Wonsuk, Seungwon, ChaeHun, and Prof. Park attended the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019) held in Hong Kong SAR, on November 2–7, 2019. Wonsuk gave an oral presentation for the long paper titled "Nonsense!: Quality Control via Two-Step Reason Selection for Annotating Local Acceptability and Related Attributes in News Editorials". Seungwon gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Computer Assisted Annotation of Tension Development in TED Talks through Crowdsourcing" at the 1st Workshop on AnnoNLP. ChaeHun gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Generating Sentential Arguments from Diverse Perspectives on Controversial Topic" at the NLP4IF 2019 workshop.

Wonsuk, Fitsum, Hoyun, Huije, Seungwon and ChaeHun attended the KSC (Korea Software Congress) 2018 held in Pyeongchang, Korea on December 19-21, 2018. Fitsum gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Neural Grammatical Error Correction by Simulating the Human Learner and the Human Proofreader". Huije gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Mitigating Stereotypes in Word Embedding through Sentiment Modulation".

Jinseon and Hoyun attended the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 32) held in Hong Kong, on December 1–3, 2018. Hoyun gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Feature Attention Network: Interpretable Depression Detection from Social Media".

Huije, Seungwon and ChaeHun attended the HCLT (Human & Cognitive Language Technology) Korea 2018 held in Seoul, Korea on October 12-13, 2018. Seungwon gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Automatic Tension Recognition from Lecture Show Transcript". ChaeHun gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Extracting Supporting Evidence with High Precision via Bi-LSTM Network".

Huije and Hoyun attended the HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) Korea 2018 held in Jeongseon, Korea on January 31-February 2, 2018. Huije gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Detection of Non-Standard Meaning Usage with Word Embedding".

Jung-Ho, Wonsuk, Hoyun and Huije attended the Korea Software Congress 2017 held in Busan, Korea on December 20-22, 2017. Hoyun gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Predicting Symptoms of Depression for Social Media Users via Linguistic Patterns" and Jung-Ho, Youngjin (CGV Lab.), and Wonsuk attended SW/Demo Contest as a team named 'NLPCL * CGV' and won the best (최우수) demo award. Congratulations!

Jinseon, Jin-Woo, and Prof. Park attended the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017) held in Taipei, Taiwan, on November 27–December 1, 2017. Jinseon gave an oral presentation for the long paper titled "Extraction of Gene-Environment Interaction from the Biomedical Literature".

Jin-Woo, Wonsuk, and Prof. Park attended the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17) held in Melbourne, Australia on August 19-25, 2017. Jin-Woo gave an oral presentation for the main track paper titled "Inferring Implicit Event Locations from Context with Distributional Similarities".

Jung-Ho and Najoung attended Interspeech 2016 held in California on Sept. 8-12, 2016.

Jin-Woo and Prof. Park attended the 15th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2016) held in Hague on Sept. 4-7, 2016.

Hancheol, Jinseon, Jimin, and Wonsuk attended the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2016) held in Berlin on Aug. 8-11, 2016.

Jimin, Hancheol, and Jin-Woo attended the Korea Computer Congress 2016 held in Jeju Internatioanl Convention Center on June 29 - July 1, 2016. Hancheol gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Addressing Low-Resource Problems in Statistical Machine Translation of Sign Language" and won the best paper award. Jimin gave a poster presentation for the paper titled "Classification of Relations between Biological Entities using Word Vectors".

We attended the HCI Korea 2016 conference held in High1 Resort, Gangwon on Jan. 27-29, 2016. Najoung gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "A Morphological Approach to the Longitudinal Detection of Dementia".

Jinseon attended the KIISE winter Conference (한국정보과학회 동계학술발표회) held at Phoenix Park, on December 17-19, 2015. Jinseon gave a poster presentation for the paper titled "Biomedical Event Extraction and Management in Big-scale Biomedical Literature"

Jin-Woo, Jinseon, and Prof. Park attended the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computing (PACLIC 29) held in Changhai on Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2015. Jin-Woo gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Corpus annotation with a linguistic analysis of the associations between event mentions and spatial expressions".

