Ko, Youngjoong

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Conference Organizing Chair

• HCLT 2016 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2016. 10. 7-8)

Conference Program Chair

• HCLT 2006 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2006. 10. 13-14)

Conference Program Vice-Chair

• KCC 2009 (Korea Computer Congress, 2009. 7. 1-3)

Conference Program Area Chair

• HCLT 2007 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2007. 10. 12-13)

Conference Program Member

• HCLT 2016 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2016. 10. 7-8)
• HCLT 2015 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2015. 10. 16-17)
• HCLT 2014 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2014. 10. 10-11)
• HCLT 2013 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2013. 10. 11-12)
• HCLT 2012 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2012. 10. 12-13)
• KCC 2011 (Korea Computer Congress, 2011. 6.29-7.1)
• CNSI 2011 (International Conference on Computer, Networks, System, and Industrial Engineering, 2011. 5.23-25)
• SIGIR 2010 (The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2010. 8.23-27)
• COLING 2010 (International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2010. 7.19-23)
• HCLT 2010 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2010. 10. 8-9)
• HCLT 2009 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2009. 10. 9-10)
• HCLT 2008 (Human and Cognitive Language Technology, 2008. 10. 10-11)
• ALPIT 2008 (The 6th International Conference on Advanced Language Processing and Web Information Technology, 2008. 7. 23-25)
• SIGIR 2008 (The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 2008. 7.21-23)
• ALPIT 2007 (The 6th International Conference on Advanced Language Processing and Web Information Technology, 2007. 8. 22-24)
• AIRS 2006 (Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, 2006. 10. 16-18)
• ICCPOL 2006 (International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Language, 2006. 12. 17-19)

Competition Organizing Chair

• Korean Information Processing System Competition (2014. 10. 10)

Local Arrangement Committee Member

• IWSDS 2015 (Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems. 2015)

Conference Organizing Publicity Chair

• ACL 2012 (The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012. 7. 8-13)

Conference Organizing Member

• KIPONTO 2007 (The 5th Workshop on Knowledge Information Processing and Ontology, 2007. 6. 1)
• KIPONTO 2006 (The 4th Workshop on Knowledge Information Processing and Ontology, 2006. 5. 19-20)
• AIRS 2005 (Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, 2005. 10. 13-15)
• KIPONTO 2005 (The 3th Workshop on Knowledge Information Processing and Ontology, 2005. 6. 3)

Steering Committee member

• AIRS (Asian Information Retrieval Symposium) 2014.8 ~ 2017.7

Conference Reviewer

• HCLT (Human and Cognitive Language Technology) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015
• KCC (Korea Computer Congress) 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
• KIISE (KIISE Winter Conference) 2007, 2014 and 2015

Conference Session Chair

• HCLT (Human and Cognitive Language Technology) 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
• KCC (Korea Computer Congress) 2013, 2014 and 2015
• KIISE 2010 (The 37th KIISE Fall Conference, 2010. 11. 5-6)
• KIPONTO 2007 (The 5th Workshop on Knowledge Information Processing and Ontology, 2007. 6. 1)
• AIRS 2005 (Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, 2005. 10. 13-15)

Journal Associate Editor

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (2009. 6. ~ up to now)
• Journal of KIISE : Software and Applications (2013. 3. ~ up to now)

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2013. 12. 1. ~ up to now)
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS, 2012. 8. ~ up to now)
• AI Communications (AICOM, 2012. 6. ~ up to now)
• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS, 2006. 3. ~ up to now)
• Information Processing Letters (IPL, 2005. 5. ~ up to now)
• Information Processing and Management (IPM, 2003. 5. ~ up to now)
• Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP, 2004. 3. ~ up to now)
• Korea Institute of Information Scientiest and Engineers (KIISE, 2006. 2. ~ up to now)
• Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS, 2004. 9. ~ up to now)

Professional Society Membership

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, 2000 ~ up to now)
• ACM SIGIR Membership (2000. ~ up to now)
• Korea Institute of Information Scientiest and Engineers (KIISE, 2000 ~ up to now), Associate Editor (2013 ~ up to now)
• Korean Society for Cognitive Science (2007 ~ up to now), General Executive in 2016
• Executive of Korean Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (KSAAC, 2013 ~ up to now)

Consultative Committee Member

• KISTI 과학기술정보협의회 위원 (2009. 8. ~ up to now)
• KISTI (2017. 8.)
• Diquest Inc. (2007. 9. ~ up to now)

Instructor of the Intensive Course for Artificial Intelligence for Samsung Data System

• Deep Learning Based Natural Language Processing (2021.7.20.~7.23, 2022.9.20.~23.)

