Regular biography
Ng Hwee Tou is Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on natural language processing, and he is a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). He has published extensively in premier conferences and journals, including ACL, EMNLP, and Computational Linguistics. His work has received notable recognition, including Best Paper Awards at EMNLP 2011 and SIGIR 1997. He has served in various editorial and program committee roles for major conferences and journals. He teaches courses in natural language processing and has contributed to research projects in artificial intelligence and media.
Scholar-generated biography
Hwee Tou Ng is the Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. His research focuses on advancing machine learning techniques for tasks such as coreference resolution, grammatical error correction, and word sense disambiguation. He has contributed significantly to the development of annotated corpora, such as the NUS corpus of learner English, and has explored the integration of multiple knowledge sources for linguistic analysis. His work emphasizes improving the robustness and accuracy of natural language understanding systems through innovative neural and statistical approaches.