Dr. Jin, Jinseon, and Prof. Park attended the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2015) held in Beijing on July 27-30, 2015. Dr. Jin gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "CoMAGD: Annotation of Gene-Depression Relations" at the BioNLP 2015 workshop.

Jinseon, Jin-Woo, and Dr. Jin attended the Korea Computer Congress (KCC) 2015 held in Jeju on June 24-26, 2015. Jinseon gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Identification of Depression-Gene Associations from Biomedical Literature".

The 2nd Korea-Europe Workshop on Biomedical Informatics and Natural Language Processing was held in the KI building, KAIST on February 27, 2015. We had two invited presentations given by Dr. Sarah MacPherson and Dr. Maria Wolters from the University of Edinburgh, and two technical presentations given by Dr. Hee-Jin Lee from KAIST and Dr. Cheol Han from the Korea University. We also had work-in-progress presentations given by four students from our group and the CGV group.

Jung-Ho, Jinseon, and Jin-Woo attended the KIISE winter Conference (한국정보과학회 동계학술발표회) held at Phoenix Park, on December 18-20, 2014. Jung-Ho gave a poster presentation for the paper titled "Construction of a Korean-to-KSL Parallel Corpus by Effective Motion Capture of Hand Shapes".

Jung-Ho, Jinseon, and Prof. Park attended the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computing (PACLIC28) held in Phuket, Thailand on December 12-14, 2014.

Jung-Ho, Jinsun, Jin-Woo and Prof. Park attended the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014) held in Dublin, Ireland on August 24-29, 2014.

Seung-Cheol and Prof. Park attended the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013) held in Nagoya, Japan, on October 14-18, 2013. Seung-Cheol gave an oral presentation for the paper titled "Parsing Dependency Paths to Identify Event-Argument Relations" co-authored by Prof. Park. Prof. Park has served as a co-chair of the program committee of this conference.

Jin-Woo attended the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2013, http://www.ro-man2013.org) in Gyeongju, Korea from August 26 to 29, 2013. He gave an oral presentation for a paper titled "Speaker-TTS Voice Mapping towards Natural and Characteristic Robot Storytelling". (author: Hye-Jin Min, Sang-Chae Kim, Joon-Yeob Kim, Jin-Woo Chung, and Jong C. Park)

Jin-Woo and Prof. Park attended the 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Semantics, and Mining (WIMS) held in Spain, Madrid, on June 12-14, 2013. Jin-Woo gave an oral presentation for the paper "Enhancing Readability of Web Documents by Text Augmentation for Deaf People" co-authored by Hye-Jin, Joonyeob and Prof. Park.

We attended the HCI 2013 Conference Korea held in High1 Resort, Gangwon on Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2013. Yong-Jae gave an oral presentation for the paper "Blog Corpus-based Clustering Scheme for Category Fluency Test (CFT) Data Clustering" (co-authored by Dr. Maria Wolters from the University of Edinburgh, Hee-Jin, and Prof. Park).

JoonYeob and Jin-Woo attended the KIISE Fall Conference (한국정보과학회 추계학술발표회) held in Chungnam National University, on November 23-24, 2012. JoonYeob gave a poster presentation for the paper "Analyzing and Mapping Expressions of Tense for Korean-Korean Sign Language Translation" (co-authored by Jin-Woo and Prof. Park).

Hye-Jin and Prof. Park attended the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC 26) held in Bali, Indonesia, on November 7-10, 2012. Hye-Jin gave an oral presentation for the paper "Product Name Classification for Product Instance Distinction".

We attended the HCLT 2012 conference (제24회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회) held at the Korea Maritime Univ., Busan, on October 11-13, 2012. Hye-Jin gave an oral presentation for a paper titled "Automatic Speaker Identification in Fairytales towards Robot Storytelling" (로봇 동화 구연을 위한 동화 상 발화문의 화자 자동파악) co-authored by Sang-Chae and Prof. Park.

