Research interests

I am interested in Natural Language Processing. Currently, I am working on these topics:

 •  Automatically creating multilingual lexical resources such as dictionaries, Wordnets and corpora for languages with low resources (e.g., Arabic and Vietnamese), resource-poor (e.g., Assamese) and endangered (e.g., Dimasa, Karbi and Tai Daeng) from freely available resources.

 •  Generating question and answer pairs from input documents.

Education

2011- 2015 (expected):
PhD in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.

2008-2009:
Masters in Information Technology at Ewha Women University, Seoul, Korea.

2000-2005:
Bachelors in Computer Science at CanTho University, CanTho, Vietnam.

Publications

 •  Khang N. Lam, Feras A. Tarouti and Jugal Kalita. 2014. Automatically constructing Wordnet synsets. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 106-111, Baltimore, USA, June.

 •  Khang N. Lam, Feras A. Tarouti and Jugal Kalita. 2014. Creating Lexical Resources for Endangered Languages. In Proceedings of the Workshop on The use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages (ComputEL), pages 54-62, Baltimore, USA, June. Association for Computational Linguistics.

 •  Khang Nhut Lam. 2014. Automatically creating multilingual lexical resources. To appear at the Doctoral Consortium at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Quebec, Canada, July.

 •  Khang N. Lam and Jugal Kalita. 2013. Creating reverse bilingual dictionaries. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), pages 524-528, Atlanta, USA, June.

 •  Khang N. Lam and Jugal Kalita. 2014. Automatically creating new bilingual dictionaries: a survey. Submitted to Natural Language Engineering on July 3rd.

Awards

 •  2014: Graduate Fellowship Award for Outstanding Graduate Students from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.

 •  2014: Student Travel Award, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore, USA.

 •  2014: Student Travel Award, the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14), Quebec, Canada.

 •  2013: Graduate Fellowship Award for Outstanding Graduate Students from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.

 •  2011-2015: Graduate Fellowship package awarded from the Vietnam International Educational Development (VIED) of the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

 •  2008-2009: Full scholarship package awarded, "ACE Scholarship", of Interdisciplinary Program of Technology and Development Program (IPTD Program) for Master studies in Engineering and Science Department at Ewha Women University.

 •  2003-2005: "A-Class" scholarship for students with highest academic results from the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam for three consecutive years.

 •  2002-2005: Monthly stipend from an Educational NGO in Vietnam for academically gifted students.