Publications and Patents

2022

  • H. Yeo, E. Khorasani, V. Sheinin, I. Manotas, NPA. Vo, O. Popescu, and P. Zerfos. Natural Language Interface for Process Mining Queries in Healthcare. Big Data 2022 (BDA4HM).

  • NPA. Vo, I. Manotas, O. Popescu, H. Yeo, E. Khorasani, and V. Sheinin. Tackling Temporal Questions in Natural Language Interface to Databases. EMNLP 2022 (Industry Track).

  • O. Popescu, I. Manotas, NPA. Vo, H. Yeo, E. Khorasani, and V. Sheinin. Addressing Limitations of Encoder-Decoder Based Approach to Text-to-SQL. COLING 2022.

  • Clause Extraction Using Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing. (US Patent App. 17/219,030)

2021

  • H. Yeo, E. Khorasani, V. Sheinin, NPA. Vo, O. Popescu, and P. Zerfos. Programmatic Database Language Generation for Big Data Applications. Big Data 2021 (KDDBHI).

  • NPA. Vo, I. Manotas, O. Popescu, A. Černiauskas, and V. Shenin. Recognizing and Splitting Conditional Sentences for Automation of Business Processes Management . RANLP 2021.

2020

  • NPA. Vo, I. Manotas, V. Shenin, and O. Popescu. Identifying Motion Entities in Natural Language and A Case Study for Named Entity Recognition. COLING 2020.

  • I. Manotas, NPA. Vo, V. Shenin. LiMiT: The Literal Motion in Text Dataset. EMNLP 2020 (Findings).

2019

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu, V. Shenin, E. Khorasani, and H. Yeo. A Natural Language Interface Supporting Complex Logic Questions for Relational Databases. NLDB 2019.

  • O. Popescu, NPA. Vo, V. Sheinin, E. Khorasani, and H. Yeo. Tackling Complex Queries to Relational Databases. ACIIDS 2019.

2018

  • O. Popescu, NPA. Vo, V. Sheinin. A Large Resource of Patterns for Verbal Paraphrases. LREC 2018.

  • V. Sheinin, E. Khorashani, H. Yeo, K. Xu, NPA. Vo, and O. Popescu. QUEST: A Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases. LREC 2018.

  • Method and System for Identifying User Issues in Forum Posts based on Discourse Analysis. (US Patent 10,120,864)

  • Semantic Search in Document Review on a Tangible User Interface. (US Patent App. 15/407,507)

2017

  • NPA. Vo, C. Privault, F. Guillot. Experimenting Word Embeddings in Assisting Legal Review. ICAIL 2017.

2016

  • NPA. Vo, C. Privault, F. Guillot. DISCO: A System Leveraging Semantic Search in Document Review. COLING 2016.

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. A Multi-layer System for Semantic Textual Similarity. KDIR 2016. (Finalist for Best Paper Award)

  • S. Magnolini, NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. Analysis of the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity. AI*IA 2016.

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. Corpora for Learning the Mutual Relationship between Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment. LREC 2016.

  • NPA. Vo. Contributions to Semantic Textual Similarity Algorithms. PhD Thesis. University of Trento.

  • A. Sandor, N. Lagos, NPA. Vo, C. Brun. Identifying User Issues and Request Types in Forum Question Posts based on Discourse Analysis. WWW 2016 (Q4ASP).

2015

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment via Corpus Patterns. CLIN 26 (Poster).

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. Learning the Impact and Behavior of Syntactic Structure: A Case Study in Semantic Textual Similarity. RANLP 2015.

  • S. Magnolini, NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. Learning the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity. RANLP 2015.

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu. A Preliminary Evaluation of the Impact of Syntactic Structure in Semantic Textual Similarity and Semantic Relatedness Tasks. NAACL 2015 (SRW).

  • NPA. Vo, S. Magnolini, O. Popescu. Paraphrase Identification and Semantic Similarity in Twitter with Simple Features. NAACL 2015 (SocialNLP).

  • NPA. Vo, S. Magnolini, O. Popescu. FBK-HLT: A New Framework for Semantic Textual Similarity. NAACL 2015 (SemEval).

  • NPA. Vo, S. Magnolini, O. Popescu. FBK-HLT: An Effective System for Paraphrase Identification and Semantic Similarity in Twitter. NAACL 2015 (SemEval).

  • NPA. Vo, S. Magnolini, O. Popescu. FBK-HLT: An Application of Semantic Textual Similarity for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering. NAACL 2015 (SemEval).

2014

  • O. Popescu, NPA. Vo, A. Feltracco, E. Jezek and B. Magnini. Towards Disambiguating Typed Predicate- Argument Structures for Italian. CliC-it 2014.

  • O. Popescu, NPA. Vo. Fast and Accurate Misspelling Correction in Large Corpora. EMNLP 2014.

  • NPA. Vo, C. Tommaso, O. Popescu. FBK-TR: Applying SVM with Multiple Linguistic Features for Cross-Level Semantic Similarity. COLING 2014 (SemEval).

  • NPA. Vo, O. Popescu, T. Caselli. FBK-TR: SVM for Semantic Relatedeness and Corpus Patterns for RTE. COLING 2014 (SemEval).