Jin-Woo Chung, Ph.D. (정진우)

Postdoctoral researcher
Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics Laboratory
School of Computing
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  • Email: jwchungnlp.kaist.ac.kr / jinwoo.chungkaist.ac.kr
  • Office: Room #2414, School of Computing Building (E3-1)
Note: Jin-Woo Chung moved to Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (삼성전자 종합기술원) on May 2019. This page may no longer be updated.

Research Interests

  • Natural language processing and computational linguistics
  • Inferring implicit relations between entities from news and scientific articles
  • Analyzing spatiotemporal aspects of events in narrative text
  • Text mining for scientific knowledge discovery
  • Text augmentation for people with reading difficulties

Publications

  • Jin-Woo Chung, Wonsuk Yang, and Jong C. Park, “Unsupervised inference of implicit biomedical events using context triggers”, BMC Bioinformatics 21, 29, 2020. (SCI IF=2.511)
  • Wonsuk Yang, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Assessing the multi-level knowledge prominence perceived by the authors as revealed on their writings”, Language and Information, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2019.
  • Wonsuk Yang, Jung-Ho Kim, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “A Corpus of Sentential Annotations on News Editorials with Multi-dimensional Credibility Metrics”, HCI Korea (HCIK) 2019, Jeju, Korea, February 13-16, 2019.
  • Huije Lee, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Mitigating Stereotypes in Word Embedding through Sentiment Modulation”, Korea Software Congress (KSC) 2018, Pyeongchang, Korea, December 19-21, 2018.
  • Fitsum Gaim, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Neural Grammatical Error Correction by Simulating the Human Learner and the Human Proofreader”, Korea Software Congress (KSC) 2018, Pyeongchang, Korea, December 19-21, 2018.
  • Hoyun Song, Jinseon You, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park,  “Feature Attention Network: Interpretable Depression Detection from Social Media”, 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC-32), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, December 1-3, 2018. (accepted) (acceptance rate: 32%)
  • Jinseon You, Jin-Woo Chung, Wonsuk Yang, and Jong C. Park, “Extraction of Gene-Environment Interaction from the Biomedical Literature”, In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), pages 865–874, Taipei, Taiwan, November 27–December 1, 2017. (acceptance rate: 31%)
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Wonsuk Yang, Jinseon You, and Jong C. Park, “Inferring Implicit Event Locations from Context with Distributional Similarities”, In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17), pages 979-985, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017. (acceptance rate: 26%)
  • Jimin Park, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Classification of relations between biological entities using word vectors”, Korea Computer Congress (KCC), Jeju, Korea, June 29-July 1, 2016.
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Jinseon You, and Jong C. Park, “Corpus annotation with a linguistic analysis of the associations between event mentions and spatial expressions”, In Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 29), pages 539-547, Shanghai, China, October 30-November 1, 2015. (acceptance rate: 28.5%)
  • Rize Jin, Jinseon You, Jin-Woo Chung, Hee-Jin Lee, and Jong C. Park, “CoMAGD: Annotation of gene-depression relations”, In Proceedings of the 2015 ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BIONLP 2015), pages 104–113, Beijing, China, July 30, 2015.
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Hee-Jin Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Corpus annotation for the linguistic analysis of reference relations between event and spatial expressions in text”, Language and Information, Vol. 18, No. 2. pages 141-168, 2014.
  • Hye-Jin Min, Sang-Chae Kim, Joon-Yeob Kim, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Speaker-TTS voice mapping towards natural and characteristic robot storytelling”, In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2013), pages 793-800, Gyeongju, Korea, August 26-29, 2013.
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Hye-Jin Min, JoonYeob Kim, and Jong C. Park, “Enhancing readability of web documents by text augmentation for Deaf people”, International Conference on Web Intelligence, Semantics, and Mining (WIMS’13), Madrid, Spain, June 12-14, 2013. (acceptance rate: 39%)
  • Hye-Jin Min, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Identification of speakers in fairytales with linguistic clues”, Language and Information, Vol. 17, No. 2. pages 1-30, 2013.
  • JoonYeob Kim, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park, “Analyzing and mapping expressions of tense for Korean-Korean sign language translation”, In Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) Fall Conference, Vol. 39 No. 2-B, pages 121-123, 2012. 
  • Jin-Woo Chung and Jong C. Park, “Text parsing for sign language generation with Combinatory Categorial Grammar”, 2nd International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT 2011), 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011), Dundee, UK, October 23, 2011.
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Improving accessibility to web documents for the aurally challenged with sign language animation”, International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS’11), Sogndal, Norway, May 25-27, 2011. (acceptance rate: 35%)
  • Jin-Woo Chung and Jong C. Park, “Detecting and resolving syntactic ambiguity for automatic Korean-Korean sign language translation”, In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT), pages 55-62, 2010.
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Sentence type identification in Korean: applications to Korean-sign language translation and Korean speech synthesis”, Journal of the HCI Society of Korea, Vol. 5, No. 1, pages 25-35, 2010.
  • Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Intonation generation for Korean speech synthesis with automated sentence type classification”, HCI Korea (HCIK), Pheonix Park, January 27-29, 2010. 
  • Jin-Woo Chung and Jong C. Park, “Automated classification of sentential types in Korean with morphological analysis”, Language and Information, Vol. 13, No. 2, pages 59-97, 2009.

