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Jinho Choi

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Data & Decision Sciences, and Linguistics

Director / Founder

Jinho Choi is Associate Professor of Computer Science, Data & Decision Sciences, and Linguistics at Emory University.

Education

  • Postdoc in Natural Language Processing, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2014)
  • PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder (2012)
  • MS in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania (2003)
  • BA in Computer Science and Mathematics, Coe College (2002)

Publications

  1. DyCP: Dynamic Context Pruning for Long-Form Dialogue with LLMs — Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2026 · Forthcoming
  2. TRUST: An LLM-Based Dialogue System for Trauma Understanding and Structured Assessments — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 2026 · Forthcoming
  3. Why Are We Lonely? Leveraging LLMs to Measure and Understand Loneliness in Caregivers and Non-caregivers — EACL Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), 2026
  4. CRADLE Bench: A Clinician-Annotated Benchmark for Multi-Faceted Mental Health Crisis and Safety Risk Detection — Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2026
  5. Generative Induction of Dialogue Task Schemas with Streaming Refinement and Simulated Interactions — Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2026
  6. Advancing Conversational Text-to-SQL: Current Landscape and Future Directions with Large Language Models — Future Internet: Big Data and Augmented Intelligence, 2025
  7. Reference-Aligned Retrieval-Augmented Question Answeringover Heterogeneous Proprietary Documents — ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
  8. Measuring Sycophancy of Language Models in Multi-turn Dialogues — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2025
  9. Secure Multifaceted-RAG: Hybrid Knowledge Retrieval with Security Filtering — Information: Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems Based on Large Language Models, 2025
  10. Beyond Linear Digital Reading: An LLM-Powered Concept Mapping Approach for Reducing Cognitive Load — ACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA), 2025
  11. D-GEN: Automatic Distractor Generation and Evaluation for Reliable Assessment of Generative Models — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Findings, 2025
  12. Finding A Voice: Exploring the Potential of African American Dialect and Voice Generation for Chatbots — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
  13. ETM: Modern Insights into Perspective on Text-to-SQL Evaluation in the Age of Large Language Models — Future Internet: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, 2025
  14. Advancing Korean Medical Large Language Models: Automated Pipeline for Korean Medical Preference Dataset Construction — Healthcare Informatics Research, 2025
  15. Leveraging Explicit Reasoning for Inference Integration in Commonsense-Augmented Dialogue Models — International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025
  16. Diverse and Effective Synthetic Data Generation for Adaptable Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2024
  17. Identifying Factual Inconsistencies in Summaries: Grounding Model Inference via Task Taxonomy — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Findings, 2024
  18. Automating PTSD Diagnostics in Clinical Interviews: Leveraging Large Language Models for Trauma Assessments — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2024
  19. Transforming Slot Schema Induction with Generative Dialogue State Inference — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2024
  20. Enhancing Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Through Synchronous Multi-party Interaction and Multi-group Virtual Simulation — Information: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 2024
  21. What is Your Favorite Gender, MLM? Gender Bias Evaluation in Multilingual Masked Language Models — Information: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 2024
  22. Exploring the Impact of Human Evaluator Group on Chat-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation — Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (COLING-LREC), 2024
  23. ConvoSense: Overcoming Monotonous Commonsense Inferences for Conversational AI — Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2024
  24. FedTherapist: Mental Health Monitoring with User-Generated Linguistic Expressions on Smartphones via Federated Learning — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
  25. Aligning Speakers: Evaluating and Visualizing Text-based Speaker Diarization Using Efficient Multiple Sequence Alignment — Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2023
  26. Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Dialogue Analysis — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2023
  27. Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Performance in Triage of Ophthalmic Conditions — Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology (CJO), 2023
  28. Don't Forget Your ABC's: Evaluating the State-of-the-Art in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
  29. Towards Open-World Product Attribute Mining: A Lightly-Supervised Approach — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
  30. InterviewBot: Real-Time End-to-End Dialogue System to Interview Students for College Admission — Information: Feature Papers in Information in 2023, 2023
  31. Unleashing the True Potential of Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Sequence Tagging and Structure Parsing — Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2023
  32. Exploring a Multi-Layered Cross-Genre Corpus of Document-Level Semantic Relations — Information: Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing, 2023
  33. NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation — Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT), 2023
