Sihoon Lee

Computational Linguistic Consultant

iConsult Collaborative•  February 2022 - May 2022

- Developed an NLP system for Our Ability, Inc (a recruiting platform for people with disabilities) to detect ableist words in the job descriptions and reduce bias against disability in them by suggesting edits that would make it less ableist - Created an annotated ableist corpus utilizing strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Trained ML algorithms (SVM, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes) using scikit-Learn, SpaCy & NLTK libraries while demonstrating familiarity with machine learning tools to improve application effectiveness

NLP Research Intern

AI-LAB Korea, Ministry of Science and ICT•  February 2019 - May 2019

- Developed Patent Language Model for an NLP system that calculates the similarities between the new patent applications and the existing approved patents - Provided syntactic/morphological knowledge of Korean, collected and built a domain-specific corpus - Calculated NMT BLEU on English-Korean patent data to choose the tokenizer

Graduate Research Assistant

Ontological Semantic Laboratory at Texas A&M University-Commerce•  January 2018 - December 2018

- Conducted a synchronic interlingual study of the lexico-semantic field around words for "laugh, smile, grin, etc". in an aligned corpus of Kesey’s novel One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Annotated Korean data corresponding to English original text to research syntactic/morphological behaviors of Korean laughter expressions - Carried out research on Imperfect Puns of Korean: collected instances from the web, annotated data in Unicode, and calculated the phonetic distances using Levenshtein distance on Python

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Texas A&M University-Commerce•  January 2016 - December 2017

- Evaluated assignments, held discussion sections, and facilitated remote learning opportunities

Syracuse University, Syracuse

Computational Linguistics, MS•  August 2020 - May 2022

- Computer Science: Natural Language Processing, Intro to Data Science, Text Mining, Applied Machine Learning, Algorithms for Computational Journalism & Linguistics - Linguistics: Phonological Analysis, Semantics of Human Languages