Instructor of the Intensive Course for Language Analysis in Samsung Advanced Technology Training Institute

• Natural Language Processing with Deep Neural Networks (2018.2.2.~2.18., 2018.3.21.~3.23., 2018.7.3.~7.4., 2018.8.27.~9.7., 2019.6.24.~7.5, 2019.8.19.~30.)

Director of the Expert Course for Language Analysis in Samsung Advanced Technology Training Institute

• Development of E2E Dialogue Systems for DSTC (2019.7.15.~10.31)

Member of Review Committee in NAVER

• Chairman of Review Committee of News Retrieval Algorithms for NAVER (2021. 8. 1. ~ 2021. 12. 31)
• Review Committee of News Retrieval Algorithms for NAVER (2018. 5. 29. ~ 2018. 11. 30)

Member of AI Advisory Council in POSCO

• Member of AI Advisory Council for POSCO (2022. 7. 1. ~ 2023. 6. 30)

Member of AICE Inspection Committee KT

• Member of AICE Inspection Committee for KT (2023. 3.29. ~ 2024. 3. 28)

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Achievement Excellence Awards

• Sungkyunkwan University Achievement Evaluation: Excellence Awards in Education Area (신품-神品) and Research Area (묘품-妙品), 2022.
• Sungkyunkwan University Achievement Evaluation: Excellence Award in Research Area (신품-神品), 2021.

Contribution Awards

• Outstanding Paper Contributuion Award, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers, 2015.

Competition/Contest/Learderboard Awards

• Winner (3rd Place), Track #3 (Next Product Title Generation) of Amazon KDD Cup in KDD 2023 (with Honghee Lee, Youngjae Chang and Kyuri Choi)
• Winner (1st Place), Sub-Track #1 (Disambiguation) and #3 (Dialogue State Tracking) of SIMMC 2.0 (Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI: Track 3) in DSTC 10, 2021 (with Dongchul Son and Youngjae Chang)
• 4th Place, Task 2 (Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access) and 5th Place, Task 1 (Dialogue State Tracking) of Knowledge-grounded Task-oriented Dialogue Modeling on Spoken Conversations (Track 2) in DSTC 10, 2021 (with Junhee Cho, Haeun Yu, Choongwon Park and Jaeah Yu)
• 1st Place, MS MARCO Passage Ranking Learderboard, 2021 (with Meongjun Kim)
• Special Prize, 2021 AI Language Ability Competition (with Dooyoung Kim, Honghee Lee, Youngjae Chang, Jaeah Yu, Jinyoung Kim and Haeun Lee)
• Bronze Prize, Korean Information Processing System Competition 2020 (with Dongchul Son, Junhee Cho, Jihyun Bae, Dooyoung Kim, Guyri Choi and Seryong Kim)
• Excellence Award, 4th Industrial Revolution-era Scientific Investigation Ideas Contest 2018 (with Seungwook Lee, Hongyeon Yu, Gihwan Kim and Jeongmin Yoon)
• Bronze Prize, Korean Information Processing System Competition 2016 (with Hongyeon Yu, Hokyoung Lee and Mincheol Kim)
• Bronze Prize, Korean Information Processing System Competition 2016 (with Jaehyun An, Jungmin Yoon, Haemin Kim, Yongsin Park and Kyoungman Bae)
• Encouragement Prize, Korean Information Processing System Competition 2015 (with Juryong Cheon, Hongyeon Yu and Kyoungman Bae)
• Encouragement Prize, Korean Information Processing System Competition 2015 (with Hokyoung Lee, Namhoom Song, Jungmin Yoon and Jaewon Hwang)
• Encouragement Prize, Korean Information Processing System Competition 2014 (with Sujeong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Yongmin Kim and Jungbo Lee)
• Grand Prize, 38th Academic Paper Presentation Contest at Dong-A University 2009 (with Yonghyun Park)

Best Paper Awards

• KSC 2022 (2 Best Papers with Hyunmook Cha and Haeun Lee)
• HCLT 2018 (2 Best Papers with Hongyeon Yu and Jaehyun An)
• KSC 2017 (3 Best Papers with Jungmin Yoon, Jaehyun An and Yoojin Jeong)
• HCLT 2016 (with Hongyeon Yu)
• HCLT 2015 (with Juryong Cheon)
• KCC 2015 (with Namhoon Song)
• HCLT 2014 (with Juryong Cheon)
• HCLT 2013 (with Changsu Lee)
• KCC 2012 (2 Best Papers with Junyoung Lee & Seon Yang)
• KCC 2011 (with Seon Yang)
• KIISE 2010 (with Sungho Kim)
• KIISE 2009 (with Sangjoon Bae)
• HCLT 2009 (with Seon Yang)
• HCLT 2008 (with Sangjoon Bae)
• KIISE 2007 (with Jaewon Hwang)

