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Ye Kyaw Thu (ရဲကျော်သူ)

Ye Kyaw Thu (Ye-san) is a Visiting Professor of Language & Semantic Technology Research Team (LST), Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AINRU), National Electronic & Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand, Affiliate Professor at Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), Cambodia and Head of NLP Research Lab., University of Technology Yatanarpon Cyber City (UTYCC), Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar. He is also a founder of Language Understanding Lab., Myanmar. He is actively co-supervising/supervising undergrad, masters' and doctoral students of several universities including Assumption University (AU), Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Kasetsart University (KU), and Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT). Previously, he was a Visiting Researcher of Language and Speech Science Research Lab., Waseda University, Japan (2012-2021), a Researcher in the artificial intelligence (AI) Lab. at Okayama Prefectural University (OPU), Japan (2016-2018), a Researcher at the Multilingual Translation Lab., Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan (2012-2016) and a Research Associate at Waseda University, Japan (2009-2012). He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Dagon University, Myanmar, M.Sc. and D.Sc. both in global information and telecommunication studies from Waseda University, Japan. His research interests lie in the fields of AI, natural language processing (NLP) and human-computer interaction (HCI). His experience includes research and development of text input methods, corpus building, statistical machine translation (SMT), automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text to speech (TTS) engines for his native language Myanmar. He is currently, working on NLP R&D for languages of Myanmar, robot language acquisition, sign language processing and ICT in primary education.

Education:

Doctor of Science, GITS, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (26th October 2011)
Master of Science, GITS, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (15th March 2006)
Graduation of One Year Special Japanese Language Course, The Japanese Language School of the International Student Institute (国際学友会日本語学校), Tokyo, Japan (12th March 2004)
Bachelor of Science (Physics), Dagon University, North Dagon, Myanmar (15th December 2000)
International Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies, NCC Education, UK (13th December 1999)
International Diploma in Computer Studies, NCC Education, UK (13th June 1998)

Message to my current/future students:

I'm always here to help your research, but you've got to take the lead!

Contact:

Personal Email: yktnlp@gmail.com

UTYCC Email: yekyawthu@utycc.edu.mm

YTU Email: dr.yekyawthu@ytu.edu.mm

NECTEC Email: yekyaw.thu@nectec.or.th

CADT Email: yekyaw.thu@cadt.edu.kh

(in English or in Japanese or in Myanmar)

GitHub: https://github.com/ye-kyaw-thu

Last updated: 26 June2024

CV / Awards / Activities / Code-Software-Data / Talks / Photos / Videos

What's New?

31-Jan-2024: Our paper, entitled "A Study for Enhancing Low-resource Thai-Myanmar-English Neural Machine Translation," which we submitted to the ACM TALLIP Journal, has been officially accepted.
22-Dec-2023: I had the opportunity to discuss my contribution to the NICT's VoiceTra project, specifically my four-year involvement in integrating the Burmese language (2012-2016), in an interview with VOA Burmese. [Video Link: Voice Tra နဲ့ မြန်မာဘာသာပြန်]
28-Nov-2023: Our workshop paper "myNER9: Development, Manual Annotation, and Evaluation of a 9-Tag Myanmar NER Corpus via XGBoost and Bi-LSTM" achieved "the Best Paper for Workshop" at the 5th NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand.
28-Oct-2023: I delivered an invited online lecture titled 'UIs Beyond Conventional Keyboards' at the HCI Meetup from 10 to 11 AM Thailand time.
15-Jul-2023: I delivered a special online lecture titled "AI for Myanmar" as part of the Seminar on AI and Peace program at the Peace Studies Center, Myanmar Institute of Theology.
27-April-2023: I gave an invited talk entitled "Research Challenges Behind ChatGPT" at the CamTech-AI Forum Seminar Series on "ChatGPT for Higher Education: To Ban or Not to Ban, That Is the Question", CamTech University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
23-Feb-2023: I gave an invited talk entitled "Natural Language Processing for All" at the CamTech University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
8-Dec-2022: I gave a keynote speech entitled "Quantum Natural Language Processing" at the ACET 2022, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
17-Jun-2022: I gave a speech entitled "10 Years of NLP and AI R&D" at the Research Seminar, CODE-C, Cambodia
26-May-2022: Gave 3 hours lecture entitled "Neural Machine Translation for Language of Myanmar" at the One-Day Research Workshop on NLP for Southeast Asian Languages, RILCA DigiLING, Mahidol University, Thailand
27-Apr-2022: Gave 4 hours lecture entitled "Fundamentals of ASR and TTS" to SIIT, Thailand undergrad students.
21-Jan-2022: Our paper entitled "English to Burmese Machine Translation with Asian Pivot Languages" achieved "the Best Paper Award" and also one more paper entitled "Word to Word translation between Myanmar(Burmese) and other Ethnic languages" achieved "the Best Presentation Award" at the 3rd Joint Southeast Asian NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2021
17-Dec-2021: I gave a keynote talk at the ONA 2021, 16-17 Dec, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on "Five Projects in 2021: myPOS, myWord, sylbreak4All, KidBright4Myanmar and myTTS"
10-Nov-2021: Presenter Ma Ni Htwe Aung achieved the "Presentation Award" for the paper entitled "CRNN Based OCR for American and British Sign Language Fingerspelling" at KSE2021, Thailand.
10-Sept-2021: Released "myWord Segmentation Tool" for Myanmar language
21-Jun-2021: Khaing Zar Mon's submission to Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW 2021) has been accepted!
26-Jan-2021: I gave an invited talk entitled "Natural Language Processing R&D for Myanmar" for YTU students' Union.
Our workshop paper "Grapheme-to-IPA Phoneme Conversion for Burmese (myG2P Version 2.0)" achieved "the Best Paper Award" at the 2nd Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand.
Our conference paper "Statistical Machine Translation for Myanmar Language Paraphrase Generation" achieved "the Best Paper Award" at the Track 1: Natural Language Processing (NLP), iSAI-NLP 2020, Bangkok, Thailand.
17-Dec-2020: I gave a keynote talk at the ONA 2020, 17-18 December, Phonom Penh, Cambodia on "The Three Important Corpora for Myanmar NLP R&D"
I am one of the core organizers of "the 2nd joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop", 2020, Bangkok, Thailand
27-Feb-2020: I gave an invited talk entitled "Weighted Finite State Transducer based Spelling Checker for Myanmar Language (Burmese)" at the 10th Joint Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Processing, IEEE ICCA 2020, Yangon, Myanmar
I gave 5 full days of lectures at the "NLP R&D Summer School", Feb 18-24, 2020 at the University of Computer Studies Hinthada, Hinthada, Myanmar
I gave a keynote speech entitled "Weighted Finite State Transducer based Spelling Checker for Myanmar Language (Burmese)" at the 1st University Research Conference on Science & Engineering (URCSE)", 23rd January, 2020, UTYCC, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar
I gave 5 full days of lectures at the "Automatic Speech Recognition Winter School", Jan 14-18, 2020 at the Computer University Banmaw, Banmaw, Myanmar

Selected Publications

Journal

2024

Mya Ei San, Sasiporn Usanavasin, Ye Kyaw Thu, Manabu Okumura, "A Study for Enhancing Low-resource Thai-Myanmar-English Neural Machine Translation," ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 23, Issue 4, Apr 2024, Article No.54, pp. 1:24. (Submitted Aug 15, 2023; accepted with major revision Nov 4, 2023, accepted Jan 31, 2024; published online Apr 15, 2024.) [Paper]

