Curriculum Vitae
Woosung Kim
Business Address:
Home Address:
Center for Speech and Language Processing
Department of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
4014 Linkwood Rd. #F
Baltimore, MD 21210
Tel : (410) 889–8235
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel : (410) 516–7231 or 5409
Fax : (410) 516–5050
Email : woosung@cs.jhu.edu
URL : http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ woosung
P ERSONAL
INFORMATION
Nationality Korea
Visa Status F1
D EGREES
Ph.D. student The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Department of Computer Science , 1998 – present
Focus Area: Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing
M.S.E. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Department of Computer Science , 2000
Focus Area: Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing
M.S. Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 1992
Focus Area: Neural Networks, Character Recognition
Thesis Title : A Design and Implementation of a Korean and Chinese Character Document Reader
using Neural Networks
B.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea.
Department of Computer Science, 1990
Focus Area: Speech Signal Processing, Speech Recognition
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Woosung Kim
A DDITIONAL
EDUCATION
A Participant of the 4th ELSNET Summer school on Dialogue Systems
1996. 7. 8 – 1996. 7. 19
Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.
A Participant of the 1st ELSNET Summer school on Prosody
1993. 7. 12 – 1993. 7. 23
University College London, U.K.
E XPERIENCE
Summer Intern
SpeechWorks International Inc.
695 Atlantic Avenue, Boston MA 02111
June 2001 to Aug. 2001.
Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Sep. 1998 to May 2001.
Member of Technical Staff
Spoken Language Research Team
Korea Telecom Research Laboratories
Feb. 1992 to Aug. 1998.
Teaching Assistant
Pohang University of Science and Technology
March 1990 to Feb. 1992.
P ROJECTS
A Study on Telecommunication System based on Spoken Language Processing. Korea Telecom Multimedia Technology Research Laboratory, 1996 – 1998.
A Study on Korean Speech Recognition for the Automatic Interpreting Telephony, Korea Telecom Multimedia Technology Research Laboratory, 1995.
A Study on the Automatic Interpreting Telephony, Korea Telecom Software Research Laboratory 1992
– 1994.
Development of a Korean Document Formatting System(Korean LATEX), Pohang University of Science
and Technology, 1991 – 1992.
Design of a Neural Network Description Language, Pohang University of Science and Technology,
1990 – 1991.
Study on the Human Recognition of Hanguel(Korean) Characters, Pohang University of Science and
Technology, 1989 – 1990.
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C OMPUTER E XPERIENCE
Programming C/C++, PERL, Oracle, ML, Unix Shells, Sed, Awk, Yacc, Lex, Pascal, LISP, Assembler(SPIM), Motif, OpenLook, X11.
Operating Systems UNIX, MS-Windows.
Software CMU-Cambridge Language Modeling Toolkit, SRI Language Modeling Toolkit, AT&T Finite
State Machine Toolkit
H ONORS
The Best Poster Award in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, 1992.
M EMBERSHIPS
The ESCA(European Speech Communication Association) Member 1997 – 1998
The Neurocomputing Research Society of Korea Information Science Society Regular Member 1990 –
1994
The Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics Student Member 1990 – 1992
The Korea Information Science Society Student Member 1990 – 1992
PATENTS
Efficient Speech Database Construction System for Speech Recognizer, Woosung Kim, Jae-In Kim,
1997.
P UBLICATIONS
Papers at Refereed International Conferences
ICSLP2002 Sanjeev Khudanpur and Woosung Kim
Using Cross-Language Cues for Story-Specific Language Modeling
in Proc. 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 513-516,
Denver, CO USA, Sep. 2002.
EUROSPEECH2001 Woosung Kim, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Jun Wu
Smoothing Issues in the Structured Language Model
in Proc. 7th European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol. 1, pp. 717-720,
Aalborg, Denmark, Sep. 2001.
EUROSPEECH97 Woosung Kim and Myoung–Wan Koo
A Korean Speech Corpus for Train Ticket Reservation Aid System Based On Speech Recognition
in 5th Proc. European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol. 4, pp. 17231726, Sep. 1997.
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ICSP97 Woosung Kim and Myoung–Wan Koo
Statistical Corpus Analysis for KT–TREASURE : Korea Telecom Train ticket REservation
Aid System based Upon speech REcognition
in Proc. 14th Int. Conf. on Speech Processing, pp. 319-323, Aug. 1997.
KCOLC96 Woosung Kim, Du-Seong Chang, Jae-In Kim and Myoung-Wan Koo.
A Multi-lingual Speech Translation System for Hotel Reservation in Proc. ’96 2nd KOREAChina Joint Symposium on Oriental Language Computing, Oct. 1996.
EUROSPEECH95 Myoung-Wan Koo, Il-Hyun Sohn, Woo-Sung Kim and Du-Seong Chang
KT-STS : A Speech Translation System for Hotel Reservation and a Continuous Speech
Recognition System for Speech Translation
in Proc. 4th European Conf. on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 12271230, Sep. 1995.
IJCNN92 Woo-Sung Kim, Sung-Yang Bang.
An Efficient Approach to Read Documents with Korean and Chinese Characters Mixed
in Proc. Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks, 1992.
Papers in Refereed Domestic Journals
Woosung Kim, Myoung-Wan Koo.
An Implementation of Speech Recognition Rejection for Vocabulary Independent Speech
Recognition System
in Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea,
Woosung Kim, Myoung-Wan Koo, and et al.
A Speech Translation System for Hotel Reservation
in Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea, Vol 15, No. 4, pp. 24-31, 1996.
Woosung Kim and Sung-Yang Bang.
A Study on Korean and Chinese Character Document Recognition using Neural Networks,
in The Journal of the Korea Institute of Telematics and Electronics, Vol 29-B, No. 2, 1992.
Woosung Kim and Sung-Yang Bang.
Comparative Study and Development of Neural Network Simulator,
in Korea Information Science Society Review, Vol 9, No, 2, 1991.
Papers at Refereed Domestic Conferences
A Clustering algorithm of statistical language model and its application on speech recognition, in
Proc. of Conf. on Human Computer Interactions, 1996.
Speech Recognition System using Morphological Analysis, in Proc. on Speech Communications
and Signal Processing Workshop, 1996.
A Korean to Japanese and Korean to English speech translation system for Hotel reservation, in
Proc. on Speech Communications and Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 85-88, 1996.
An Experimental Speech Translation System for Hotel Reservation, in Proc. on Speech Communications and Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 105-108, 1995.
An Experimental Field Trial of Stock Information Retrieval System based on Speech Recognition,
in Proc. on Speech Communications and Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 241-244, 1994.
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A Development of a Korean and Chinese Character Document Reader using Neural Networks, in
Proc. on Korea Information Science Society Conf., April 1992.
A Study on the Korean Speech Database for Hotel Reservation, in Proc. of Korea Information
Science Society Conf., Oct. 1992.
Design of an Object-Oriented Neural Network Description Language, in Proc. on Korea Information Science Society Conf., April 1991.
Other Publications
Woosung Kim, An Empirical Study of Select Smoothing Techniques in Language Modeling for
Speech Recognition, Ph.D. Qualifying project report, The Johns Hopkins University, Aug.
2000.
Woosung Kim, A Study on Statistical Language Identification Ph.D. Qualifying project report,
The Johns Hopkins University, Jan. 2001.
October, 2002