About Me
I am an assistant professor (in computational language science) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA. I obtained a BA and an MA in English Language Education at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea.
I investigate input–output relations in how the human mind works, with a particular focus on language acquisition/development under various usage/learning contexts, seeking methodological pluralism by combining analysis of (large-scale) corpora through Natural Language Processing techniques, behavioural experiments, and computational modelling. Drawing upon a research paradigm of usage-based constructionist approaches, I seek to address the interplay between exposure to linguistic environments and domain-general learning capacities, which is assumed to be the core force that promotes the emergence, growth, and change of (linguistic) knowledge across a lifetime. To this end, I empirically investigate properties of language-usage experience and their interactions with cognitive-psychological factors for speakers’ use and learners’ acquisition/development of linguistic knowledge, the essence of which is fundamentally the same as how humans formulate knowledge in general.
Some additional personal history: I served as an ROTC officer (2009~2011), and worked for Asiana Airlines (2013~2015).
I investigate input–output relations in how the human mind works, with a particular focus on language acquisition/development under various usage/learning contexts, seeking methodological pluralism by combining analysis of (large-scale) corpora through Natural Language Processing techniques, behavioural experiments, and computational modelling. Drawing upon a research paradigm of usage-based constructionist approaches, I seek to address the interplay between exposure to linguistic environments and domain-general learning capacities, which is assumed to be the core force that promotes the emergence, growth, and change of (linguistic) knowledge across a lifetime. To this end, I empirically investigate properties of language-usage experience and their interactions with cognitive-psychological factors for speakers’ use and learners’ acquisition/development of linguistic knowledge, the essence of which is fundamentally the same as how humans formulate knowledge in general.
Some additional personal history: I served as an ROTC officer (2009~2011), and worked for Asiana Airlines (2013~2015).