Dongyeop Kang (DK) @ University of Minnesota

Assistant Professor

Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
259 Shepherd

Minnesota NLP group
Minnesota Robotic Institute

dongyeop@umn.edu
412-736-4873
Office hour (by appointment)

I'm interested in developing human-centered language technologies. My research is focused on developing interdisciplinary methods for NLP models and building interactive NLP systems for scientists and creative writers.

Our Minnesota NLP group; an inter-disciplinary team, draws theories in computational linguistics and cognitive sciences, develops state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, and validates their robustness and practicalness throughout human-computer interaction.

Research Topics

Interactive and collaborative NLP systems
Discourse modeling and planning
Linguistic styles and pragmatics
Neural-symbolic representation and reasoning
Ethics and biases

News (read more)

(new) (Aug 2021) Two papers (one Main paper on comparing human's and model's perception on linguistic styles and the other Findings paper on modeling semantics of mathematical notations) are accepted to EMNLP 2021.
(new) (Fall 2021) Talks scheduled at SNU Summer AI school, Grammarly AI, Naver Labs Europe , KAIST SE Colloquium, Minnesota Robotic Institute Colloquium, and GaTech NLP Seminar.
(new) (July 2021) I am co-organizing "CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision" workshop at NeurIPS 2021.
(new) (July 2021) Our zero-shot language based video localization paper is accepted to ICCV 2021.
(May 2021) Our cross-style language understanding paper is accepted to ACL 2021.
(Apr 2021) I will be joining Minnesota CSE as an assistant professor in 2021 Fall.
(Mar 2021) Talks at KAIST AI, Minnesota CSE, Rochester CS, and Wisconsin CS.
(Dec 2020) Our ScholarPhi paper is accepted to CHI 2021.
(Nov 2020) Talks at KAIST AI Colloquium and GIST EECS Colloquium.
(Sep 2020) Two main papers (self-supervised text planning, sociable dialogue generation) and two workshop papers (document-level definition detection, augmentation for generation) are accepted to EMNLP 2020.
(Aug 2020) Talk at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Workshop.
(Aug 2020) Talks at CMU LTI Summer Seminar and POSTECH AI Seminar.
(Jun 2020) Joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral scholar, working with Marti A. Hearst.
(May 2020) Passed my Ph.D thesis defense. Check out my thesis!
(Mar 2020) Our poterior calibrated training paper is accepted to ACL 2020.

Minnesota NLP Group

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Talks

Talk at GaTech NLP Seminar, Dec 2021
Talk at Minnesota Robotic Institute Colloquium, Nov 2021
Talk at KAIST SE Colloquium, Nov 2021
Talk at Naver Labs Europe, Nov 2021
Talk at Grammarly AI, Aug 2021
Talk at SNU Summer AI school, Aug 2021
Talk at University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS Department, March 2021
Talk at University of Rochester, CS Department, March 2021
Talk at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, CSE Colloquium, March 2021
Talk at KAIST, AI Department, Feb 2021
Talk at KAIST AI Colloquium, Nov 2020
Talk at GIST EECS Colloquium, Nov 2020
Talk at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Workshop, July 2020
Talk at CMU LTI Seminar, July 2020
Talk at POSTECH AI Seminar, July 2020

Research Topics

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Minnesota NLP Group

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