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Feb 23, 2020

Algorithmic (Nerdy) Approach to find a room in Tokyo #1

Wisdom adopted from <Algorithms to Live by> by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths — Location, distance to the nearest train station, size of the room, number of windows, exposure to sunlight, room structure, the year the house is built, neighborhood vibe, and so on: there were countless factors to consider when I was looking for a new room. It is an important decision —…

Japan

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Algorithmic (Nerdy) Approach to find a room in Tokyo #1

Published in Jiho’s startup & tech experience

·Sep 2, 2018

Leaving academia for a startup

Finishing up two years of MPhil degree, what’s next? — Two years in Academia was great. In Summer 2016, I decided to start a new life as a postgraduate research student in the area of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. My primary goal was to become a person who can understand the field (able to read and understand…

Machine Learning

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Published in Jiho’s startup & tech experience

·Aug 23, 2018

Reducing Gender Bias in Automatic Abusive Language Detection

How do we make AI models less biased? — Our work is accepted to the Conference of Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2018 as a short paper. It will be presented at Brussels, Belgium in this coming November! See the arxiv version.

Machine Learning

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Reducing Gender Bias in Automatic Abusive Language Detection

Published in Jiho’s startup & tech experience

·Aug 3, 2018

Does Google Translate make Language Education obsolete?

Thoughts on language education in the era of artificial intelligence — “Language is not an objective, but a means of studying.” I shouted this sentence every week during my high school. At that time, I simply thought it was a slogan to make us abide by the school’s rule that requires us to speak English and did not put much meaning…

Language

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Jul 19, 2018

Finding Good Representations of Emotions for Text Classification

Abstract of my Master of Philosophy Thesis — Hi, finally I am doing my thesis defence, which will be the end of my study in HKUST. This is the abstract and everyone is welcome to join! Date & Time: July 30th, 2018, 10am Venue: Room 2404 (Lift 17–18), 2F Academic Building, HKUST It is important for machines to…

Machine Learning

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Finding Good Representations of Emotions for Text Classification

Published in Jiho’s startup & tech experience

·Apr 24, 2018

Teaching machines to read emotions in texts with emojis and hashtags

Grasping other person’s emotions or sentiments through a text is challenging even for humans sometimes. I bet you also have an experience that once you were reading someone’s message multiple times to figure out, “Is he/she upset? Or am I too sensitive?” Emotion and sentiment in textual communication are often…

Machine Learning

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Teaching machines to read emotions in texts with emojis and hashtags

Oct 10, 2016

(My) Systematic Approach of Life

I am a person whose happiness is co-related to my productivity (especially work). At the same time, I do not trust my own willpower too much to keep my productivity high, because I know that I am just an imperfect human who want to slack off doing nothing. I tend…

Productivity

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Jul 31, 2016

Summer Scenes — Korea 2016

This summer weather is the best ever in my life —

Korea

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Published in Jiho’s startup & tech experience

·May 15, 2016

Next 다음

I finally decided to what to do after graduation — research in the area of artificial intelligence. It was indeed a surprising decision — even for myself — to jump into resea …

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May 8, 2016

Grow up

“People say men grow up after coming back from the army, but I promise myself I won’t grow up ever.” This quote is the first line on one of my blog posts I wrote just before I got off from the military service. What I meant by “growing up” at…

Life Lessons

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