RESEARCH INTERESTS

Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and Natural Language Processing

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Post Doc. Researcher
  Language Technologies Institute in CMU, 2006.01 - present
  GALE(Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program is to improve timeliness and quality of information
  available to the warfighters and those that support them via a single, comprehensive system that supports
  transcription, translation and distillation of multiple languages in text and audio formats.
  I am working on distillation part now.

• Senior Researcher
  Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, S. Korea, 2004.02 - 2005.12
  Develop a spoken command analysis model for Smart Home system. Design a model that searches and 
  clusters media files in a MP3 player.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• moHANA: Morphological Hangul Analyzer
  Develop moHANA that uses Multi-Dimensional Analysis Dictionary

• CJK Indexers
  Openbase© 2004, SearchLine© 2003, 3Soft © 2001
  Develop indexers for Korean commercial search engines
  

• Search Engine
  Condor Search Engine - LTI CMU, 2001
  Develop an object manager and a cache manager.
  Evaluate and designed a ranking algorithm.
  Optimize an English stemmer and a Korean stemmer

• URL Search System
  Jumbyul and Arrow Search - HOWNY©, S. Korea, 1999 - 2001
  Develop a plug-in and a server application that translates a user-typed
  Korean domain name into an original URL and searches relevant domain names

• Machine Translation System
  English-to-Korean MT for Korean Air Force Military Intelligence, 1997 - 1999
  Design and program a prepositional phrase attachment model, an acronym
  extraction module, and a parenthetical expression processing module.
  Program a user interface of the machine translation system

• Korean Part-of-Speech Tagger
  Take part in Morphological Analysis and Tagger Evaluation Contest (MATEC), 1999

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