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

📰 News

January 2025

📢 Our paper, Multi³Hate: Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicultural Hate Speech Detection with Vision-Language Models, has been accepted to NAACL 2025 (Main)! See you in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 🎉

October 2024

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

May 2024

🏫 Started my research visit at the University of Hamburg in the research group led by Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher for the next four 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!

📄 Another paper, The Trade-off between Performance, Efficiency, and Fairness in Adapter Modules for Text Classification, was accepted to the 4th Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP) @ NAACL 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

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