Welcome to my personal homepage! My name is Minh Duc Bui, but you can call me Duc. I am a PhD student specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at JGU Mainz, under the supervision of Katharina von der Wense (nèe Kann). My research centers on cross-cultural NLP, exploring how NLP techniques can be adapted to understand and respect cultural differences. I aim to develop models that are sensitive to cultural nuances, ultimately fostering better global communication and inclusivity in AI applications.

Prior to this, I completed my bachelor’s degree in “Mathematics in Business and Economics”, and subsequently pursued a master’s degree in “Data Science” with a strong emphasis on NLP at the University of Mannheim (supervised by Goran Glavaš). Following the completion of my master’s degree, I transitioned into the industry, where I worked as a data scientist in the autonomous driving field in Stuttgart for some time.

News

October 2024

Finished my research visit: Check out our work on multimodal, multilingual and multicultural hate speech: Preprint!

May 2024

Starting my research visit at the University of Hamburg in the research group led by Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher for the next 4 months!

April 2024

Our Paper “Knowledge Distillation vs. Pretraining from Scratch under a Fixed (Computation) Budget” was accepted to the 5th Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP @ NAACL 2024!

April 2024

Our Paper “The Trade-off between Performance, Efficiency, and Fairness in Adapter Modules for Text Classification” was accepted to 4th Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP) @ NAACL 2024!

April 2024

We achieved 2nd place in the Shared Task of AmericasNLP 2024 at NAACL! Check out our system description paper “JGU Mainz’s Submission to the AmericasNLP 2024 Shared Task on the Creation of Educational Materials for Indigenous Languages”!

September 2023

Beginning my PhD at the NALA Group hosted by JGU and University of Colorado Boulder under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Katharina von der Wense (Née Kann)!