Junyoung Son

I’m interested in Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.

Graduate student, NLP & AI Lab, Korea University · advised by Prof. Heuiseok Lim

Portrait of Junyoung Son

About

I am a graduate student in Computer Science & Engineering at Korea University, advised by Prof. Heuiseok Lim in the NLP & AI Lab. My research focuses on Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.

Contact: s0ny@korea.ac.kr / fnrnslwma@gmail.com

  • Information Extraction
  • Information Retrieval
  • Text Representation
  • Data Engineering
M.S & Ph.D in Computer Science & Engineering
Korea University
2021/09 ~
B.S in Information & Communication Engineering
Dongguk University
2014/03 ~ 2021/02

Selected Publications

  1. ACL SRW
    From Ambiguity to Accuracy: The Transformative Effect of Coreference Resolution on Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems

    Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Junyoung Son, Sungjin Park, Chanjun Park, Heuiseok Lim

    2025
  2. EMNLP
    Post-hoc Utterance Refining Method by Entity Mining for Faithful Knowledge Grounded Conversations

    Yoonna Jang*, Suhyune Son*, Jeongwoo Lee*, Junyoung Son, Yuna Hur, Jungwoo Lim, Hyeonseok Moon, Kisu Yang, Heuiseok Lim (*: equal contributions)

    2023
  3. EMNLP Findings 1st author
    Explore the Way: Exploring Reasoning Path by Bridging Entities for Effective Cross-Document Relation Extraction

    Junyoung Son, Jinsung Kim, Jungwoo Lim, Yoonna Jang, Heuiseok Lim

    2023
  4. COLING Oral 1st author
    GRASP: Guiding model with RelAtional Semantics using Prompt

    Junyoung Son*, Jinsung Kim*, Jungwoo Lim*, Heuiseok Lim (*: equal contributions)

    2022
  5. IEEE Access 1st author
    AI for Patents: A Novel yet Effective and Efficient Framework for Patent Analysis

    Junyoung Son, Hyeonseok Moon, Jeongwoo Lee, Seolhwa Lee, Chanjun Park, Wonkyung Jung, Heuiseok Lim

    2022
  6. HCLT
    KURE: Embedding Model for Korean-Specific Retrieval

    Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee, Seongtae Hong, JeongBae Park, Heuiseok Lim

    2025

All Publications

International Conference

  1. From Ambiguity to Accuracy: The Transformative Effect of Coreference Resolution on Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems

    ACL SRW · 2025

    Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)

    Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Junyoung Son, Sungjin Park, Chanjun Park, Heuiseok Lim

  2. Hyper-BTS Dataset: Scalability and Enhanced Analysis of Back TranScription (BTS) for ASR Post-Processing

    EACL Findings · 2024

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024

    Chanjun Park, Jaehyung Seo, Seolhwa Lee, Junyoung Son, Hyeonseok Moon, Sugyeong Eo, Chanhee Lee, Heuiseok Lim

  3. Post-hoc Utterance Refining Method by Entity Mining for Faithful Knowledge Grounded Conversations

    EMNLP · 2023

    The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023)

    Yoonna Jang*, Suhyune Son*, Jeongwoo Lee*, Junyoung Son, Yuna Hur, Jungwoo Lim, Hyeonseok Moon, Kisu Yang, Heuiseok Lim (*: equal contributions)

  4. Explore the Way: Exploring Reasoning Path by Bridging Entities for Effective Cross-Document Relation Extraction

    EMNLP Findings · 2023

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (EMNLP 2023 findings)

    Junyoung Son, Jinsung Kim, Jungwoo Lim, Yoonna Jang, Heuiseok Lim

  5. GRASP: Guiding model with RelAtional Semantics using Prompt

    COLING · 2022

    The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022)

    Junyoung Son*, Jinsung Kim*, Jungwoo Lim*, Heuiseok Lim (*: equal contributions)

  6. KoCHET: a Korean Cultural Heritage corpus for Entity-related Tasks

    COLING · 2022

    The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022)

    Gyungmin Kim*, Jinsung Kim*, Junyoung Son*, Heuiseok Lim (*: equal contributions)

International Journal

  1. Prompt Language Learner with Trigger Generation for Dialogue Relation Extraction

    Appl. Sci. · 2023

    Applied Sciences, 13(22), 12414, 2023

    Jinsung Kim, Gyeongmin Kim, Junyoung Son, Heuiseok Lim

  2. AI for Patents: A Novel yet Effective and Efficient Framework for Patent Analysis

    IEEE Access · 2022

    IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 59205-59218, 2022

    Junyoung Son, Hyeonseok Moon, Jeongwoo Lee, Seolhwa Lee, Chanjun Park, Wonkyung Jung, Heuiseok Lim

