Curriculum Vitae (Korean) |
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HOMEPAGE |
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E-MAIL (primary) |
kyoon
[at] ynu [dot] ac [dot] kr, kyoon [at] yu [dot] ac [dot] kr |
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E-MAIL (alternative) |
kyoon [at] ling [dot] osu [dot] edu, linuxrules [at] empas [dot] com |
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FIELDS OF STUDY |
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Major field: Linguistics (Phonetics/Phonology), Minor field: Computational Linguistics (Speech Synthesis) |
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND |
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9/1999 – 8/2005 |
Linguistics Department of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S., Ph.D. (8/2005) |
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1/1997 – 5/1999 |
Linguistics Department of University of Kansas, Kansas, U.S. Master of Arts (5/1999) |
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3/1994 – 2/1996 |
English Department of Pukyong National University, Pusan, S.Korea . Bachelor of Arts (3/1996) |
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3/1989 - 3/1992 |
College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, S.Korea |
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3/1987 - 3/1989 |
Preparatory course for the College of Dentistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, S.Korea. Diploma (3/1989) |
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3/1984 - 3/1987 |
DaeGwang High School, Seoul, S.Korea. Diploma (3/1987) |
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WORKING EXPERIENCE |
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6/2004 – 6/2005 |
Research assistant
for Prof.
Jan Edwards of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science and Prof. Mary Beckman of the
Department of Linguistics of The Ohio State University under an NIH
grant (2003) on a project "Cross-linguistic
phonological acquisition" (of four languages; English, Greek,
Cantonese, and Japanese, backed up here). |
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9/2002 – 9/2003 |
OSU
Project Manager for the Penn Korean Treebank Project of the University
of Pennsylvania ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/koreantag/
, backed up here). |
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9/2001 – 6/2002 |
Research assistant
for Prof. Chris Brew
and Prof. Mary
Beckman of the Linguistics Department of The Ohio State
University under an SBC/Ameritech grant. |
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1999 |
Research assistant
for Prof. Peter
Culicover of the Linguistics Department of The Ohio State
University. |
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7/1998 – 9/1998 |
Website management
for the Graduate Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (University of Kansas). |
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1996 |
Research assistant
for Prof. Eunil Kim of the Department of English Language
and Literature (Pukyong National
University). |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
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9/2008 – Present |
Assistant Professor for the School of English Language and Literature of Yeungnam University, South Korea. |
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3/2008 – 6/2008 |
Instructor for KCU
2008 Spring Semester Course ¡°Listening & Speaking Practice through
User-Created Contents (UCC)¡± (3 Credits, Call #: KNCG1004), Korea Cyber University (KCU), KCU
Consortium. |
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12/24/2007 – 1/13/2008 |
Instructor for KCU 2007 Winter Semester Courses ¡°The Real English In Sitcoms¡± (3 Credits, Call #: KNCG1001) and ¡°Speaking And Reading Like Native Speakers Of English¡± (3 Credits, Call #: KNCG1003), Korea Cyber University (KCU), KCU Consortium. |
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3/2008 – 8/2008 |
Assistant Professor for the English Division of Kyungnam University, South Korea. |
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3/2006 – 2/2008 |
Full-time Lecturer for the English Division of Kyungnam University, South Korea. |
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9/2005 – 12/2005 |
Part-time lecturer for the Department of English Language and Literature of Yeungnam University (Undergraduate Phonetics, 619/641), Dong-Eui University (Understanding Phonetics, 502813-001/301), and Pukyong National University (Screen English, 129221-301), South Korea. |
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3/2004 – 6/2004 |
Instructor for
Linguistics 202 Introduction to Language in Social Sciences. Columbus,
Ohio |
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4/2003 – 6/2003 |
Instructor for
Linguistics 201 Introduction to Language in Humanities. Columbus, Ohio.
