Vincent Ng

Vincent Ng

Professor - Computer Science
 
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ECSS 3.404
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D. - Computer Science
Cornell University
B.S. - Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Areas

Research Interests
Natural language processing

Publications

Clustering Documents along Multiple Dimensions. S. Dasgupta, R. M. Golden, and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), 2012.    2012 - Publication
Translation-Based Projection for Multilingual Coreference Resolution. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 2012.   2012 - Publication
Learning the Fine-Grained Information Status of Discourse Entities. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-12), 2012.   2012 - Publication
Resolving Complex Cases of Definite Pronouns: The Winograd Schema Challenge. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), 2012.    2012 - Publication
Simple and Fast Strong Cyclic Planning for Fully-Observable Nondeterministic Planning Problems. J. Fu, V. Ng, F. Bastani, and I.-L. Yen. Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 2011.  2011 - Publication
Learning Cause Identifiers from Annotator Rationales. M. A. Ul Abedin, V. Ng, and L. Khan. Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11), 2011.  2011 - Publication
Learning the Information Status of Noun Phrases in Spoken Dialogues. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-11), 2011.  2011 - Publication
Narrowing the Modeling Gap: A Cluster-Ranking Approach to Coreference Resolution. A. Rahman and V. Ng. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 40, pages 469-521, 2011.  2011 - Publication

Awards

AAAI-20 Blue Sky Idea Award - CCC [2020]
ESEC/FSE'19 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award - ACM [2019]
ECS Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award - UTD [2019]

Appointments

Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2017–Present]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2011–2017]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2004–2011]
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

News Articles

Three UTD CS Professors are Among This Year’s UTD Office of Research Seed Grant Winners
Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports
Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony
UT Dallas CS Faculty Researchers Have Four Papers Accepted Into Internationally Renowned Artificial Intelligence Conference
UT Dallas Researchers Have Five Papers Accepted Into Prominent Software Engineering Conference

Activities

Journal Editorial Boards
  • Editor-in-Chief, ACL Rolling Review (2023-now)
  • Associate editor,  Artificial Intelligence (2021-now)
  • Action editor, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2020-now)
  • Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2016-2023)
  •  Editorial board member, Computational Linguistics (2014-2016)
Conference Committees

Tutorials
  • AAAI 2018 Tutorial (Feb 3, 2018): Recent Advances and Applications in Markov Logic Networks (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
  • IJCAI 2017 Tutorial (Aug 21, 2017): Markov Logic Networks: Recent Advances and Practical Applications (with D. Venugopal)
  • EMNLP 2016 Tutorial (Nov 1, 2016): Advanced Markov Logic Techniques for Scalable Joint Inference in NLP (with D. Venugopal and V. Gogate)
  • IJCAI 2016 Tutorial (July 11, 2016): Coreference Resolution: Successes and Challenges
  • Tutorial given at the 10th CIPS Summer School on Human Language Technology (July 24, 2015): Coreference Resolution

Workshop Organizer

University Committees
  • Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Effective Teaching (2015-2017)
  • Member, UT Dallas ROTA selection committee (2017)
  • Member, selection committee for President's Award for Undergraduate Teaching for Tenured/Tenure-track and Contingent Faculty (2017)

Miscellaneous
  • Local organizer, North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) Dallas site (2009-2023)
  •  Review panel, National Science Foundation (2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020)
  •  Ad-hoc proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation (2009) 
  • Recent program committees and conference review panels:
    •  EMNLP-CoNLL 2012, AAAI 2012, ACL 2012, NAACL HLT 2012, EACL 2012, WWW 2012, SIGDIAL 2012, ROBUS-UNSUP 2012, ISPAN 2012
  •  Journal referee (recent)
    •   Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2012), International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (2012)
  •  Panelist, Student Research Workshops at EACL 2009 and NAACL HLT 2009




Affiliations

Human Language Technology Research Institute
Center for Machine Learning and Language Processing