  34. Predicting Kidney Transplant Recipient Cohorts’ 30-Day Re- Hospitalization Using Clinical Notes and Electronic Healthcare Record Data — Kidney International Reports, 2023
  35. FCC: Fusing Conversation History and Candidate Provenance for Contextual Response Ranking in Dialogue Systems — International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS), 2023
  36. Development of Digital Voice Biomarkers and Associations with Cognition, CSF Biomarkers and Neural Representation in Early Alzheimer’s Disease — Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (DADM), 2023
  37. Document-level Condition-Treatment Relation Extraction on Disease-related Social Media Forums — EMNLP Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI), 2022
  38. Automatic Generation of Large-scale Multi-turn Dialogues from Reddit — International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022
  39. Widely Interpretable Semantic Representation: Frameless Meaning Representation for Broader Applicability — arXiv, 2022
  40. Online Coreference Resolution for Dialogue Processing: Improving Mention-Linking on Real-Time Conversations — Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), 2022
  41. Modeling Explicit Task Interactions in Document-Level Joint Entity and Relation Extraction — Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
  42. A Cognitive Approach to Annotating Causal Constructions in a Cross-Genre Corpus — LREC Workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW), 2022
  43. Automatic Enrichment of Abstract Meaning Representations — LREC Workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW), 2022
  44. Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges — NSF Future Directions Workshop on the Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog (AED), 2022
  45. Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Machine Reading Comprehension via Inter-Sentence Dependency Graph — AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
  46. Adapted End-to-End Coreference Resolution System for Anaphoric Identities in Dialogues — EMNLP Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC): Shared Task on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogues (CODI), 2021
  47. Analysis of Zero-Shot Crosslingual Learning between English and Korean for Named Entity Recognition — EMNLP Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL), 2021
  48. FantasyCoref: Coreference Resolution on Fantasy Literature Through Omniscient Writer’s Point of View — EMNLP Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC), 2021
  49. Intensionalizing Abstract Meaning Representations: Non-veridicality and Scope — EMNLP Workshop on Linguistic Annotation (LAW) and Designing Meaning Representations (DMR), 2021
  50. Boosting Cross-Lingual Transfer via Self-Learning with Uncertainty Estimation — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021
  51. The Stem Cell Hypothesis: Dilemma behind Multi-Task Learning with Transformer Encoders — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021
  52. UMR-Writer: A Web Application for Annotating Uniform Meaning Representations — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): System Demonstrations, 2021
  53. View Distillation with Unlabeled Data for Extracting Adverse Drug Effects from User-Generated Data — ACL Workshop on Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H), 2021
  54. What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts — ACL Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI (NLP4ConvAI), 2021
  55. StreamSide: A Fully-Customizable Open-Source Toolkit for Efficient Annotation of Meaning Representations — arXiv, 2021
  56. ELIT: Emory Language and Information Toolkit — arXiv, 2021
  57. SMAT: An Attention-based Deep Learning Solution to the Automation of Schema Matching — European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), 2021
  58. Levi Graph AMR Parser using Heterogeneous Attention — International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT), 2021
  59. An Approach to Inference-Driven Dialogue Management within a Social Chatbot — Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2021
  60. COVID-19 Pandemic-Associated Changes in the Acuity of Brain MRI Findings: A Secondary Analysis of Reports Using Natural Language Processing — Contemporary Problems in Diagnostic Radiology (CPDR), 2021
  61. Enhancing Cognitive Models of Emotions with Representation Learning — NAACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), 2021
  62. Evaluation of Unsupervised Entity and Event Salience Estimation — International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS), 2021
  63. XD at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Ensemble Approach to Offensive Language Identification in Social Media Using Transformer Encoders — SemEval Shared Task - OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval), 2020
  64. Analysis of Hierarchical Multi-Content Text Classification Model on B-SHARP Dataset for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease — Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), 2020
  65. Competence-Level Prediction and Resume & Job Description Matching Using Context-Aware Transformer Models — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
  66. Revealing the Myth of Higher-Order Inference in Coreference Resolution — Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
  67. Emora: An Inquisitive Social Chatbot Who Cares For You — Proceedings of the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge (AlexaPrize), 2020
  68. Adaptation of Multilingual Transformer Encoder for Robust Enhanced Universal Dependency Parsing — IWPT Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies, 2020
  69. Analysis of the Penn Korean Universal Dependency Treebank (PKT-UD): Manual Revision to Build Robust Parsing Model in Korean — International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT), 2020
  70. Transformer-based Context-aware Sarcasm Detection in Conversation Threads from Social Media — ACL Workshop on Figurative Language Processing: Shared Task on Sarcasm Detection (FigLang), 2020
