Sunjae Kwon

Ph.D. Student at UMass Amherst

Advisor: Prof. Hong Yu

Research Area: NLP, Biomedical Informatics

Contact: sunjaekwon@umass.edu

Sunjae Kwon is a second-year Ph.D. student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently studying biomedical natural language processing with Prof. Hong Yu. He has an interest in applying machine learning techniques for NLP and AI in healthcare.

Before he joined BioNLP@UMass, he worked at KAIST and UNIST as an AI research scientist with Prof. Jaesik Choi. He received M.S. degree at Sogang University under the guidance of Prof. Jungyeon Seo and B.S. degree at Sogang University.

News

24/Sep./2024: A paper accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2024
13/Mar./2024: A paper accepted at NAACL 2024
07/Oct./2023: A paper accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2023
05/Jun./2023: Sunjae starts to work as a research intern @ Tencent AI
02/May/2023: A paper accepted at ACL 2023
18/Nov./2022: A paper accepted at AAAI 2023
06/Oct./2022: A paper accepted at EMNLP 2022
01/Sep./2021: Sunjae starts his Ph.D. degree at UMass Amherst.

Selected Publications

S. Kwon, X. Wang, et al., "ODD: A Benchmark Dataset for the NLP-based Opioid Related Aberrant Behavior Detection," in NAACL 2024
S. Kwon, R. Garodia, M. Lee, Z. Yang, and H. Yu, "Vision Meets Definitions: Unsupervised Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Gloss Information," in ACL 2023
S. Kwon, Z. Yao, H. S. Jordan; D. A. Levy, B. Corner, and H. Yu, “MedJEx: A Medical Jargon Extraction Model with Wiki’s Hyperlink Information and Contextualized Masked Language Model Score,” in EMNLP 2022
D. O*, S. Kwon*, K. Kim, and Y. Ko, “Word Sense Disambiguation Based on Word Similarity Calculation Using Word Vector Representation from a Knowledge-Based Graph,” in COLING 2018 (* equal contribution)
S. Kwon, Y. Ko, and J. Seo, “A Robust Named-Entity Recognition System Using Syllable Bigram Embedding with Eojeol Prefix Information,” in CIKM 2017

Academic Services

Journal Reviewer: TFS (2019 - ), IP&M (2023 - ), JMIR (2024 - )
Conference Reviewer: EACL 2024, COLING 2024, NAACL 2024, NeurIPS Dataset 2024
Conference Subreviewer: ACL, EMLNP, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI