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About Lexxe
Management Team
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Dr. Hong Liang Qiao
Chief Executive Officer
Hong has almost two decades of experience in Natural Language Processing, spanning across core research areas such as Part-of-Speech Tagging, Parsing and Word Sense Disambiguation, etc. On such foundations, he built advanced Question Answering Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, Document Categorization Systems, Natural Language Interface to Databases and Search Engines.
Hong's combined international academic and industrial career includes Uppsala University, the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (the University of Bergen), the University of Sydney, Sayso! (formerly Syrinx Speech Systems), Monkey Pty Ltd, General Language Machines and Kangasoft Pty Ltd.
In 2001, Hong started his interest in search engine technology and felt that his expertise in Natural Langauge Processing would help improve search relevance. He holds the view that NLP should be the core issue of the 3rd generation search technology. He designed and coded Lexxe search engine (Alpha version), which implemented many of his Natural Language ideas. Hong founded Lexxe Pty Ltd in Sydney, Australia in 2005.
Hong earned his B.A. degree in English from Shanghai International Studies University. He holds an M.A in Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of Leeds. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Queensland.
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Dr. Tony Hong Nguyen Pham
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Tony Hong Nguyen Pham’s main scientific background is Natural Language Processing. He is an expert in lexical databases, syntactic parsing and statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing. He also has more than 10 years work experience over a number of areas related to computing.
In 2007, Dr. Pham joined Lexxe and has since been involved in the research and development of the key components of Lexxe Search Engine, such as phrase recognition, question parsing, sentence pattern conversion, short answer extraction, web page relevance ranking, etc. He also oversaw development of Lexxe's crawler and indexer. Dr. Pham was appointed Lexxe's Vice President for Search in Sept. 2007 and subsequently Lexxe's CTO in April 2008.
Dr. Pham earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Hanoi University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing from the University of Sydney.
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