YOOKYUNG KIM, Ph.D.
Principal Linguist at Yahoo Search, Yahoo Inc.

Interests

  • Computational linguistics
  • Machine translation

    Experience

  • 2007 -- present: Principal Linguist, Yahoo Inc., Santa Clara, CA
  • 2005 -- 2007: Principal Investigator, NSF (National Sicence Foundation) SBIR phase I and II programs
  • 2001 -- 2007: Principal Research Scientist, Fluential Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
  • 1997 -- 1999: Research Staff, CSLI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    Education

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University
  • B.A. (Summa cum laude), Seoul National University

    Patents

  • Short text language detection using geographic information, 2008
  • Incorporation of manual efforts in statistical machine translation, 2007
  • Robust information extraction from recognized speech, 2007
  • Chunk-based statistical machine translation system, 2006
  • A flexible semi-automatic speech-to-speech translation system, 2006

    News

  • Language Identification of Search Engine Queries by H. Ceylan and Y. Kim, 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), August 2009
    E-mail: y.o.o.k.y.u.n.g (at) cs.s.t.a.n.f.o.r.d.edu
    © Yookyung Kim (last update in 05/2009)