  71. Transformers to Learn Hierarchical Contexts in Multiparty Dialogue for Span-based Question Answering — Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020
  72. Noise Pollution in Hospital Readmission Prediction: Long Document Classification with Reinforcement Learning — ACL Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP), 2020
  73. Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL): System Demonstrations, 2020
  74. Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2020
  75. Establishing Strong Baselines for the New Decade: Sequence Tagging, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing with BERT — International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS), 2020
  76. Automatic Text-Based Personality Recognition on Monologues and Multiparty Dialogues Using Attentive Networks and Contextual Embeddings — AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Student Abstract and Poster Program, 2020
  77. Incremental Sense Weight Training for In-Depth Interpretation of Contextualized Word Embeddings — AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Student Abstract and Poster Program, 2020
  78. Design and Challenges of Cloze-Style Reading Comprehension Tasks on Multiparty Dialogue — arXiv, 2019
  79. FriendsQA: Open-Domain Question Answering on TV Show Transcripts — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2019
  80. The Pupil Has Become the Master: Teacher-Student Model-Based Word Embedding Distillation with Ensemble Learning — International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019
  81. Meta-Semantic Representation for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease — ACL Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR), 2019
  82. Multimodal Ensemble Approach to Incorporate Various Types of Clinical Notes for Predicting Readmission — IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2019
  83. Coordinate Structures in Universal Dependencies for Head-final Languages — EMNLP Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW), 2018
  84. They Exist! Introducing Plural Mentions to Coreference Resolution and Entity Linking — International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2018
  85. Challenging Reading Comprehension on Daily Conversation: Passage Completion on Multiparty Dialog — Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018
  86. SemEval 2018 Task 4: Character Identification on Multiparty Dialogues — International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2018
  87. Building Universal Dependency Treebanks in Korean — International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2018
  88. ELIT: The Cloud-based Research Platform Where Anyone Can Deploy Their Models — ResearchGate, 2018
  89. Emotion Detection on TV Show Transcripts with Sequence-Based Convolutional Neural Networks — AAAI Workshop on Affective Content Analysis (AFFCON), 2018
  90. Analysis of Wikipedia-based Corpora for Question Answering — arXiv, 2018
  91. Event Analysis on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Using Social Media — International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo), 2017
  92. Cross-genre Document Retrieval: Matching between Conversational and Formal Writings — Proceedings of the EMNLP Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems (BLGNLP), 2017
  93. Improving Document Clustering by Removing Unnatural Language — EMNLP Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT), 2017
  94. Lexicon Integrated CNN Models with Attention for Sentiment Analysis — EMNLP Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA), 2017
  95. Natural Language Processing for Classification of Acute, Communicable Findings on Unstructured Head CT Reports: Comparison of Neural Network and Non-Neural Machine Learning Techniques — bioRxiv, 2017
  96. Robust Coreference Resolution and Entity Linking on Dialogues: Character Identification on TV Show Transcripts — Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2017
  97. Text-based Speaker Identification on Multiparty Dialogues Using Multi-document Convolutional Neural Networks — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Student Research Workshop, 2017
  98. Classification of Radiology Reports Using Neural Attention Models — International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017
  99. Deep Dependency Graph Conversion in English — International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT), 2017
  100. SelQA: A New Benchmark for Selection-Based Question Answering — International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2016
  101. QA-It: Classifying Non-Referential It for Question Answer Pairs — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Student Research Workshop, 2016
  102. Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV Shows — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2016
  103. Dynamic Feature Induction: The Last Gist to the State-of-the-Art — Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2016
  104. Multi-Field Structural Decomposition for Question Answering — arXiv, 2016
  105. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluations of Word Embeddings — Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Student Abstract and Poster Program, 2016
  106. Computational Exploration of the Linguistic Structures of Future-Oriented Expression: Classification and Categorization — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Student Research Workshop, 2015
  107. Semantics-based Graph Approach to Complex Question-Answering — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Student Research Workshop, 2015
  108. It Depends: Dependency Parser Comparison Using A Web-based Evaluation Tool — Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015
  109. Real-Time Community Question Answering: Exploring Content Recommendation and User Notification Strategies — Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (iUI), 2015