Thinh Hung Truong
Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
I'm a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. My research focus is about exploring unconventional capabilities of LLMs (past: negation, now: geo-spatial).
News
Mar 2025
New preprint
FLUKE: A Linguistically-Driven and Task-Agnostic Framework for Robustness Evaluation
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
University of Melbourne
Ph.D. in Engineering & IT
Advisor: Prof. Timothy Baldwin, Prof. Karin Verspoor, Prof. Trevor Cohn
Thesis: Negation understanding in NLP
Ho Chi Minh City University of Science
B.S. in Computer Science
Publications
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
We introduce a new benchmark for sub-clausal negation, where negation is not at the clause level.
Experience
Research Fellow — University of Melbourne
Supervisor: Prof. Jianzhong Qi, Dr. Jey Han Lau
Work on LLM and geospatial understanding
Teaching Assistant — University of Melbourne
Supervisor: Prof. Mike Conway
Head tutor for the course NLP for Health
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.
Portfolio
Name translator
A tool for finding ``equivalent names'' (similar in meaning or pronunciation) in other languages.