Youngsook Song

Education

Experience

Awards

• 5th Hakcheon Park Yu-seo Young Scholar Award in Korean Linguistics (Doctoral Dissertation), 2024.
• Best Paper Award, Korean Language and Information Processing Conference, 2022.

Books (Author / Translator)

• Youngsook Song, Hyunjo Yu (trans.), "Statistics Textbook from Scratch with Python", Insight Publishing, 2024.12. (ISBN: 9788966264629)
• Youngsook Song, Sangjin Shim, Jaeseon Ko, Sumi Han (trans.), "Deep Learning Transfer Learning with Python", 2023.
• Joeun Park, Youngsook Song, "Korean Text Analysis for Everyone", Gilbut, 2023. (ISBN: 9791140704521)

Publications

Journals

1. Areum Kang, Youngsook Song, "A Comparative Study on Definiteness in Korean and Chinese Using Machine Translation and Coreference Resolution Corpora", Studies in Generative Grammar 35(1), 119-141, 2025.
2. Youngsook Song, Won Ik Cho, "A Study on Improving Speech Act Annotation Between Humans and AI Models", The Study of Language & Literature 52(1), 69-90, 2024.
3. Youngsook Song, Won Ik Cho, "Study on the Domain Adaption of Korean Speech Act using Daily Conversation Dataset and Petition Corpus", Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, NLP4DH, 2024.
4. Yunam Jeong, Youngsook Song, Hyunjo Yu, "A Study on Building Korean Nested Named Entity Corpus", Korean Linguistics 105, 309-344, 2023.
5. Hyeonkyu Shin, Hyunjo Yu, Youngsook Song, "A Quantitative and Qualitative Study for Automatic Generation of Commonsense Reasoning Dialogues Suitable for AI", Journal of KIISE 50(5), 2023.
6. Youngsook Song, Yunam Jeong, "Problems and Proposals for Automatic Classification of Ethics in Korean Dictionary Examples", Language & Information 26(2), 109-127, 2022.
7. Youngsook Song, Hyunjo Yu, Yunam Jeong, "A Study for Korean Nested Named Entity Analysis", Korean Semantics 76, 66-101, 2022.
8. Hyunjo Yu, Youngsook Song, Minsu Kim, Gihyeon Yun, Yunam Jeong, "Evaluation and Error Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Korean Named Entity Recognition", Language 46(3), 803-828, 2021.
9. Youngsook Song, Won Ik Cho, Jangwon Park, Sungdong Kim, "A Study on Cataphoric Expressions in Social Media News Headlines", Korean Semantics 71, 75-92, 2021.
10. Youngsook Song, Jisu Shim, Jaehyeok Oh, "Usage Patterns of Discourse Markers 'a', 'eo', 'eum' by Gender and Age", Phonetics and Speech Sciences 12(4), 37-45, 2020.

International Conferences

1. Dasol Choi, Seunghyun Lee, Youngsook Song, "Better Safe Than Sorry? Overreaction Problem of Vision Language Models in Visual Emergency Recognition", WACV 2026.
2. Dokyoon Yoon, Youngsook Song, Woomyoung Park, "Stop learning it all to mitigate visual hallucination, Focus on the hallucination target", CVPR, 4200-4208, 2025.
3. Dasol Choi, Woomyoung Park, Youngsook Song, "No Language Data Left Behind: A Comparative Study of CJK Language Datasets in the Hugging Face Ecosystem", EMNLP MRL Workshop, 2025.
4. Taeeun Kim, Semin Jeong, Youngsook Song, "KoGEC: Korean Grammatical Error Correction with Pre-trained Translation Models", PACLIC 38, 2024.
5. Won Ik Cho, Sangwhan Moon, Youngsook Song, "Revisiting Korean Corpus Studies through Technological Advances", PACLIC 2023.
6. Youngsook Song, Won Ik Cho, "Study on the Domain Adaption of Korean Speech Act using Daily Conversation Dataset and Petition Corpus", NLP4DH & IWCLUL, 2023.
7. Sungjoon Park, Jihyung Moon, Sungdong Kim, Won Ik Cho, Ji Yoon Han, Jangwon Park, Chisung Song, Junseong Kim, Youngsook Song, Taehwan Oh, et al., "KLUE: Korean Language Understanding Evaluation", NeurIPS (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), 2021.
8. Won Ik Cho, Sangwhan Moon, Youngsook Song, "Open Korean corpora: A practical report", NLP-OSS, EMNLP Workshop, 85-93, 2020.

