▶ Education
˚ Sogang University, Seoul, Korea 
 Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2003.2
 Thesis title: A Statistical Model for Identifying Grammatical Relations in Korean Sentences
˚ Sogang University, Seoul, Korea  
 M.S. in Computer Science, 1998.2
 Thesis title: Dependency Structure Analysis System for Korean Sentences Using Automatically Acquired

  Transformation Rules
˚ Sogang University, Seoul, Korea 
 B.S. in Computer Science, 1996.2

 

▶ Experience 
2019. 8 ~ present: Research Scholar at Florida State University
2007. 3 ~ present: Full Professor at Korea National Univ. of Transportation
2013. 8 ~ 2014. 7: Research Scholar at Florida State University
2005. 3 ~ 2007. 2: Full time Lecturer at Dongseo Univ.
2004.11 ~ 2005.2: Senior Researcher at LG Electronics 
2003. 3 ~ 2005. 2: Lecturer at Graduate School of Information & Technology of Sogang Univ.
2003. 5 ~ 2004.11: Researcher at Applied Science Research Institute in Sogang Univ. 
1998. 3 ~ 2000. 2: Lecturer at Sogang Univ.

▶ Research Areas and Interests 
Medical data and Image Processing by Using Deep Learning
Korean Morphological Analysis and POS Tagging
Statistical Parsing
Word Sense Disambiguation
Dialogue Model and Interface
Machine Learning in NLP
Information Extraction and Data Mining
Word Prediction and Language Model

▶ Participated Projects 
 - “Developing Multi-modal Dialog Model for Intelligent Robot System”, as Project Manager, supported by

  Electronic Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), 2004.04~2004.11.
 - “Developing Dialog Speech Interface for silver-mate”, as Project Manager, supported by Ministry of

  Science and Technology, 2003.10 ~ 2006.03.
 - “A Study on Development of Dialog-based Information Retrieval and Question/Answering System based on

  Thesaurus”, as Project Manager, supported by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF),

   2003.09 ~ 2005.08.
 - “Natural Language Processing for Korean Sign Language”, as Project Manager, supported by Ministry of

  Information and Telecommunication, 2001.05 ~ 2003.04.
 - “A Study on Intelligent Information Retrieval Agent”, as Researcher, supported by Ministry of Education,

  1999.09 ~ 2002.08.
 - “A Study on Statistical Korean Discourse Analysis”, as Researcher, supported by Korea Science and

  Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), 1997.09 ~ 1999.08.
 - “Developing Statistical Model of English Morphological and Syntactic Structure Analysis for Machine

  Translation”, as Researcher, supported by the Republic of Korea Air Force, 1997.06 ~ 1999. 05.

▶ Publications 
˚ International Journal Papers: 
 - Sangwoo Kang, Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “Dialogue Strategies to Overcome Speech Recognition Errors

  in Form-Filling Dialogue”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5459, pp.282-289, 2009.
 - Songwook Lee, “Cascaded Grammatical Relation-Driven Parsing Using Support Vector Machines”, Lecture

  Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.4188, pp. 253-259, Sept. 2006.
 - Yeohoon Yoon, Choong-nyoung Sun, Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “Unsupervised word sense disambiguation

   for Korean through the acyclic weighted digraph using corpus and dictionary”, Information Processing &

  Management, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp 710-722, May 2006.
 - Songwook Lee, Jongmin Eun, Jungyun Seo, “Speech Acts Tagging System for Korean Using Support Vector

  Machines”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3801, pp.574-579, 2005.
 - Songwook Lee, “A statistical model for identifying grammatical relations in Korean sentences”, IEICE transactions

   on Information and Systems (Vol.E87-D,No.12, pp.2863-2871,Dec. 2004).
 - Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “Grammatical relations identification of Korean parsed texts using support

  vector machines”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3206, pp 121-128, Sept., 2004.
 - Yeohoon Yoon, Songwook Lee, Joochan Sohn, “A Practical Word Sense Disambiguation System with High

  Performance for Korean”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3206, pp 225-234, Sept., 2004.
 - Songwook Lee, Tae-Yeoub Jang, Jungyun Seo, “Analysis of the Grammatical Functions between Adnoun and

  Noun Phrases in Korean Using Support Vector Machines”, Natural Language Engineering , Vol. 9, No 3,

  pp 269-280, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2003.
 - Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “Korean Speech Act Analysis System Using Hidden Markov Model with Decision

  Trees”, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp.231-243, 2002.