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9/2000 – 12/2002 |
Instructor for Linguistics 201 Introduction to Language in Humanities. Columbus, Ohio. |
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8/1998 – 5/1999 |
Teaching assistant
for Linguistics 120 (Laboratory Phonetics) for Linguistics and Speech-Language-Hearing Department
of University of Kansas. |
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PRESENTATIONS |
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| June 19, 2009 | "Building a sentential model for automatic prosody evaluation". Presentation given at the workshop of the Korean Society of Speech Sciences (KSSS), Korea University, South Korea. |
| September 20, 2008 | "Studies on segments
and prosody: Current
interests 2007~2008". Presentation given at the September meeting
of the Circle of Experimental Phonetics (CEP), Seoul, South Korea. |
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May 24, 2008 |
"Synthesis and evaluation of prosodically exaggerated utterances: A preliminary study". Proceedings of the 2008 Spring Conference of The Association of Modern British & American Language & Literature (MBALL). Changwon National University, South Korea. |
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May 17, 2008 |
(1) "Synthesis and evaluation of prosodically exaggerated utterances: A preliminary study". (presentation file in .ppt). (2) "Identifying frication and aspiration noise in the frequency domain: The case of Korean alveolar lax fricatives". (presentation file in .ppt). (3) "The role of prosody in dialect synthesis and evaluation". (presentation file in .ppt). Proceedings of the 2008 Joint Conference of the Korean Society of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technology (KSPS) and the Korean Association of Speech Sciences (KASS), Hanyang University, South Korea. |
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March 21, 2008 |
"Introducing the Buckeye Speech Corpus" Invited lecture given at the School of English, Kyung Hee University. Seoul, South Korea. |
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February 29, 2008 |
"Teaching Language Prosody – The role of speech recognition –" Invited lecture given at The Future Technology Laboratory, KT R&D Center. Seoul, South Korea. |
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November 16, 2007 |
"Synthesizing exaggerated intonation" (ppt). Invited lecture given at Korea Nazarene University. South Korea. |
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May 18-19, 2007 |
"The role of prosody in dialect authentication: Simulating Masan dialect with Seoul speech segments". (presentation file in .ppt). Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference of the Korean Society of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technology (KSPS) and the Korean Association of Speech Sciences (KASS), Wonkwang University, South Korea. |
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April 20, 2007 |
"Learning English prosody through speech synthesis".(Demo file in zip) Invited lecture given at Korea Nazarene University. South Korea. |
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January 30-31, 2007 |
"K-ToBI labelling conventions". (Demo files for K-ToBI and for E-ToBI in zip). Invited lecture given at the 2007 Winter Workshop of the Circle of Experimental Phonetics (CEP), Hanwha Haeundae Resort, Busan, South Korea. |
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December 9, 2006 |
"Basic and advanced Praat scripting".(Demo files in .rar) Invited lecture given at Seoul National University, Linguistics Department, Seoul, South Korea. |
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November 4, 2006 |
"Dialect simulation through prosody transfer: A preliminary study on simulating Masan dialect with Seoul dialect". Proceedings of the 2006 Autumn Conference of The Association of Modern British & American Language & Literature (MBALL). University of Ulsan, South Korea. |
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October 28, 2006 |
"A prosodically sensitive diphone synthesis system for Korean" & "Imposing native speakers' prosody on non-native speakers' utterances". Invited lecture given at the general meeting of the Yungnam branch of the Acoustical Society of Korea. Pukyong National University, South Korea. |
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August 18, 2006 |
"Praat scripts for Korean ToBI annotation: A preliminary work"(Demo files in .zip). Proceedings of the 2006 Summer Conference of The New Association of English Language & Literature. Daegu, South Korea. |
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July 5, 2006 |
"Praat for the Study of Speech" (practice files). Invited lecture given at the 2006 Summer Workshop of the Circle of Experimental Phonetics (CEP), Mallipo Beach Training Center of Hongik University, South Korea. |
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June 26-28, 2006 |
"Manipulation
of prosody in English education". Proceedings of the 2006 ELSOK
(English Linguistics Society of Korea) International Conference on
English Linguistics. Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. |
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May 19, 2006 |
"The role of prosody in English education". Invited lecture given at Korea Nazarene University. South Korea. |
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May 12-13, 2006 |
"Segmental
encoding of prosodic categories: A perception study through speech
synthesis (pdf)".
