Cheonkam Jeong
Computational Linguist, Phonologist
Tucson,AZ
Summary
Computational Linguist and Phonologist with interests in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Processing, and Statistical Modeling. Proven ability to perform NLP tasks (e.g., Topic Modeling), implement Text-to-Speech (e.g., Glow TTS) and Speech-to-Text (e.g., Deep Speech) models, and build statistical models with (semi-)structured data (e.g., Bayesian Regression models) with a firm understanding of Machine Learning algorithms. Seeking a Data Scientist position where I can use my analytic/computational skills to give the organization actionable insights.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Phonology/Phonetics Specialist
National Information Society Agency Of Korea
Seoul
2022.10 - Current
- Checking first-rounded tagging work of prosodic, phonological errors of Korean utterances by those who are learning Korean as a second/foreign language in building big training data for AI.
- Evaluating Korean utterances produced by those who are learning Korean as a second/foreign language in building big training data for AI.
Natural Language Processing Research Associate
School Of Information, The University Of Arizona
Tucson , AZ
2022.01 - Current
- Multimodal tasks: Building multimodal models for sentiment, emotion, personality trait, and emotional intensity analyses with Multimodal Emotion Lines Dataset using LSTM, DistillBERT, etc.
- Entrainment: Working on building unsupervised models for detecting vocal entrainment among participants engaged in cooperative tasks.
- Conducted data modeling, performance and testing.
- Debugged programs and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
Natural Language Processing Intern
FindingFive
Cherry Hill , NJ
2020.06 - 2020.08
- Extracted the customer tickets through Zoho Desk APIs, labeled them, and performed a classification task using Text CNN.
- Carried out administrative tasks by communicating with customers.
- Created a technical document on work steps for support team use.
Education
Ph.D. - Linguistics
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 2018.08 - 2023.08
Master of Science - Human Language Technology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 2020.01 - 2021.01
Master of Arts - English Linguistics(Phonology, Corpus Linguistics)
Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Seoul 2015.03 - 2017.02
Bachelor of Arts - English Linguistics, Philosophy
Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Seoul 2010.03 - 2015.02
Skills
Python
Certification
Computational Social Sciences
Projects
Subtlex-KR, a Korean Subtitle Corpus
- Building a Korean subtitle corpus at the lemma level
- Created morpheme-analyzed subtitle files using KoNLPy (a Korean NLP toolkit in Python)
- Currently working on alignments using tgt (a textgrid toolkit in Python)
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Quote
Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.
Ronald Coase
Timeline
Phonology/Phonetics Specialist
National Information Society Agency Of Korea
2022.10 - Current
Natural Language Processing Research Associate
School Of Information, The University Of Arizona
2022.01 - Current
Computational Social Sciences
2022-01
[Coursera] What is Data Science?
2021-08
Natural Language Processing Intern
FindingFive
2020.06 - 2020.08
Master of Science - Human Language Technology
University of Arizona
2020.01 - 2021.01
Ph.D. - Linguistics
University of Arizona
2018.08 - 2023.08
[Coursera]Programming for Everybody
2017-04
Master of Arts - English Linguistics(Phonology, Corpus Linguistics)
Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
2015.03 - 2017.02
Essay Writing Education
2015-02
Bachelor of Arts - English Linguistics, Philosophy
Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
2010.03 - 2015.02
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