Seung-Choel and Prof. Park attended the 5th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM) held in University of Zurich, Switzerland, on September 3-4, 2012. Seung-Choel gave an oral presentation for the paper "Use of Clue Word Annotations as the Silver-standard in Training Models for Biological Event Extraction".

Jin-Woo, Hye-Jin and Joon-Yeop attended the 14th Annual Conference on Korean Sign Language (제14회 한국수화학회 학술대회) held in Korean Nazarene University, Cheonan, on August 15th, 2012.

We attended the KCC 2012 conference (한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 2012) held in Jeju island on June 27-29, 2012. Yong-Jae gave a poster presentation for a paper titled "Towards Automatic Evaluation of Category Fluency Test Performance: Distinguishing Groups using Word Clustering" (자동 범주유창성검사 평가를 향하여: 단어 군집화를 활용한 그룹간 구별) co-authored by Dr. Maria Wolters from the University of Edinburgh, and Hee-Jin Lee. Sang-Chae gave another poster presentation for a paper titled "Age and Gender Prediction from Korean Tweets with Stylometric Analysis" (문체 분석을 활용한 한국어 트위터 사용자의 연령대 및 성별 예측).

We attended the HCI 2012 Conference Korea held in Alpensia Resort on January 11-13, 2012. Yong-Jae and Sang-Chae presented a paper titled "Analyzing the Patterns of Switching and Clustering on CFT Data Using Hidden Markov Model" (authored by Yong-Jae Lee, Hee-Jin Lee, Maria Wolters, and Prof. Park) and a paper titled "Age Prediction from Korean Tweets with Style-Based Feature Analysis" (authored by Sang-Chae Kim and Prof. Park), respectively.

Prof. Park, Hee-Jin, and Seung-Cheol attended the 4th International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2011) held at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on December 14th and 15th, 2011. Seung-Cheol gave a oral presentation for a paper titled "Analyzing Disagreements among ICD-9-CM Coders" (authored by Seung-Cheol Baek and Prof. Park) and Hee-Jin gave a poster presentation for a paper titled "Identifying Gene Expression Changes in Prostate Cancer Cells from the Literature" (authored by Hee-Jin Lee, Hyunju Lee, and Prof. Park).

Jin-Woo and Prof. Park attended the 2nd International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT) and the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) held in Dundee, UK on October 23-26, 2011. We presented two papers titled "Text Parsing for Sign Language Generation with Combinatory Categorial Grammar" (authored by Jin-Woo Chung and Prof. Park) and "Revisiting Concatenative Video Synthesis with Relaxed Constraints" (authored by Sangyong Gil and Prof. Park).

Hye-Jin attended the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on November 8-13, 2011. She gave an oral presentation for a paper titled "Detecting and Blocking False Sentiment Propagation". See photos here.

Yong-Jae and Sang-Chae attended KCC 2011 (한국컴퓨터종합학술대회) held in Gyeongju, Korea. Yong-Jae gave a poster presentation for a paper titled "Linguistic Analysis of Picture Description for Language Impairment Diagnosis" (언어 장애 진단을 위한 그림 설명글의 언어학적 특성 분석).

Prof. Park and Jin-Woo attended the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'11) held in Sogndal, Norway on May 25-27, 2011. Jin-Woo gave an oral presentation for a paper titled "Improving Accessibility to Web Documents for the Aurally Challenged with Sign Language Animation".

Prof. Park and Hye-Jin attended the 6th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011) held in Lausanne, Switzerland. Hye-Jin presented a paper titled "Physical Push with a Socially Intelligent Robot: Make Your Wishes to 'Genie in the Lamp".

