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Basics

Name Eunjung Yeo
Label Researcher, Computational Linguist
Email eyeo2@andrew.cmu.edu
Summary A computational linguist specializing in Speech AI applications for pathological speech, with a strong focus on computational phonetics and phonology.

Interests

Speech AI for atypcial speech
Dysarthric speech assessment
Intelligibility assessment
Cross-language assessment
Non-native speech assessment
Automatic phone recognition
Automatic speech recognition
Computational Linguistics
Computational Phonetics
Computational Phonology
Interpretability of speech AI models

Education

  • 2021.03 - 2024.08

    Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Ph.D.
    Seoul National University
    Computational Linguistics (spoken language processing)
    • Speech AI for atypical speech
    • Multilingual assessment for pathological speech
  • 2019.03 - 2021.02

    Seoul, Republic of Korea

    M.A.
    Seoul National University
    Computational Linguistics (spoken language processing)
    • Speech AI for Korean Dysarthric Speech
  • 2014.03 - 2018.02

    Seoul, Republic of Korea

    B.A.
    Yonsei University
    Korean Language and Literature, Psychology
    • Korean Linguistics
    • Education
    • Human Development

Projects

  • 2022.09 - 2024.08
    Development of Digital Therapeutics to Improve Communication Skills of Autistic Patients
    Developed an automatic detection system for children with autism.
  • 2021.09 - 2023.12
    Acquiring and Utilizing Audio Big Data for Healthcare Service Design
    Designed a speech corpus of chronic kidney disease patients and developed an automatic detection and severity classification system for chronic kidney disease patients.
  • 2022.09 - 2022.11
    Korean Speech Data for Western and Asian Language Users for Language Education
    Trained an automatic phonetic transcription model and pronunciation proficiency assessment toolkit for L2 English Korean speakers.
  • 2022.07 - 2022.11
    Multilingual Speech Data Collection for L2 Korean Learners
    Trained an automatic phonetic transcription model for L2 Korean speech.
  • 2019.09 - 2021.12
    Development of Intelligent Tool-Based Content Production and Enjoyment Support Technology Considering the Accessibility of the Weak in Social Communication
    Developed an automatic speech recognition system for children with autism.
  • 2019.08 - 2019.09
    A Study on the French Vowel Speech of Korean Learners
    Collected speech and nasometer measurements from L2 French Korean speakers.

Awards

  • 2022
    Silver Award @ Hackathon
    Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea National Information Society Agency, SNU AI Education Research Center, NS Devil
    Analysis on L2 Korean speech data from Western and Asian speakers for Language Education.
  • 2022
    Best Student Paper
    Oriental Cocosda
    Multilingual Analysis of Intelligibility Classification using English, Korean, and Tamil dysarthric speech datasets.
  • 2021
    Grand Prize @ AI data-based service contest, 'I can see your A.Idea'
    Korean National Information Society Agency (NIA)
    Automatic Screening of Cognitive Decline using Acoustic Features.
  • 2014.2017
    Academic excellence award (top 1%)
    Yonsei University
    Spring 2014; Spring 2017
  • 2014.2017
    Academic excellence award (top 10%)
    Yonsei University
    Fall 2015; Spring 2016; Fall 2017

Grants/scholarships

Volunteer

  • 2024 - Current
    Reviewer
    Interspeech, ICASSP, ACL (emergency review), JSLHR
    Reviewer for top speech conferences, sometimes NLP conferences, and speech pathology journals.
  • 2021 - 2022
    General Affairs
    Linguistic Research Society, Seoul National University
    General affairs of the Linguistics Department Graduate Student Association.
  • 2017 - 2017
    Volunteer
    Hearing Rehabilitation Center KT Dream Class, Severance Hospital
    Volunteer in art, music, and speech pathology classes for hearing rehabilitation children.
  • 2014 - 2014
    Volunteer
    College Residents' Association
    Student Council at Yongjae House.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Speech and Language Processing (Spring 2023)
Introduction to Computational Linguistics (Spring 2022)
Bilingualism (Spring 2021; Fall 2021; Fall 2022)
Introduction to Linguistics (Spring 2020; Fall 2020)
Invited Talks
Introducing OpenAI Whisper @ Korea Development Bank; Korean National Police University (2023)
Cross-lingual Dysarthria Severity Classification for English, Korean, and Tamil @ SNU (2022)
Mentorship
Graduate-Undergraduate student mentoring @ SNU (2019)
Undergraduate-High school student mentoring @ Yonsei University (2017)

Skills

ML Libraries
PyTorch
Huggingface
ASR
Kaldi
ESPnet
Data Anlaytics
matplotlib
SciPy
Pandas
SPSS
praat

Certificates

Korean Language & Literature Teacher Certificate
Yonsei University (#11792)

Languages

Korean
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Chinese
Beginner
German
Reading