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  • 17-June-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-June-2021: Khaing Zar Mon's submission to Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW 2021) has been accepted!

  • 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

  • I gave a keynote speech entitled "NLP R&D for Languages of Myanmar" at the ONA 2019 Conference, 19-20 December, MPTC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  • ONA committee and I organized the first tutorial entitled "NLP R&D Tutorial 2019", 19 Dec 2019, at the ONA 2019 Conference, MPTC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  • We (Dr. Thepchai, Dr. Prachya and me) organized NLP lectures at YTU (12 Dec 2019), UCSY (13 Dec 2019) and UTYCC (14-16 Dec 2019) for increasing the awareness of NLP R&D in Myanmar

  • I gave a lecture entitled "NLP for Myanmar" at the Hands-on AI and Machine Learning, Nov 30 to Dec 1, UIT, Yangon, Myanmar

  • NLP R&D Summer School, Nov 14-16, 2019, UCS Monywa finished successfully!

  • 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 , (We will upload the updated journal paper later)

  • Dr. Prachya Boonkwan (Arm) and I organized "When 1 + 1 > 2: Joint Neural NLP Models Demystified" Tutorial at the iSAI-NLP2019 conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • I am one of the core organizers of "the First Joint Myanmar-Thai NLP/AI R&D Workshop", 2019, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • I did "Machine Translation Research Summer School (MTRSS)", Oct 8-10, at the Yangon Technological University (YTU), Myanmar

  • 11-Aug 2019: Give a talk entitled "AI in Myanmar" at MLRS2019, DEPA, Bangkok, Thailand.

  • 28-Feb 2019: Give a talk entitled "Natural Language Processing R&D for Myanmar language" at ICCA2019, Yangon, Myanmar.

  • 8-Dec 2018: Give a talk entitled "Deep Learning for Myanmar Sign Language Processing" at the Ninth International Conference on Science and Engineering, 2018, Yangon Technological University (YTU), Yangon, Myanmar.

  • 31-Oct 2018: Give a talk entitled "Statistical Vs. Neural Machine Translation" at the Conference on Science and Technology Development 2018, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar.

  • 19-Sept 2018: Give two talks entitled "Robot Language Acquisition based on Sequence to Sequence Learning" (morning seminar) and "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language" (evening seminar) at KMD Institute, San Chaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar.

  • 16-Sept 2018: I did "Deep Learning Summer Schools 2018" for Myanmar students. May 21-25 at UTYCC, June 5-9 at CU Dawei, June 11-15 at CU Myeik, June 18-22 at YTU, June 25-29 at UCSY, Aug 13-17 at UCS (Mandalay), Sept 10-12 at UCS (Sittwe) and Nov 5-9 at UCS (Banmaw).

  • 26-Feb 2018: Uploaded slide (in Myanmar language), data and code of one day class named "The Mathematics of Neural Networks" at UCSY, 19 Feb 2018.

  • 8-Dec 2017: We released khPOS (12K Khmer Part-of-Speech Corpus) draft version 1.0 for Khmer NLP research and development.

  • 2-Dec 2017: We did demo and poster presentations at International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2017, 3 Dec. 2017, Mandalay, Myanmar. 1. Poster of two fingerspelling keyboard layouts for Myanmar SignWriting, 2. Poster relating to machine translation between Myanmar sign language and Myanmar written text

  • 22-Oct 2017: We released MSL4Emergency (Myanmar sign language corpus for the emergency domain), 558 videos & annotations!

  • 20-Aug-2017: I did NLP Summer School 2017 (Aug 14-15) at University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY)

  • 17-Aug-2017: My students and I introduced our developing Myanmar sign language corpus for emergency at PACLING2017

  • 16-Aug-2017: I got acceptance email from HAI2017 (Human-Agent Interaction, 2017) conference committee for our poster paper entitled "Symbol Grounding from Natural Conversation for Human-Robot Communication".

  • 31-July-2017: I'll be giving an invited talk on "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language" at PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar.

  • 17-July-2017: Released kKg Myanmar keyboard and myG2P (Myanmar grapheme-to-phoneme) dictionary (version 1)

  • 6-June-2017: I got acceptance email from IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2017 Conf. for our short paper entitled "DNN-based Language Acquisition for Object Manipulation Task".

  • 25-May-2017: Our papers entitled "Exploring the Effect of Tones for Myanmar Language Speech Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)" and "Myanmar Number Normalization for Text-to-Speech" have been accepted for oral presentations at PACLING 2017 conference

  • 4-May-2017: Give a talk entitled "HCI, NLP, AI & y" at University of Computer Studies Mandalay (UCSM), Mandalay, Myanmar

  • 2-May-2017: Give a talk entitled "HCI, NLP, AI & y" at University of Technology, Yatanarpon Cyber City (UT-YCC), Pyinoolwin, Myanmar

  • 23-Apr-2017: I released myPOS (11K Myanmar Part-of-Speech Corpus) draft version 0.9 for Myanmar language (Burmese) NLP R&D !!! :)

  • 9-Apr-2017: Let me share a good news of Asian Language Treebank (ALT) corpora for English, Japanese, Khmer and Myanmar (Burmese) languages. Enjoy! :) Link

  • 21~26-Feb-2017: Joined CREST（記号創発ロボとティクスによる人間機械コラボレーションプロジェクト）Project Implementation Camp at Shonan Village Center, Japan

  • 13-Jan-2017: Our paper entitled "Robot Language Acquisition Based on Sequence-to-Sequence Learning" has been accepted to appear at ICCA2017, Myanmar

  • 31-Oct-2016: Our paper entitled "Comparison of Grapheme–to–Phoneme Conversion Methods on a Myanmar Pronunciation Dictionary" has been accepted to appear at the WSSANLP, COLING 2016 conference

  • 12-Mar-2016: Our paper entitled "A Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Under Resourced Languages" has been accepted to appear at the SLTU 2016 workshop

  • 3-Mar-2016: Our short paper entitled "Interlocking Phrases in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation" has been accepted to appear at the NAACL HLT 2016 conference

  • 25~26-Feb-2016: Presented two papers (1. String to Tree and Tree to String Statistical Machine Translation for Myanmar Language, 2. Parsing Myanmar (Burmese) by Using Japanese as a Pivot) and gave a talk on Myanmar Word Representations in Vector Space at ICCA2016, Yangon, Myanmar

  • 11-Feb-2016: Presented one paper at SNLP2016 on A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Myanmar Language

  • 29-Dec-2015: Gave a talk on VoiceTra (brief introduction of ASR, SMT & TTS) at University of Computer Studies Taunggyi, Computer University Dawei, Computer University Myeik

  • 4-Dec-2015: Presented one paper at Khmer Natural Language Processing 2015 (KNLP 2015) on Khmer Word Segmentation Using Conditional Random Fields

  • 31-Oct-2015: Presented one paper at PACLIC 29 on A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Khmer Language

  • 23-Nov-2015: Press release of our work VoiceTra Myanmar language at University of Computer Studies Yangon (UCSY), Yangon, Myanmar

  • 9-Sept-2015: Presented one paper at INTERSPEECH 2015 on HMM Based Myanmar Text to Speech System

  • 13-July-2015 to 17-July-2015: Dr. Andrew Finch (Senior Researcher, NICT) and I gave lecture on Machine Translation Summer School 2015 at University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY)