Dr Hieu Phan

Research Fellow

BS (VNUH), Ph.D. (JAIST)

School/Unit

Centre for Health Informatics

Broad Research Areas

Natural Language Processing
Biomedical Text Mining
Web Mining & Business Intelligence
Statistical Machine Learning

Specific Research Keywords

Biomedical Entity/Relation/Event Extraction
Sequence Data: Segmentation and Labeling
Web Data Extraction & Online Advertising
Topic Modeling
Learning Models: MaxEnt, CRFs, LDA, etc.

Research Interests

Phan’s research interests involve natural language processing, biomedical text mining, Web mining, and business intelligence. He is currently focusing on text mining for biomedical text including retrieving, analysing, and, summarizing large volumes of biomedical documents on in order to discover novel and interesting biomedical knowledge/facts (e.g., entity, relation, event, causal pathway, etc.), helping doctors and clinicians keep track new findings in medical research for better decision making in healthcare and treatment.

Society Memberships & Professional Activities

Program committee member: PRICAI’08, PRICAI EMALP’08
External reviewer: ECML’05, ICML’06, PAKDD’07, ACM SIGKDD’08

Funding Sources

The Cerebral Palsy Foundation
ARC Discovery Grant

Key works/Publications

- Xuan-Hieu Phan, Le-Minh Nguyen, and Susumu Horiguchi: Learning to Classify Short and Sparse Text & Web with Hidden Topics from Large-scale Data Collections, The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp.91-100, April 2008, Beijing, China.
- Xuan-Hieu Phan, Le-Minh Nguyen, Yasushi Inoguchi, Tu-Bao Ho, and Susumu Horiguchi: Improving Discriminative Sequential Learning by Discovering Important Associations of Statistics, ACM Transactions on Asian Language and Information Processing (ACM TALIP), Vol.5, No.4, pp.413-438, 2006.
- Le-Minh Nguyen, Akira Shimazu, and Xuan-Hieu Phan: Semantic Parsing with Structured SVM Ensemble Classification Models, The 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics & The 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (ACL & COLING), pp.619-626, July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
- Xuan-Hieu Phan, Le-Minh Nguyen, and Susumu Horiguchi: Personal Name Resolution Crossover Documents by A Semantics-based Approach, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E89D, No.2, pp.825-836, 2005.
- Xuan-Hieu Phan, Susumu Horiguchi, and Tu-Bao Ho: Automated Data Extraction from the Web with Conditional Models, International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Vol.1, No.2, pp.194-209, 2005.

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