Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou
Wins Prestigious Award for Contributions to
Natural Language Processing
Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou (seated
3rd from right) in a group photo with
Minister for Defence Mr Teo Chee Hean
(seated, 5th from right).
Associate Professor Ng Hwee Tou has been presented the
prestigious Defence Technology Prize Team Award (R&D) for his
outstanding technological contributions to work at DSO National
Laboratories, Singapore. The award, given out in October 2007,
is part of the Defence Technology Prize series, an annual event
organised by Singapore’s Ministry of Defence.
A/P Ng had worked with the Document Analysis and Research
Environment (DARE) Team in DSO National Laboratories. Together,
they developed an innovative Corpus-Based Approach (CBA) to
Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. Using CBA, the
team built a suite of technologies for automatic processing and
analysis of textual information to help human analysts perform
more efficiently and enhance sense-making.
The team has since advanced beyond NLP research into embedding
the technology into a Large Integrated Search and Analysis
(LISA) system. LISA, jointly developed with the Arlington
Institute in the United States, has been conceptualised to
support analysts in the systematic collection, organisation and
analysis of unstructured texts. The team successfully customised
LISA and the DSO NLP to intelligence applications and
bio-medical surveillance. The DSO NLP was also used in the Risk
Assessment and Horizon Scanning (RAHS) System to help analysts
process unstructured textual information for strategic early
warning to national security threats.
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