When Tom Eats Kimchi: Evaluating Cultural Bias of Multimodal Large Language Models in Cultural Mixture Contexts.

Ye Kyaw Thu

Jun Seong Kim Ye Kyaw Thu Javad Ismayilzada Junyeong Park Eunsu Kim Huzama Ahmad Na Min An James Thorne Alice Oh When Tom Eats Kimchi: Evaluating Cultural Bias of Multimodal Large Language Models in Cultural Mixture Contexts. 2025 March abs/2503.16826 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.16826 db/journals/corr/corr2503.html#abs-2503-16826 streams/journals/corr

Kaung Lwin Thant Kwankamol Nongpong Ye Kyaw Thu Thura Aung Khaing Hsu Wai Thazin Myint Oo myNER: Contextualized Burmese Named Entity Recognition with Bidirectional LSTM and fastText Embeddings via Joint Training with POS Tagging. 2025 April abs/2504.04038 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.04038 db/journals/corr/corr2504.html#abs-2504-04038 streams/journals/corr

Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo Reconstructing Syllable Sequences in Abugida Scripts with Incomplete Inputs. 2025 May abs/2505.11008 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.11008 db/journals/corr/corr2505.html#abs-2505-11008 streams/journals/corr

Ye Kyaw Thu Thura Aung Thazin Myint Oo Thepchai Supnithi KAConvText: Novel Approach to Burmese Sentence Classification using Kolmogorov-Arnold Convolution. 2025 July abs/2507.06753 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.06753 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-06753 streams/journals/corr

Thura Aung Eaint Kay Khaing Kyaw Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo Thepchai Supnithi Enhancing Burmese News Classification with Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Head Fine-tuning. 2025 November abs/2511.21081 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.21081 db/journals/corr/corr2511.html#abs-2511-21081 streams/journals/corr

Ye Bhone Lin Thura Aung Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo ASR Error Correction in Low-Resource Burmese with Alignment-Enhanced Transformers using Phonetic Features. 2025 November abs/2511.21088 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.21088 db/journals/corr/corr2511.html#abs-2511-21088 streams/journals/corr

Mya Ei San Sasiporn Usanavasin Ye Kyaw Thu Manabu Okumura A Study for Enhancing Low-resource Thai-Myanmar-English Neural Machine Translation. 54 2024 April 23 ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 4 https://doi.org/10.1145/3645111 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130971283 db/journals/talip/talip23.html#SanUTO24 streams/journals/talip

Hay Man Htun Ye Kyaw Thu Hutchatai Chanlekha Kotaro Funakoshi Thepchai Supnithi myMediCon: End-to-End Burmese Automatic Speech Recognition for Medical Conversations. 12032-12039 2024 LREC/COLING https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1051 conf/coling/2024 db/conf/coling/coling2024.html#HtunTCFS24 Nang Aeindray Kyaw Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo Hutchatai Chanlekha Manabu Okumura Thepchai Supnithi Enhancing Hate Speech Classification in Myanmar Language through Lexicon-Based Filtering. 316-323 2024 JCSSE https://doi.org/10.1109/JCSSE61278.2024.10613636 conf/jcsse/2024 db/conf/jcsse/jcsse2024.html#KyawTOCOS24 Ei Thandar Phyu Ye Kyaw Thu Hutchatai Chanlekha Kotaro Funakoshi Thepchai Supnithi Exploring the Impact of Error Type Features Integration on Transformer-based Myanmar Spelling Correction. 365-372 2024 JCSSE https://doi.org/10.1109/JCSSE61278.2024.10613711 conf/jcsse/2024 db/conf/jcsse/jcsse2024.html#PhyuTCFS24 Hlaing Myat Nwe Ye Kyaw Thu Thanaruk Theeramunkong Kiyoaki Shirai Thepchai Supnithi Segmentation Strategies and Data Enrichment for Improved Abstractive Summarization of Burmese Language. 347-353 2024 PRICAI (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0119-6_33 conf/pricai/2024-2 db/conf/pricai/pricai2024-2.html#NweTTSS24 streams/conf/pricai

Thazin Myint Oo Thitipong Tanprasert Ye Kyaw Thu Thepchai Supnithi Transfer and Triangulation Pivot Translation Approaches for Burmese Dialects. 6150-6168 2023 11 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3236804 db/journals/access/access11.html#OoTTS23

Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo Thepchai Supnithi RL-NMT: Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning for Improved Neural Machine Translation of Burmese Dialects. 9:1-9:8 2023 MMAsia (Workshops) https://doi.org/10.1145/3611380.3628564 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130986686 conf/mmasia/2023w db/conf/mmasia/mmasia2023w.html#ThuOS23 Zar Zar Hlaing Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo Mya Ei San Sasiporn Usanavasin Ponrudee Netisopakul Thepchai Supnithi NECTEC's Participation in WAT-2021. 74-82 2021 WAT@ACL/IJCNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.wat-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2021.wat-1.6 conf/aclwat/2021 db/conf/aclwat/aclwat2021.html#HlaingTOSUNS21 Ye Kyaw Thu Thazin Myint Oo Hlaing Myat Nwe Khaing Zar Mon Nang Aeindray Kyaw Naing Linn Phyo Nann Hwan Khun Hnin Aye Thant Hybrid Statistical Machine Translation for English-Myanmar: UTYCC Submission to WAT-2021. 83-89 2021 WAT@ACL/IJCNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.wat-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2021.wat-1.7 conf/aclwat/2021 db/conf/aclwat/aclwat2021.html#ThuONMKPKT21 Ni Htwe Aung Honey Htun Ye Kyaw Thu Su Su Maung CRNN Based OCR for American and British Sign Language Fingerspelling. 1-6 2021 KSE https://doi.org/10.1109/KSE53942.2021.9648593 conf/kse/2021 db/conf/kse/kse2021.html#AungHTM21 Honey Htun Ye Kyaw Thu Nyein Nyein Oo Thepchai Supnithi A Study of Myanmar (Burmese) to English Machine Translation Performance with Various Myanmar Translated Styles. 1-7 2020 ICCA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022851 conf/icca3/2020 db/conf/icca3/icca2020.html#HtunTOS20 Thazin Myint Oo Ye Kyaw Thu Khin Mar Soe Thepchai Supnithi Neural Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Dawei (Tavoyan). 1-7 2020 ICCA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022813 conf/icca3/2020 db/conf/icca3/icca2020.html#OoTSS20 Sann Su Su Yee Khin Mar Soe Ye Kyaw Thu Myanmar Dialogue Act Recognition (MDAR). 1-6 2020 ICCA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA49400.2020.9022856 conf/icca3/2020 db/conf/icca3/icca2020.html#YeeST20 Aye Mya Hlaing Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Enhancing Myanmar Speech Synthesis with Linguistic Information and LSTM-RNN. 189-193 2019 SSW https://doi.org/10.21437/SSW.2019-34 conf/ssw/2019 db/conf/ssw/ssw2019.html#HlaingPT19 Yi Mon Shwe Sin Thazin Myint Oo Hsu Myat Mo Win Pa Pa Khim Mar Soe Ye Kyaw Thu UCSYNLP-Lab Machine Translation Systems for WAT 2018. 2018 WAT@PACLIC https://aclanthology.org/Y18-3016/ conf/aclwat/2018 db/conf/aclwat/aclwat2018.html#SinOMPST18 Hnin Thu Zar Aye Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Unsupervised Dependency Corpus Annotation for Myanmar Language. 78-83 2018 O-COCOSDA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSDA.2018.8693009 conf/ococosda/2018 db/conf/ococosda/ococosda2018.html#AyePT18 Aye Mya Hlaing Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu DNN Based Myanmar Speech Synthesis. 142-146 2018 SLTU https://doi.org/10.21437/SLTU.2018-30 conf/sltu/2018 db/conf/sltu/sltu2018.html#HlaingPT18 Ye Kyaw Thu Takuya Ishida Naoto Iwahashi Tomoaki Nakamura Takayuki Nagai Symbol Grounding from Natural Conversation for Human-Robot Communication. 415-419 2017 HAI https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132611 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131135039 conf/hai/2017 db/conf/hai/hai2017.html#ThuIINN17 Aye Nyein Mon Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Yoshinori Sagisaka Developing a speech corpus from web news for Myanmar (Burmese) language. 1-6 2017 O-COCOSDA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSDA.2017.8384451 conf/ococosda/2017 db/conf/ococosda/ococosda2017.html#MonPTS17 Aye Mya Hlaing Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Myanmar Number Normalization for Text-to-Speech. 263-274 2017 PACLING https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8438-6_21 conf/pacling/2017 db/conf/pacling/pacling2017.html#HlaingPT17 Aye Nyein Mon Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Exploring the Effect of Tones for Myanmar Language Speech Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). 314-326 2017 PACLING https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8438-6_25 conf/pacling/2017 db/conf/pacling/pacling2017.html#MonPT17