2023

Thura Aung, Ye Kyaw Thu, Zar Zar Hlaing, "mySentence: Sentence Segmentation for Myanmar Language using Neural Machine Translation Approach", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, Oct 2nd Issue, 2023, pp. 1 to 9. (Submitted Jan 5, 2023; accepted with minor revision Aug 19, 2023, revised Sept 15, 2023; published online Oct 2023.) [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Thitipong Tanprasert, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thepchai Supnithi, "Transfer and Triangulation Pivot Translation Approaches for Burmese Dialects," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 6150-6168, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3236804. (Received 15 October 2022, accepted 27 December 2022, date of publication 13 January 2023, date of current version 20 January 2023.) [Paper]

2022

May Myat Myat Khaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Thet Thet Zin, Hnin Yi Aye, Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Hay Man Htun, Thida San, Zun Hlaing Moe and Hnin Aye Thant, "Word to Word Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and other Ethnic languages", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, Oct 2nd Issue, 2022, pp. 28-1 to 28-9. (Submitted Feb 21, 2022; accepted Aug 30, 2022; published online, 31 Oct 2022) [Paper]
Wint Theingi Zaw, Ye Kyaw Thu, Zar Zar Hlaing, Thepchai Supnithi, "English to Burmese Machine Translation with Asian Pivot Languages", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, Oct 2nd Issue, 2022, pp. 26-1 to 26-9. (Submitted Feb 21, 2022; accepted Aug 30, 2022; published online 31 Oct 2022) [Paper]
Myint Myint Htay, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, Thepchai Supnithi, "Deep Siamese Neural Network Vs Random Forest for Myanmar Language Paraphrase Classification", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, Oct 2nd Issue, 2022, pp. 25-1 to 25-9. (Submitted Feb 21, 2022; accepted July 17, 2022; published on 31 Oct 2022) [Paper]
Zar Zar Hlaing , Ye Kyaw Thu , Thepchai Supnithi, Ponrudee Netisopakul, "Improving Neural Machine Translation with POS-Tag Features for Low-Resource Language Pairs", Heliyon Journal, (Submitted 5 March 2022, Revised 25 June 2022, Accepted 15 August 2022, Published online 22 August 2022) [Paper]

2021

Hay Man Htun, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, May Thu Win, Naw Naw, "Statistical Machine Translation System Combinations on Phrase-based, Hierarchical Phrase-based and Operation Sequence Model for Burmese and Pa'O Language Pair", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, Oct 2nd Issue, 2021, pp. 1-9. (Submitted July 16, 2021; accepted October 13, 2021; revised October 20,2021; published online October 31, 2021 ) [Paper]
Cho Zin Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Aye Thant, "Question Classification for Automatic Question-Answering in Agriculture Domain", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, Oct 2nd Issue, 2021, pp. 10-18. (Submitted August 8, 2021; accepted October 8, 2021; revised October 20, 2021; published online October 31, 2021 ) [Paper]
Zun Hlaing Moe, Thida San, Ei Thandar Phyu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Aye Thant, Naw Naw, Htet Ne Oo, Thepchai Supnithi, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Myanmar Text (Burmese) and Braille (Mu Thit) Machine Translation Applying IBM Model 1 and 2", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2021, pp. 18-26. (Submitted February 8, 2021; accepted March 11, 2021; revised April 15, 2021; published online April 25, 2021 ) [Paper]
Honey Htun, Ni Htwe Aung, Shwe Sin Moe, Wint Theingi Zaw, Nyein Nyein Oo, Thepchai Supnithi, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Grapheme-to-IPA Phoneme Conversion for Burmese (myG2P Version 2.0)", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2021, pp. 7-17. (Submitted February 8, 2021; accepted March 19, 2021; revised April 24, 2021; published online April 26, 2021 ) [Paper], [myG2P Corpus Version 2.0]
Hnin Yu Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Aye Thant, Htet Ne Oo, Thepchai Supnithi, Aung Win, "Grapheme to Syllable Sequence Phoneme Conversion for Burmese Spelling TTS", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2021, pp. 27-35. (Submitted February 8, 2021; accepted March 6, 2021; revised March 13, 2021; published online April 1, 2021 ) [Paper]

2020

Swe Zin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, and Thepchai Supnithi, "Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar Sign Language and Myanmar Language", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2020, pp. 53-61. (Submitted December 21, 2019; accepted March 6, 2020; revised March 16, 2020; published online April 30, 2020) [Paper]
Ni Htwe Aung, Ye Kyaw Thu, Su Su Maung, Swe Zin Moe, Hlaing Myat Nwe, "Transfer Learning Based Myanmar Sign Language Recognition for Myanmar Consonants", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2020, pp. 35-44. (submitted December 21, 2019; accepted March 6, 2020; revised March 16, 2020; published online April 30, 2020) [Paper]
Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, "Myanmar SignWriting Keyboard Mapping Layout for Fingerspelling", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2020, pp. 45-52. (submitted December 21, 2019; accepted March 6, 2020; revised April 25, 2020; published online April 30, 2020) [Paper]
Khaing Hsu Wai, Ye Kyaw Thu, Swe Zin Moe, Hnin Aye Thant, Thepchai Supnithi, "Myanmar (Burmese) String Similarity Measures based on Phoneme Similarity", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2020, pp. 27-34. (submitted December 21, 2019; accepted March 6, 2020; revised March 16, 2020; published online April 30, 2020) [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe, Thepchai Supnithi, "Statistical Machine Translation of Myanmar Dialects", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2020, pp. 14-26. (Submitted December 21, 2019; accepted March 6, 2020; revised March 18, 2020; published online April 30, 2020) [Paper] ("the Workshop Paper Award" at the First Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand)
Zar Zar Linn, Ye Kyaw Thu, Pushpa B. Patil, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Kayah Languages", Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology, April 1st Issue, 2020, pp. 62-68. (submitted December 21, 2019; accepted March 6, 2020; revised April 23, 2020; published online April 30, 2020) [Paper]

2019

Aye Nyein Mon, Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Improving Myanmar Automatic Speech Recognition with Optimization of Convolutional Neural Network Parameters", International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC), Vol 7, No 6, December, 2018 [Paper]
Swe Zin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Ni Htwe Aung, Khaing Hsu Wai, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, "Development of Natural Language Processing based Communication and Educational Assisted Systems for the People with Hearing Disability in Myanmar", Journal Linguas & Letras, e-ISSN: 1981-4755, ISSN: 1517-7238, Date of Publication online: December/2019, Vol. 20 N. 48 (DOI: 10.5935/1981-4755.20190031), [Paper].
Aye Nyein Mon, Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, "UCSY-SC1: A Myanmar speech corpus for automatic speech recognition", International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), Vol. 9, No. 4, August 2019, pp. 3194 3202, ISSN: 2088-8708 [Paper]

2016

Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita, "Word Segmentation for Burmese (Myanmar)", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 15, Issue 4, May 2016, Article No. 22, pp. 22:1-22:10. [Paper]

2010

Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "PP_Clickwheel: Positional Prediction Khmer Text Input Interface with Clickwheel for Small Mobile Devices", The Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan (IIEEJ), Vol.39, No.5, 2010, pp. 654-662. (published on September, 2010). [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Sai Aung Win Maung and Yoshiyori URANO, "Direct Keyboard Mapping (DKM) Layout for Myanmar Fingerspelling Text Input (Study with Developed Fingerspelling Font "mmfingerspelling.ttf")", GITS/GITI Research Bulletin 2009-2010, Waseda University, pp. 127-135. (published on July 31, 2010). [Paper]

