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Hello, I’m
Phuong Trung Le.

I’m a master’s student in Information Science at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan. My current research interests lie in natural language processing (NLP), particularly cross-lingual text generation and its applications to patent drafting. I study how language models can generate patent claims across languages, jurisdictions, and stages of the patent examination process.

Before my current studies, I worked in data analytics and product operations at MoMo, a Vietnamese digital wallet and payments platform.

Academic background

Current

Master’s student in Information Science

Kyoto Institute of Technology · Japan

2020–2024

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Can Tho University · Vietnam

Valedictorian

Selected publications

Conference paper · INLG 2026

A Large-Scale Dataset for Cross-Lingual Multi-Jurisdiction Patent Drafting from Patent Cooperation Treaty Applications

Trung Phuong Le, Hirofumi Nonaka, Koji Marusaki, Katsuhito Sudoh, Seiya Kawano

Proceedings of the 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference: Long Papers, pp. 865–880, 2026.

Research summary

We study the generation of patent claim sets for a target language, jurisdiction, and examination stage. Using 884,179 patent families linked through Patent Cooperation Treaty applications, we build a Japanese–English dataset connecting Japanese and US patent records. The benchmark evaluates machine translation, prompted language models, and supervised adaptation for drafting claims that reflect the target patent office and examination stage.

Journal article · 2025

Neural network translations for building SentiWordNets

Khang Nhut Lam, Trung Phuong Le, Khanh Cong Ngu, Kien Trung Le, Phuc Minh Le, Huy Hoang-Dang Nguyen, Jugal Kalita

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 63, 1033–1054 (2025). Springer.

Research summary

This work uses neural machine translation to construct SentiWordNets: lexical resources that associate word senses with sentiment scores. It proposes ways to select translated synset members and assign their sense order, helping build sentiment resources for languages supported by machine translation.

Work experience

Jan–Sep
2025

Product Operations Associate

MoMo (M_Service) · Full-time

Jul 2024–
Jan 2025

Data Analytics Trainee

MoMo (M_Service) · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Get in touch

le.trung.phuong@vision.is.kit.ac.jp