I recently joined WIT group at MSRA as an associate researcher at March, 2009. I received the B.S, M.S, and Ph.D. in computer science from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2001, 2003, 2008 respectively.

As a researcher, my fundamental interest is how to make people's daily-life better based on 'natural language processing technology'. For example, what can be more convenient way to access information or devices? or is it possible to make peoples closer to each other by providing a better way to say "hello, how are you?" or "nice to meet you"? I think it would be great if I can contribute even just a little, although it would be a very long trip in my life.

Specifically, I have lots of interests on NLP-applications, such as automaitc summarization, QA applications, intelligent IR systems based on language understanding, and so on.

Here are some of my footprints (selected):

Young-In Song, Jung-Tae Lee, and Hae-Chang Rim: Word or Phrase? Learning Which Unit to Stress for Information Retrieval, in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2009), Singapore, July 2009 

Ke Sun, Yunbo Cao, Xinying Song, Chin-Yew Lin, Young-In Song, and Xiaolong Wang: Learning to Recommend Questions Based on User Ratings, To appear in Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 09), 2009

Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, and Alex Acero: Voice Search of Structured Media Data, in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Institute of Electrical and Electornic Engineers, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009

Jung-Tae Lee, Hyungdong Lee, Hee-Seon Park, Young-In Song, and Hae-Chang Rim: Finding Advertising Keywords on Video Scripts (poster), In Proceedings of SIGIR 2009, Boston, USA, June 2009

Young-In Song, Kyoung-Soo Han, Sang-Bum Kim, and Hae-Chang Rim: A Novel Retrieval Approach Reflecting Variability of Syntactic Phrase Representation, Journal of Intelligent Information System, Dec 2008

Jung-Tae Lee, Sang-Bum Kim, Young-In Song, and Hae-Chang Rim: Bridging Lexical Gaps between Queries and Questions on Large Online Q&A Collections with Compact Translation Models (poster), In Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008), pp. 410-418, 2008

Gao Cong, Long Wang, Chin-Yew Lin, and Young-In Song: Finding Question-Answer Pairs from Online Forums. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2008, Singapore, July 20-24, 2008.

Young-In Song, Chin-Yew Lin, Yunbo Cao, and Hae-Chang Rim. Question Utility: A Novel Static Ranking of Question Search. In Proceedings of AAAI 2008 (AI and the Web Special Track), Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 13-17, 2008.

Kyoung-Soo Han, Young-In Song, Sang-Bum Kim, and Hae-Chang Rim: Answer Extraction and Ranking Strategies for Definitional Question Answering Using Linguistic Features and Definition Terminology, Information Processing and Management, Vol.43, pp.353-364, 2007 

Young-In Song, HooJung Chung, Kyoung-Soo Han, JooYoung Lee, Hae-Chang Rim, and Jae-Won Lee: K-QARD: A Practical Korean Question Answering Framework for Restricted Domain”, In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentations, Sydney, Australia, July 2006

Kyoung-Soo Han, Young-In Song, and Hae-Chang Rim: Probabilistic Model for Definitional Question Answering, In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-2006), Seattle, USA, August, 2006

So-Young Park, Young-In Song, and Hae-Chang Rim: A Segment-based Annotation Tool for Korean Treebank with Minimal Human Intervention, Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol.40, pp. 281-289, 2006