Educations
1992-1996
Department of Computer Science, KAIST
Ph.D. Thesis: Lexical Disambiguation with Error-Driven Learning.
Advisor: Gil Chang Kim, Co-Advisor: Seungtaik Yang
1986-1988
Department of Computer Science, KAIST
M.S. Thesis: Construction of Korean Case Frames for Generation of Korean Case Postpositions in the Interlingual Machine Translation.
Advisor: Gil Chang Kim
1982-1986
Department of Computer Science, Keimyung University
B.S. Thesis: A Study of Graphic Processing Using Korean LOGO.
Advisor: Jin-Sang Kim
Co-Authors: Hyung-Gak Yoon and Dae-Sik Ahn
1979-1981
Department of Information Processing
Experiences
Professional Experiences
1997 - Present : Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime University
2007 - 2008 : Visiting Researcher Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2001 - 2002 : Visiting Researcher Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
2000 - 2001 : Researcher (Part-time) Advanced Information Technology Research Center, KAIST
1999 - 1999 : Technical Consultant Information Processing Section, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
1996 - 1997 : Senior Member of Research Staff Spoken Language Processing Section, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI)
1992 - 1996 : Teaching and Research Assistant Departmemt of Computer Science, KAIST
1988 - 1992 : Member of Research Staff Basic and Advanced Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI)
1980 - 1981 : Engineer Masan TC Electronics Korea
Teaching Experiences
1997 - present : Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime University
Discrete mathematics (undergraduate)
Automata Theory (undergraduate)
Algorithm Design and Analysis (undergraduate)
Compiler Construction (undergraduate)
C Programming Language (undergraduate)
C++ Programming Language (undergraduate)
Java Programming Language (undergraduate)
Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate)
Statistical Natural Language Processing (graduate)
Natural Language Processing (graduate)
Information retrieval (graduate)
Corpus Engineering (graduate)
Machine Learning (graduate)
Deep Learning (graduate)
Deep Generative Models (graduate)
Artificial Intelligence and Programming (graduate)
1992 - 1996 : Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon
Introduction to Computer Science (undergraduate)
Topics on Computer Science (undergraduate)
Computer Architecture (undergraduate)
1996 - 1996 : Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Hanbat National University, Daejeon
Numerical Analysis (undergraduate)
1996 : Part-Time Lecturer, Chungnam Campus, Korea National Open University, Daejeon
Computer Architecture (undergraduate)
1989 - 1994 : Part-Time Lecturer, Computer Science Education Center, Hannam University, Daejeon
C Language (undergraduate)
COBOL (undergraduate)
Digital Logic Circuit Design (undergraduate)
Professional affiliations
Korean Society of Marine Engineering, since 2020.
Association for Computational Linguistics, since 1998.
Korea Information Science Society, , since 1987.
Korea Information Processing Society, , since 1997.
Korea Society of Marine Engineering, since 2007.
Acoustical Society of Korea, since 1999.
IEEE Computer Society, since 1999.
Oriental Languages Computer Society, since 1999.
Presentations
Tutorials
Finite-State Machine for Natural Language Processing, given at the Natural Language Tutorial in Seoul, Korea University, Aug. 1999.
Invited Presentations
Natural language processing applications, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, November 2015.
Collocation extraction through corpus analysis, Seoul National University, May 2015.
POS tagging and Collocation extraction, Summer Corpus Academy, August 2014.
Automated scoring, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, September 2014.
Python Basics, Winter Corpus Academy, January 2014.
Statistical collocation extraction, September, Summer Corpus Academy, July 2013.
Corpus linguistics and Statistical testing, KMOU English Education Research Center, June 2013.
C-Rater and Automated Scoring, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, July 2012.
Automatic acquisition of translation knowledge, ETRI, June 2012.
POS tagging and its applications using NLTK, KMOU English Education Research Center, August 2012
Introduction to Corpus Engineering, KMOU English Education Research Center, August 2012 .
English NER and Chunking, Daum Soft, January 2010.
Pronoun resolution, KISTI, June 2009.
Named entity recognition, KISTI, March 2009
Feature extraction, KISIT, March 2007.
Web document clustering, KISTI, August 2006.
Linguistics Role in Natural Language Processing, The 1st KRITSTAL Workshop, August 2005.
Machine Learning . Introduction, Ulsan University, June 2005.
Korean Named-entity Identification and Korean-English Noun Translation, USC ISI Vision Workshop, Santa Babara, USA, October 2001.
Robust NLP on Internet Documents, The 3rd AITrc Vision Workshop, December 2002.
(Korean) POS tagging, Ulsan University, Ulsan, October 1999.