Who's Who of Emerging Leaders

• list in Marquis Who's Who of Emerging Leaders, 1st December 2006

Who's Who in Asia

• list in Marquis Who's Who in Asia, 1st 2006
• list in Marquis Who's Who in Asia, 2nd 2012

Who's Who in Science and Engineering

• list in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 9th 2006-2007 Edition
• list in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 10th 2008-2009 Edition

Who's Who in the World

• list in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 23rd 2006 Edition
• list in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 24th 2007 Edition
• list in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 25th 2008 Edition
• list in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 26th 2009 Edition
• list in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 30th 2013 Edition

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• Neural Symbolic AI (SKKU AI Colloquium 2021, 2021. 11. 05.) [Video]
• Let's get on board with NLP (AI X Bookathon, Sungkyunkwan University, 2021. 11. 04.) [Video]
• Neural Symbolic AI (LG Electronics, 2021. 08. 23.)
• Basic Concepts of Natural Language Processing (AI Convergence Summer School, College of Education, Seoul National University, 2021. 08. 19.)
• Pretrained Language Representation (AI Korea 2020 Conference, 2020. 08. 28.) [PDF] [PDF]
• Korean Semantic Role Labeling (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, 2019. 04. 25.)
• Korean Dependency Parser (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, 2018. 10. 23.)
• Korean Named Entity Recognition (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, 2017. 10. 5.)
• Text Classification and Summarization (Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques) (KISTI, 2017. 7. 5.) [PDF]
• How to develop NLP tools with DNN techniques (IT 21 Global Conference, 2017. 6. 2.) [PDF]
• Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) (ETRI, 2016. 2. 24.) [PDF]
• Introduction to Word Embedding for NLP (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, 2016. 1. 7.) [PDF]
• Introduction to Word Embedding for NLP (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sogang University, 2015. 9. 9.) [PDF]
• Introduction to Probabilistic Topic Models (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, 2015. 6. 19.) [PDF]
• Human Language Technology and its Applications (Graduate School of Digital Image & Contents, Dongguk University, 2014. 2. 7.) [PDF]
• A Query Translation and Expansion Technique for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Wikipedia as Linguistic Resources (ETRI Open R&D Center Workshop, Busan National University, 2013. 8. 28.) [PDF]
• Generative vs. Discriminative Models for Classification (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sogang University, 2013. 5. 30.) [PDF]
• A Wikipedia Based Query Translation and Expansion Technique for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIP Lab., The University of Maryland, 2012. 4. 25.)
• Comparison Mining (CLIP Lab., The University of Maryland, 2011. 9. 21.) [PDF]
• Dialogue Modeling for Spoken Dialogue Systems (LG Electronics, Research Center, 2010. 7. 28.)
• Human Language Technology and Linguistics (Dept. of Linguistics, The Busan National University, 2009. 11. 25.) [PDF]
• Text Classification in IR (theory and trends) (Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), 2007. 10. 17.)
• Text Classification in IR (theory and application) (Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), 2006. 12. 13.)
• Ontology Construction from the Aspect of Engineering (The 2th Ontology Understanding and Application Colliqium, 2006. 2. 21.) [PDF]
• Text Categorization Using Unlabeled Data and its Theory (NLP Lab., The Korea Maritime University, 2005. 11. 15.)
• Learning Techniques with Unlabeled Data for Text Categorization (The Workshop of KRISTAL Research and Development Group, 2005. 8.)
• Text Categorization Using Unlabeled Data and its Theory (KCC 2005-ILVB Workshop, 2005. 7.) [PDF]
• The Theory and Application of Text Categorization (NLP Lab., The Ulsan University, 2005. 1.)
• Text Categorization using Unlabeled Data (KIPONTO Workshop, 2004)

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Faculty

• Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of AI, and Applied Data Science, SKKU University (2019. 9. ~ up to now)
• Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-A University (2015. 9. ~ 2019.8)
• Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-A University (2010. 9. ~ 2015. 8.)
• Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-A University (2004. 9. ~ 2010. 8.)


• Visiting Scholar at the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory (CLIP) at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA (2011. 6. ~ 2012. 6.)

Researcher

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Sogang University (2003. 9. ~ 2004. 8)

Developer

• System Engineer in KT Billing System Development Project, LG-CNS Systems (1996. 7. ~ 1997. 12)