Knowledge of Type II Diabetes and its Complications Among Adult Vietnamese Immigrants

This was a non-experimental quantitative study using survey method to assess diabetic knowledge of 102 adult Vietnamese immigrants. The Health Belief Model provided the theoretical framework, and the 24-item diabetes knowledge questionnaire was adopted from the Starr County Texas study to use for this study. Data were categorized and analyzed using descriptive methods such as frequency and percentage. The findings indicated that lack of knowledge about diabetes was a significant issue among the Vietnamese immigrant population. Health care providers should develop an appropriate cultural educational program about diabetes to help the Vietnamese population to detect diabetes early and to control diabetes effectively

A Factoid Question Answering System for Vietnamese

In this paper, we describe the development of an end-to-end factoid question answering system for the Vietnamese language. This system combines both statistical models and ontology-based methods in a chain of processing modules to provide high-quality mappings from natural language text to entities. We present the challenges in the development of such an intelligent user interface for an isolating language like Vietnamese and show that techniques developed for inflectional languages cannot be applied "as is". Our question answering system can answer a wide range of general knowledge questions with promising accuracy on a test set.Comment: In the proceedings of the HQA'18 workshop, The Web Conference Companion, Lyon, Franc

Using six-word stories to trigger EFL learners’ creative writing skills

There has been a growing volume of six-word stories and related literature available in recent decades. In only six words, the authors are able to tell amazing stories of various types, packed with strong emotions. Inspired by the succinct and thought-provoking language use of these stories, the author has used this valuable source of materials as prompts in promoting EFL learners’ creativity and language development, both at high school and tertiary levels in a semi-structured case study in Vietnam. The article illustrates the different language activities that have been used with two groups of EFL students and their related products. Implications are introduced for their applications in similar educational contexts

Mash-ups of Information Services for Promoting Higher Education Institution in Hanoi, Vietnam

Currently, today is the Information Era, with the typical symbol - Internet Technology. Any people can become the users of the Internet at any time. Internet is everywhere. The users can use internet to search, find or collect any information that they need. Nowadays, for sure that, any one of us heard about Web 2.0 technologies as well as applications. The development from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 was considered like "break through step" of the information technology. Web 2.0 is really more efficient information sharing, collaboration and business processes. And, Mash- up is one of the outcomes of Web 2.0 paradigm that has been widely accepted and used for users over the world. The role and effect of mash-ups in modern life is obvious. At the moment, although mash - ups are mainly used for less fundamental tasks, such as customized queries and map based visualizations. But, compared to a few years ago, mash-ups' development and application are becoming popular and increasing day by day with higher demands. In the future, it has the potential to be used for more fundamental, complex and sophisticated tasks. Finding, searching, collecting as well as using information in the Internet is one of problems about technology of Vietnam in general, and Hanoi in particular, where are the developing countries and be focused on the agriculture fields. Catch and combine two above events, the developers want to create "Mash - ups of Promoting Information Services Institution for Higher Education in HaNoi, Vietnam" as Final Year Project. For this project, the users just need Internet route to access. And after this, they can find out, search, collect and compare all important and necessary information about universities in Hanoi, Vietnam. This way will useful for users, because of it will minimize the effort, time as well as money of the finders. Besides, it is also easy to understand and using

Using six-word stories to trigger EFL learners’ creative writing skills

There has been a growing volume of six-word stories and related literature available in recent decades. In only six words, the authors are able to tell amazing stories of various types, packed with strong emotions. Inspired by the succinct and thought-provoking language use of these stories, the author has used this valuable source of materials as prompts in promoting EFL learners’ creativity and language development, both at high school and tertiary levels in a semi-structured case study in Vietnam. The article illustrates the different language activities that have been used with two groups of EFL students and their related products. Implications are introduced for their applications in similar educational contexts