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Cheonkam Jeong

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
10.2022 - 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
01.2022 - 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
06.2020 - 08.2020
  • 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
08.2018 - 08.2023

Master of Science - Human Language Technology

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
01.2020 - 01.2021

Master of Arts - English Linguistics(Phonology, Corpus Linguistics)

Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Seoul
03.2015 - 02.2017

Bachelor of Arts - English Linguistics, Philosophy

Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
Seoul
03.2010 - 02.2015

Skills

    Python

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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
10.2022 - Current

Natural Language Processing Research Associate

School Of Information, The University Of Arizona
01.2022 - Current

Computational Social Sciences

01-2022

[Coursera] What is Data Science?

08-2021

Natural Language Processing Intern

FindingFive
06.2020 - 08.2020

Master of Science - Human Language Technology

University of Arizona
01.2020 - 01.2021

Ph.D. - Linguistics

University of Arizona
08.2018 - 08.2023

[Coursera]Programming for Everybody

04-2017

Master of Arts - English Linguistics(Phonology, Corpus Linguistics)

Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
03.2015 - 02.2017

Essay Writing Education

02-2015

Bachelor of Arts - English Linguistics, Philosophy

Hankuk(Korea) University of Foreign Studies
03.2010 - 02.2015
Cheonkam JeongComputational Linguist, Phonologist