Prof. Tru Hoang Cao, PhD

 

 

 

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Research Interests:

Healthcare Informatics, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Text and Web Analytics,
Social Media Intelligence, and Intelligent Database Systems.

Projects:

2015-2017 (Principal Member): Developing Core Technologies for
Mining Electronic Medical Records for Health Care and Medical Research.
This is a national university key project funded by Vietnam National University at
Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM).

2012-2014 (Principal Investigator): Wikipedia-Based Entity Disambiguation.
This is a national university key project funded by Vietnam National University at
Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM).

2010-2012 (Principal Investigator): Information Processing on Semantic Web and
Applications.
This is a World Bank University Education project.

2007-2009 (Principal Investigator): Information Extraction and Integration on
Vietnamese Semantic Web.
This is a national university key project funded by Vietnam National University at
Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM).

2006-2008: Advanced Methods for Knowledge Representation and
Integration with Applications.
This is a joint research project with the Knowledge Science School, JAIST, Japan and
the AI Group, University of Bristol, UK.

2004-2006 (Principal Investigator): Vietnamese Semantic Web.
This is a national key project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

2003-2004 (Principal Investigator): Concept-Based Information Retrieval.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

2003-2004 (Principal Investigator): Top-Down Approach to Source Code
Plagiarism Detection.
The project is funded by HCMC University of Technology.

1999-2001: Fuzzy Object-Oriented Logic Programming.
Developed a theoretical framework for uncertain and fuzzy object-oriented models.
On this formal basis FRIL++ was implemented as an uncertain and fuzzy object-oriented
logic programming language to be used for constructing intelligent systems. In particular,
it was used to develop a fuzzy object-oriented data browser software module.
The project was funded by EPSRC and carried out with Bristol AI Group.

Professional Service:

Editoral Board Member:
Oxford Journal of Intelligent Decision and Data Science.

International Journal of Fuzzy Set Valued Analysis.

Journal of Computer Science and Communication Engineering.

Steering Committee Member:
The Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD, 2015-2017).

The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI, 2006-present).

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL, 2007-2010).

IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future (IEEE-RIVF, 2009-present).

General Co-Chair:
The 3rd Asian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS'2014, December 01-03, Nha Trang, Vietnam).

The 6th Asian Conference on Machine Learning
(ACML'2014, November 26-28, Nha Trang, Vietnam).

The 8th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future -
in Computing and Communications Technologies
(RIVF'2010, November 01-04, Ha Noi, Vietnam).

Program Committee Co-Chair:
The 12th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation, and
Vision for the Future - in Computing and Communications Technologies
(RIVF'2016, November 07-09, Ha Noi, Vietnam).

The 19 th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD'2015, May 19-22, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

The 16th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
(PACIS'2012, July 11-15, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation, and
Vision for the Future - in Computing and Communications Technologies
(RIVF'2009, July 13-17, Da Nang, Vietnam).

The 1st Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems
(ACIIDS'2009, April 01-03, Quang Binh, Vietnam).

The 6th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation, and
Vision for the Future - in Computing and Communications Technologies
(RIVF'2008, July 13-17, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

The 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries
(ICADL'2007, December 10-13, Ha Noi, Vietnam).

Workshop Co-Chair:
The 1st International Workshop on Services and Agents,
in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Principles and
Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
(ServAgents'2010, November 12, Kolkata, India).

Tutorial Co-Chair:
The 15th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI'2018)

The 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI'2008, December 15-19, Ha Noi, Vietnam).

The 5th IEEE-RIVF Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies
(RIVF 2007)

Program/Technical Committee Member (151):
The 2019 Asia Pacific Web (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM)
Joint Conference on Web and Big Data
(APWEB-WAIM'2019, August 01-03, Chengdu, China).

The 23th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD'2019, April 14-17, Macau, China).

The 2019 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Social Network and
Media Analysis Track
(SAC-SONAMA'2019, April 08-12, Limassol, Cyprus).

The 11th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems
(ACIIDS'2019, April 08-11, Yogyakarta, Indonesia).

The 2019 International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modeling and
Decision Making
(IUKM'2019, March 27-29, Nara, Japan).