International Conference

2024

Kimhuoy Yann, Ponleur Veng, Ye Kyaw Thu, Rottana Ly, "Statistical vs Neural Machine Translations for Khmer Braille", the 13th Conference on Information Technology and its applications (CITA 2024), July 19-20, Danang and Hoi An, Vietnam, pp. xx-xx [to appear]
(Kimhuoy Yann, Ponleur Veng and Ye Kyaw Thu contributed equally to this work as first authors.)
Ei Thandar Phyu, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Kotaro Funakoshi and Thepchai Supnithi, "Exploring the Impact of Error Type Features Integration on Transformer-Based Myanmar Spelling Correction", the 21st International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2024), June 19-22, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 374-381 [Paper]
Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Thazin Myint Oo, Okumura Manabu and Thepchai Supnithi, "Enhancing Hate Speech Classification in Myanmar Language Through Lexicon-Based Filtering", the 21st International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2024), June 19-22, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 325-332 [Paper]
Hay Man Htun, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hutchatai Chanlekha, Kotaro Funakoshi and Thepchai Supnithi, "End-to-End Burmese Automatic Speech Recognition for Medical Conversations", the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 20-25 May, Torino, Italy, pp. 12032–12039 [Paper]

2023

Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo and Thepchai Supnithi, "Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning for Improved Neural Machine Translation of Burmese Dialects", Workshop of Multimodal, Multilingual and Multitask Modeling Technologies for Oriental Languages (M3Oriental), Dec 8, Tainan, Taiwan, pp. 1-8 [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Thepchai Supnithi, "Embedding Meets Frequency: Novel Approaches to Stopword Identification in Burmese", In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2023), Nov 27 to 29, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1-6 [Paper]
Sokheng Khim, Ye Kyaw Thu and Sethserey Sam, "Sentiment Polarity Classification for Khmer", In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2023), Nov 27 to 29, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1-6 [Paper]
Hlaing Myat Nwe, Kiyoaki Shirai, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn, Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thepchai Supnithi and Natsuda Kaothanthong, "Enhancing Translation of Myanmar Sign Language by Transfer Learning and Back-Translation", the 19th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2023), organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), Sep 4-8, 2023, Macau SAR, China, pp. 111-122 [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Thura Aung and Thepchai Supnithi, "Neural Sequence Labeling based Sentence Segmentation for Myanmar Language", the 12th Conference on Information Technology and its applications (CITA 2023), July 28-29, Danang, Vietnam, pp. 285-296 [Paper]

2022

Nalin Srun, Sotheara Leang, Ye Kyaw Thu and Sethserey Sam, "Convolutional Time Delay Neural Network for Khmer Automatic Speech Recognition", In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2022), Nov 5 to 7, 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Mya Ei San, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thepchai Supnithi and Sasiporn Usanavasin, "Improving Neural Machine Translation for Low-resource English-Myanmar-Thai Language Pairs with SwitchOut Data Augmentation Algorithm", In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2022), Nov 5 to 7, 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Zar Zar Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thepchai Supnithi and Ponrudee Netisopakul, "Graph-based Dependency Parser Building for Myanmar Language", In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2022), Nov 5 to 7, 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Thitipong Tanprasert, Ye Kyaw Thu and Thepchai Supnithi, "Syllable-to-Syllable and Word-to-Word Transducers for Burmese Dialect Translation", In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2022), Nov 5 to 7, 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]

2021

Ei Phyu Phyu Mon, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thida San, Zun Hlaing Moe, Hnin Aye Thant, "Automatic Rule Extraction for Detecting and Correcting Burmese Spelling Errors", The 4th ONA Conference, 17-18 December, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Phnom Penh, Cambodia [Paper]
Khaing Zar Mon, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hay Man Htun, Zun Hlaing Moe, Thida San, Hnin Aye Thant, Reenu, "Study on Extremely Low-Resource Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with Burmese, Shan, and Pa'O Languages", The 4th ONA Conference, 17-18 December, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Phnom Penh, Cambodia [Paper]
Zar Zar Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Thepchai Supnithi and Ponrudee Netisopakul, "Supervised Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Language Pairs: Myanmar and Thai", In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2021), virtual conference, Dec 21 to Dec 23, 2021, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Aye Thant, Hay Man Htun, Htay Mon, May Myat Myat Khine, Mi Hsu Pan Oo, Mi Pale Phyu, Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Thazin Myint Oo, Thazin Oo, Thet Thet Zin and Thida Oo, "sylbreak4all: Regular Expression based Syllable Breaking Tool for Nine Major Ethnic Languages of Myanmar", In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2021), virtual conference, Dec 21 to Dec 23, 2021, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Mya Ei San, Ye Kyaw Thu, Zar Zar Hlaing, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Thepchai Supnithi and Sasiporn Usanavasin, "A Study of Levenshtein Transformer and Editor Transformer Models for Under-Resourced Languages", In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2021), virtual conference, Dec 21 to Dec 23, 2021, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Ei Phyu Phyu Mon, Ye Kyaw Thu, Than Than Yu and Aye Wai Oo, "SymSpell4Burmese: Symmetric Delete Spelling Correction Algorithm (SymSpell) for Burmese Spelling Checking", In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2021), virtual conference, Dec 21 to Dec 23, 2021, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Khaing Zar Mon, Ye Kyaw Thu and Reenu, "Speaker Recognition by Combining Features for Myanmar Weather Forecast Domain", In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2021), virtual conference, Dec 21 to Dec 23, 2021, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Ni Htwe Aung, Honey Htun, Ye Kyaw Thu and Su Su Maung "CRNN Based OCR for American and British Sign Language Fingerspelling", In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2021), Nov 10-12, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand. [Paper] [Presentation Award]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Khaing Zar Mon, Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Naing Linn Phyo, Nann Hwan Khun and Hnin Aye Thant, "Hybrid Statistical Machine Translation for English-Myanmar: UTYCC-Team1 Submission to WAT-2021", In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2021), Aug 6, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 83-89. [Paper]
Zar Zar Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Mya Ei San, Sasiporn Usanavasin, Ponrudee Netisopakul and Thepchai Supnithi, "NECTEC’s Participation in WAT-2021", In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2021), Aug 6, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 74–82. [Paper]

2020

Myo Mar Thinn, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Nyo Nyo Yee, Thandar Myint, Hnin Aye Thant, Thepchai Supnithi, "Machine Translation of LaTeX Based Mathematical Equations to Spoken Mathematics", In Proceedings of the 24th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference 2020 (ICSEC 2020), Dec 3-5, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1-6. [Paper]
Zar Zar Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Myat Myo Nwe Wai, Thepchai Supnithi, Ponrudee Netisopakul, "Myanmar POS resource extension effects on automatic tagging methods", In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2020), Nov 18 to Nov 20, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 189-194. [Paper]
Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Phyu Phyu Tar, Nandar Win Min, Thepchai Supnithi, "A Study of Three Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Myanmar (Burmese) and Shan (Tai Long) Language Pair", In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2020), Nov 18 to Nov 20, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 218-223. [Paper]
Myint Myint Htay, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, Thepchai Supnithi, "Statistical Machine Translation for Myanmar Language Paraphrase Generation", In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2020), Nov 18 to Nov 20, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 255-260. [Paper] [Best Paper Award]
Zar Zar Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Thepchai Supnithi, Ponrudee Netisopakul, "Increasing SMT and NMT Performance by Corpus Extension with Free Online Machine Translation Services", In Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Advanced Information Technologies (ICAIT-2020), Nov 4-5 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 212-217. [Paper]
Wint Theingi Zaw, Ye Kyaw Thu, Shwe Sin Moe, Nyein Nyein Oo, Thepchai Supnithi, "Statistical Machine Translation, Ripple Down Rules and Hidden Markov Model for Burmese Romanization", In Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Advanced Information Technologies (ICAIT-2020), Nov 4-5 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 99-104. [Paper]
Hnin Yi Aye, Yuzana Win, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Chin (Mizo) Language", In Proceedings of The 23rd Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment (Oriental COCOSDA 2020), Nov 5-7 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 211-216. [Paper]
Shwe Sin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Wint Theingi Zaw, Ni Htwe Aung, Nyein Nyein Oo, Thepchai Supnithi, "The State-of-the-Art Phonemic and Syllable Unit Transcriptions for Myanmar Names", In Proceedings of The 23rd Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment (Oriental COCOSDA 2020), Nov 5-7 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 204-210. [Paper]
Wint Theingi Zaw, Shwe Sin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Nyein Nyein Oo, "Applying Weighted Finite State Transducers and Ripple Down Rules for Myanmar Name Romanization", In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON 2020), June 24-27, 2020, Virtual Conference Hosted by College of Computing, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, pp. 143-148. [Draft-Paper] [Paper]
Sann Su Su Yee, Khin Mar Soe and Ye Kyaw Thu, "Myanmar Dialogue Act Recognition (MDAR)", In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2020), Feb 27-28, 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 206-213. [Paper]
Honey Htun, Ye Kyaw Thu, Nyein Nyein Oo and Thepchai Supnithi, "English-Myanmar (Burmese) Phrase-Based SMT with One-to-One and One-to-Multiple Translations Corpora", In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2020), Feb 27-28, 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 189-198. [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe and Thepchai Supnithi, "Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Dawei (Tavoyan)", In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2020), Feb 27-28, 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 219-227. [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe and Thepchai Supnithi, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar and Myeik", In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Future Computer and Communication (ICFCC 2020), Feb 26-28, 2020, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 36-45 [Paper] [WCSE-link]