  3. Enhancing Korean Named Entity Recognition With Linguistic Tokenization Strategies

    IEEE Access · 2021

    IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 151814-151823, 2021

    Gyeongmin Kim*, Junyoung Son*, Jinsung Kim*, Hyunhee Lee, Heuiseok Lim (*: equal contributions)

Domestic Conference & Journal

  1. Database retrieval augmented generation framework leveraging Large reasoning language models and Schema linking methods

    HCLT · 2025

    Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology (HCLT 2025), pp. 77-82

    Myunghoon Kang, Junyoung Son, Chanhee Park, Aram So, Heuiseok Lim

  2. KURE: Embedding Model for Korean-Specific Retrieval

    HCLT · 2025

    Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology (HCLT 2025), pp. 129-134

    Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee, Seongtae Hong, JeongBae Park, Heuiseok Lim

  3. KomuRet: Korean Community-style Retrieval Benchmark

    HCLT · 2025

    Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology (HCLT 2025), pp. 619-624

    Junyoung Son, Youngjoon Jang, Taemin Lee, SeongTae Hong, Yuna Hur, Heuiseok Lim

  4. An Analysis of Named Entity Recognition System using MLM-based Language Transfer Learning

    HCLT · 2022

    The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT 2022)

    Junyoung Son, Gyeongmin Kim, Jinsung Kim, Yuna Hur, Heuiseok Lim

  5. Methodology of Trigger Generation optimized for Dialogue Relation Extraction task

    HCLT · 2022

    The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT 2022)

    Gyeongmin Kim, Junyoung Son, Jinsung Kim, Jaechoon Jo, Heuiseok Lim

  6. A Study on Prompt-based Persona Dialogue Generation

    HCLT · 2022

    The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT 2022)

    Yoona Jang, Kisu Yang, Hyeonseok Moon, Jaehyung Seo, Jungwoo Lim, Junyoung Son, Chanjun Park, Kinam Park, Heuiseok Lim

  7. Dialogue Relation Extraction using Dialogue Graph

    HCLT · 2022

    The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT 2022)

    Jungwoo Lim, Junyoung Son, Jinsung Kim, Yuna Hur, Jaehyung Seo, Yoonna Jang, JeongBae Park, Heuiseok Lim

  8. Categorization and Analysis of Error Types in the Korean Speech Recognition System

    HCLT · 2021

    The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT 2021)

    Junyoung Son, Chanjun Park, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim

  9. An Effective Segmentation Scheme for Korean Sentence Classification tasks

    HCLT · 2021

    The 33rd Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT 2021)

    Jinsung Kim, Gyeongmin Kim, Junyoung Son, Heuiseok Lim

  10. A Comparative study on the Effectiveness of Segmentation Strategies for Korean Word and Sentence Classification tasks

    JKCS · 2021

    Journal of the Korea Convergence Society

    Jinsung Kim, Gyeongmin Kim, Junyoung Son, Jeongbae Park, Heuiseok Lim

Preprint

  1. Improving Korean-English Cross-Lingual Retrieval: A Data-Centric Study of Language Composition and Model Merging

    arXiv · 2025

    arXiv, 2025

    Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee, Seongtae Hong, Heuiseok Lim

Projects

  • 독자 AI 파운데이션 모델 프로젝트: NCAI팀 데이터 리더

    2025.08.01 ~ 2025.12.31

  • KURE: Korea University Retrieval Embedding Model 개발

    2024.08 ~ 2024.12

  • 벡터 임베딩 구축과 유사도 검색 원천기술 개발

    2024.01.01 ~ 2024.12.31

  • 영화 추천시스템 개발을 위한 메타데이터 증강 및 구조화 기술 개발

    2023.02 ~ 2023.05

  • 삼성 모바일 제품 디자인 분석 기술 개발

    2022.08 ~ 2022.12

  • 전문지식 대상 판단결과의 이유/근거를 설명가능한 전문가 의사 결정 지원 인공지능 기술개발: 기관 PM

    2021.04 ~ Present

  • 특허 문서의 발명 목적 문장 추출 및 Key phrase 추출 기술 개발

    2021.06.01 ~ 2021.10.31

  • 실감형 문화유산 체험을 위한 애셋 기반 지능형 큐레이션 및 서비스 운영기술 개발: 지식 기반 관계 네트워크 생성을 위한 텍스트 마이닝 연구

    2021.04.01 ~ 2022.12.31