˚ Korean Journal Papers:
 - Junhyeok Park, Songwook Lee, Yoonseob Lim, and Jongsuk Choi, “A Semi-Automatic Semantic Mark Tagging

  System for Building Dialogue Courpus”, KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol.8, No. 5,

  pp.213-222, 2019.
 - Jun Hyeok Park, Songwook Lee, “Mortality Prediction of Older Adults Admitted to the Emergency Department”,

   KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp.275-280, 2018.
 - Jun Mo Seong, Seong Shin Lee, Songwook Lee, “Backlight Compensation by Using a Novel Region of Interest

  Extraction Method”, KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, KIPS Transactions on Software and

  Data Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp.321-328, 2017.
 - Jun Hyeok Park, Songwook Lee, “Word Sense Classification Using Support Vector Machines”, KIPS

  Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol.5, No. 11, pp.563-568, 2016.
  Hyunkyu Lee, Songwook Lee, “Developing a Sentiment Analysing and Tagging System”, KIPS Transactions on

  Software and Data Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 377-384, 2016.
 - Songwook Lee, “Performance Analysis of a Korean Word Autocomplete System and New Evaluation Metrics”,

  Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 656~661, 2015.
 - Songwook Lee, “Sentiment Analysis System Using Stanford Sentiment Treebank”, Journal of the Korean

  Society of Marine Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 274~279, Mar., 2015.
 - Songwook Lee, Kong Joo Lee, "A comparison of grammatical error detection techniques for an automated

  English scoring system", Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 760~770,

  2013 (ISSN 1226-9549)
 - Kong Joo Lee, Songwook Lee, Jee Eun Kim, “A Bidirectional Korean-Japanese Statistical Machine

  Translation System by Using MOSES”, Journal of the Korean society of Marine Engineering, Vol. 36, No. 5,

  pp.683~693, 2012.
 - Kong Joo Lee, Songwook Lee, “Error-driven Noun-Connection Rule Extraction for Morphological Analysis”,

  Journal of the Korean society of Marine Engineering, Vol. 36, No.8, pp. 1123-1128, 2012.
 - Songwook Lee, “A Swearword Filter System for Online Game Chatting”, The Journal of the Korea Institute of

  Maritime Information & Communication Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 7, 2011
 - Songwook Lee, “A Splog Detection System Using Support Vector Systems”, The Journal of the Korea Institute

  of Maritime Information & Communication Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 163-168, Jan., 2011
 - Songwook Lee, “Spam Filter by Using χ2 Statistics and Support Vector Machines”, The KIPS transaction:

  Part B, Vol. 17-B, No. 3, pp.249-254, Jun., 2010
 - Min-Hye Seo, Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “A Web-document Recommending System using the Korean

  Thesaurus”, The Journal of the Korea Institute of Maritime Information & Communication Sciences, Vol. 13.

  No. 1, pp. 103~109, Jan, 2009
 - Songwook Lee, “Cascaded Parsing Korean Sentences Using Grammatical Relations”, The KIPS transaction:

  Part B, Vol. 15-B, No.1, pp. 69~72, Feb. 2008 
 - Sangwoo Kang, Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “Dialogue Strategies to Overcome Speech Recognition

  Errors in Form-Filling Dialogue”, Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp.139∼150, Jun. 2006.
 - Jongmin En, Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “An analysis of Speech Acts for Korean Using Support Vector

  Machines”, The KIPS transaction: Part B, Vol. 12-B, No. 3, pp.365-368, 2005

˚ International Conference Papers
 - Songwook Lee, Tae-Youb Jang, Jungyun Seo, “The Grammatical Function Analysis between Korean Adnoun

  Clause and Noun Phrase by Using Support Vector Machines”, In Proceedings of COLING2002, pp.544-548, 2002. 
 - Songwook Lee, Tae-Youb Jang, Jungyun Seo, “The Grammatical Function Analysis between Adnoun

  Clause and Noun Phrase in Korean”, In Proceedings of the Sixth Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim

  Symposium, pp.709-713, 2001.
 - Songwook Lee, Jungyun Seo, “An Analysis of Korean Speech Act Using Hidden Markov Model with Decision

  Trees”, in the Proc. of ICCPOL'2001, pp.397-400, May. 2001