2019

Htet Htet Yadana Oo, May Thae Sue, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant and Nang Aye Aye Htwe, "Rule-based Myanmar Language Chatbot for Travel and Tourism Domain", In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Science and Engineering 2019 (ICSE 2019), Dec 7-8, 2019, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 307-311 [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Manar Hti Seng, Thazin Myint Oo, Dee Wom, Hpau Myang Thint Nu, Seng Mai, Thepchai Supnithi and Khin Mar Soe, "Statistical Machine Translation between Kachin and Rawang", In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2019), Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand, pp. 329-334 [Paper]
Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu, "Enhancing Myanmar Speech Synthesis with Linguistic Information and LSTM-RNN", In Proceedings of the 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW10), 20-22 September, 2019, Vienna, Austria, pp. 189-193 [Paper]
Khaing Hsu Wai, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, Swe Zin Moe and Thepchai Supnithi, "String Similarity Measures for Myanmar Language (Burmese)", The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019), 11-13 September 2019, Trento, Italy [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe and Thepchai Supnithi, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Dawei (Tavoyan)", The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019), 11-13 September 2019, Trento, Italy [Paper]
Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu and Khin Mar Soe, "Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Rakhine (Arakanese)", In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, NAACL-2019, June 7th 2019, Minneapolis, United States, pp. 80-88 [Paper]
Ou Ou Khin, Ye Kyaw Thu, Tadashi Sakata, Yoshinori Sagisaka and Yuichi Ueda, "Myanmar Speech Classification Using Transfer Learning for Image Classification", In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2019), February 27 - March 1, 2019, Yangon, Myanmar, pp.132-140 [Paper]
Ni Htwe Aung, Ye Kyaw Thu and Su Su Maung, "Feature Based Myanmar Fingerspelling Image Classification Using SIFT, SURF and BRIEF", In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2019), February 27 - March 1, 2019, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 245-253 [Paper]

2018

Swe Zin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant and Nandar Win Min, "Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar Sign Language and Myanmar Written Text", In the second Regional Conference on Optical character recognition and Natural language processing technologies for ASEAN languages 2018 (ONA 2018), December 13-14, 2018, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [Paper]
Yi Mon Shwe Sin, Thazin Myint Oo, Hsu Myat Mo, Win Pa Pa, Khin Mar Soe, Ye Kyaw Thu, "UCSYNLP-Lab Machine Translation Systems for WAT 2018", Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: 5th Workshop on Asian Translation: 5th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2018), December 1-3, Hong Kong, pp. 1127-1132. [Paper]
Ou Ou Khin, Ye Kyaw Thu, Tadashi Sakata and Yuichi Ueda, "Classification of Myanmar Syllables Sound Using Image Classification Approach", In the 13th International Student Conference on Advanced Science and Technology 2018 (ICAST 2018), November 28–30, 2018, Manila, Philippine.
Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu, "DNN-based Myanmar Speech Synthesis", In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU Workshop), 29-31 Aug, 2018, Gurugram, India. [Paper]
Hnin Thu Zar Aye, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu, "Unsupervised Dependency Corpus Annotation for Myanmar Language", In Proceedings of The 21st Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment (Oriental COCOSDA 2018), May 7-8 2018, Miyazaki, Japan
Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Swe Zin Moe, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ni Htwe Aung, Nandar Win Min, Hnin Aye Thant, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar Sign Language and Myanmar SignWriting", In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for ASEAN Development (ASEAN-AI 2018), March 26-27, 2018, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 65-72. [Paper]
Swe Zin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ni Htwe Aung, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar Sign Language and Myanmar Writen Text", In Proceedings of ICCA2018, February 22-23, 2018, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 217-227. [Paper]
Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Swe Zin Moe, Ni Htwe Aung , Hnin Aye Thant , Nanda Win Min, "Two Fingerspelling Keyboard Layouts for Myanmar SignWriting", In Proceedings of ICCA2018, February 22-23, 2018, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 290-298. [Paper] [xkb keyboard files]
Thazin Myint Oo, Ye Kyaw Thu, Khin Mar Soe, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Rakhine (Arakanese)", In Proceedings of ICCA2018, February 22-23, 2018, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 304-311. [Paper]
Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Word-based Myanmar Text-to-Speech with CLUSTERGEN", In Proceedings of ICCA2018, February 22-23, 2018, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 203-208.
Hnin Thu Zar Aye, Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Unsupervised Dependency Parsing for Myanmar Language using Part-of-Speech Information", In Proceedings of ICCA2018, February 22-23, 2018, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 209-216.

2017

Ye Kyaw Thu, Vichet Chea, Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Comparison of Six POS Tagging Methods on 12K Sentences Khmer Language POS Tagged Corpus", In the first Regional Conference on Optical character recognition and Natural language processing technologies for ASEAN languages (ONA 2017), December 7-8, 2017, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [paper]
Aye Nyein Mon, Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Developing a Speech Corpus from Web News for Myanmar (Burmese) Language", In Proceedings of the The 20th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment (Oriental COCOSDA 2017), November 1-3, 2017, Seoul National University Hoam Faculty House, Convention center, Seoul, R.O. Korea, pp. 75-80, [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Takuya Ishida, Naoto Iwahashi, Tomoaki Nakamura and Takayuki Nagai, "Symbol Grounding from Natural Conversation for Human-Robot Communication", In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2017), October 17-20, 2017, CITEC, Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 415-419. [Paper], [Poster]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Kenta Takabuchi and Naoto Iwahashi, "DNN-Based Language Acquisition for Object Manipulation Task", In Proceedings of the 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2017), September 18-21, 2017, Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 245-246.
Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu, "Myanmar Number Normalization for Text-to-Speech", In Proceedings of PACLING 2017, August 16-18, 2017, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 346-356. [Paper]
Aye Nyein Mon, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu, "Exploring the Effect of Tones for Myanmar Language Speech Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)", In Proceedings of PACLING 2017, August 16-18, 2017, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 334-345, [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Kenta Takabuchi, Kaisei Fukai, Naoto Iwahashi and Takeo Kunishima, "Robot Language Acquisition Based on Sequence-to-Sequence Learning", In Proceedings of ICCA2017, February 16-17, 2017, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 461-471. [Paper]
Aye Nyein Mon, Win Pa Pa and Ye Kyaw Thu, "Building Myanmar Continuous Automatic Speech Recognition on Web News", In Proceedings of ICCA2017, February 16-17, 2017, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 446-453, [Paper]
Kenta Takabuchi, Naoto Iwahashi, Ye Kyaw Thu, Takeo Kunishima, "DNN-based object manipulation to syllable sequence for language acquisition", In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2017 (AROB 22nd 2017), January 19-21, 2017, Beppu, Japan, pp. 638-642. [Paper]

