Thinh Hung Truong

truonghungthinh21@gmail.com
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github.com/joey234

I'm a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. My research focus is about exploring niche capabilities of LLMs (past: negation, now: geo-spatial). I also build apps on the side, check out my `vibe-coding' projects below.

News

Jan 2025

New position

I started as a postdoc at the University of Melbourne, working with Jianzhong Qi and Jey Han Lau on spatial understanding of language models.

Education

2021—2024

University of Melbourne

Ph.D. in Engineering & IT

Advisor: Prof. Timothy Baldwin, Prof. Karin Verspoor, Prof. Trevor Cohn

Thesis: Negation understanding in NLP

2014—2018

Ho Chi Minh City University of Science

B.S. in Computer Science

Publications

NAACL 2024

Revisiting subword tokenization: A case study on affixal negation in large language models

Thinh Hung Truong, Yulia Otmakhova, Karin Verspoor, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin

Paper Code

We study the effect of subword tokenization on the understanding of affixal negation in large language models.

Language models are not naysayers: An analysis of language models on negation benchmarks

*SEM 2023

🏆 Best Paper Award

Language models are not naysayers: An analysis of language models on negation benchmarks

Thinh Hung Truong, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor, Trevor Cohn

Paper Code

We benchmark negation understanding capabilities of LLMs.

Not another Negation Benchmark: The NaN-NLI Test Suite for Sub-clausal Negation

AACL 2022

🏆 Best Paper Award - Runner Up

Not another Negation Benchmark: The NaN-NLI Test Suite for Sub-clausal Negation

Thinh Hung Truong, Yulia Otmakhova, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn, Jey Han Lau, Karin Verspoor

Paper Code

We introduce a new benchmark for sub-clausal negation, where negation is not at the clause level.

Experience

2022-2024

Teaching Assistant — University of Melbourne

Supervisor: Prof. Mike Conway

Head tutor for the course NLP for Health

2020-2021

Research Intern — VinAI Research

Supervisor: Dr. Dat Quoc Nguyen

Worked on creating new resources for Vietnamese NLP

Misc.

I was born and raised in Vietnam. Every Vietnamese name has a meaning and mine is 'flourish'. Vietnamese food is the best. Consider having a bowl of Pho or Bun Bo Hue for your next meal!

When we achieve AGI, I hope I can still at least be a musician.

I play too much video games (mostly JRPGs). Though I have to say League of Legends is my favorite game of all time and I have invested most of my life (!) playing and following its e-sports scene.