David Seunghyun Yoon
Research Scientist
Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, US
mysmilesh@gmail.com
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I am a Research Scientist at Adobe Research. My research interests are in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). I am particularly interested in understanding long texts for question answering systems and learning language representation for NLP tasks. Further interests lie in applying and integrating NLP research with other disciplines to tackle practical issues; understanding multimodal information (i.e., text, audio, and visual) and NLP for social good.
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in 2020 with the Distinguished Dissertation Award, where I was fortunate to be advised by Dr. Kyomin Jung. Prior to Seoul National University, I had involved critical initiatives for the engineering and innovation of AI and machine learning while I was a staff software engineer at Samsung Research Artificial Intelligence Center (2006-2017).
News
- Apr. 2022 : Two paper (image captioning, multimodal intent discovery) are accepted to NAACL 2022 Findings.
- Apr. 2022 : Our paper (fake news detection) is accepted to ACL CONSTRAINT 2022.
- Dec. 2021 : Our paper (Conversational Image Editing) is accepted to AAAI 2022.
- Dec. 2021 : I gave a talk at Korea University, "Mutimodal Evaluation Metric and Image Captioning Model"
- Dec. 2021 : Our patent (mutimodal speech understanding) has issued.
- Sep. 2021 : Our patent (QA) has issued.
- Aug. 2021 : Two papers (1 main-fewshot intent detection, 1 findings-metric for captioning) are accepted to EMNLP 2021.
- May. 2021 : Two papers (unreferenced metric for captioning, medical QU) are accepted to ACL 2021.
- Mar. 2021 : Our paper (QA+summarization) is accepted to NAACL BioNLP 2021.
- Mar. 2021 : Our paper (metric for generative QA) is accepted to NAACL 2021.
- Jan. 2021 : One paper (fakenews detection) is accepted for publication in IEEE Access 2021.
Academic Activities
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Service:
Program Committee, NAACL (2019, 2021), ACL (2020, 2021), EMNLP (2019, 2020, 2021), AACL (2020), EACL (2021)
Program Committee, AAAI (2020, 2021, 2022), WWW (2021), INTERSPEECH (2019)
Journal Reviewer, Information Processing and Management, 2020
Journal Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2020
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Invited Talks:
Mutimodal Evaluation Metric and Image Captioning Model, Korea Univ., Dec. 2021
Recent Advancements in NLP for QA, LM, and Evaluation Metric, Dongguk Univ., Sep. 2020
Understanding Long Texts for Question Answering System Using DNN, KAIST/IBS, Jul. 2020
Question Answering System for Long Text, Adobe Research (San Jose, CA, US), Dec. 2019
Question Answering System and Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition, DEEPEST, Aug. 2019
Research in Natural Language Processing, NVIDIA AI Conference, Jul. 2019
Question Answering for Short Answer, Adobe Research (San Jose, CA, US), Dec. 2018
QA-pair ranking algorithm and its applications, NAVER, Aug. 2018
Learning to Rank Question-Answer Pairs, PyTorch KR, Jun. 2018
Advancement of the Neural Dialogue Model, Fast campus, Jul. 2018
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Teaching Assistant:
Programming Methodology, Seoul National University, Spring 2018
Machine Learning, Seoul National University, Fall 2015
Lab. Sentiment Analysis, BigCamp (Big Data Academy), Big Data Institute, 2016-2019
Professional Experiences
- NLP Research Scientist: Adobe Research (San Jose, CA, US), 2020-present
- Research Scientist Intern: Adobe Research (San Jose, CA, US), Fall 2018
- Staff Engineer: Samsung Research (Seoul, KR), 2006-2017
- Representative of employees: Samsung Electronics (Seoul, KR), 2012-2014
- Trainer of Global New Employee Course: Samsung Electronics (Seoul, KR), Spring 2011
Publications
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Fine-grained Image Captioning with CLIP Reward
J Cho, S Yoon, A Kale, F Dernoncourt, T Bui, M Bansal
NAACL Findings 2022 -
Video-based Multimodal Intent Discovery
A Maharana, QH Tran, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, T Bui, W Chang, M Bansal
NAACL Findings 2022 -
How does fake news use a thumbnail? CLIP-based Multimodal Detection on the Unrepresentative News Image
H Choi, Y Yoon, S Yoon, K Park
ACL CONSTRAINT 2022 -
CAISE: Conversational Agent for Image Search and Editing
