Home Page of Dr NG Hwee Tou

Affiliation

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
13 Computing Drive
Singapore 117417
Tel: (65) 6516 8951
Fax: (65) 6779 4580
Email: nght@comp.nus.edu.sg
Home Page: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~nght
Office: AS6 05-16

Senior Faculty Member
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
National University of Singapore

Director
Language Mediation Laboratory
Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI)
National University of Singapore


Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1992
University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

M.S. in Computer Science, 1987
Stanford University, U.S.A.

B.Sc. in Computer Science for Data Management (High Distinction), 1985
University of Toronto, Canada


Bio

Dr. Hwee Tou NG is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Senior Faculty Member at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, and Director of the Language Mediation Laboratory at the Interactive and Digital Media Institute, NUS. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research focuses on natural language processing and information retrieval. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

He has published papers in premier journals and conferences, including Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI. His papers received the Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2011 and SIGIR 1997. He is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), and an editorial board member of Natural Language Engineering.

He has also served as an editorial board member of Computational Linguistics journal (2004 − 2006) and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (Sep 2008 − Aug 2011). He was an elected member of the ACL executive committee (2008 − 2010) and a steering committee member and former secretary of ACL SIGNLL. He was program co-chair of EMNLP 2008, ACL 2005, and CoNLL 2004 conferences, and has served as area chair of ACL, EMNLP, and SIGIR conferences and as session chair and program committee member of many past conferences including ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, AAAI, and IJCAI.

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval


Selected Publications

Google Scholar Citations

ACL Anthology Network Ranking, by Incoming Citations

ACL Anthology Network Ranking, by H-Index

NUS Natural Language Processing Group

Awards

Participation in Benchmarking Evaluations

Invited Talks

Selected Professional Services