Professor Park serves as General Chair of IJCNLP-AACL 2023, the 17th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processsing (IJCNLP) and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), which is being held in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, during November 1-4, 2023.

SeungYoon Han joined our lab for the master's course starting from this semester (Fall 2023). Welcome!

Congratulations to Fitsum Gaim, Wonsuk Yang, Hancheol Park, and Prof. Jong C. Park on receiving the Outstanding Paper Award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2023! Their paper, entitled 'Question-Answering in a Low-resourced Language: Benchmark Dataset and Models for Tigrinya,' introduced the TiQuAD dataset, which is the first-ever Question-Answering Dataset for Tigrinya. They deserve big congratulations for their hard work and achievement, and this is a huge honor for our lab.

Our papers have been accepted in the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). You can find the titles in the publication section. Great news for the first authors, co-authors, and all the lab members!

Our paper "Leveraging Large Language Models with Vocabulary Sharing for Sign Language Translation" (authors: Huije Lee, Jung-Ho Kim, Eui Jun Hwang, Jaewoo Kim, and Jong C. Park) has been accepted in the SLTAT workshop at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023)!

Our paper "Realistic Conversational Question Answering with Answer Selection based on Calibrated Confidence and Uncertainty Measurement" (authors: Soyeong Jeong, Jinheon Baek, Sung Ju Hwang and Jong C. Park) has been accepted in the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), congratulations!

Taeho Hwang joined our lab for the master's course starting from this semester (Spring 2023). Welcome!

Our papers "Sign Language Production With Avatar Layering: A Critical Use Case over Rare Words" (authors: Jung-Ho Kim, Eui Jun Hwang, Sukmin Cho, Du Hui Lee, and Jong C. Park), "GeezSwitch: Language Identification in Typologically Related Low-resourced East African Languages" (authors: Fitsum Gaim, Wonsuk Yang, and Jong C. Park), and "ELF22: A Context-based Counter-Trolling Dataset to Combat Internet Trolls" (authors: Huije Lee, Young Ju NA, Hoyun Song, Jisu Shin, and Jong C. Park) have been accepted in the Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), congratulations!