2016

Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Naoto Iwahashi, "Comparison of Grapheme–to–Phoneme Conversion Methods on a Myanmar Pronunciation Dictionary", In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP), COLING 2016, December 11-17, 2016, Osaka, Japan, pp. 11–22. [Paper]
Haymar Hnin, Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Back-Propagation Neural Network to Myanmar Part-of-Speech Tagging", In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC2016), November 7-9, 2016, China, pp. 212-220. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, "Interlocking Phrases in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation", In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2016, June 12-17, San Diego, US, pp. 1076-1081. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, "Introducing the Asian Language Treebank (ALT)", The 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia, pp. 1574-1578. [Paper]
Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, "A Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Under Resourced Languages", 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU Workshop), 09-12 May, 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 81, 2016, pp. 250–257. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Win Pa Pa, Khin War War Htike and Eiichiro Sumita, "String to Tree and Tree to String Statistical Machine Translation for Myanmar Language", In Proceedings of ICCA2016, February 25-26, 2016, Yangon, Myanmar, pp.249-257. [Paper]
Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita, "Parsing Myanmar (Burmese) by Using Japanese as a Pivot", In Proceedings of ICCA2016, February 25-26, 2016, Yangon, Myanmar, pp.158-162. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Win Pa Pa, and Eiichiro Sumita, "A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Myanmar Language", In Proceedings of SNLP2016, February 10-12, 2016, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand. [Paper]

2015

Hay Mar Soe Naing, Aye Mya Hlaing, Win Pa Pa, Xinhui Hu, Ye Kyaw Thu, Chiori Hori and Hisashi Kawai, "A Myanmar Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition System", In Proceedings of APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2015), December 16–19, 2015, Hong Kong, pp. 320-327. [Paper]
Vichet Chea, Ye Kyaw Thu, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, "Khmer Word Segmentation Using Conditional Random Fields", In Khmer Natural Language Processing 2015 (KNLP2015), December 4, 2015, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [Paper] [Slide]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Vichet Chea, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita, "A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Khmer Language", 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, October 30 - November 1, 2015, Shanghai, China, pp. 259-269. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita, "HMM Based Myanmar Text to Speech System", In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany, pp. 2237-2241. [Paper]
Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Word Boundary Identification for Myanmar Text Using Conditional Random Fields", In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, August 26-28, 2015, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 447-456. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Andrew Finch, Jinfu Ni, Eiichiro Sumita and Chiori Hori, 2015, "The Application of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Techniques to Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion", In Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (PACLING 2015), May 19~21, 2015, Legian, Bali, Indonesia, pp. 170-176. [Paper] (revised paper has been published in Springer Communication in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), ISSN:1865-0929, pp. 238-250)
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Andrew Finch, Aye Mya Hlaing, Hay Mar Soe Naing, Eiichiro Sumita and Chiori Hori, "Syllable Pronunciation Features for Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion", In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2015), February 5~6, 2015, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 161-167. [Paper] [Best Paper Award]
Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Eiichiro Sumita and Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Transcribing Chinese into Myanmar (Burmese) Script", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2015), February 5~6, 2015, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 174-180. [Paper]

2014

Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Empirical Dependency-Based Head Finalization for Statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) Machine Translation", Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2014), December 4~5, 2014, Lake Tahoe, USA, pp.184-191. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita and Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Integrating Dictionaries into an Unsupervised Model for Myanmar Word Segmentation", Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP (WSSANLP 2014), 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014), August 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 20-27. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Akihiro Tamura, Eiichiro Sumita and Yoshinori Sagisaka, “Factored Machine Translation for Myanmar to English, Japanese and Vice Versa”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2014), February 17~18, 2014, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 171-177. [Paper]

2013

Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Myanmar Word Segmentation Approaches for Statistical Machine Translation", Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2013), October 28~30, 2013, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 47-54. [Paper], [Special Award, Emerging]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka, "A Purely Monotonic Approach to Machine Translation for Similar Languages", Proceedings of International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2013 (IALP 2013), August 17~19, 2013, Urumqi, China, pp. 107-110. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Yoshinori Sagisaka and Eiichiro Sumita, "A Study of Myanmar Word Segmentation Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2013), February 26~27, 2013, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 167-179. [Paper]

2012

Nu Nan Dar Lin, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji MATSUMOTO and Yoshiyori URANO, "Building Myanmar, Myanmar Sign and Japanese Language Dictionary Based on Ontology", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2012), February 28~29, 2012, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 629-633.
Bilesanmi Yusuf Oladipupo, Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, “Managing Blackout in Off-grid Communities through Time Based Energy Allocation Model”, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2012), February 28~29, 2012, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 153-158.

2011

Nu Nan Dar Lin, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji MATSUMOTO and Yoshiyori URANO, "Survey on Ontology Languages", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2011), May 5~6, 2011, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 260-267.
Ye Kyaw Thu, and Yoshiyori URANO, "Grapheme Cluster Segmentation Tool for Myanmar Text Based on Positional Prediction Text Input Concept", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2011), May 5~6, 2011, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 67-76.

2010

Ye Kyaw Thu, Sai Aung Win Maung and Yoshiyori URANO, "Direct Keyboard Mapping (DKM) for Myanmar Fingerspelling Text Input", Proceedings of the IADIS International Conferences, Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010 and Game and Entertainment Technologies 2010, July 28~30, 2010, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 267-275. [Paper]

2009

Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "A Comparison of Myanmar PC Keyboard Layouts", Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2009), October 20~22, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 15-20. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Romanized Myanmar Language Handwriting Text Input Interface for Non-natives", Proceedings of the Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2009 and Game and Entertainment Technologies 2009 (IHCI 2009), June 17~23, 2009, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 121-128. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Shrestha PRADYUMNA and Yoshiyori URANO, "Analysis on Possible Combinations of Vowels with a Consonant of Nepali", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2009), February 26~27, 2009, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 17-23.

2008

Ouk Phavy, Ye Kyaw Thu and Mitsuji MATSUMOTO, "Khmer Word-based Predictive Non-QWERTY Soft Keyboard in Stylus-based Devices", Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2008), September 15~19, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany, pp. 225-232. [Paper]
Phavy Ouk, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji MATSUMOTO and Yoshiyori URANO, "A Word-Based Predictive Text Entry Method for Khmer Language", Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, July 13~15, 2008, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 214-219. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Ouk Phavy and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Gesture for Advanced Smart Terminals: Simple Gesture Text Input for Syllabic Scripts Like Myanmar, Khmer and Bangla", Proceedings of the first ITU-T Kaleidoscope Academic Conference, May 12~13, 2008, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 77-84. [Paper], [Young Author Recognition Certificate]
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Positional Prediction: Consonant Cluster Prediction Text Entry Method for Burmese (Myanmar Language)", Extended Abstracts of the 26th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), April 5~10, 2008, Florence, Italy, pp. 3783-3788. [Paper], [2nd Prize for CHI08 Student Research Competition and 3rd Prize for ACM Student Research Competition Grand Final]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Ouk Phavy and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Mapping Software Keyboard for Syllabic Scripts (Study with Bangla and Khmer Languages)", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2008), February 14~15, 2008, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 150-157.

