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Papers, resources, and benchmarks

Peer-reviewed papers, manuscripts and talks on biomedical language resources, Vietnamese speech, medical machine translation, corpus linguistics and e-learning. * marks equal contribution.

2026Published

En-ViMedNER: An English-Vietnamese Parallel Biomedical Corpus with UMLS Semantic Type Annotations

Nhu Vo*, Phuong Nguyen*, Nu Uyen Phuong Le, Iñigo Jauregi Unanue, Dung D. Le, Massimo Piccardi, Wray Buntine

English–Vietnamese parallel biomedical NER corpus with UMLS semantic types and cross-lingual benchmarks. Co-first author (* equal contribution).

Findings of EMNLP 2026Biomedical NLP
2026Published

ViMedCSS: A Vietnamese Medical Code-Switching Speech Dataset & Benchmark

Tung X. Nguyen, Nhu Vo, Giang-Son Nguyen, Duy Mai Hoang, Chien Dinh Huynh, Iñigo Jauregi Unanue, Massimo Piccardi, Wray Buntine, Dung D. Le

34-hour dataset and benchmark for Vietnamese medical code-switched speech recognition: 16,576 utterances across five medical topics.

LREC 2026Cited by 4Speech · Code-switching
2026Published

PiDA: Phonetically-Informed Data Augmentation for Robust Vietnamese Speech Translation

Giang Son Nguyen, Tung X. Nguyen, Hieu Minh Truong, Nhu Vo, Wray Buntine, Dung D. Le

Phonetically informed data augmentation for robust Vietnamese speech translation.

Interspeech 2026Speech · Code-switching
2026Published

Contrastive Training with LLM-generated Near-Misses for Robust Code-Switching Speech Recognition

Tung X. Nguyen*, Hieu Minh Truong*, Giang Son Nguyen, Nhu Vo, Wray Buntine, Dung D. Le

Contrastive training with LLM-generated near-misses for robust code-switching ASR.

Interspeech 2026Speech · Code-switching
2024Published

Improving Vietnamese-English Medical Machine Translation

Nhu Vo*, Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Dung D. Le, Massimo Piccardi, Wray Buntine

Introduces MedEV (~360K medical sentence pairs); fine-tuned models beat Google Translate. Co-first author (* equal contribution). Pages 8955–8962.

LREC-COLING 2024Cited by 15Machine translation
2020Published

Text-Type Variation in Vietnamese: Corpus Mining for Linguistic Features in Narrative and Non-Narrative Genres

Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui, Dien Dinh

Corpus-based study of text-type variation in Vietnamese. Pages 221–225.

NICS 2020 (7th NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science)Corpus linguistics
2020Published

Identifying Authors Based on Stylometric Measures of Vietnamese Texts

Lam Ho, Nhu Vo, Dien Dinh, Nhung Nguyen

Authorship identification using stylometric measures of Vietnamese texts. Pages 447–452.

PACLIC 34Cited by 5Corpus linguistics
2022Published

Vietnamese Corpus Construction for Teaching Vietnamese to Foreigners

Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui, Tran Phan, Dien Dinh

Corpus construction to support teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language. Pages 13–22.

Linguistic Journal (Vietnam Institute of Linguistics), 375(1)Corpus linguistics
2019Published

Pedagogical Script: Challenges Need to Be Resolved in e-Learning

Long Le, Nhu Vo

Challenges in designing pedagogical scripts for e-learning. Pages 947–960.

HCMUE Journal of Science, 16(12)Cited by 6Education technology
2020Published

Language Sampling Criteria for Vietnamese Corpus Construction

Nhu Vo, Dien Dinh

Sampling criteria for building a representative Vietnamese corpus. Pages 26–32.

FAIR 2020 (Fundamental and Applied IT Research)Corpus linguistics
2020Published

Building Vietnamese Corpus for Dictionary Compilation

Nhu Vo, Dien Dinh

Corpus construction to support Vietnamese dictionary compilation. Pages 423–433.

Vietnamese Dictionary and Encyclopedia: Theory and PracticeCorpus linguistics
2026Under review

ViLEC: Design, Annotation, and Pedagogical Applications of a Vietnamese Learner English Corpus

Nhu Vo et al.

First author. Describes the ViLEC learner corpus: 258 documents, 267,512 words, 15,129 sentences from five courses.

SAGE OpenCorpus linguistics
2026Under review

Data-Driven Equity-Sensitive Urban Mobility Planning: LLM-Based Policy Appraisal of Ho Chi Minh City's Two-Wheeler Electrification

Co-authored with Nhu Vo

Built on the EV Shift Corpus, co-led by Nhu Vo. A human-validated LLM framework classifies 36,046 Vietnamese comments by evaluative orientation and five implementation concerns, showing how appraisal of Ho Chi Minh City's electric two-wheeler plan shifted around the July 2025 announcement.

Journal of Urban MobilityApplied NLP
2026Under review

Anti-corruption discourse across news and social media in Vietnam (2017–2025): A corpus-assisted critical analysis

Co-authored with Nhu Vo

Built on ViACS, a corpus co-led by Nhu Vo. Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of 179,391 news articles and 53,798 Facebook and YouTube comments (2017–2025), combining keyword statistics, sentiment analysis and concordance close reading.

Critical Discourse StudiesApplied NLP
2024Talk

Vietnamese-English Medical Translation AI Application to Enhance Communication between Healthcare Professionals and Patients

Wray Buntine, Le Duy Dung, Huynh Dinh Chien, Giap Thi Thanh Tinh, Nguyen Quoc Dat, Massimo Piccardi, Nhu Vo, Kieu Hai Dang

Presents the group's Vietnamese–English medical speech translation application for communication between clinicians and patients.

SHARE 2024 (Sharing About Healthcare AI REgionally), Monash UniversitySpeech · Code-switching
2022Talk

Spoken Corpus Construction

Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui

Seminar on designing and building spoken-language corpora.

FIT-HUFLIT Online Seminar SeriesCorpus linguistics
2020Talk

Vietnamese Corpus Construction for Teaching Vietnamese to Foreigners

Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui, Tran Phan, Dien Dinh

Corpus construction to support teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language.

Linguistics and Application Areas Conference, VNUHCM – University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesCorpus linguistics
2020Talk

A Quantitative Comparison of Parts of Speech Between Two Genres

Thuy Bui, Nhu Vo, Tran Phan, Dien Dinh

Corpus-based comparison of part-of-speech distributions across two Vietnamese genres.

Linguistics and Application Areas Conference, VNUHCM – University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesCorpus linguistics
2020Talk

An Investigation of Collocations Automatically Extracted from a Vietnamese Corpus

Tran Phan, Nhu Vo, Thuy Bui

Analysis of collocations extracted automatically from a Vietnamese corpus.

Linguistics and Application Areas Conference, VNUHCM – University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesCorpus linguistics
2020Talk

Applications of a Vietnamese Corpus in Stylometry Analysis

Lam Ho, Nhu Vo, Dien Dinh

Using a Vietnamese corpus for stylometric analysis and authorship study.

Linguistics and Application Areas Conference, VNUHCM – University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesCorpus linguistics
2020Talk

VVC: Vietnamese Corpus and Metadata Annotations

Nhung Nguyen, Nhu Vo, Dien Dinh

Design of the VVC Vietnamese corpus and its metadata annotation scheme.

Linguistics and Application Areas Conference, VNUHCM – University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesCorpus linguistics