Yejin Choi
Yejin Choi (Korean: 최예진; born 1977)[1] is Wissner-
Slivka Chair of Computer Science at the University of Yejin Choi
Washington. Her research considers natural language 최예진
processing and computer vision. Born 1977
South Korea
Alma mater Seoul National University (BS)
Early life and education Cornell University (PhD)
Awards MacArthur Fellow (2022)
Choi is from South Korea. She attended Seoul National
University.[2] After earning a bachelor's degree in Scientific career
Computer Science, Choi moved to the United States, Institutions University of Washington
where she joined Cornell University as a graduate Stony Brook University
student. There she worked with Claire Cardie on Thesis Fine-grained opinion analysis :
natural language processing. After earning her structure-aware approaches (h
doctorate, Choi joined Stony Brook University as an ttp://[Link]/oclc/67
Assistant Professor of Computer Science.[3] At Stony 1537601) (2010)
Brook University Choi developed a statistical
Korean name
technique to identify fake hotel reviews.[4]
Hangul 최예진
Revised Choe Yejin
Research and career Romanization
McCune– Ch'oe Yechin
In 2018 Choi joined the Allen Institute for AI.[5] Her Reischauer
research looks to endow computers with a statistical
Website Official website ([Link]
understanding of written language.[6] She became
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interested in neural networks and their application in
artificial intelligence. She started to assemble a
knowledge base that became known as the atlas of machine commonsense (ATOMIC). By the time she
had finished the creation of ATOMIC, the language model generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2)
had been released.[7] ATOMIC does not make use of linguistic rules, but combines the representations of
different languages within a neural network.[7]
In 2020, Choi was endowed with the Brett Helsel Professorship, which she held until her became Chair of
Computer Science in 2023.[8][9] She has since made use of Commonsense Transformers (COMET) with
Good old fashioned artificial intelligence (GOFAI). The approach combines symbolic reasoning and
neural networks.[7] She has developed computational models that can detect biases in language that work
against people from underrepresented groups.[10] For example, one study demonstrated that female film
characters are portrayed as less powerful than their male counterparts.[6]
In 2023, Choi became The Wissner-Slivka Chair of Computer Science.[9] Choi is also a scientific advisor
to French research group Kyutai which is being funded by Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé, Eric Schmidt,
and others.[11]
Awards and honours
2013 International Conference on Computer Vision Marr Prize[12][13]
2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers AI One to Watch[12]
2017 Facebook ParlAI Research Award[14]
2018 Anita Borg Early Career Award[10]
2020 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award[15]
2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Outstanding Paper Award[16]
2021 Association for Computational Linguistics Test-of-time Paper Award[17]
2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Longuet-Higgins Prize[18]
2022 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Best Paper
Award[19]
2022 International Conference on Machine Learning Outstanding Paper Award[20]
2022 MacArthur Fellowship[21]
2023 Association for Computational Linguistics Best Paper Award[22]
Select publications
Ott, Myle; Choi, Yejin; Cardie, Claire; Hancock, Jeffrey T. (2011). "Finding Deceptive Opinion
Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination" ([Link]
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:
Human Language Technologies. Portland, Oregon, USA: Association for Computational
Linguistics: 309–319. arXiv:1107.4557 ([Link]
Bibcode:2011arXiv1107.4557O ([Link]
ISBN 9781932432879. S2CID 2510724 ([Link]
4).
Kulkarni, Girish; Premraj, Visruth; Ordonez, Vicente; Dhar, Sagnik; Li, Siming; Choi, Yejin;
Berg, Alexander C.; Berg, Tamara L. (2013). "BabyTalk: Understanding and Generating
Simple Image Descriptions" ([Link] IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 35 (12): 2891–2903.
CiteSeerX [Link].5228 ([Link]
5228). doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2012.162 ([Link]
ISSN 1939-3539 ([Link] PMID 22848128 ([Link]
[Link]/22848128).
Choi, Yejin; Cardie, Claire; Riloff, Ellen; Patwardhan, Siddharth (2005). "Identifying sources
of opinions with conditional random fields and extraction patterns". Proceedings of the
conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing - HLT '05 ([Link] Morristown, NJ, USA: Association
for Computational Linguistics. pp. 355–362. doi:10.3115/1220575.1220620 ([Link]
0.3115%2F1220575.1220620).
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