2007

MD. Monzur Morshed, Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Frequency Based Two–Layer Multitap Bangla Input Method for Mobile Phones", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2007), December 27~29, 2007, United International University (UIU), Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 313-319. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Mapping: Keyboard Mapping Based on Characters Writing Positions for Mobile Devices", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2007), November 12~15, 2007, Nagoya, Japan, pp. 110-117. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Mapping Myanmar Text Input Scheme for Mobile Devices", Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 07), September 9~12, 2007, Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium, Singapore, pp. 153-160. [Paper], [Best Paper Award]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Mapping Multi–tap for Myanmar Language", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction (HCI International 2007), July 22~27, 2007, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, P.R.China, Part 2, pp. 486-495. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Selection Based Myanmar Text Input Interfaces: (Proposal of Dividing All Myanmar Characters into 6 Groups)", Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IASTED-HCI 2007), March 14~16, 2007, Chamonix, France, pp. 154-159. [Paper]
Achmad Rully, Agung Untoro, Tetsuo Fujisaki, Hidehiro Kanemitsu, Ye Kyaw Thu, Yoshiyori Urano, Yuki Umezawa and Yosuke Uchiyama, "Wireless LAN and power line communication platform for e-learning multimedia system in underdeveloped area in Lombok Island", Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Hardware, Wireless and Optical Communications, February 16~19, 2007, Corfu Island, Greece, pp. 23-27. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Selection Based Myanmar Text Input Interfaces for Small Screen Computing Devices", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2007), February 8~9, 2007, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 215-222.

2006

Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Query Interfaces for Retrieving Myanmar Language Digital Resources", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2006), December 5~8, 2006, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, pp. 53-65.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Text Entry for Myanmar Language SMS: Proposal of 3 Possible Input Methods, Simulation and Analysis", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2006), February 23 ~24, 2006, Yangon, Myanmar, pp. 199-207.

Special Interest Group (SIG) Symposium

Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "MyTap and M9: Comparison of Two Existing Methods for Myanmar Mobile Phone Text Input", the 133rd Human Computer Interaction Symposium, May 15~16, 2009, Ishikawa, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2009-HCI-133. (online publication), [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "A Comparison of Myanmar PC Keyboard Layouts", the 131st Human Computer Interaction Symposium, Jan 26~27, 2009, Yufuin Kouminkan, Yufuincho, Oita, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2009-HCI-131, pp. 15-21. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "LRUDC (Left, Right, Up, Down and Center) Button for Myanmar Language Software Keyboard", the 128th Human Computer Interaction Symposium, May 28~29, 2008, Translational Research Informatics Center (TRI), Kobe, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2008-HCI-128, pp. 159-164. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Ouk Phavy, Yoshiyori URANO and Mitsuji MATSUMOTO, "Positional Prediction for Khmer Language (Cluster Predictive Text Entry Method in Mobile Devices)", IIEEJ 4th Mobile Image Research Meeting, March 4, 2008, International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 5-10.
Ouk Phavy, Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Two Keystrokes Text Entry Method for Khmer Mobile Phones", the 127th Human Computer Interaction Symposium, January 31~February 1, 2008, Faculty Club (Gakushi Kaikan), Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2008-HCI-127, pp. 123-130. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Ouk Phavy and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Gesture: Simple Gesture Text Input for Khmer", the 127th Human Computer Interaction Symposium, January 31~February 1, 2008, Faculty Club (Gakushi Kaikan), Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2008-HCI-127, pp. 115-122. [Paper]
MD. Monzur Morshed, Ye Kyaw Thu, Yoshiyori URANO, "A Proposal of Reduced Keystroke Multitap Input Model for Bangla Short Message Service", the 121st Human Interface Symposium, November 21~22, 2006, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NiCT), Kyoto, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2006-HI-121, pp. 43-49. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Lookup Interfaces for Myanmar Electronic Dictionaries", the 121st Human Interface Symposium, November 21~22, 2006, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NiCT), Kyoto, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2006-HI-121, pp. 75-82. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, “Development of Romanized Input Methods for Myanmar Language Short Messaging Service (SMS): Comparison with Multitap Input Method, Simulation and Analysis”, the 117th Human Interface Symposium, January 13, 2006, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2006-HI-117, pp. 33-40. [Paper]

Local Conference

Ni Htwe Aung, Su Su Maung, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Sign Language Recognition for Myanmar Number Using Three Different SVM Classifiers", NCSE-2019, June 27-28, 2019, Yangon, Myanmar.
Takuya Ishida, Kazuma Yamamoto, Naoto Iwahashi, Ye Kyaw Thu, Tomoaki Nakamura, Takayuki Nagai, Takeo Kunishima, "Learning Objects and Words through Natural Conversation" (雑談を通した物体と単語の学習), JSAI-2017, May 23~26, Aichi prefecture, Nagoya, Japan (In Japanese). [Paper]
Kaisei Fukai, Gosuke Takei, Kenta Takabuchi, Naoto Iwahashi, Ye Kyaw Thu, Takeo Kunishima, "Recognition of Reference-Point-Dependent Motions Using LRCN" (LRCNによる参照点に依存した動作の認識), JSAI-2017, May 23~26, Aichi prefecture, Nagoya, Japan (in Japanese).
Kazuma Yamamoto, Takuya Ishida, Naoto Iwahashi, Ye Kyaw Thu, Takeo Kunishima, "Symbol Grounding in Human-Robot Dialogs using Visual and Linguistic Cues", Human-Agent Interaction Symposium 2016, Dec 3~4, 2016, Tokyo, Japan, P-36. [Paper]
Hay Mar Soe Naing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Hiroaki Kato, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Chiori Hori. "Rule Based Katakana to Myanmar Transliteration for Post-editing Machine Translation", 言語処理学会第21回年次大会発表論文集, March 16~21, 2015, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 257-260. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Akihiro Tamura, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka, "Unsupervised POS Tagging of Low Resource Language for Machine Translation", 言語処理学会第20回年次大会講演論文集, March 17~21, 2014, Sapporo, Hokkaido, pp. 590-593. [Paper]
Bilesanmi Yusuf Oladipupo, Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "User Defined Smart Grid Solution; addressing the challenges faced in off grid communities that rely on renewable energy through Time Based Energy Allocation Model", Proceedings of the 74th IPSJ National Conference, March 6~8, 2012, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan, pp. 3-365 to 3-366. [Paper]
Nu Nan Dar Lin, Sai Aung Win Maung, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji Matsumoto and Yoshiyori Urano, "Implementation of Japanese to Myanmar Online-Dictionary By Using Web Ontology Language (OWL)", Proceedings of the 2011 IEICE Society Conference, September 13~16, 2011, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, pp. S-78 to S-79. [Paper]
Huotely YIN, Ye Kyaw Thu, and Yoshiyori URANO, "New Khmer Handwriting Text Input Interface: Handwriting and Positional Prediction", Proceedings of the 2009 IEICE Society Conference, September 15~18, 2009, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, pp. S-133 to S-134. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Jackchai Butsrikui, Mitsuji MATSUMOTO and Yoshiyori URANO, "A Comparison of Thai Mobile Phone Keypad Mappings", Proceedings of the Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2009), September 2~4, 2009, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan, pp. 461 to 464. [Paper]
Chinzorig Sashka, Ye Kyaw Thu, and Yoshiyori URANO, "Personalized review based recommendation system for tourism domain", Proceedings of the 2009 IEICE General Conference, March 17~20, 2009, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, pp. 95. [Paper]
Huotely YIN, Ye Kyaw Thu, and Yoshiyori URANO, "Online Khmer Handwriting Character Recognition by employing Nearest Neighbor and DTW Algorithms", Proceedings of the 2009 IEICE General Conference, March 17~20, 2009, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, pp. S-47 to S-48. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, Shrestha PRADYUMNA and Yoshiyori URANO, “PP_Clickwheel: Positional Prediction Nepali Text Input Interface with Clickwheel”, Proceedings of the 2009 IEICE General Conference, March 17~20, 2009, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, pp. S-49 to S-50. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "RomanPP: Myanmar Text Typing with Consonants Romanization and Possible Vowel Combinations Prediction with 4 Directional Arrow Keys", Proceedings of the 71st IPSJ National Conference, March 10~12, 2009, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan, pp. 4-17 to 4-18. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Prediction Software Keyboard Layout for Myanmar PDA", Proceedings of the 2008 IEICE Society Conference, September 16~19, 2008, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, pp. S-155 to S-156. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Analysis on Four Directional Arrow Keys (4DAK) and Left, Right, Up, Down and Center (LRUDC) Button Text Input Interfaces for Myanmar Language", Proceedings of the Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2008), September 2~4, 2008, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan, pp. 31 to 34. [Paper]
Ouk Phavy, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji Matsumoto and Yoshiyori URANO, "Cluster Predictive Text Entry Method in Mobile Phone for Khmer Language", Proceedings of the 2008 IEICE General Conference, March 18~21, 2008, Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, Kitakyushu, Japan, BS-3-9, pp. S-26 to S-27. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Romanization with Vowel Positional Information: New Romanized Text Input Concept for Burmese (Myanmar Language)", Proceedings of the 2008 IEICE General Conference, March 18~21, 2008, Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, Kitakyushu, Japan, pp. BS-3-8, S-24 to S-25. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Myanmar Text Typing with Numeric Keypad (Applying the concept of Positional Mapping)", Proceedings of the 70th IPSJ National Conference, March 13~15, 2008, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 4-1 to 4-2. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, MD. Monzur Morshed and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Mapping for Bangla Mobile Phone", Proceedings of the Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2007), September 5~7, 2007, Chukyo University, Toyota, Japan, pp. 427-430. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Myanmar Text Input Interface for Personal Digital Assistant (PDA): Applying the concept of Dividing All Myanmar Characters into 6 Groups:", Proceedings of the 2007 IEICE General Conference, March 20~23, 2007, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, pp. S-105 to S-106. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Developing Efficient Input Methods for Myanmar Language SMS", Proceedings of the 2005 IEICE Communications Society Conference, September 20~23, 2005, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Transactions of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) 2005, B-17-5, pp. 624. [Paper]