The 13th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future -
in Computing and Communication Technologies
(RIVF'2019, March 20-22, Da Nang, Vietnam)

The 6th International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing
(BigComp'2019, February 27-March 02, Kyoto, Japan).

Full List of Conferences/Workshops

External Reviewer:
The 6th International Conference on Conceptual Structures
(ICCS'98, August 10-12, Montpellier, France).

Journal Reviewer:
Data and Knowledge Engineering
The Computer Journal
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Mathematical Reviews
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems
Journal of Web Semantics
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
Applied Clinical Informatics Journal

Talks:

Development of Core Technologies for Exploiting Electronic Medical Records
in Vietnam.
Invited Talk at the Genesis Workshop in conjunction with the Joint 4th International
Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering and 29th Modern Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science Conference
(ISASE-MAICS 2018, USA)

Entity Recognition for Intelligent Information Management.
Invited Talk at the 10th ACM International Conference on
Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
(IMCOM'2016, January 04-06, Da Nang, Vietnam).

Fusing Conceptual Graphs and Fuzzy Logic: Towards the Structure and
Expressiveness of Natural Language.
Invited Talk at the International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in
Knowledge Modeling and Decision Making
(IUKM'2011, October 28-30, Hangzhou, China).

Named Entity-Centred Information Processing.
Invited Talk at the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge, Information and
Creativity Support Systems
(KICSS'2008, December 22-23, 2008, Ha Noi, Vietnam).

Seminar at Information and Data Management Group, Department of Computer Science,
University of California, Los Angeles (November 07, 2008).

Seminar at Intelligent Systems Division, Information Sciences Institute,
University of Southern California (November 03, 2008).

Publications (135):

Books

Cao, T.H. (2010), Conceptual Graphs and Fuzzy Logic:
A Fusion for Representing and Reasoning with Linguistic Information.
Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 306, Springer-Verlag.
(First paperback version: 2012)

From the reviews: "This research monograph is devoted to the idea of
fuzzy conceptual graphs, their analysis, algorithms and applications.
... One of the outstanding features of the monograph is a formal and
systematic coverage of the fundamental concepts. Overall, the book
can serve as a valuable, well-structured reference book for all
those interested in the effective representation and processing of
fuzzy information." (Witold Pedrycz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1208, 2011)
 

Encyclopedia Articles

Cao, T.H. (2008), Fuzzy and Probabilistic Object-Oriented Databases.
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd Edition, IGI Global,
1601-1611.

Edited Books

Cao, T.H. & Ho, Y.-S. (Eds) (2016),
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and
Communication Technologies - Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future,
IEEE Xplore.

Cao, T.H. & Lim, E.P. & Zhou, Z.H. & Ho, B.T. & Cheung, D. &
Motoda, H. (Eds) (2015),
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Proceedings of the
19th Pacific-Asia Conference in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
LNAI 9077 and LNAI 9078, Springer-Verlag.

Li X.-L. & Cao, T.H. & Lim, E.P. & Zhou, Z.H. & Ho, B.T. &
Cheung, D. & Motoda, H. (Eds) (2015),
Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
Proceedings of the PAKDD 2015 Workshops, LNAI 9441, Springer-Verlag.

Pan, S.L. & Cao, T.H. (Eds) (2012),
Proceedings of the 16th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems,
AIS Electronic Library.

Cao, T.H. & Kutsche, R.-D. & Demaille, A. (Eds) (2009),
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and
Communication Technologies - Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future,
IEEE Xplore.

Cao, T.H. & Ho, B.T. (Eds) (2008),
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and
Communication Technologies - Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future,
IEEE Xplore.

Goh, D.H.-L. & Cao, T.H. & Solvberg, I. & Rasmussen, E.M. (Eds) (2007),
Asian Digital Libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers.
Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, LNCS 4822,
Springer-Verlag.

Journal Special Issues

Li, H. & Phung, D. & Cao, T.H. & Ho, B.T. & Zhou, Z.H. (Eds) (2016),
Special Issue of Selected Papers from ACML 2014, Machine Learning, 103 (2).

Ho, B.T. & Bellot, P. & Cao, T.H. (Eds) (2012),
Advances in Information and Knowledge Systems,
Special Issue of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 3 (4).

