Zar Zar Hlaing

Zar Zar Hlaing is currently working as an NLP Specialist and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from the School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand. Her research focuses on machine translation, sentiment analysis, text generation, and the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in multilingual NLP tasks. She received her B.C.Sc. and B.C.Sc. (Hons) degrees from the University of Computer Studies, Monywa, where she was awarded the Best Student Award, and her M.C.Sc. from the University of Computer Studies, Mandalay. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Language Acquisition, Text Analysis, and LLM-based applications for multilingual settings.

Education and Academic Background

Ph.D. in Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) Bangkok Thailand, August 2019 to March 2023
M.C.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Computer Studies, Mandalay (UCSM) Myanmar, December 2015 to September 2018
Postgraduate Diploma in English Course - PGDE (Advance Level), Mandalay University of Foreign Language (MUFL) Myanmar, November 2017 to November 2018
B.C.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science, University of Computer Studies, Monywa (UCS-Monywa) Myanmar, December 2013 to September 2014
B.C.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Computer Studies, Monywa (UCS-Monywa) Myanmar, December 2010 to September 2013

Professional Experience

May 2023 to Present --- Full-Time NLP Specialist, Omniscien Technologies, Asia Online Portals (Thailand) Co., Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand
January 2023 to May 2023 --- NLP Specialist (Intern), Omniscien Technologies, Asia Online Portals (Thailand) Co., Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand [During Ph.D. Studies]
August 2019 to December 2023 --- Research Assistant, School of Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)
September 2015 to June 2019 --- Developer, Bits Manager Co.,Ltd, Mandalay Myanmar

Awards

August 2019 --- KMITL Fully Funded Scholarship for Ph.D., Bangkok, Thailand
May 2014 --- Best Student Award, University of Computer Studies (UCS-Monywa) Myanmar
June 2013 --- Best Student Award, University of Computer Studies (UCS-Monywa) Myanmar

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Publications

Hlaing, Z. Z., Thu, Y. K., Supnithi, T., & Netisopakul, P. (2022). Graph-based Dependency Parser Building for Myanmar Language. 2022 17th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (ISAI-NLP), 1–6. doi: 10.1109/iSAI-NLP56921.2022.9960267
Hlaing, Z. Z., Thu, Y. K., Supnithi, T., & Netisopakul, P. (2022). Improving neural machine translation with POS-tag features for low-resource language pairs. Heliyon, 8(8), e10375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10375
Zaw, W. T., Thu, Y. K., Hlaing Z. Z., & Supnithi, T. (n.d.). English to Burmese Machine Translation with Asian Pivot Languages. Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology.
Hlaing, Z. Z., Thu, Y. K., Oo, T. M., Supnithi, T., & Netisopakul, P. (2021). Supervised Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Language Pairs: Myanmar and Thai. 2021 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (ISAI-NLP), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/iSAI-NLP54397.2021.9678157
San, M. E., Thu, Y. K., Hlaing, Z. Z., Nwe, H. M., Supnithi, T., & Usanavasin, S. (2021). A Study of Levenshtein Transformer and Editor Transformer Models for Under-Resourced Languages. 2021 16th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (ISAI-NLP), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/iSAI-NLP54397.2021.9678159
Hlaing, Z. Z., Thu, Y. K., Myint Oo, T., Ei San, M., Usanavasin, S., Netisopakul, P., & Supnithi, T. (2021). NECTEC’s Participation in WAT-2021. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2021), 74–82. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.wat-1.6
Netisopakul, P., Wohlgenannt, G., Pulich, A., & Hlaing, Z. Z. (2021). Improving the state-of-the-art in Thai semantic similarity using distributional semantics and ontological information. PLOS ONE, 16(2), e0246751. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246751
Hlaing, Z. Z., Thu, Y. K., Wai, M. M. N., Supnithi, T., & Netisopakul, P. (2020). Myanmar POS Resource Extension Effects on Automatic Tagging Methods. 2020 15th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (ISAI-NLP), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/iSAI-NLP51646.2020.9376835
Hlaing, Z. Z., Thu, Y. K., Supnithi, T., & Netisopakul, P. (2020). Increasing SMT and NMT Performance by Corpus Extension with Free Online Machine Translation Services. 2020 International Conference on Advanced Information Technologies (ICAIT), 212–217. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAIT51105.2020.9261772
Hlaing, Z. Z., & Thida, A. (2019). Myanmar Homonym Disambiguation System. Retrieved from https://onlineresource.ucsy.edu.mm/handle/123456789/1233

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