Me

David Seunghyun Yoon
Research Scientist

PhD Candidate
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Seoul National Unviersity

mysmilesh@gmail.com
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I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Machine Intelligence Lab. at Seoul National University. I am advised by Prof. Kyomin Jung at Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before coming to SNU, I was a senior software engineer at Samsung artificial intelligence (AI) research center.

My research interests are in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). In particular, I am interested in the question-answering system and emotional dialogue model.

Keywords: NLP, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

News

Dec. 2019 : One patent (dialogue) is issued in Korea (10-2059015).

Dec. 2019 : One paper (multimodal dialogue) is accepted to AAAI 2020 workshop on DSTC8.

Nov. 2019 : One paper (incongruent news article) is accepted as a book chapter on FNDM, Springer 2020

Aug. 2019 : One paper (QA) is accepted to ACM CIKM 2019.

Jul. 2019 : I gave a talk at NVIDIA AI Conference, "Research in Natural Language Processing"

Jun. 2019 : One paper is accepted to ACL 2019 workshop on BioNLP.

May. 2019 : I am awarded the Google Conference and Travel Scholarships for the ICASSP-19 paper.

Feb. 2019 : One paper is (multimodal speech emotion) accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2019 as oral presentation.

Dec. 2018 : One paper is (feature compression) accepted to IEEE BigComp 2019.

Nov. 2018 : One paper is accepted (incongruent news article) to AAAI 2019 as oral presentation.

Sep. 2018 : One paper (multimodal speech emotion) is accepted to IEEE SLT 2018.

Aug. 2018 : One paper (abusive language) is accepted to EMNLP 2018 workshop on ALW2.

Aug. 2018 : I gave a talk at Naver, "QA-pair ranking algorithm and its applications"

Jul. 2018 : I gave a talk at Paper Day 2018, PyTorch KR

Jul. 2018 : I gave a talk at Fast campus, "Advancement of the Neural Dialogue Model"

Jun. 2018 : One paper (QA) is accepted to NAACL 2018.

Jan. 2018 : One paper is accepted to IEEE BigComp 2018.

Academic Activities

Teaching Assistant:
Programming Methodology, Seoul Nat’l Univ., Spring 2018
Lab. Sentiment Analysis, BigCamp (Big Data Academy), Big Data Institute, 2016-2018
Topics in Computer and VLSI (Machine Learning), Seoul Nat’l Univ., Fall 2015

Invited Talks:
Research in Natural Language Processing, NVIDIA AI Conference, Jul. 2019
QA-pair ranking algorithm and its applications, Naver, Aug. 2018
Advancement of the Neural Dialogue Model, Fast campus, Jul. 2018

Service:
Program Committee of NAACL-19, EMNLP-19, INTERSPEECH-19, AAAI-20

Professional Experiences

Research Scientist Intern: Adobe Research (San Jose, CA, US), 2018

Senior Engineer: Samsung AI Research Center (Seoul, KR), 2006-2017

Representative of employees: Samsung, 2012-2014

Trainer of Global New Employee Course: Samsung, 2011

Publications

Attentive Modality Hopping Mechanism for Speech Emotion Recognition [paper] [code]
S Yoon, S Dey, H Lee, K Jung
arXiv:1912:00846

Propagate-Selector: Detecting Supporting Sentences for Question Answering via Graph Neural Networks [paper]
S Yoon, F Dernoncourt, DS Kim, T Bui, K Jung
arXiv:1908.09137

DSTC8-AVSD: AVSD with Word Embedding Attention Network (to appear)
H Lee, S Yoon, K Jung
AAAI 2020 (Workshop on DSTC8)

BaitWatcher: A lightweight web interface for the detection of incongruent news headlines (to appear)
K Park, T Kim, S Yoon, M Cha, K Jung
Fake News, Disinformation, and Misinformation in Social Media-Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities, Springer 2020

A Compare-Aggregate Model with Latent Clustering for Answer Selection [paper] [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 [paper] [poster]
J Nam, S Yoon, K Jung
ACL 2019 (Workshop)

