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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