Talks
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-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: Give 4 hours lecture entitled "Fundamentals of ASR and TTS" to SIIT, Thailand undergrad students.
I gave a keynote talk (online) at the ONA 2021, 16-17 Dec, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on "Five Projects in 2021: myPOS, myWord, sylbreak4All, KidBright4Myanmar and myTTS".
I gave an invited talk (online) entitled "Natural Language Processing R&D for Myanmar" for YTU students' Union, 26th Jan 2021.
I gave a keynote talk (online) at the ONA 2020, 17-18 December, Phonom Penh, Cambodia on "The Three Important Corpora for Myanmar NLP R&D", 17th Dec 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 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 a keynote speech entitled "NLP R&D for Languages of Myanmar" at the ONA 2019 Conference, 19-20 December, MPTC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I gave a lecture entitled "NLP for Myanmar" at the Hands-on AI and Machine Learning, Nov 30 to Dec 1, UIT, Yangon, Myanmar
Ye Kyaw Thu, "AI in Myanmar" at MLRS2019, DEPA, Bangkok, Thailand (11 Aug 2019)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Natural Language Processing R&D for Myanmar language" at ICCA2019, Yangon, Myanmar (28 Feb 2019)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Deep Learning for Myanmar Sign Language Processing" at the Ninth International Conference on Science and Engineering, 2018, Yangon Technological University (YTU), Yangon, Myanmar (8 Dec 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Statistical Vs. Neural Machine Translation" at the Conference on Science and Technology Development 2018, Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar (31 Oct 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "NLP for Myanmar Languages" at the 79th Anniversary of Ashin U Ottama Day and Literature Talk, Singapore (28 Oct 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "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 (19 Sept 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language" at University of Computer Studies (Mandalay), Ta Ohn Village Group, Sint Kaing Township, Kyaut Se District, Mandalay Region, Myanmar (21 Aug 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Deep Learning Summer School" at University of Technology, Yatanarpon Cyber City (UT-YCC), Pyinoolwin, Myanmar (20-25 May 2018)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Myanmar Language" at PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar (16 Aug 2017)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "HCI, NLP, AI & y" at University of Computer Studies Mandalay (UCSM), Mandalay, Myanmar (4 May 2017)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "HCI, NLP, AI & y" at University of Technology, Yatanarpon Cyber City (UT-YCC), Pyinoolwin, Myanmar (2 May 2017)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Robot Language Acquisition Based on Sequence-to-Sequence Learning", at 2017 International Conference for Leading and Young Computer Scientists (IC-LYCS 2017), Okinawa, Japan (27 Feb 2017)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Parsing with Little Languages", at 7th Workshop on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICCA2017, Yangon, Myanmar (16 Feb 2017)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Challenges of Natural Language Processing Research for Under-Resourced Languages, using Myanmar Language as an Example", at KNLP2016, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (12 Dec 2016)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Myanmar Word Representations in Vector Space", at 6th NLP Workshop, ICCA2016, Yangon, Myanmar (25 Feb 2016)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Machine Translation of VoiceTra App", at BarCamp 2016, Yangon, Myanmar (31 Jan 2016)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "VoiceTra Speech to Speech Translation App for Myanmar Language" at University of Computer Studies Taunggyi (17th Dec 2015), Computer University Dawei (22nd Dec 2015) and Computer University Myeik (23 Dec 2015)
Ye Kyaw Thu, "A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Myanmar Language", (DevCon2015 Yangon), November 21~22, 2015, MICT Park, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Introduction to SCRATCH (Myanmar Version)", The Sixth Conference on Parallel & Soft Computing (PSC), Dec 29, 2011, University of Computer Studies, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "携帯機器におけるアジア音節言語共通のユーザーフレンドリーな文字入力インターフェース", Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation (AISF) Kenkyuu Hokokukai 2009, March 6, 2010, Kajima Shinkan, Tokyo, Japan.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Prototyping with Pictures & Mobile Devices", Young Scholars’ Programme of the Asiatic Society of Japan, November 16, 2009, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen, Tokyo.
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Introduction to Concepts of Positional Mapping (PM), Positional Gesture (PG) and Positional Prediction (PP) for Asian Syllabic Languages on Mobile Devices", Waseda University Doctoral Student Network Meeting, December 2, 2008, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. [WUDSN-poster]
Ye Kyaw Thu, "Keyboard Mapping and Text Input Interfaces of Asian Languages Based on Word Formation", Myanmar Language Processing Workshop, June 9, 2008, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan.