IR & NLP Lab

Prof. Sung-Hyon Myaeng E-mail: myaeng at kaist.ac.kr Address: Kim Beang-Ho & Kim Sam-Youl ITC Building (N1), Room 604, School of Computing, KAIST 291 Daehak-ro (373-1 Guseong-dong), Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea Tel:+82-42-350-2015 (AVP Office), +82-42-350-3553 (Faculty Office), +82-42-350-7753 (Lab)

Research Interest

• Question Answering Systems
• Neuro-symbolic Information Retrieval
• Human Experience Knowledge Mining from Text
• Automatic elicitation of semantic relationships from text
• Automatic categorization and filtering of text based on content and genre

Education

• Ph. D. Computer Science Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1987
• M. S. Computer Science Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1985
• B. S. Computer Science California State University, Hayward, 1983

Professional Experiences

• Director, Center for Digital Humanities & Computational Social Sciences (2021.9 ~ present)
• Director, KAIST-Samsung SDS AI Research Center (2021.4 ~ present)
• ICT Endowed-Chair Professor (석좌교수) (2020.1~present)
• Associate Vice President, International Office (국제협력처장) (2015.3 ~ 2017.3)
• Head, Web Science & Technology Division (2010.10 ~ 2014.8)
• Member, Board of Directors, Computer Intelligence Society, KIISE (2010 ~ present)
• Director, KAIST-Microsoft Research Collaboration Center (KMCC) (2010 ~ 2020)
• Dean, Office of Academic Information Services, Information & Communications University (학술정보처장) (2005. 12 – 2008. 8 )
• Director, Global e-Learning Center, Information & Communications University (2005. 12 – 2008. 8 )
• Chair, SIG Human Language Technology, Korea Society of Information Science (2005. 7 – 2007. 7)
• Professor, School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2003. 3 – present)
• Professor, School of Engineering, Information and Communications University (2003 – 2009. 3)
• CEO, Enquest Technology, Inc. (2000 – 2003)
• Professor, Department of Computer Science, Chungnam National University (1999 – 2003)
• Director of Research and Planning, Software Research Center (KOSEF-funded), (1996 – 2001)
• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Chungnam National University (1994 – 1999)
• Tenured Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University (1994)
• Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University (1988 – 1994)
• President, Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in America (KSEA) Upstate New York Chapter (1992-1993)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University (1987 – 1988)
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas (Summer, 1986).
• Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southern Methodist University (Summer, 1985 & 1986).

Professional Activities

• Government/Industry Committee Member

  • Kenya-KAIST Project Steering Committee, funded by Korea Export-Import Bank (2019.3~present)
  • Chair, AI+X Forum (2019.3~2019.12)
  • Advisor, Korean Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (2018~present)
  • Aviation Safety Committee, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (2016~present)
  • Division Chair, Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center for Future (2016-present)
  • Chair, Naver News Algorithm Assessment Committee (2018)
  • Division Chair, Samsung Human Tech Award – Computer Science and Engineering Section Chair (2015-2017)
  • Planning & Assessment Committee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (2007 – present)
  • Committee for Assessment of Informatization Projects, Ministry of Culture and Tourism (2006 – present)
  • WTA (World Technopolis Association) Advisory Committee (2004 – present)
  • Advisory Committee, Korea Film Archive (KOFA) (2005-2007)
  • Committee for International Technology & Research Map (ITRM), KISTEP, Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) (2003)
  • Committee for National Technology & Research Map (NTRM), KISTEP, Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) (2002)
  • Committee for Practices of Information & Knowledge Resource Management Standardization, Ministry of Information & Communication (MIC) (2002-2003)
  • Advisory Committee for Cultural Heritage Digital Content, Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MOCT) (2000-2002)
  • Board of Assessment, Korean Research & Development Information Center (1996-1998)

• Lecture Series for Industry

  • Samsung SDS, Text Analytics (2010), Social Media Analytics and Text Mining (2013-2017), Text Mining (2019-present)
  • SK Hynix, Text Mining (2019)
  • KB Financial Group, Text Mining (2018)
  • National Institute of Development Administration(Thailand), Text Mining & Natural Language Processing (2017)