We attended the HCI 2011 Conference Korea held in Alpensia Resort. SeungJoo gave an oral presentation for a paper titled "Korean Speech Synthesis for Automatic Fairy Tale Narration with Automatic Identification of Character Roles" (자동 동화 구연을 위한 등장 인물의 자동 역할 분류에 기반한 한국어 음성 합성 시스템) and Ho-Joon gave a poster presentation for a paper titled "Evaluation of Emotion Categories based on the Analysis of Emotion-Rich Fairy Tales" (동화에서 나타나는 감정 발화문의 특성 분석을 통한 감정 범주의 평가). Jin-Woo and Ho-Joon won a best paper award for a paper titled "Sentence Type Identification in Korean: Applications to Korean-Sign Language Translation and Korean Speech Synthesis" (한국어 문장 유형의 자동 분류: 한국어-수화 변환 및 한국어 음성 합성에의 응용).

지난 20일에 평택의 국립한국재활복지대학에서 열린 제12회 한국수화학회 학술대회에 이호준 군과 정진우 군이 다녀왔습니다. 이번 학술대회는 '수화연구방법'이라는 공통의 주제 아래 발표가 이루어졌으며, 특히 수화 '자료'를 어떻게 수집할 것인지에 대한 많은 논의가 있었습니다. 특히 독일 함부르크대학 수화언어학과의 수화 유도(elicitation)자료 수집 방법과 수화코퍼스 구축 프로젝트는 앞으로 국내의 수화연구를 진행하는데 많은 도움이 될 수 있는 사례였습니다.

Prof. Park and Jin-Woo attended the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010) held in Uppsala, Sweden, on July 12-14, 2010. (http://acl2010.org/)
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The 3rd International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) was held in Jeju island, Korea, November 8-10, 2009 (http://lbm2009.biopathway.org). LBM is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together researchers in biology, chemistry, medicine, public health and informatics to discuss and exploit cutting edge language technology. Language, in its many forms, is the universal means to represent, question, and convey knowledge. Likewise applied technologies such as information extraction, summarization, and translation are key technologies for advancing biomedical research and healthcare provision. The automation of all these solutions empowers our ability to discover new knowledge.

We attended the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 conference held in Singapore on August 2-7, 2009. Hye-Jin presented a paper titled "Toward finer-grained sentiment identification in product reviews through linguistic and ontological analyses". (photos)

2009년 7월 22일부터 24일까지 San Diego에서 있었던 HCI International 2009 학술대회에 참석하여 발표 및 학회 참관을 하고 돌아왔습니다.이번에 발표를 하면서 음성합성에 관련된 부분에 초점을 맞춰서 발표자료를 만들었었는데, 학회에 오셨던 분들은 이 외에도 감정 음성합성 시스템이 활용될 수 있는 분야나 evaluation 방법, evaluation 결과 등에도 많은 관심을 보이셨었습니다. 학회 발표 시간이 15분으로 짧기도 했었지만 이러한 관심사에 대해서 미리 알고 있었다면 좀 더 적극적인 발표가 될 수 있었을 것으로 생각되었습니다.이번 학회의 경우에는 많은 사람들이 데모를 위주로 발표를 하였는데, 학회 발표에서는 논문에 나와있는 내용을 자세하게 설명하기 보다는 사람들의 관심을 끌 수 있게 이러한 데모 시스템을 활용하는 것도 좋은 방법이라고 생각되었습니다. 또한 이러한 데모 시스템을 바탕으로하여 실제 생활에서 테스트를 하고 상용화 단계 바로 직전까지 완성을 목표로 많은 연구가 진행되는 것을 확인할 수 있었습니다.관심있게 본 내용은 노약자(특히 elderly)에 대한 연구가 눈에 띄게 많이 진행되고 있었다는 것과, 수화와 관련된 연구도 미국과 유럽 등지에서 많이 연구되고 있다는 것이었습니다. 실제 발표를 하시는 분 중에서도 수화로 의사소통을 하시는 분이 계셨었는데, 이 분의 발표 세션에는 수화 통역사가 계셔서 그 분의 수화 표현을 영어로 통역해 주셨었습니다.