Error Detection Model in POS tagging, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Sogang University, January 16, 1998.
Standardization of POS tagging, The 2nd NLP Standardization Workshop, 1998.
Realtime Scheduling for Concurrent Control, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, January 21, 1998.
Korean Morphological Analysis and Part-of-Speech Tagging, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Sogang University, January 16, 1998.
Natural Language Processing and its Applications, The 1997 scientific meeting for division of information communication and computer science, Woosuk University, November 8, 1997.
Spoken Language Translation - dialogue translation -, The 4th technical meeting for Speech processing and speech coding, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), October 17, 1997.
Recent Professional Activities
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Engineering, 2009 - 2014.
Vice Editor-in-Chief, The Transaction of the Korean Information Processing Society, 2003 - 2004.
Editorial Board, The Transaction of the Korean Information Processing Society, 2005 - 2006.
Editorial Board, Journal of KIISE : Software and Applications, 2009 - 2010.
Secretary, SIG on Language Engineering, Korea Information Science Society, 2003 - 2004.
Head of Publicity Subcommittee, The 11st Annual General Assembly of International Association of Maritime Universities, 2010.
Member, Executive committee, Bank of Language Resource, 2004 - present.
Member, Executive committee, Workshop on Knowledge Information Processing and Ontology (2004, 2005)
Editing and Program Board, Internal Symposium on Marine Engineering and Technology (2011).
Secretariat, Technical Program Committee, Internal Symposium on Marine Engineering (2009).
Program Chair, Conference of Korean Society of Marine Engineering (2009, 2010, 2011).
Program Co-Chair, Joint Conference of Korean Society of Marine Engineering and Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research (2009, 2010, 2011).
Program Co-chair, Conference on Hangul and Korean Language Information Processing (2010)
Organization committee, Conference on Hangul and Korean Language Information Processing (1996, 1997, 2001, 2004).
Program committee, Conference on Hangul and Korean Language Information Processing (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009).
Program committee, International Conference on Asian Language Processing and Information Technology (2005).
Program committee, KIISE Conference (2005).
Section Chairman, KIPS Conference (2002).
Section Chairman, KISS Conference (1996).
Steering committee, Bank of Language Resource, 2004-present.
Reviewer, journal articles for ETRI Journal(SCI); Natural Language Processing; Computer Processing of Oriental Languages; Journal of the Korea Information Science Society; The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society; Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, Journal of the Korean Society of Maritime Engineering, Journal of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Journal of Korea Multimedia Society, ACM Tr. on Asian Languages (TALIP) Processing; Applied Sciences.
Awards
Academic Award, Korean Society of Marine Engineering, 2020.
Excellent Paper Award, the 33rd Annual Conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology, Paper title: "Named Entity Tagged Corpus Augmentation Using Co-hyponym Replacement", 2020.
Excellent Paper Award, the 32rd Annual Conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology, Paper title: "Korean Named Entity Recognition Using BIT Representation", 2020.
Grand Prize, The Contest for Automatic Spacing and Compound Noun Decomposition, Paper title: "CRFs versus Bi-LSTM/CRFs: Automatic Word Spacing Perspective", 2018.
Excellent Paper Award, the 39th KIPS Spring Conference, Paper title: Bilingual lexicon extraction using self-organizing maps", 2015.
Archi-man Award, Korea Maritime University, 2010.
Achievement Award, A Joint Conference of Information Centers of National Universities, 2009.
Honorable Mention (as Coach), ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional Contest - Seoul, 2005.
Excellent paper award, Journal of the Research Institute of Industrial Technology, Paper title: “An Indexing Method based Mixed n-gram”, 2005.
Excellent paper award, Journal of the Research Institute of Industrial Technology, Paper title: “Recognizing Korean Numerical Expressions with lex”, 2003.
Distinguished Service Award, The 1st Morphological Analyzer and Part-of-Speech Evaluation Workshop, 1999.
Excellent paper award, The 22nd KISS Fall Conference, Paper title: “Discriminative Learning in Part-of-Speech Tagging”, 1995.
Excellent paper award, The 22nd KISS Spring Conference, Paper title: “A Hybrid Weighted Network Model for Smoothing in Part-of-Speech Tagging”, 1995.
Government Scholarship, KAIST, 1986–1988.
Silver Medal in Short-distance Marathon (about 17Km), The General Athletic Meeting of KAIST, 1986.
Silver Medal in Short-distance Marathon (about 17Km), The General Athletic Meeting of KAIST, 1987.
Honor Scholarship, Keimyung University, 1982 – 1986.