[pdf]
[code]
H Kim, DS Kim, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, T Bu, M Bansal
AAAI 2022 -
Few-Shot Intent Detection via Contrastive Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning
[pdf]
J Zhang, T Bui, S Yoon, X Chen, Z Liu, C Xia, QH Tran, W Chang, P Yue
EMNLP 2021 -
QACE: Asking Questions to Evaluate an Image Caption
[pdf]
[code]
H Lee, T Scialom, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, K Jung
EMNLP Findings 2021 -
A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding
[pdf]
K Mrini, F Dernoncourt, S Yoon, T Bui, W Chang, E Farcas, N Nakashole
ACL 2021 -
UMIC: An Unreferenced Metric for Image Captioning via Contrastive Learning
[pdf]
[code]
H Lee, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, T Bui, K Jung
ACL 2021 -
UCSD-Adobe at MEDIQA 2021: Transfer Learning and Answer Sentence Selection for Medical Summarization
[pdf]
K Mrini, F Dernoncourt, S Yoon, T Bui, W Chang, E Farcas, N Nakashole
NAACL BioNLP 2021 -
KPQA: A Metric for Generative Question Answering Using Keyphrase Weights
[pdf]
[code / checkpoint]
H Lee, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui, J Shin, K Jung
NAACL 2021 -
Learning to Detect Incongruence in News Headline and Body Text via a Graph Neural Network
[pdf]
[code]
(SCIE, IF=3.745)
S Yoon*, K Park*, M Lee, T Kim, M Cha, K Jung
IEEE Access 2021 -
Collaborative Training of GANs in Continuous and Discrete Spaces for Text Generation
[pdf]
(SCIE, IF=3.745)
Y Kim, S Won, S Yoon, K Jung
IEEE Access 2020 -
ViLBERTScore: Evaluating Image Caption Using Vision-and-Language BERT
[pdf]
[code / checkpoint]
H Lee, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui, K Jung
EMNLP Eval4NLP 2020 -
Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition using Cross Attention with Aligned Audio and Text
[pdf]
Y Lee, S Yoon, K Jung
INTERSPEECH 2020 -
Fast and Accurate Deep Bidirectional Language Representations for Unsupervised Learning
[pdf]
[code / checkpoint]
(acceptance rate: 25.2%)
J Shin, Y Lee, S Yoon, K Jung
ACL 2020 -
Propagate-Selector: Detecting Supporting Sentences for Question Answering via Graph Neural Networks
[pdf]
[code]
S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui, K Jung
LREC 2020 -
Drug-disease Graph: Predicting Adverse Drug Reaction Signals via Graph Neural Network with Clinical Data
[pdf]
[slide]
(oral presentation, accpetance rate: 21%)
H Kwak, M Lee, S Yoon, J Chang, S Park, K Jung
PAKDD 2020 -
DSTC8-AVSD: Multimodal Semantic Transformer Network with Retrieval Style Word Generator
[pdf]
H Lee, S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui, K Jung
AAAI 2020 DSTC8 -
Comparative Studies on Machine Learning for Paralinguistic Signal Compression and Classification
[pdf]
(SCI, IF=2.157)
S Byun*, S Yoon*, K Jung
Journal of Supercomputing 2020 -
Attentive Modality Hopping Mechanism for Speech Emotion Recognition
[pdf]
[code]
[slide]
(oral presentation)
S Yoon, S Dey, H Lee, K Jung
IEEE ICASSP 2020 -
BaitWatcher: A lightweight web interface for the detection of incongruent news headlines
[pdf]
[book]
K Park, T Kim, S Yoon, M Cha, K Jung
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media-Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities, Springer 2020 -
A Compare-Aggregate Model with Latent Clustering for Answer Selection
[pdf]
[slide]
[poster]
(oral presentation, accpetance rate: 21.2%)
S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui, K Jung
CIKM 2019 -
Surf at MEDIQA 2019: Improving Performance of Natural Language Inference in the Clinical Domain by Adopting Pre-trained Language Model
[pdf]
[poster]
J Nam, S Yoon, K Jung
ACL BioNLP 2019 -
Speech Emotion Recognition Using Multi-hop Attention Mechanism
[pdf]
[slide]
(oral presentation)
S Yoon, S Byun, S Dey, K Jung
IEEE ICASSP 2019 -
Neural Networks for Compressing and Classifying Speaker-Independent Paralinguistic Signals
[pdf]
S Byun, S Yoon, K Jung
IEEE BigComp 2019 -
Detecting Incongruity Between News Headline and Body Text via a Deep Hierarchical Encoder
[pdf]
[code]
[slide]
[poster]
(oral presentation, accpetance rate: 16.2%)
S Yoon*, K Park*, J Shin, H Lim, S Won, M Cha, K Jung
AAAI 2019 -
Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition using Audio and Text
[pdf]
[code]
[poster]
S Yoon, S Byun, K Jung
IEEE SLT 2018 -
Comparative Studies of Detecting Abusive Language on Twitter
[pdf]
[code]
 
Y Lee*, S Yoon*, K Jung
EMNLP ALW 2018 -