Book Chapters, Journal and Conference Papers

Cao, T.H. & Nguyen, H. & Inoue, A. & Zhou, D.(2019), A Probabilistic
Relational Database Model with Fuzzy Attribute Values in Clinical Texts.
In Proc. of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. To appear.

Vo, C.T.N. & Cao, T.H. (2019), Incremental Abbreviation Detection
in Clinical Texts.
In Proc. of the IEEE Joint 8th International Conference on Informatics,
Electronics and Vision & 3rd International Conference on Imaging, Vision and
Pattern Recognition. To appear.

Vo, C. & Cao, T.H. & Doan, N. & Tu, S. & Nguyen, A. & Nguyen, B. & Ho, B. (2019),
EMRVisualization for Patient Progress Tracking: Interface Design and
System Implementation.
International Journal of Affective Engineering. To appear.

Vo, C. & Cao, T.H. & Ho, B. (2018), Abbreviation Detection in Vietnamese
Clinical Texts.
VNU Journal of Science: Computer Science and Communication Engineering,
34 (2), 44-60.

Nguyen, H.D. & Cao, T.H. (2018),Coreference Resolution in Vietnamese
Electronic Medical Records.
VNU Journal of Science: Computer Science and Communication Engineering,
34 (2), 33- 43.

Cao, T.H. & Nguyen, A.D. & Dinh, T.Q. & Luong, Q.C. & Diep, H.T. (2018),
Forecasting Dengue Incidences: Statistical and Dynamic Models.
Oxford Journal of Intelligent Decision and Data Science, 1-13.

Vo, C.T.N. & Duong, D. & Nguyen, D. & Cao, T.H. (2018), From Helpfulness
Prediction to Helpful Review Retrieval for Online Product Reviews.
In Proc. of the 9th International Symposium on Information and Communication
Technology, ACM ICPS, pp. 38-45.

Cao, T.H. & Vo, C.T.N. & Nguyen S.T. & Inoue, A. & Zhou, D. (2018),
A Kernel k-Means-based Method for Diabetes Diagnosis.
In Proc. of the Joint 4th International Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering,
and 29th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference.

Vo, C. & Cao, T.H. & Doan N. & Tu S. & Nguyen, A. & Nguyen, B. & Ho B. (2018),
Electronic Medical Record Visualization for Patient Progress Tracking.
In Proc. of the Joint 4th International Symposium on Affective Science and Engineering,
and 29th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference.

Nguyen, L. & Cao, T.H. (2018), Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for
Information Retrieval in Medicine Using Genetic Algorithms.
In Proc. of the 10th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and
Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 10752, pp. 1-10.

Nguyen, D.T. & Nguyen, L.D.P. & Cao, T.H. (2017),
Sentiment Analysis on Medical Text Using Combination of
Machine Learning and SO-CAL Scoring.
In Proc. of the 21st Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and
Evolutionary Systems, IEEE, pp. 49-54.

Vo, C.T.N. & Cao, T.H. & Ho, B.T. (2016),
Abbreviation Identification in Clinical Notes with Level-wise
Feature Engineering and Supervised Learning.
In Proc. of the 14th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and
Acquisition for Intelligent Systems (in conjunction with PRICAI 2016),
LNAI 9806, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-15

Dinh, T.Q. & Le, H.V. & Cao, T.H. & Luong, Q.C. & Diep, H.T. (2016),
Forecasting the Magnitude of Dengue in Southern Vietnam.
In Proc. of the 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems
(ACIIDS'2016, March 14-16, Da Nang, Vietnam), 554-563.

Pham, M.T.X. & Cao, T.H. & Huynh, H.M. (2016), Candidate Searching and
Key Coreference Resolution for Wikification.
In Proc. of the 10th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information
Management and Communication
(IMCOM'2016, January 04-06, Da Nang, Vietnam), 1-5.

Tran, V.Q. & Cao. T.H. (2015), Linking Online Dictionaries to Wikipedia.
In Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and
Vision for the Future - in Computing and Communication Technologies
(RIVF'2015, January 25-28, Can Tho, Vietnam), 30-34.