Presented at the plenary session of the KSPS
(Korean Society of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technology)
Spring Conference 2006. Suwon KBS Center, South Korea. |
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February 17, 2006 |
"Imposing native speakers' prosody on non-native speakers' utterances: Preliminary studies". Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Conference of The New Association of English Language & Literature. Daegu, South Korea. |
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October 8, 2005 |
"Design
and evaluation of prosodically-sensitive concatenative units for Korean
TTS". |
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August 19, 2005 |
"Segmental
encoding of prosodic categories: A perception study through speech
synthesis". |
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October 7, 2004 |
"A prosodic
phrasing model for a Korean text-to-speech synthesis system" |
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September 10, 2003 |
"The effects
of prosody on segmental variation" |
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September 11, 2002 |
"Letter-to-sound
rules for Korean". Kyuchul Yoon, Chris Brew, and Mary Beckman |
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October 15, 1999 |
"A Study of
Korean Alveolar Fricatives: An Acoustic Analysis, Synthesis, and
Perception Experiment". |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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| 6/2009 |
Identifying frication and aspiration noise in the frequency domain: The case of Korean alveolar lax fricatives. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, Vol.1/2. pp.105-110. |
| 3/2009 |
The role of prosody in dialect synthesis and authentication. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, Vol.1/1. pp.25-31. |
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3/2008 |
Design
and evaluation of prosodically-sensitive concatenative units for a
Korean TTS system. |
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11/2007 |
Imposing native speakers' prosody on non-native speakers' utterances: The technique of cloning prosody. Journal of the Modern British & American Language & Literature. Vol. 25/4. pp.197-215. |
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12/2006 |
Unified Praat script tools for facilitating Korean ToBI annotation. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. Vol.56. pp.43-97. |
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7/2006 |
A
linguistically motivated approach to grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for
Korean. Kyuchul Yoon and Chris Brew. |
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1/2006 |
A
prosodic phrasing model for a Korean text-to-speech synthesis system |
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12/2005 |
Tense/lax distinctions of English [s] in intervocalic position by Korean speakers: consonant/vowel ratio as a possible universal cue for consonant distinctions. Hyunsook Kang and Kyuchul Yoon. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology. Vol.11/3. |
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6/2005 |
Building
a prosodically sensitive diphone database for a Korean text-to-speech
synthesis system (Accompanying
Files) |
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3/2005 |
Durational
correlates of prosodic categories: The case of two Korean voiceless
coronal fricatives |
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9/2002 |
A production
and perception experiment of Korean alveolar fricatives. |
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5/1999 |
A Study of Korean
Alveolar Fricatives: An Acoustic Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception
Experiment. |
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AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & PATENTS |
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| 10/01/2008 – 9/30/2009 | Yeungnam University Research Grant for New Professors 2008, #208-A-054-024. "The role of prosody in dialect synthesis and authentication". |
| 9/01/2008 – 8/31/2009 | Yeungnam University Research Grant 2008, #208-A-235-095. "Identifying frication and aspiration noise in the frequency domain: The case of Korean alveolar lax fricatives". |
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6/23/2008 (For 6 months) |
KT
Corporation, Outsourced Academic Project. ¡°Algorithm development for
the study and evaluation of English prosody¡±. Contract No.
2608982008542220. Principal Investigator: Professor Sookhyang Lee,
Co-investigators: Professors Hansang Park, Kyuchul Yoon and Seokchae
Rhee. |
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12/01/2007 – 11/30/2009 |
Korea Research Foundation, Basic Research Support Program (Humanities and Social Studies), Individual Study (2 years), KRF-2007-327-A00310, ¡°Software development for learning 2nd language prosody through speech synthesis and speech recognition technique¡±. |
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3/22/2007 |
Korea Patent 10-0701338 via Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Kyungnam University. "Methods of imposing native speakers' prosody on non-native speakers' utterances" (Details 1, 2, 3). (Demo in Praat, in Flash) |
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3/2007 |
Kyungnam University Foundation Grant 2007, #2007-0055. "Imposing native speakers' prosody on non-native speakers' utterances". |
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12/2006 |
Korea Research Foundation, Basic Research Support Program (Humanities and Social Studies), Follow-up Support for Good Articles (1 year), KRF-2006-325-A00315, Principal Investigator: Professor Hyunsook Kang (Hanyang University), Co-Investigator: Kyuchul Yoon (Kyungnam University), "Perceptual differences of Korean listeners for English intervocalic [s]". |
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3/2006 |
Kyungnam University Foundation Grant 2006, #2006-0329. "Unified Praat script tools for facilitating Korean ToBI annotation". |
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6/2005 |
Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS). The Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S. |
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9/1999 – 6/2005 |
Full Tuition and Fees Scholarship. The Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S. |
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9/2002 |
ISCA Grant for IEEE
2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis sponsored by the IEEE Signal
Processing Society |
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1997 – 1998 |
Linguistics Honors Award. University of Kansas, Kansas, U.S. |
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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS |
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| 3/2009 – Present | The Korean Society of Speech Sciences (KSSS) Editor for Journal [Phonetics and Speech Sciences] |
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3/2008 – 2/2009 |
The Korean Society of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technology (KSPS) Editor for Journal [Malsori] |
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3/2007 – Present |
The Association of Modern British & American Language & Literature (MBALL) |
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3/2007 – 2/2009 |
The Korean Society of Phonetic Sciences and Speech Technology (KSPS) |
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3/2007 – 2/2009 |
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9/2006 – 9/2007 |
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LANGUAGE SKILLS |
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Low-Intermediate German |
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SOFTWARE SKILLS |
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Operating Systems |
Unix/Linux. |
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Programming Languages |
Basic knowledge of C, C++, LISP, Perl, Python and Prolog. |
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Software tools |
Basic knowledge of
Unix/Linux shell scripting. |
