About me
I am a Dutch graduate student in Computer Science at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in research that considers everything a computer is still not capable to do as well as humans. In particular, I am interested in Algorithms, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning.
I have completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Twente University in the Netherlands. In the first year of my bachelor, I won the Young Talent Award 2006. In 2007, I was a member of the winning team in the local Algorithm Programming Contest. During the last year of my bachelor, I have been involved in the European projects MESH and SEMAINE.
In 2008, I attended Utrecht University, where I studied Applied Computing Science. Here I have been doing research in the area of Algorithms, more specific in local search techniques for constructing branch decompositions. Furthermore, I worked at a company that is specialized in search technology.
Publications
D. Nguyen, A. Overwijk: Extracting an ontology of persons from Wikipedia. At 11th Intl. Protègé Conference, Amsterdam, 2009 (poster presentation).
D. Nguyen, A. Overwijk, C.Hauff, R.B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra, F.M.G. de Jong: WikiTranslate: Query Translation for Cross-lingual Information Retrieval using only Wikipedia. In: Proceedings CLEF 2008, LNCS, Springer, August 2009.
A. Overwijk, D. Nguyen, C. Hauff, R.B. Trieschnigg, D. Hiemstra, F.M.G. de Jong: On the Evaluation of Snippet Selection for Information Retrieval. In: Proceedings CLEF 2008, LNCS, Springer, August 2009.