Nicolas Ong
Edmonton, AB nicolasong.com Nicolas.J.Ong@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/NicolasOng github.com/NicolasOng
Education
Enrolled in the Master of Science (Thesis) in Computing Science program
Bachelor of Science (with Distinction), Major in Computing Science, 3.73 GPA
Research Experience
Supervised by Professor Nathan Sturtevant.
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Conducting research in reinforcement learning, heuristic search, and game-playing AI
The Natlang Lab works on NLP research.
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Supervised by Professor Anoop Sarkar and his PhD student Hassan Shavarani
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Published Unified Examination of Entity Linking in Absence of Candidate Sets in the NAACL 2024 Conference
Teaching Experience
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CMPUT 272 – Formal Systems and Logic in Computing Science (Fall 2024)
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INT-D 161 – Artificial Intelligence Everywhere (Winter 2025, Fall 2025)
Professional Experience
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Developed and maintained live case management software, and adjacent software products/services such as interfaces
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Ran design, go-live, and training sessions with clients
Funding
Publications
We replicated various entity linking methods, then performed candidate set ablation experiments on them. We created a unified evaluation environment to ensure valid comparability between results, and evaluated all models on a new dataset.
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Authors: Nicolas Ong, Hassan Shavarani, and Anoop Sarkar
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In Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 113–123
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Presented virtually via video recording (Hosted on Underline)
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Presented in-person at a poster session (Hosted in Don Diego, Hilton Reforma, Mexico City).