Workshop

End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resourced Languages (a case study for Burmese and ethnic languages of Myanmar), Khaing Zar Mon, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, Chaw Su, Reenu, Thepchai Supnithi, the Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) 2021, 29 August 2021, virtual workshop and satellite event with InterSpeech-2021, Brno, Czechia. [poster]
Myanmar Text (Burmese) and Braille (Mu Thit) Machine Translation applying IBM Model 1 and 2, Zun Hlaing Moe (UTYCC, Myanmar), Thida San (UTYCC, Myanmar), Ei Thandar Phyu (UTYCC, Myanmar), Hlaing Myat Nwe (UTYCC, Myanmar), Hnin Aye Thant (UTYCC, Myanmar), Thepchai Supnithi (NECTEC, Thailand) and Ye Kyaw Thu (NECTEC, Thailand), the 2nd Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, Nov. 18, iSAI-NLP 2020, Bangkok, Thailand. [the paper will be publish in JIIST Journal]

(Zun Hlaing Moe, Thida San and Ei Thandar Phyu contributed equally to this work as first authors.)

W1-04, Grapheme-to-IPA Phoneme Conversion for Burmese (myG2P Version 2.0), Honey Htun (YTU, Myanmar), Ni Htwe Aung (YTU, Myanmar), Shwe Sin Moe (YTU, Myanmar), Wint Theingi (YTU, Myanmar), Nyein Nyein Oo (YTU, Myanmar), Thepchai Supnithi (NECTEC, Thailand) and Ye Kyaw Thu (NECTEC, Thailand), the 2nd Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, Nov. 18, iSAI-NLP 2020, Bangkok, Thailand. [the paper will be publish in JIIST Journal] [Best Paper Award]

(Honey Htun, Ni Htwe Aung, Shwe Sin Moe and Wint Theingi Zaw contributed equally to this work as first authors.)

W1-05, Grapheme to Syllable Sequence Phoneme Conversion for Myanmar Language Spelling TTS, Hnin Yu Hlaing (UTYCC, Myanmar), Ye Kyaw Thu (NECTEC, Thailand), Hlaing Myat Nwe (UTYCC, Myanmar), Thepchai Supnithi (NECTEC, Thailand), Hnin Aye Thant (UTYCC, Myanmar), the 2nd Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, Nov. 18, iSAI-NLP 2020, Bangkok, Thailand. [the paper will be publish in JIIST Journal]
Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ye Kyaw Thu, "SignWriting for Myanmar Sign Language Poetry", at 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing, ICCA2019, Yangon, Myanmar (28th Feb 2019)
Khaing Hsu Wai, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, "Learning String Similarity Metrics for Myanmar Language", at 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing, ICCA2019, Yangon, Myanmar (28th Feb 2019)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Workshop on Transfer Learning", at University of Computer Studies (Banmaw), Kachin State, Myanmar (12nd Nov 2018)
Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Swe Zin Moe, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ni Htwe Aung, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, "Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar Written Text and Myanmar SignWriting", at 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing, ICCA2018, Yangon, Myanmar (22nd Feb 2018)
Ni Htwe Aung, Ye Kyaw Thu, Swe Zin Moe, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Su Su Maung, "Image Classification Experiments on Myanmar Sign Language Fingerspelling", at 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing, ICCA2018, Yangon, Myanmar (22nd Feb 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Foreign Language Learning", at 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing, ICCA2018, Yangon, Myanmar (22nd Feb 2018)
Swe Zin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant and Nandar Win Min, "Corpus Building for Machine Translation between Myanmar Sign Language and Myanmar Written Text", at 7th Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICCA2017, Yangon, Myanmar (16th Feb 2017)[Poster ver 1.1]
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Parsing with Little Languages", at 7th Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICCA2017, Yangon, Myanmar (16th Feb 2017)
Khin War War Htike, Ye Kyaw Thu, Zuping Zhang, Win Pa Pa, Yoshinori Sagisaka and Naoto Iwahashi, "Comparison of Six POS Tagging Methods on 10K Sentences Myanmar POS Tagged Corpus", at 7th Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICCA2017, Yangon, Myanmar (16th Feb 2017)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Myanmar Word Representations in Vector Space", at 6th Natural Language Processing Workshop, ICCA2016, Feb 25~26, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Web Sign Language Dictionary Building for Myanmar Sign Language", Joint Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Recognition, the 10th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2012), Feb 28~29, 2012, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Software Assisting Tools In Teaching And Learning for Myanmar Students With Visual Disabilities", GII-GITS Workshop on NLP and ICT 2011 (a part of GITS/GITI Research Festival 2011), October 7, 2011, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, pp. 57-63.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Software Assisting Tools In Teaching And Learning for Myanmar Students With Visual Disabilities", Language and Speech Science Research Laboratories, Technical Report (a part of GITS/GITI Research Festival 2011), October 5, 2011, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Direct Keyboard Mapping (DKM) Layout for Myanmar Fingerspelling Text Input (Study with Developed Fingerspelling Font "mmFingerspelling.ttf")", Joint Workshop of Natural Language and Speech Recognition, the 9th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2011), May 5~6, 2011, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Software Assisting Tools in Teaching and Learning for Myanmar Students with Hearing and Visual Disabilities", Tsinghua University & GITS Joint Workshop, March 12, 2011, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Positional Prediction Text Input Interfaces for Asian Syllabic Languages", Language and Speech Science Research Laboratories, Technical Report (a part of GITS/GITI Research Festival 2010), October 13, 2010, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jackchai Butsrikui, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji MATSUMOTO and Yoshiyori URANO, "Analysis on Possible Combinations of a Consonant with Vowels and Tone Marks for Thai", Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Asian Languages (a part of GITS/GITI Research Festival 2009), October 8, 2009, Waseda University, Honjo, Japan, pp. 31-38.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, “Prototyping with “Pictures & Mobile Devices”: a Rapid Prototyping Technique for Mobile User Interfaces”, Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Asian Languages (a part of GITS/GITI Research Festival 2009), October 8, 2009, Waseda University, Honjo, Japan, pp. 46-53.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, “Introduction to Concepts of Positional Mapping (PM) and Positional Prediction (PP) for Asian Syllabic Languages Mobile Devices”, Global Information and Telecommunication Open Research Paper Reading (GITS/GITI Workshop 2008), October 8, 2008, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. [Japanese]
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Selection Based Myanmar Text Entry Using Game Pads", Global Information and Telecommunication Open Research Paper Reading (GITS/GITI Workshop 2006), October 18, 2006, Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS), Waseda University, Honjo, Japan, pp. 12-13.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "Development of Efficient Input Methods for Myanmar Language SMS", Global Information and Telecommunication Open Research Paper Reading (GITS/GITI Workshop 2005), October 19, 2005, Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS), Waseda University, Honjo, Japan, pp. 4-5.