Learning to Rank Question-Answer Pairs using Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder with Latent Topic Clustering
[pdf]
[code]
[poster]
[video_kor]
(acceptance rate: 31%)
S Yoon, J Shin, K Jung
NAACL 2018 -
Contextual-CNN: A Novel Architecture Capturing Unified Meaning for Sentence Classification
[pdf]
J Shin, Y Kim, S Yoon, K Jung
IEEE BigComp 2018 -
Synonym Discovery with Etymology-based Word Embeddings
[pdf]
S Yoon, P Estrada, K Jung
IEEE SSCI 2017 -
Efficient Transfer Learning Schemes for Personalized Language Modeling using Recurrent Neural Network
[pdf]
S Yoon, H Yun, Y Kim, G Park, K Jung
AAAI 2017 (Workshop) -
Automatic Question Answering System for Consumer Product
[pdf]
S Yoon, M Sundar, A Gupta, K Jung
IntelliSys 2016 -
Mining the Minds of Customers from Online Chat Logs
[pdf]
(accpetance rate: 21%)
K Park, J Kim, J Park, M Cha, J Nam, S Yoon, E Rhim
CIKM 2015 -
Domain Question Answering System
S Yoon, E Rhim, D Kim
KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices 2015 -
Media clips: Implementation of an intuitive media linker
[pdf]
S Yoon, K Lee, H Shin
IEEE BMSB 2011
[2022]
[2021]
[2020]
[2019]
[2018 and earlier]
Patents
[ International Patents ]
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[issued]
Utilizing a graph neural network to identify supporting text phrases and generate digital query responses
[link]
S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui
US 11,271,876, Mar. 8, 2022 -
[issued]
Utilizing bi-directional recurrent encoders with multi-hop attention for speech emotion recognition
[link]
T Bui, S Dey, S Yoon
US 11,205,444, Dec. 21, 2021 -
[issued]
Answer selection using a compare-aggregate model with language model and condensed similarity information from latent clustering
[link]
S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, T Bui, DS Kim, CI Dockhorn, Y Gong
US 11,113,323, Sep. 7, 2021 -
[issued]
Terminal apparatus, server and method of controlling the same
[link]
Y Kim, O Kwon, S Kim, H Oh, S Yoon, S Cha, J Lee
US 10,084,850, CN 201410085759, EP20140154718, Sep. 25, 2018 -
Method and device for analyzing user's emotion
[link]
E Rhim, J Kim, J Nam, S Yoon, K Park, J Park, M Cha
WO2016182393, May. 13, 2016 -
[issued]
Method of recommending application, mobile terminal using the method, and communication system using the method
[link]
J Nam, M Lee, M Koo, S Yoon
US 9,247,376, Jan. 26, 2016   -
[issued] 
Method and apparatus for displaying photo on screen having any shape
[link]
S Yoon, M Lee
US 9,049,383, Jun. 2, 2015   -
[issued] 
Method and apparatus for providing information and computer readable storage medium having a program recorded thereon for executing the method
[link]
S Yoon, M Lee, M Koo, J Nam
US 8,958,824, Feb. 17, 2015   -
[issued] 
Apparatus and method for clipping and sharing content at a portable terminal
[link]
S Yoon, M Lee, M Koo, J Nam
US 13/629,394, CN103827913A, EP20120837007, PCT/KR1020110097578, May. 28, 2014 -
[issued] 
Method and apparatus for fast tracking position by using global positioning system
[link]
S Yoon, S Kim
US 8,094,070, Jan. 10, 2012  
[ Korean Patents ]
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[issued] 
Method and apparatus for emotion recognition based on cross attentionmodel
K Jung, Y Lee, S Yoon
KR 10-2365433, Feb. 16, 2022 -
Apparatus and method for evaluating sentense by using bidirectional language model
K Jung, J Shin, S Yoon
KR 1020190165712, Dec. 12, 2019 -
[issued] 
Artificial intelligence based dialog system and response control method thereof
K Jung, S Yoon, J Shin, H Kwak, S Byun
KR 10-2059015, Dec. 18, 2019 -
[issued] 
Terminal apparatus, server and method of controlling the same
Y Kim, O Kwon, S Kim, H Oh, S Yoon, S Cha, J Lee
KR 10-1832394, Feb. 20, 2018 -
[issued] 
Apparatus and method for collecting information of destination in portable terminal
S Yoon, J Nam, M Koo, M Lee
KR 10-1914632, Oct. 29, 2018 -
[issued] 
Method and apparatus for providing information, and computer readable storage medium
S Yoon, M Lee, M Koo, J Nam
KR 10-1773167, Aug. 24, 2017   -
[issued]
Method for recommendation of application, mobile terminal thereof and communication system thereof
J Nam, M Lee, M Koo, S Yoon
KR 10-1747303, Jun. 8, 2017   -
Device and method for analyzing user emotion
E Rhim, J Kim, J Nam, S Yoon, K Park, J Park, M Cha
KR 1020160058782, May. 13, 2016   -
[issued]
Method and apparatus for fast positioning using global positioning system
S Yoon, S Kim
KR 10-1564938, Oct. 27, 2015