Chenchen Ding Ye Kyaw Thu Masao Utiyama Eiichiro Sumita Word Segmentation for Burmese (Myanmar). 22:1-22:10 2016 15 ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process. 4 https://doi.org/10.1145/2846095 db/journals/talip/talip15.html#DingTUS16

Hay Mar Hnin Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Back-Propagation Neural Network Approach to Myanmar Part-of-Speech Tagging. 212-220 2016 ICGEC https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48490-7_25 conf/icgec/2016 db/conf/icgec/icgec2016.html#HninPT16 Ye Kyaw Thu Win Pa Pa Masao Utiyama Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita Introducing the Asian Language Treebank (ALT). 2016 LREC http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/435.html conf/lrec/2016 db/conf/lrec/lrec2016.html#ThuPUFS16 Ye Kyaw Thu Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita Interlocking Phrases in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. 1076-1081 2016 HLT-NAACL https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1124 https://aclanthology.org/N16-1124/ conf/naacl/2016 db/conf/naacl/naacl2016.html#ThuFS16 Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita A Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Under Resourced Languages. 250-257 2016 SLTU https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.057 conf/sltu/2016 db/conf/sltu/sltu2016.html#PaTFS16 Ye Kyaw Thu Win Pa Pa Yoshinori Sagisaka Naoto Iwahashi Comparison of Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Methods on a Myanmar Pronunciation Dictionary. 11-22 2016 WSSANLP@COLING https://aclanthology.org/W16-3702/ conf/wssanlp/2016 db/conf/wssanlp/wssanlp2016.html#ThuPSI16 Hay Mar Soe Naing Aye Mya Hlaing Win Pa Pa Xinhui Hu Ye Kyaw Thu Chiori Hori Hisashi Kawai A Myanmar large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. 320-327 2015 APSIPA https://doi.org/10.1109/APSIPA.2015.7415529 conf/apsipa/2015 db/conf/apsipa/apsipa2015.html#NaingHPHTHK15 Win Pa Pa Ye Kyaw Thu Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita Word Boundary Identification for Myanmar Text Using Conditional Random Fields. 447-456 2015 ICGEC (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23207-2_46 conf/icgec/2015-2 db/conf/icgec/icgec2015-2.html#PaTFS15 Ye Kyaw Thu Win Pa Pa Jinfu Ni Yoshinori Shiga Andrew M. Finch Chiori Hori Hisashi Kawai Eiichiro Sumita HMM based myanmar text to speech system. 2237-2241 2015 INTERSPEECH https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2015-132 conf/interspeech/2015 db/conf/interspeech/interspeech2015.html#ThuPNSFHKS15 Ye Kyaw Thu Vichet Chea Andrew M. Finch Masao Utiyama Eiichiro Sumita A Large-scale Study of Statistical Machine Translation Methods for Khmer Language. 2015 PACLIC https://aclanthology.org/Y15-1030/ conf/paclic/2015 db/conf/paclic/paclic2015.html#ThuCFUS15 Ye Kyaw Thu Win Pa Pa Andrew M. Finch Jinfu Ni Eiichiro Sumita Chiori Hori The Application of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Techniques to Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion. 238-250 2015 PACLING https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0515-2_17 conf/pacling/2015 db/conf/pacling/pacling2015.html#ThuPFNSH15 Chenchen Ding Ye Kyaw Thu Masao Utiyama Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita Empircal dependency-based head finalization for statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) machine translation. 2014 IWSLT https://aclanthology.org/2014.iwslt-papers.5 conf/iwslt/2014 db/conf/iwslt/iwslt2014.html#DingTUFS14 Ye Kyaw Thu Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita Yoshinori Sagisaka Integrating Dictionaries into an Unsupervised Model for Myanmar Word Segmentation. 