Hwee Tou Ng
Hwee Tou Ng studies natural language processing, including semantic analysis, language generation and evaluations of language systems. Ng earned a computer science degree from Toronto in 1985, a master’s from Stanford in 1987 and a doctorate from Texas at Austin in 1992. His research field is natural language processing. He holds an NUS appointment. Ng served as editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics from July 2018 to January 2024. He also edited TALIP from May 2007 to May 2013.
- Works
- 230
- Citations
- 14,483
- h-index
- 62
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1985–1992
Computing degrees
Ng earned a computer science degree from Toronto in 1985, a master’s from Stanford in 1987 and a doctorate from Texas at Austin in 1992. His research field is natural language processing. He holds an NUS appointment.
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2004–2007
Semantic and text benchmarks
His team participated in multilingual lexical tasks at Senseval in 2004, Chinese word segmentation in 2005 and English word-sense tasks at SemEval in 2007.
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2010–2012
Translation evaluation and grammatical errors
Ng’s team used TESLA-family translation evaluation metrics in WMT 2010 and 2011. The team also worked on HOO grammatical error detection and correction tasks in 2011 and 2012. These activities connect the program to measuring translation and improving written language.
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2018–2024
Editing computational linguistics research
Ng served as editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics from July 2018 to January 2024. He also edited TALIP from May 2007 to May 2013.
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