Awards

Awards

  • 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 (the publication will be around April 2022)

  • Presenter Ms. Ni Htwe Aung achieved the "Presentation Award" for the paper entitled "CRNN Based OCR for American and British Sign Language Fingerspelling" at KSE2021, Thailand.

  • 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.

  • Our paper entitled "Statistical Machine Translation of Myanmar Dialects" got "the Workshop Paper Award" at the First Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop, 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • Best Paper Award for ICCA 2015, "Syllable Pronunciation Features for Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion", February 5~6, 2015. (NICT News, No.452 JUN 2015, Page No. 13)

  • Special Award (Emerging) for SNLP 20013, "Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Myanmar Word Segmentation Approaches for Statistical Machine Translation", October 28~30, 2013. (NICT News)

  • Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects (Project number: 2011B-215), 2011

  • Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects (Project number: 2009A-901), 2009

  • 3rd Prize for ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals 2009, “Positional Prediction: Common and User Friendly Text Input Interfaces for Asian Syllabic Languages on Mobile Devices”, ACM Awards Banquet, San Diego, USA, June 27, 2009

  • Waseda University Expense Stipend, Student representative to the 9th APRU Doctoral Students Conference, July 14~18, 2008, Vladivostok, Russia

  • Young Author Recognition Certificate of ITU-T Kaleidoscope Academic Conference, “Positional Gesture for Advanced Smart Terminals: Simple Gesture Text Input for Syllabic Scripts Like Myanmar, Khmer and Bangla”, May 12~13, 2008

  • 2nd Prize for ACM Student Research Competition of CHI 2008, “Positional Prediction: Consonant Cluster Prediction Text Entry Method for Burmese (Myanmar Language)”, April 5~10, 2008

  • Best Paper Award for ACM MobileHCI 07, “Positional Mapping Myanmar Text Input Scheme for Mobile Devices”, September 9~12, 2007

  • 1st Prize for student project of IDCS Diploma, "Malaysia Airline Reservation System", 1998