Domestic Conferences

1. Youngsook Song, Jeongseok Kang, Taeeun Kim, Hyunjo Yu, Eunjin Hwang, "Korean Text Style Transfer for Preserving Original Meaning: Synthetic Data Generation and Large-Scale Evaluation", HCLT, 2025.
2. Youngsook Song, Areum Kang, "Multifaceted Korean Performance Evaluation of GPT-4 Using Coreference Resolution Datasets", HCLT 36, 335-339, 2024.
3. Areum Kang, Youngsook Song, "Definiteness Meets Coreference Resolution: Application of Deep Learning Language Models", HCLT 36, 576-580, 2024.
4. Hyeonkyu Shin, Youngsook Song, "A Quantitative and Qualitative Study for Automatic Generation of Commonsense Sentences Suitable for AI", HCLT 34, 153-159, 2022.
5. Yunam Jeong, Youngsook Song, Hyunjo Yu, "Practice of Building Korean Nested Named Entity Corpus", World Korean Language Festival, 2022.
6. Youngsook Song, Yunam Jeong, "Automatic Ethics Discrimination in Korean Dictionary Examples", KGGSA-KLISA Joint Conference, 2022.
7. Youngsook Song, Yunam Jeong, Hyunjo Yu, "A Study for Korean Nested Named Entity Analysis", 49th Korean Semantics Society Conference, 2022.
8. Sunghyeon Kim, Youngsook Song, Chisung Song, Jiyoon Han, "A Study on Semantic Ambiguity in Korean Named Entity Recognition", HCLT, 203-208, 2021.
9. Hyunjo Yu, Yunam Jeong, Youngsook Song, Minsu Kim, Gihyeon Yun, "Current Status and Prospects of Korean Named Entity Recognition", LSK Summer Conference, 178-192, 2021.

Patents

• "Dynamic Model Placement and Swap Methodology Based on Memory Transfer Performance in Heterogeneous GPU Cluster Environments"
  Application No. 10-2026-0034417, Filed 2026-02-25
• "Local and Cloud Hybrid Inference Routing Method and Device Based on Resource Status and Request Characteristic Analysis"
  Application No. 10-2026-0030683, Filed 2026-02-19
• "Domain-Specialized Expert Routing Method and Device Based on Mixture of Experts Model"
  Application No. 10-2026-0022127, Filed 2026-02-04
• Dokyoon Yoon, Youngsook Song, Woomyoung Park, "Training Method and Electronic Device for Multi-Modal Models"
  Application No. 10-2024-0192809, Filed 2024-12-20

Research Projects

Teaching

• Dankook University, Dept. of Korean Language & Literature, "AI and Humanities", Spring 2026.

Datasets / Open Source

Academic Service

• Langcon Conference Organizer, annually 2021 ~ 2026
• NLP4DH Program Committee, 2025.
• Big Contest Judge, 2023.

Invited Talks & Presentations

2025

• Suncheon National University, "AI Reading Language, Data Changing Society", 2025.05.04.
• IT Book Talk, Translation and Literature Panel Discussion, 2025.05.18.
• Dankook University, Lecture for Incoming Students, 2025.05.19.
• Dankook University, Career and Entrepreneurship Lecture, 2025.05.27.
• Kyung Hee University, Humanities Career Exploration Lecture, 2025.11.03.
• 2026 AI Leading Company Growth Strategy Seminar, 2025.11.20.
• 2025 Langcon Conference, Organizer & Speaker, 2025.

2024

• Hallym Academy of Sciences, "Analysis of Korean Open Source Corpora", 2024.05.
• Hallym University MHC4.0, AI-Based Coding Education Seminar for Non-Majors, 2024.08.10.
• ETRI Open Source Tech Day 2024, "Sustainable Growth and the Role of Open Source Communities", 2024.10.15.
• KGGSA-KLISA Joint Conference, "Definiteness in Korean and Chinese", 2024.11.09.

2023

• Hanyang University Book Concert, Korean Text Analysis Co-author Discussion, 2023.
• Korean Corpus Linguistics Society (Yonsei), "Evaluating AI Language Abilities Using Table-Based Similar Sentence Corpora", 2023.
• HCLT Conference (Jeju), "Conversational Generation Model and Human Rights Corpus Construction", Poster, 2023.
• Korean Language Education Research Society (Seoul National Univ.), "Speech Act Analysis and NLG Research in Daily Conversation", 2023.

Miscellaneous

• Technical Blog Editor (KO/EN/JA): blog.sionic.ai
• 3 Hackathon Participations, 2024.

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