations, especially in situations where greedy search and beam search are not feasible. Finally, we show how the technique is highly competitive with, and complementary to, reranking.

2016

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Improving Neural Translation Models with Linguistic Factors
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Gholamreza Haffari | Trevor Cohn
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2016

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Incorporating Structural Alignment Biases into an Attentional Neural Translation Model
Trevor Cohn | Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Ekaterina Vymolova | Kaisheng Yao | Chris Dyer | Gholamreza Haffari
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Incorporating Side Information into Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Trevor Cohn | Gholamreza Haffari
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2014

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A Rule-Augmented Statistical Phrase-based Translation System
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | AiTi Aw | Nhung T. H. Nguyen
Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

2012

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An Unsupervised and Data-Driven Approach for Spell Checking in Vietnamese OCR-scanned Texts
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Ai Ti Aw
Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Hybrid Approaches to the Processing of Textual Data

2010

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Towards Automated Related Work Summarization
Cong Duy Vu Hoang | Min-Yen Kan
Coling 2010: Posters