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News & Events:
 A Conference on Nôm Studies, April 11-12, 2008 at the Center.
— Open Call for Papers
— Submitted abstracts
— Submitted papers
— Conference program
— Pictures from Conference
Global Issues in Vietnamese Nôm Preservation, Vietnamese
Philosophy, Culture & Society, Panel 4, Global Temple Conference, November 13, 2007
* Nôm ideograms:
    
Trẻ con làm rồng rắn
Children play Dragon and Snake game.
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Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society
See About the Center.
- Dr. Ngô Thanh Nhàn
- Dr. Nhàn is a visiting research scholar at the Center
for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University since September 2006.
He received a B.A. and M.A. in Theoretical
Linguistics at San José State University and a Ph.D. in
Linguistics from the New York University (1984).
Dr. Nhàn has worked in research projects in natural language
processing at New York University with Prof. Ralph Grishman from
1979-1986 with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation,
and with Dr. Naomi Sager since 1986, including
support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the
Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève
to produce a French medical
language processor based on Dr. Sager's linguistic string
grammar. Dr. Nhàn has published in scholarly journals
and conference proceedings with Dr. Sager. He has been
maintaining the MLP since 1986, designed and implemented the
MLP Preprocessor, helped formulate the XML design for the
Structure Health Markup Language (SHML), as well as redid
the Viewer design using XML and PHP.
See Medical Language Processing.
Dr. Nhàn is an expert in computer character encoding
of Vietnamese national latin quốc ngữ script,
Vietnamese traditional ideographic Nôm script, and
south indic Chăm script. During the early 1990's,
Dr. Nhàn was a liaison officer of the Vietnam
Standard Committee at Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. As vice
president of the
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation
from 1999 to April 3, 2007,
Dr. Nhàn designed and implemented
Nôm fonts for artistic and research purposes.
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