My research interests include computational linguistics, machine learning, and data visualization system. I am currently working as an Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University.
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seongminmun@knu.ac.kr
simon.seongmin.mun
Kyungpook National University
80, Daehak-ro
Buk-gu, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Postal code: 41566
Conducts research analyzing various linguistic phenomena related to English from an engineering perspective and provides education on computational linguistics.
Designed and developed an NLP-based data processing system to extract information of the human relationship network
Resources
Designed and developed an eye tracking-based web experimental application, and word segmentation model by using syllable-based transitional probability
Designed and developed language model-based recognition systems covering various topics (e.g., similarity-based estimator, multiword parser) and data visualization systems (e.g., PostEmbedding, PostBERT)
Designed and developed a web-based data archiving system for efficient handling and safe management of child language development records
Developed and launched COHA pre-trained models by using RoBERTa, and a data visualization system to evaluate the COHA pre-trained models
Resources
Conducted statistical analysis for various data types (e.g., diagnosis records, movie reviews), and evaluated the obtained results by using data visualization systems (e.g., ParallelSentimentVis, SankyTree)
Ph.D. graduation thesis
Title: "Polysemy resolution with word embedding models and data visualization: the case of adverbial postpositions -ey, -eyse, and -(u)lo in Korean"
Author: Seongmin Mun
Advisor: Guillaume Desagulier
Date of Conferment: 18.06.2021
Links: HAL theses, theses.fr
Resources
Conference reviewer | The 23rd Biennial Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL 2023); June 2023
Journal reviewer | PeerJ Computer Science; December 2022
Session chair | The 22nd the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL22); August 2021
Program
Best Paper Award | Journal of Design Research; 2018 KSDS Fall International Conference; November 2018
Research Award from the Minister of Education | The Education Ministry of Korea; National Research Foundation of Korea; March 2018
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards | Kantar; November 2016
Domestic graduate students are published as a first author in a global journal | News 1 Korea, one of news media in Korea; March 2018
Ministry of Education holds 'BK21 Plus' award for outstanding researchers | Yonhap news, one of news media in Korea; March 2018
Leader of future, BK21 plus selected outstanding researcher in 2017 | Boan news, one of news media in Korea; March 2018
Ministry of Education selected outstanding researcher of 'BK21 Plus' | KNS, Korea News System, one of news media in Korea; March 2018
Ministry of Education selected 33 excellent researchers of BK21 plus | Asia today, one of news media in Korea; March 2018