20-27 2014 WSSANLP@COLING https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/W14-5503 conf/wssanlp/2014 db/conf/wssanlp/wssanlp2014.html#ThuFSS14 Ye Kyaw Thu Andrew M. Finch Eiichiro Sumita Yoshinori Sagisaka A Purely Monotonic Approach to Machine Translation for Similar Languages. 107-110 2013 IALP https://doi.org/10.1109/IALP.2013.31 conf/ialp/2013 db/conf/ialp/ialp2013.html#ThuFSS13 Ye Kyaw Thu Positional prediction: consonant cluster prediction text entry method for burmese (myanmar language). 3783-3788 2008 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358930 conf/chi/2008a db/conf/chi/chi2008a.html#Thu08 Phavy Ouk Ye Kyaw Thu Mitsuji Matsumoto Yoshiyori Urano A word-based predictive text entry method for Khmer language. 214-219 2008 IRI https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2008.4583032 conf/iri/2008 db/conf/iri/iri2008.html#OukTMU08 Phavy Ouk Ye Kyaw Thu Mitsuji Matsumoto Yoshiyori Urano The design of Khmer word-based predictive non-QWERTY soft keyboard for stylus-based devices. 225-232 2008 VL/HCC https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639091 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2008.4639091 conf/vl/2008 db/conf/vl/vlhcc2008.html#OukTMU08 Ye Kyaw Thu Yoshiyori Urano Positional Mapping Multi-tap for Myanmar Language. 486-495 2007 conf/hci/2007-2 HCI (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_55 db/conf/hci/hci2007-2.html#ThuU07 Ye Kyaw Thu Yoshiyori Urano Positional mapping: keyboard mapping based on characters writing positions for mobile devices. 110-117 2007 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/1322192.1322213 conf/icmi/2007 db/conf/icmi/icmi2007.html#ThuU07 Ye Kyaw Thu Yoshiyori Urano Positional mapping Myanmar text input scheme for mobile devices. 495-502 2007 Mobile HCI https://doi.org/10.1145/1377999.1378060 conf/mhci/2007 db/conf/mhci/mhci2007.html#ThuU07 Achmad Rully Agung Untoro Tetsuo Fujisaki Hidehiro Kanemitsu Ye Kyaw Thu Yoshiyori Urano Yuki Umezawa Yosuke Uchiyama Wireless LAN and power line communication platform for e-learning multimedia system in underdeveloped area in Lombok island. 2006 conf/tridentcom/2006 TRIDENTCOM db/conf/tridentcom/tridentcom2006.html#RullyUFKTUUU06 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649178 http://eudl.eu/doi/10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649178 Huzama Ahmad Na Min An Ni Htwe Aung Thura Aung Hnin Thu Zar Aye Hutchatai Chanlekha Vichet Chea Chenchen Ding Andrew M. Finch Tetsuo Fujisaki Kotaro Funakoshi Aye Mya Hlaing Zar Zar Hlaing Hay Mar Hnin Chiori Hori Hay Man Htun Honey Htun Xinhui Hu Takuya Ishida Javad Ismayilzada Naoto Iwahashi Hidehiro Kanemitsu Hisashi Kawai Nann Hwan Khun Eunsu Kim Jun Seong Kim Eaint Kay Khaing Kyaw Nang Aeindray Kyaw Ye Bhone Lin Mitsuji Matsumoto Su Su Maung Hsu Myat Mo Aye Nyein Mon Khaing Zar Mon Takayuki Nagai Hay Mar Soe Naing Tomoaki Nakamura Ponrudee Netisopakul Jinfu Ni Kwankamol Nongpong Hlaing Myat Nwe Alice Oh Manabu Okumura Nyein Nyein Oo Thazin Myint Oo Phavy Ouk Win Pa Pa Junyeong Park Naing Linn Phyo Ei Thandar Phyu Achmad Rully Yoshinori Sagisaka Mya Ei San Yoshinori Shiga Kiyoaki Shirai Yi Mon ShweSinYi Mon Shwe Sin Khim Mar Soe Khin Mar Soe Eiichiro Sumita Thepchai Supnithi Thitipong Tanprasert Hnin Aye Thant Kaung Lwin Thant Thanaruk Theeramunkong James Thorne Yosuke Uchiyama Yuki Umezawa Agung Untoro Yoshiyori Urano Sasiporn Usanavasin Masao Utiyama Khaing Hsu Wai Sann Su Su Yee