Academic Activities

Academic Membership

  • Professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2017-Present)

Program Committee Member

  • 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2017)
  • 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2016)

Scientific Committee Member

  • 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2018)

Reviewer

  • 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)
  • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) (2016-Present)
  • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE) (2016-Present)
  • 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016)
  • 24th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2016)
    (area: Databases, Ontologies & Text Mining)
  • 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2015)

Secondary Reviewer

  • ACL 2018 Best Paper Selection Committee
  • 7th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2016)
  • 6th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS’16)
  • ACL-IJCNLP 2015 System Demonstration
  • 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2014)
  • 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2013)

Program Committee Coordinator

  • 31th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 2017)
  • 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013)

Research Project Experience (at KAIST)

  • “Prediction and augmentation of the credibility distribution via linguistic analysis and automated evidence document collection” (언어학적 분석 및 증거문서 자동 수집을 통한 신뢰도 분포 자동 예측 및 자동 증강), funded by Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea (4/2018 – present)
  • “An automatic feedback system for the prevention and early treatment of depressive symptoms through language use analysis” (현대인의 우울 및 불안 증상에 대한 예방 및 조기 치료를 위한 개인의 언어 사용 분석 기반 자동 피드백 시스템), funded by National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (3/2017 – present)
  • “Emotional Intelligence Technology to Infer Human Emotion and Carry on Dialogue Accordingly” (상대방의 감성을 추론 판단하여 그에 맞추어 대화하고 대응할 수 있는 감성 지능 연구개발), funded by Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), Korea (12/2016 – present)
  • “An automatic gene network inference system based on large-scale text mining for complex diseases” (복잡 질환을 위한 대용량 텍스트 마이닝 기반 유전자 네트워크 자동 추론 시스템), funded by National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (11/2014 – 10/2016)
  • “Event extraction and discourse-level background scene selection for story-to-scene generation” (이야기 텍스트에서의 주요 사건 식별 및 문장/단락 단위의 장면 배경 선택 알고리즘 개발), funded by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea (5/2014 – 2/2015)
  • “Object selection with limited resources and coreference resolution for story-to-scene generation” (한정된 자원을 기반으로 한 최적의 객체 선택 기술 및 객체 간 참조 현상 해소 알고리즘 개발), funded by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea (5/2013 – 2/2014)
  • “An automatic conversion from the text in Korean into animations in Korean sign language in a web environment” (웹 환경의 텍스트에 대한 한국어-수화 자동 번역 기술 연구), funded by National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (5/2010 – 4/2013)
  • “Developing the multimodal emotion expression DB and automatic behavior generation mechanism” (멀티모달 감정/상황/의도 표현 DB 및 표현 자동생성), funded by the 21st Century Frontier R&D Programs, Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea (4/2009 – 3/2013)

Teaching

Teaching assistants

  • CS790 Technical Writing for Computer Science, Head TA (Fall 2014)
  • CS372 Natural Language Processing with Python, Head TA (Spring 2014)
  • CS372 Natural Language Processing with Python (Spring 2013)
  • CS372 Natural Language Processing with Python, Head TA (Spring 2012)
  • CS579 Computational Linguistics, Head TA (Fall 2011)
  • CS560 Database System (Spring 2011)
  • CS520 Programming Language (Fall 2009)

Awards

  • NAVER PhD Fellowship, Nov. 2017, NAVER Corp.
  • Best Teaching Assistant Award, Sept. 2014, School of Computing, KAIST
  • Course: Natural Language Processing with Python (CS372)
  • Best Paper Award, Jan. 2011, HCI Society of Korea
  • Paper: Jin-Woo Chung, Ho-Joon Lee, and Jong C. Park, “Sentence type identification in Korean: applications to Korean-sign language translation and Korean speech synthesis”, Journal of the HCI Society of Korea, Vol. 5, No. 1, pages 25-35, 2010.
  • KAIST Student Fellowship, 2009-2017, Korean Government

Thesis

  • Extracting spatial information about events from text
  • PhD thesis, School of Computing, KAIST, 2018
  • Identifying sentence types in Korean with morpho-syntactic analysis
  • Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science, KAIST, 2011

Education

  • PhD (2018): School of Computing, KAIST
  • Thesis: Extracting spatial information about events from text
  • Advisor: Prof. Jong C. Park
  • MS (2011): School of Computing, KAIST
  • Thesis: Identifying sentence types in Korean with morpho-syntactic analysis
  • Advisor: Prof. Jong C. Park
  • BS (2009): Department of Computer Science, Sogang University