Article and Essay

Ye Kyaw Thu, "Prototyping with Pictures and Mobile Devices (PicMobi): A Rapid Prototyping Technique for Mobile User Interfaces", The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Fifth series, volume 2, 2010, pp. 129-136.
イェチョウトゥ「テレビから学ぶ日本」Sekiguchi Global Research Association (SGRA) かわらばん2010, エッセイ243
Link: http://www.aisf.or.jp/sgra/active/sgra/2010/1715/

Doctoral Student Conference, Doctoral Symposium and PhD Academy

Ye Kyaw Thu, “Software Assisting Tools in Teaching And Learning For Myanmar Students with Visual Disabilities (Research in Progress)”, Proceedings of the 12th APRU Doctoral Students Conference, July 4~7, 2011, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (CD-ROM)
Ye Kyaw Thu, “Development of Fingerspelling Font for Myanmar Deaf Education”, Proceedings of the 11th APRU Doctoral Students Conference, July 12~16, 2010, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. (CD-ROM)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Development of Myanmar Fingerspelling Text Input Methods (Work in Progress)", International DADD-PhD Academy on Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction in Different Application Scenarios, February 15~27, 2010, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Romanization Based Text Input Interfaces of Asian Syllabic Languages for Non-Natives", Proceedings of the 10th APRU Doctoral Students Conference (APRU-DSC 2009), July 6~10, 2009, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. (CD-ROM)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Common and User-Friendly Text Input Interfaces for Asian Syllabic Languages on Mobile Devices", Adjunct Proceeding of the 21st annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2008), October 19~22, 2008, Monterey, California, USA, pp. 27-30. [Paper]
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Common and User-Friendly Text Input Interfaces for Asian Syllabic Languages on Mobile Devices", International DADD-PhD Summer Academy on Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction in Different Application Scenarios, August 25~September 10, 2008, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, pp. 191-217.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Positional Mapping, Positional Gesture and Positional Prediction for Syllabic Languages: Study with Myanmar, Bangla and Khmer", Proceedings of the 9th APRU Doctoral Students Conference, July 14~18, 2008, Far Eastern National University (FENU or FEFU), Vladivostok, Russia. (CD-ROM)

Poster

Ni Htwe Aung, Su Su Maung, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Transfer Learning based Sign Language Recognition for Myanmar Number", The First International Workshop on Control, Communication and Multimedia (IWCCM 2019), 7 Dec 2019, HRD Function Hall, Yangon Technological University, Yangon, Myanmar
Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Swe Zin Moe, Ni Htwe Aung, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, "Two Fingerspelling Keyboard layouts for Myanmar SignWriting", International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2017, 3 Dec 2017, Wilson Hotel, No.31(E), Yangon-Mandalay Main Road, Maha Aung Myay Township, Mandalay, Myanmar. Demo and [Poster]
Swe Zin Moe, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Ni Htwe Aung, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, "မြန်မာ လက်သင်္ကေတပြဘာသာစကား မှ မြန်မာစကားပြောစာကြောင်းသို့ ကွန်ပျူတာသုံး ဘာသာပြန် သုတေသန", International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2017, 3 Dec. 2017, Wilson Hotel, No.31(E), Yangon-Mandalay Main Road, Maha Aung Myay Township, Mandalay, Myanmar. Demo and [Poster]
Khin War War Htike, Ye Kyaw Thu, Zuping Zhang, Win Pa Pa, Yoshinori Sagisaka and Naoto Iwahashi, "Comparison of Six POS Tagging Methods on 10K Sentences Myanmar Language (Burmese) POS Tagged Corpus", at 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2017), April 17~23, 2017, Budapest, Hungary. [Poster] [myPOS Corpus]
Swe Zin Moe, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant and Nandar Win Min, "Corpus Building for Machine Translation between Myanmar Sign Language and Myanmar Written Text", at 7th Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICCA2017, Yangon, Myanmar (16th Feb 2017) [Poster ver1.1]
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Font and Keyboard Layout for Myanmar Fingerspelling", 70th Anniversary of Research Institute for Science and Engineering Waseda University poster section, July 5~30, 2010, Nishi waseda campus, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu, YIN Huotely and Yoshiyori URANO, “Romanized Khmer Language Handwriting Interface for Non-Natives”, Interaction 2009, March 5~6, 2009, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan.

Demo

Swe Zin Moe, Hlaing Myat Nwe, Hnin Wai Wai Hlaing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Hnin Aye Thant, Nandar Win Min, "Myanmar Sign Language (MSL) Corpus for Emergency Domain", PACLING2017 conference, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "VoiceTra App", the 14th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2016), Feb 25~26, 2016, Yangon, Myanmar.
Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, "Myanmar Printed Character Recognition", Opening Ceremony of Myanmar Institute of Information Technology, November 2015, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Aye Mya Hlaing, Hay Mar Soe Naing, Eiichiro Sumita, "Myanmar Language Machine Translation Demo", Myanmar Festival (ミャンマー祭り), Oct 18~19, 2014, Zojoji, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu, Sai Aung Win Maung, Mitsuji MATSUMOTO and Yoshiyori URANO, “Software Assisting Tools in Teaching and Learning for Myanmar Students with Hearing and Visual Disabilities”, 7th IEEE Tokyo Young Researcher Workshop, November 20, 2010, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu and Yoshiyori URANO, "RomanPP Handwriting: Myanmar Language Text Input Interface for Non-natives", 72nd National Convention of IPSJ, March 9~11, 2010, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu, Jackchai Butsrikui, Yoshiyori URANO and Mitsuji MATSUMOTO, “Romanization Based Asian Syllabic Languages Text Input Prototypes for Non-Natives”, 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2009), December 3~4, 2009, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan.

Volunteer Activities

Advisor, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Student Network (APRU DSN), 2010 to 2012
Chairperson, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Student Network (APRU DSN), 2009 to 2010
Conference Staff: INTERSPEECH 2010, ABC (Android Bazaar and Conference) 2011 Winter, ABC (Android Bazaar and Conference) 2011 Summer, GDD (Google Developer Day) 2011 Japan
Executive committee member, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Student Network (APRU DSN), 2008 to 2009
Translation to Myanmar Language: Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/)