Saim Shin

Also published as: Sa-Im Shin


2022

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Automatic Gloss-level Data Augmentation for Sign Language Translation
Jin Yea Jang | Han-Mu Park | Saim Shin | Suna Shin | Byungcheon Yoon | Gahgene Gweon
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Securing sufficient data to enable automatic sign language translation modeling is challenging. The data insufficiency issue exists in both video and text modalities; however, fewer studies have been performed on text data augmentation compared to video data. In this study, we present three methods of augmenting sign language text modality data, comprising 3,052 Gloss-level Korean Sign Language (GKSL) and Word-level Korean Language (WKL) sentence pairs. Using each of the three methods, the following number of sentence pairs were created: blank replacement 10,654, sentence paraphrasing 1,494, and synonym replacement 899. Translation experiment results using the augmented data showed that when translating from GKSL to WKL and from WKL to GKSL, Bi-Lingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) scores improved by 0.204 and 0.170 respectively, compared to when only the original data was used. The three contributions of this study are as follows. First, we demonstrated that three different augmentation techniques used in existing Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be applied to sign language. Second, we propose an automatic data augmentation method which generates quality data by utilizing the Korean sign language gloss dictionary. Lastly, we publish the Gloss-level Korean Sign Language 13k dataset (GKSL13k), which has verified data quality through expert reviews.

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An Emotion-based Korean Multimodal Empathetic Dialogue System
Minyoung Jung | Yeongbeom Lim | San Kim | Jin Yea Jang | Saim Shin | Ki-Hoon Lee
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on When Creative AI Meets Conversational AI

We propose a Korean multimodal dialogue system targeting emotion-based empathetic dialogues because most research in this field has been conducted in a few languages such as English and Japanese and in certain circumstances. Our dialogue system consists of an emotion detector, an empathetic response generator, a monitoring interface, a voice activity detector, a speech recognizer, a speech synthesizer, a gesture classification, and several controllers to provide both multimodality and empathy during a conversation between a human and a machine. For comparisons across visual influence on users, our dialogue system contains two versions of the user interface, a cat face-based user interface and an avatar-based user interface. We evaluated our dialogue system by investigating the dialogues in text and the average mean opinion scores under three different visual conditions, no visual, the cat face-based, and the avatar-based expressions. The experimental results stand for the importance of adequate visual expressions according to user utterances.

2021

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BPM_MT: Enhanced Backchannel Prediction Model using Multi-Task Learning
Jin Yea Jang | San Kim | Minyoung Jung | Saim Shin | Gahgene Gweon
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Backchannel (BC), a short reaction signal of a listener to a speaker’s utterances, helps to improve the quality of the conversation. Several studies have been conducted to predict BC in conversation; however, the utilization of advanced natural language processing techniques using lexical information presented in the utterances of a speaker has been less considered. To address this limitation, we present a BC prediction model called BPM_MT (Backchannel prediction model with multitask learning), which utilizes KoBERT, a pre-trained language model. The BPM_MT simultaneously carries out two tasks at learning: 1) BC category prediction using acoustic and lexical features, and 2) sentiment score prediction based on sentiment cues. BPM_MT exhibited 14.24% performance improvement compared to the existing baseline in the four BC categories: continuer, understanding, empathic response, and No BC. In particular, for empathic response category, a performance improvement of 17.14% was achieved.

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A Model of Cross-Lingual Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
San Kim | Jin Yea Jang | Minyoung Jung | Saim Shin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021

Research on open-domain dialogue systems that allow free topics is challenging in the field of natural language processing (NLP). The performance of the dialogue system has been improved recently by the method utilizing dialogue-related knowledge; however, non-English dialogue systems suffer from reproducing the performance of English dialogue systems because securing knowledge in the same language with the dialogue system is relatively difficult. Through experiments with a Korean dialogue system, this paper proves that the performance of a non-English dialogue system can be improved by utilizing English knowledge, highlighting the system uses cross-lingual knowledge. For the experiments, we 1) constructed a Korean version of the Wizard of Wikipedia dataset, 2) built Korean-English T5 (KE-T5), a language model pre-trained with Korean and English corpus, and 3) developed a knowledge-grounded Korean dialogue model based on KE-T5. We observed the performance improvement in the open-domain Korean dialogue model even only English knowledge was given. The experimental results showed that the knowledge inherent in cross-lingual language models can be helpful for generating responses in open dialogue systems.

2004

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Automatic clustering of collocation for detecting practical sense boundary
Saim Shin | Key-Sun Choi
Proceedings of the ACL Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions

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Semiautomatic Extension of CoreNet using a Bootstrapping Mechanism on Corpus-based Co-occurrences
Chris Biemann | Sa-Im Shin | Key-Sun Choi
COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

2002

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Word Sense Disambiguation with Information Retrieval Technique
Jong-Hoon Oh | Saim Shin | Yong-Seok Choi | Key-Sun Choi
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’02)