• Journal Editorial Board

  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (1999-2003, 2007- present)
  • Member, Information Processing and Management (International Journal) (1999 – Present)
  • Guest Editor, Special issue on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, Information Processing and Management: an International Journal (1998)
  • Member, Korea Information Science Society (1997-1998)
  • Member, Journal of Natural Language Processing (1996-Present)
  • Member, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (1995-Present)

• Conference Program Committee (Co-)Chair

  • International Symposium on Web Science and Technology, Feb. 24(2011)
  • Mobile Information Retrieval for Future (MIRF) Workshop, Nov. 26(2010)
  • ACM SIGIR Conference (2008)
  • AIRS (Asia Information Retrieval Symposium) (2004)
  • ICADL (International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries) (2003)
  • ACM SIGIR (2002)
  • International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages (1996)

• Conference Program Committee Member

  • ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) Conference (1999-2020)
  • EMNLP (2009, 2014-2020)
  • COLING (2020)
  • AAAI (2021)
  • ICWSM (2015-2016)
  • ACM SIGIR (1996 – 2019) General Members and Senior Members
  • AAAI AIW Track (2012)
  • WWW Web Science Track (2012)
  • World Wide Web Conference (2012~2013)
  • AAAI AIW Track Senior PC Member (2011)
  • RIAO (1997, 2010)
  • CIKM (2009)
  • ICADL (International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries) (2005, 2008)
  • ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2005)
  • Human Language Technology Conference (2005)
  • IJCNLP (International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) (2004): Area Chair for Information Retrieval
  • ACM-IEEE JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) (2004)
  • First Latin American Web Congress (2003)
  • ICCPOL (1998, 2003)
  • International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) (1999, 2000, 2003)
  • International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (1998, 1999, 2002)
  • ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Automatic Summarization (2000)
  • MT Summit Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval (1999)
  • NLPRS (1997, 1999)
  • ACM Digital Library Conference (1996, 1999)
  • KRNET ‘97
  • International Conference on Conceptual Structures (1993, 1994)
  • Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (1992-1994)
  • The 6th and 7th Conceptual Graphs Workshops (1990 – 1992)

• Conference Steering Committee Member

  • ICADL (International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries) (2008)
  • FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation) Workshop (2008)
  • KISS SIG-KLP (2007-)
  • AIRS (Asia Information Retrieval Symposium) (2004)
  • ICADL (International Conference on Digital Libraries) (2006 -)
  • KISS SIG-KLP (Korean Language Processing) (1999-2000)
  • IRAL (Information Retrieval with Asian Languages) – an International Workshop (1998-2003)

• Conference Organizing Committee (Co-)Chair

  • International Workshop on Disaster Management (2015)
  • International Workshop on Field Speech and Mobile Data (2013)
  • Social Web Internatioanl Workshop (2012) [Info]
  • AIRS (Asia Information Retrieval Symposium) (2005)
  • International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages (1996)
  • International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (1997) – with T. Ishikawa.

• Conference Organizing Committee Member

  •  WWW (2014)
  • International Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval Framework (MIRF) (2011)
  • NTCIR CLIR Workshop (2002-2004)
  • PRICAI Workshop on Cross-Language Issues in AI (1998)
  • The 25th Korean Information Science Society Conference (1998)
  • Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium ’95 (1995)

• Professional Society Membership

  • Korea Information Processing Society (1999 -)
  • Korea Information Science Society (1996 -)
  • Korean Society for Cognitive Science (1996 -)
  • Association for Computational Linguistics (1991 – )
  • American Society for Information Science (ASIS) (1988 -1994)
  • AAAI (1988 – )
  • IEEE Computer Society (1985 -)
  • ACM (1983 – )

Award

• Paper Contribution Award, KCC, KIISE, 2020.
• Award for Globalization, Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, 2016.
• Outstanding Faculty Award (International Collaborations), KAIST, 2012.
• Award for ‘Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics’ RFP, by Microsoft Research, 2007.
• 2002 Digital Innovation Award, Hankookilbo, 2002.
• Recipient of 1987 Catherine Ofiesh Ornar Award for the best student scholarly paper in Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1987.