About

The research activities in the IR & NLP Lab at KAIST centers around Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), which form a foundation for a broad range of applications such as text mining, digital libraries with multimedia content, electronic commerce, semantic Web, etc.

Our research areas include:

Construction of a commonsense knowledge base and its use for various text-based applications
Automatic detection and categorization of genres, events, sentiments, emotions, and familarities
Geo-referenced information retrieval
Mobile search
Contextual ad searching
Automatic elicitation of semantic relationships from text and their use for IR
Semantic annotation of patent documents and their retrieval
Beyond searching and browsing
Automatic analysis of trends from text
Automatic summarization
Cross-language information retrieval
Distributed information retrieval
Digital libraries with virtual documents
Retrieval of structured data (SGML, X-XML, MPEG-7)