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Multi-hop Attention Mechanism [paper] [slide]
(oral presentation)
S Yoon, S Byun, S Dey, K Jung
IEEE ICASSP 2019

Neural Networks for Compressing and Classifying Speaker-Independent Paralinguistic Signals [paper]
S Byun, S Yoon, K Jung
IEEE BigComp 2019

Detecting Incongruity Between News Headline and Body Text via a Deep Hierarchical Encoder [paper] [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 [paper] [code] [poster]
S Yoon, S Byun, K Jung
IEEE SLT 2018

Comparative Studies of Detecting Abusive Language on Twitter [paper] [code]
Y Lee, S Yoon, K Jung
EMNLP 2018 (Workshop)

Learning to Rank Question-Answer Pairs using Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder with Latent Topic Clustering [paper] [code] [poster] [video_kor]
(acceptance rate: 31%)
S Yoon, J Shin, K Jung
NAACL HLT 2018

Contextual-CNN: A Novel Architecture Capturing Unified Meaning for Sentence Classification [paper]
J Shin, Y Kim, S Yoon, K Jung
IEEE BigComp 2018

Synonym Discovery with Etymology-based Word Embeddings [paper]
S Yoon, P Estrada, K Jung
IEEE SSCI 2017

Efficient Transfer Learning Schemes for Personalized Language Modeling using Recurrent Neural Network [paper]
S Yoon, H Yun, Y Kim, G Park, K Jung
AAAI 2017 (Workshop)

Automatic Question Answering System for Consumer Product [paper]
S Yoon, M Sundar, A Gupta, K Jung
IntelliSys 2016

Mining the Minds of Customers from Online Chat Logs [paper]
(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 [paper]
S Yoon, K Lee, H Shin
IEEE BMSB 2011

Patents

[ International Patents ]

[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] Method and apparatus for fast tracking position by using global positioning system [link]
S Yoon, S Kim
US 8,094,070, Jan. 10, 2012

Device and method for analyzing user emotion
E Rhim, J Kim, J Nam, S Yoon, K Park, J Park, M Cha
PCT/KR1020160058782, May. 13, 2016

User terminal device, information providing system, and method for providing information [link]
Y Won, S Yoon, O Kwon, M Kim, H Oh, S Lee, S Cha
US 14/511,506, EP20140185800, Oct. 10, 2014

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 14/250,081, CN 201410085759, EP20140154718, Apr. 10, 2014

Apparatus and method for searching with consideration user's action [link]
S Yoon, M Lee, M Koo, J Nam
US 13/631,353, Sep. 28, 2012

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, CN 201280047213, EP20120837007, PCT/KR1020110097578, Sep. 27, 2012

Apparatus and method for correcting position information of portable terminal in multi-path zone [link]
S Yoon
US 13/604,528, Sep. 5, 2012

Method and apparatus for connecting devices [link]
K Kim, J Lee, W Park, H Shim, Y Park, M Lee, M Koo, S Yoon, J Nam
US 13/452,766, EP20120162473, PCT/KR1020110037351 , Apr. 20, 2012

Method and apparatus for crawling webpages [link]
S Yoon, S Maeng, J Huh, S Seo, J Kim, J Park
US 13/116,785, May. 26, 2011

[ Korean Patents ]

[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] 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

[issued] Method and apparatus for fast positioning using global positioning system
S Yoon, S Kim
KR 10-1564938, Oct. 27, 2015

Apparatus and method for evaluating sentense by using bidirectional language model
K Jung, J Shin, S Yoon
KR 1020190165712, Dec. 12, 2019

Method and apparatus for changing personal information
S Yoon, S Lee, O Kwon, M Kim, H Oh, Y Won, S Cha
KR 1020130122222, Oct. 14, 2013

Apparatus and method for setting manner mode in portable terminal
J Nam, M Lee, M Koo, S Yoon
KR 1020110113927, Nov. 3, 2011