Our lab attended the 2nd K-GLOBAL briefing seminar on technology transfer held in the web on July 15, 2020. Prof. Park gave a presentation for our project titled "A system and method for communication training program over virtual reality and continued feedback via mobile device".

Most members of NLP*CL lab attended the 2019 SW StarLab Future SW Technology Forum held in the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea on November 22, 2019. Prof. Park hosted and held the 2019 SW StarLab Future SW Technology Forum successfully.

Most members of NLP*CL lab attended the 2018 SW StarLab Future SW Technology Forum held in Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea on August 24, 2018. Prof. Park gave a presentation for our StarLab project titled "How much do I trust what you say? What evidence do I need?".

The 12th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and Natural Language Processing was held in KAIST and Gyeryongsan Natural History Museum, Daejeon, Korea on Sept. 22-23, 2016. We had five invited presentations given by Prof. Limsoon Wong (NUS, Singapore), Prof. Kwang-Hyun Cho (KAIST, Korea), Dr. See-Kiong Ng (I2R, Singapore), Dr. Jie Zheng (NTU, Singapore), and Dr. Wei Lu (SUTD, Singapore).

Prof. Park gave an invited talk titled "Automatic Sign Language Generation" in the welfare technology seminar hosted by Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST (KAIST STP) on July 4, 2016.

Prof. Park gave an invited talk titled "Language processing through the collaboration with field experts" at the 2016 Spring conference of the Language Research Institute of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on May 27, 2016.

The 3rd Korea-Europe Workshop on Biomedical Informatics and Natural Language Processing was held in KAIST and Hotel DongHak SanJang on February 16-18, 2016. We had two invited presentations given by Dr. Sarah MacPherson and Dr. Maria Wolters from the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Maria Wolters from the University of Edinburgh visited KAIST on 7th December, 2014 and stayed in our laboratory for 3 days. We had several discussions about new, refined analyses that have been conducted on Korean and UK CFT data, including a data collection method and integration of CFT work with existing work of our group.

The Korea-Europe Workshop on Biomedical Informatics and Natural Language Processing was successfully held on 16th December, 2013. We had three invited talks given by Dr. Goran Nenadic from the University of Manchester, UK, Dr. Fabio Rinaldi from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Prof. Hyunju Lee from GIST, Korea. We also had three additional presentations given by our lab members, Dr. Hye-Jin Min, Hee-Jin Lee, Seung-Cheol Baek, and Jin-Woo Chung.

Prof. Mark Steedman, Prof. Bonnie Webber and Dr. Maria Wolters from the University of Edinburgh visited KAIST on July 16, 2012. Prof. Webber gave a Global lecture titled "Discourse in Language Technology" for CS students on July 17 and 19. Prof. Steedman and Dr. Wolters gave talks titled "Inducing Natural Language Grammars and Parsers from Data" and "Designing Reminder Systems for Older People - What is the Context?", respectively. We also had a good time in Jeonju Hanok Village on July 18 and Mt. Gyeryong on July 20. (see photos here)

Prof. Anoop Sarkar from Simon Fraser University visited KAIST and gave a talk titled "Four Methods for Morpheme-based Machine Translation" on July 2, 2012.

Prof. Park gave a keynote speech titled "Automatic Conversion of Korean into Korean Sign Language Based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar" (결합범주문법을 이용한 한국어-수화 자동 변환) at the Joint Conference of the Modern Linguistic Society of Korea and the Korean Society for Language and Information (한국현대언어학회/언어정보학회 공동학술대회) at the Gongju National University of Education, on November 5, 2011.

Prof. Park visitied the University of Dundee on March 16, 2011 and gave an invited talk in the Research Seminar as follows:

Title: Quality of Life Technology for the Aurally Challenged and for the Aged
  
Abstract: 
Textual and spoken information is much widespread and ever expanding, but the consequent information divide is also quite serious, especially if we are challenged. We must also face it sooner or later as we age, though the precise nature of how well we adapt to this changing situation depends on the individual severity of declining brain functions with age, possibly coupled with symptoms such as dementia. In the first part of my seminar, I will introduce our on-going effort for the linguistic analysis and computational generation of sign language expressions for the aurally challenged. In the second part, I will describe our team effort to assess and help patients with declining brain functions by a synergistic and clinical integration of multiple-modal techniques, such as computational geometry, natural language processing, virtual reality and computer haptics, as members of a recently founded Systems Biomedical Research Centre, where I work as a group leader. Time permitting, I will prelude the second part of my talk briefly with descriptions of our past and on-going work on biomedical text mining and management.

오늘 수화연구자분들이 연구실을 방문하여 우리의 연구를 소개해드리는 자리가 있었습니다. 독일의 함부르크대학과 국립한국재활복지대학 및 여러 기관에서 수화를 언어학적으로 연구하시는 분들과 함께 유익한 시간을 가졌습니다. 이번 자리를 통해 우리의 연구를 알리고 앞으로의 연구 방향에 대한 많은 조언을 들을 수 있었습니다.

Prof. Junichi Tsujii from the University of Tokyo visited KAIST on May 31st and gave a Global lecture (title: NLP-based Text Mining Techniques and their Applications) to KAIST students for five days.

The 9th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and Natural Language Processing (http://ksw09.biopathway.org) was held in Oh Sang Soo Seminar Room at KAIST. The researchers from Singapore include Prof. Limsoon Wong (Professor and Head of Computer Science and Professor of Pathology at NUS) and Prof. Jung-Jae Kim, who received BSc, MS, and PhD all from CS Department at KAIST and recently joined the faculty of NTU in Singapore.