Speaker Ngô Thanh Nhan

Ngô Thanh Nhan, Ph.D. linguistics, is a visiting scholar at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and natural language processing editor of the Health Language Center. He specializes in medical language processing and automatic encoding of clinical narratives for a variety of lndo European languages. He also specializes in computer character encoding and was asso­ciated with Vietnam’s efforts to standardize quôc ngu, ideographic-based Nôm script and indic-based Cham script since 1990. He is involving a variety of non-profit organizations, notably The Brecht Forum, The Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education (NY), and The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation (FL).