Cong-Minh Phan

My email: minhcphan17 {at} gmail.com

I'm currently an Applied Scientist at Microsoft.

I received Ph.D. and B.E. degree in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. During my Ph.D., I worked with Prof. Sun Aixin on research topics related to named entity recognition and linking with knowledge base. I'm also interested in techniques and applications in NLP and machine learning.

Publications

Journal papers:

  1. Minh C. Phan and Aixin Sun. "Collective Named Entity Recognition in User Comments via Parameterized Label Propagation", JASIST, 2019. [PDF]

  2. Minh C. Phan, Aixin Sun, Yi Tay, Jialong Han, Chenliang Li. "Pair-Linking for Collective Entity Disambiguation: Two Could Be Better Than All", IEEE TKDE, 2018. [PDF]

  3. Jialong Han, Aixin Sun, Gao Cong, Wayne Xin Zhao, Zongcheng Ji, Minh C. Phan. "Linking Fine-Grained Locations in User Comments", IEEE TKDE, 2018. [PDF]

Conference papers:

  1. Minh C. Phan, Aixin Sun, Yi Tay. "Robust Representation Learning of Biomedical Names", ACL'19. [PDF] [Pre-trained model]

  2. Yi Tay, Shuohang Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Jie Fu, Minh C. Phan, Xingdi Yuan, Jinfeng Rao, Siu Cheung Hui, Aston Zhang. "Simple and Effective Curriculum Pointer-Generator Networks for Reading Comprehension over Long Narratives", ACL'19. [PDF]

  3. Minh C. Phan and Aixin Sun. "CoNEREL: Collective Information Extraction in News Articles", SIGIR'18 (demo paper). [PDF]

  4. Yi Tay, Minh C. Phan, Luu Anh Tuan, Siu Cheung Hui. "SkipFlow: Incorporating Neural Coherence Features for End-to-End Automatic Text Scoring", AAAI'18. [PDF]

  5. Minh C. Phan, Aixin Sun, Yi Tay, Jialong Han, Chenliang Li. "NeuPL: Attention-based Semantic Matching and Pair-Linking for Entity Disambiguation", CIKM'17. [PDF]

  6. Yi Tay, Luu Anh Tuan, Minh C. Phan, Siu Cheung Hui. "Multi-task Neural Network for Non-discrete Attribute Prediction in Knowledge Graphs", CIKM'17. [PDF]

  7. Minh C. Phan, Aixin Sun, Yi Tay. "Cross-Device User Linking: URL, Session, Visiting Time, and Device-log Embedding". SIGIR'17 (short paper). [PDF]

  8. Yi Tay, Minh C. Phan, Luu Anh Tuan, Siu Cheung Hui. "Learning to Rank Question Answer Pairs with Holographic Dual LSTM Architecture", SIGIR'17. [PDF]

Professional services

Journal reviewer for Neurocomputing, Information Sciences, Information Processing and Management, Knowledge and Information Systems, IEEE TKDE, ACM TODS.

Program Committee member and reviewer for AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, ICLR, NeurIPS.

Honors and awards

  • Honorable Mention at CIKM AnalytiCup: Lazada Product Title Quality Challenge, Singapore, 2017.

  • 1st Place Winner at CIKM Cup: Cross Device User Linking Track, United States, 2016.

  • 1st Place Winner at International Supercomputer Challenge: Linpack Track, China, 2015.

  • Singapore Government Scholarship 2011-2015

  • 1st Place Winner at Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics, Vietnam, 2009.