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, Dept. of Computer Science, KAIST 335 Gwahangro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea 305-701 Tel: +82-42-350-3553 (off.) +82-42-350-7753 (lab.)

Interest

• Construction of a commonsense knowledge base and its use for various text-based applications
• Automatic extraction of theme, intension, and user preference from dialogues
• Automatic analysis of trends from text
• Script-based human-robot interaction
• Beyond searching and browsing
• Automatic elicitation of semantic relationships from text and their use for IR
• Automatic categorization and filtering of text based on content and genre
• Automatic summarization
• Cross-language information retrieval
• Distributed information retrieval
• Digital libraries with virtual documents
• Retrieval of structured data (SGML, XML, MPEG-7)

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

• Head, Web Science & Technology Division (2010.10 ~ present)
• Member, Board of Directors, Computer Intelligence Society, KIISE (2010 ~ present)
• Director, KAIST-Microsoft Research Collaboration Center (KMCC) (2010.8 ~ present)
• Professor, Department of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2009. 3 – present)
• 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 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)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University (1987 – 1988)
• Graduate Student Assistant, Interdisciplinary Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh (1986 – 1987). (worked as a research assistant for a NSF-funded project)
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Dallas (Summer, 1986).
• Lecturer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southern Methodist University (Summer, 1985 & 1986).
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southern Methodist University (1985-1986).
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southern Methodist University (Summer, 1985). (knowledge based systems area – DOD funded project)
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southern Methodist University (1983 – 1985). (Design and implementation of an information retrieval system -NSF funded)

Dean, Office of Academic Information Services, Information & Communications University (2005. 12 – 2008. 8 )

Professional Activities

• 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

  • ACM SIGIR (2012)
  • AAAI AIW Track (2012)
  • WWW Web Science Track (2012)
  • World Wide Web Conference (2012)
  • AAAI AIW Track Senior PC Member (2011)
  • ACL Conference (2011)
  • ACM SIGIR Senior (2010)
  • ACL (2010)
  • RIAO (2010)
  • ACL/IJCNLP Joint Conference (2009)
  • CIKM (2009)
  • EMNLP (2009)
  • ACL/HLT (2008)
  • ICADL (2008)
  • ACM SIGIR Conference, Senior PC Member (2007)
  • ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2005)
  • ICADL (International Conference on Asian 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 ’2003 (2003)
  • The 6th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) (2003)
  • 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (2002)
  • ACM SIGIR (2001), Area coordinator
  • The 5th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) (2000)
  • ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Automatic Summarization (2000)
  • ACM SIGIR ‘00 (2000)
  • Asian Digital Libraries Conference (1999)
  • International Workshop on IR with Asian Languages (IRAL) (1999)
  • The 2nd Conference on Digital Libraries (1999)
  • MT Summit Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval (1999)
  • NLPRS ’99 (1999)
  • ACM Digital Library Conference (1999)
  • ACM SIGIR ’99 (1999)
  • ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) Conference (1999)
  • The 1st Conference on Digital Libraries, Korea (1998)
  • ICCPOL ’98 (1998)
  • ACM SIGIR ’98 (1998)
  • RIAO ’97 (1997)
  • NLPRS ’97 (1997)
  • ACM SIGIR ’97 (1997)
  • KRNET ‘97
  • ACM SIGIR ’96
  • The First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (1996)
  • The Second International Conference on Conceptual Structures (1994)
  • The First International Conference on Conceptual Structures (1993)
  • ACM SIGIR ’93
  • 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 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

  • MIRF Workshop (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)

• Government Committee Member

  • 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)

• Officer

  • President, Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in America (KSEA) Upstate New York Chapter (1992-1993)

• Honor

  • Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 10th Anniversary Edition (2008-2009)

• Others

  • Advisory board member for Asia Information Retrieval Society (AIRS) Conference (2008 ~ present)
  • Reviewer for 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora
  • Referee for a special issue on Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (1998)
  • Reviewer for ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources (1991-1994)
  • Reviewer for Journal of ASIS (1990 – )

• 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

• 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.