Thai Hoang


2021

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PhoMT: A High-Quality and Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Vietnamese-English Machine Translation
Long Doan | Linh The Nguyen | Nguyen Luong Tran | Thai Hoang | Dat Quoc Nguyen
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We introduce a high-quality and large-scale Vietnamese-English parallel dataset of 3.02M sentence pairs, which is 2.9M pairs larger than the benchmark Vietnamese-English machine translation corpus IWSLT15. We conduct experiments comparing strong neural baselines and well-known automatic translation engines on our dataset and find that in both automatic and human evaluations: the best performance is obtained by fine-tuning the pre-trained sequence-to-sequence denoising auto-encoder mBART. To our best knowledge, this is the first large-scale Vietnamese-English machine translation study. We hope our publicly available dataset and study can serve as a starting point for future research and applications on Vietnamese-English machine translation. We release our dataset at: https://github.com/VinAIResearch/PhoMT

2020

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Not-NUTs at WNUT-2020 Task 2: A BERT-based System in Identifying Informative COVID-19 English Tweets
Thai Hoang | Phuong Vu
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020)

As of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic is full-blown on a global scale, people’s need to have access to legitimate information regarding COVID-19 is more urgent than ever, especially via online media where the abundance of irrelevant information overshadows the more informative ones. In response to such, we proposed a model that, given an English tweet, automatically identifies whether that tweet bears informative content regarding COVID-19 or not. By ensembling different BERTweet model configurations, we have achieved competitive results that are only shy of those by top performing teams by roughly 1% in terms of F1 score on the informative class. In the post-competition period, we have also experimented with various other approaches that potentially boost generalization to a new dataset.