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CSIRO at TREC Clinical Decision Support Track

Published in In the proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2017) Proceedings, 2016

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Recommended citation: Sarvnaz Karimi, Sara Falamaki, Vincent Nguyen, "CSIRO at TREC Clinical Decision Support Track." In the proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2017) Proceedings, 2016.

CSIRO at 2017 TREC Precision Medicine Track

Published in In the proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2017) Proceedings, 2017

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Recommended citation: Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Sara Falamaki, Diego Molla, Cecile Paris, Stephen Wan, "CSIRO at 2017 TREC Precision Medicine Track." In the proceedings of The Twenty-Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2017) Proceedings, 2017.

A2A: Benchmark Your Clinical Decision Support Search

Published in In the proceedings of The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018

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Recommended citation: Sarvnaz Karimi, Vincent Nguyen, Falk Scholer, Brian Jin, Sara Falamaki, "A2A: Benchmark Your Clinical Decision Support Search." In the proceedings of The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2018. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3209978.3210166

Investigating the Effect of Lexical Segmentation in Transformer-based Models on Medical Datasets

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the The 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2019

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Recommended citation: Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing, "Investigating the Effect of Lexical Segmentation in Transformer-based Models on Medical Datasets." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the The 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2019. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/U19-1022

Pandemic Literature Search: Finding Information on COVID-19

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2020

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Recommended citation: Vincent Nguyen, Maciek Rybinski, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing, "Pandemic Literature Search: Finding Information on COVID-19." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2020. https://aclanthology.org/2020.alta-1.11

Combining Shallow and Deep Representations for Text-Pair Classification

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2021

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Recommended citation: Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Zhenchang Xing, "Combining Shallow and Deep Representations for Text-Pair Classification." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2021. https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.7

Cross-Domain Language Modeling: An Empirical Investigation

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2021

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Recommended citation: Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Maciej Rybinski, Zhenchang Xing, "Cross-Domain Language Modeling: An Empirical Investigation." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2021. https://aclanthology.org/2021.alta-1.22

A Self-Learning Resource-Efficient Re-Ranking Method for Clinical Trials Search

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023

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Recommended citation: Maciej Rybinski, Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, "A Self-Learning Resource-Efficient Re-Ranking Method for Clinical Trials Search." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3615174

MedRedQA for Medical Consumer Question Answering: Dataset, Tasks, and Neural Baselines

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

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Recommended citation: Vincent Nguyen, Sarvnaz Karimi, Maciej Rybinski, Zhenchang Xing, "MedRedQA for Medical Consumer Question Answering: Dataset, Tasks, and Neural Baselines." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023. https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.42

Exploring Instructive Prompts for Large Language Models in the Extraction of Evidence for Supporting Assigned Suicidal Risk Levels

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2024), 2024

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Recommended citation: Jiyu Chen, Vincent Nguyen, Xiang Dai, Diego Molla-Aliod, Cecile Paris, Sarvnaz Karimi, "Exploring Instructive Prompts for Large Language Models in the Extraction of Evidence for Supporting Assigned Suicidal Risk Levels." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2024), 2024. https://aclanthology.org/2024.clpsych-1.17

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INFO1110 Academic Tutor

Undergraduate course, University of Sydney, Computer Science, 2018

INFO1110 (Introduction to Programming) Academic Tutor Semester 1

Tutored 2 classes on Wednesday 1-3 PM and Friday 8-10 AM every week for semester 1 in Python Fundamentals.

INFO1110/INFO1113 Academic Tutor

Undergraduate course, University of Sydney, Computer Science, 2018

INFO1110 (Introduction to Programming) Academic Tutor Semester 2

Tutored 1 class on Tuesday 10-1 PM every week for semester 2 in Python Fundamentals. These fundamentals include: iterators, classes, for/while loops, generators, packaging, programming idioms, functional programming and numpy.

INFO1113 Academic Tutor

Undergraduate course, University of Sydney, Computer Science, 2019

INFO1113 (Object Oriented Programming) Academic Tutor Summer School

Tutored 1 class on Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10 - 1 every week for Summer School in Object Oriented Design fundamentals in Java. These fundamentals include: design patterns, polymorphism, class hierarchy, functional lambdas, abstract classes/interfaces and stream API.

Master’s Student Supervisor

Master's Project, Australian National University, Computer Science, 2020

Supervised two masters students on their master’s project during my PhD candidature.

INFO1110 Academic Tutor

Undergraduate course, University of Sydney, Computer Science, 2020

INFO1110 (Introduction to Programming) Academic Tutor Semester 1

Tutored a class of students online during the COVID-19 pandemic

Summer Student Supervision

Summer Internship Superivison, CSIRO, Marsfield, 2024

Supervised five summer internships on various NLP topics such as question answering, positive unlabelled learning, counterfactual learning and hallucination reduction using LLMs.