APNNS/IEEE Education Forum Series: Deep Learning and Artificial
Intelligence Summer School 2020 (DLAI3)
29 June - 3 July 2020, Bangkok, Thailand + AoE
Academic Talk 6
Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 03.30-04.30 pm.
(Online, Bangkok, Thailand, time UTC+7)
Speaker: Thanaruk Theeramungkong,Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand
https://deeplearningandaiwinterschool.github.io/

Invited Speaker
Title: “Thai Language Processing and AI Activities in Thailand”
Professor Dr. Thanaruk Theeramunkong
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand
Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand
A Fellow member, the Royal Society of Thailand

Abstract:
This talk introduces characteristics of Thai language in a computational point of view and a historical
remark on Thai language processing research. The analysis of the Thai language is complicated since its
structure is complex with optional vowel expression, no word boundary, no sentence boundary, flexible
word composition, and flexible grammar structure. So far, there have been limitations on advances in Thai
language processing due to a lack of language resources and standardization in language structure bynatural. The success of processing Thai strongly strongly depend on semantic-level components, that is thehardest part in both theoretical and practical points of view. This talk includes information extraction,
speech recognition/synthesis, optical character recognition, text categorization, text summarization, andtext sentimental analysis. Finally, the activities related to artificial intelligence in Thailand are also pointedout.

Keywords: Knowledge Construction, Information Extraction, Thai Language Processing, and AI
Activities

Bibliography: Thanaruk Theeramunkong is currently a professor at School of Information, Computer andCommunication Technology at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT) at Thammasat
University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is the Program Director of Information and Communication Technologyfor Embedded Systems (ICTES) at TAIST Tokyo Tech, National Science and Technology Development
Agency (NSTDA). He is also an Associate Fellow, Academy of Science, the Royal Society of Thailand.
As a professional society, He is the president of Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand. He serves
as an academic committee to the Industrial Section, National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT).
He received his bachelor degree in Electric and Electronics Engineering, master and doctoral degrees inComputer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was a research associate at Japan Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology in Japan and a MIS manager at C.P. Seven Eleven Public Co., Ltd. inThailand. He got several awards, including the Very Good Research Award in engineering field fromThammasat University in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Recently, in 2014, he has received the National Outstanding
Researcher Award in the field of Information Technology and Communication Arts. He also got several
best paper awards from conferences and societies, including the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,
PAKDD workshops, and KICSS. In 2015, he also got a Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Juryfrom the 43rd International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva for the inventions of automatic semanticbased multi-document summarization and application to public hearing. His research interests are natural
language processing, data mining, text mining, machine learning and applications to service science. Hewas an associate editor of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).
He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific-Asia Conferences on Knowledge Discovery andData Mining (PAKDD) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific Rim InternationalConferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI). He is the author of more than 48 papers in a number ofjournals with impact factors and more than 140 conference papers.