Nguyen, T.L.T. & Cao, T.H. (2014), Multi-group-based User Perceptions for
Friend Recommendation in Social Networks.
In Proc. of the 14th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and
Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, part of PRICAI'2014
(PKAW'2014, December 01-02, Gold Coast, Australia),
Springer-Verlag, 525-534.

Dong, D.T. & Cao, T.H. (2014), Improvement of Vietnamese
Text Classification by Class Frequency Term Weighting.
In Proc. of the 3rd Asian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS'2014, December 01-03, Nha Trang, Vietnam).

Bui, N.T.N. & Cao, T.H. (2014), A Method for Vietnamese Opinion Mining.
In Proc. of the 3rd Asian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS'2014, December 01-03, Nha Trang, Vietnam).

Tran, T. & Cao, T.H. (2013), Automatic Detection of Outdated Information in
Wikipedia Infoboxes.
Research in Computing Science, 70, 211-222.

Tran, T. & Cao, T.H. (2013), A Hybrid Method for Detecting
Outdated Information in Wikipedia Infoboxes.
In Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and
Vision for the Future - in Computing and Communication Technologies
(RIVF'2013, November 10-13, Ha Noi, Vietnam), 97-102.

Huynh, H.M. & Nguyen, T.T. & Cao, T.H. (2013), Using Coreference and
Surrounding Contexts for Entity Linking. Best Paper Award.
In Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and
Vision for the Future - in Computing and Communication Technologies
(RIVF'2013, November 10-13, Ha Noi, Vietnam), 1-5.

Nguyen, H.K. & Cao, T.H. (2013), Using Core Phrases and
Information Features for Keyphrase Extraction.
In Proc. of the 2nd Asian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS'2013, October 31-November 02, Phuket, Thailand), 291-296.

Nguyen, T.K. & Cao, T.H. (2013), Exploiting WordNet for
Wikipedia-Based Named Entity Disambiguation.
In Proc. of the 2nd Asian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS'2013, October 31-November 02, Phuket, Thailand), 275-281.

Pham, N. & Cao, T.H. (2013), A Spatio-Temporal Profiling Model for
Person Identification.
In Proc. of the 5th Knowledge and Systems Engineering
(KSE'2013, October 17-19, Ha Noi, Vietnam), 285-294.

Truong, L.M. & Cao, T.H. & Dinh, D. (2013), Towards Vietnamese
Entity Disambiguation.
In Proc. of the 5th Knowledge and Systems Engineering
(KSE'2013, October 17-19, Ha Noi, Vietnam), 285-294.

Tran, T. & Cao, T.H. (2013), Automatic Detection of Outdated Information in
Wikipedia Infoboxes.
In Poster Presentations at the 14th International Conference on
Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
(CICLING'2013, March 24-30, Samos, Greece).

Full List of Papers

Theses:

Cao, T.H. (1999), Foundations of Order-Sorted Fuzzy Set Logic Programming in
Predicate Logic and Conceptual Graphs.
PhD Thesis, University of Queensland.

Cao, T.H. (1995), Fuzzy Conceptual Graph Programs.
Master's Thesis, Asian Institute of Technology.

Technical Reports:

Cao, T.H. & Creasy, P.N. (1998), A Sound and Complete Proof Procedure for
Fuzzy Conceptual Graph Programs.
Tech. Report 438, Department of CS&EE, University of Queensland, Australia.

Cao, T.H. & Creasy, P.N. (1997), Fuzzy Conceptual Graph Programs and Their
Fixpoint Semantics.
Tech. Report 424, Department of CS&EE, University of Queensland, Australia.

Cao, T.H. (1997), Annotated Fuzzy Logic Programs and Their Declarative Semantics.
Tech. Report 415, School of Info. Tech., University of Queensland, Australia.

Cao, T.H. (1997), Fuzzy Conceptual Graph Programs for Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning.
Tech. Report 400, School of Info. Tech., University of Queensland, Australia.

Cao, T.H. & Creasy, P.N. (1996), Towards a More Powerful Conceptual Graph Language.
Tech. Report 379, Department of Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia.

Cao, T.H. & Creasy, P.N. (1996), Conceptual Graph Revision.
Tech. Report 376, Department of Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia.

Sites of Interest:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Knowledge Representation (KR, Inc.)
Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI)
Conceptual Structures Home Page
Description Logics
Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)