Najoung Kim (Korea)

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MSt in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology

I completed my degree in MSt General Linguistics & Comparative Philology in 2015. In my Master's thesis I proposed a fully automated system for discovering novel expressions in a corpus and predicting what the productive process involved in generating those expressions are using linguistic clues. As well as functioning as a useful tool for researchers, the statistics obtained from the system result can be applied to a quantitative measure of innovation and textual characteristics. This research has influenced my work as a visiting researcher at KAIST (South Korea), where I investigated longitudinal effects of dementia on productive morphology.

The Ertegun Programme was the main reason I chose to undertake my postgraduate study in Oxford, and I had a great year - both academically and culturally - at Ertegun House under the support of caring staff and with the company of the student community. I am grateful to Mica and Ahmet Ertegun for the all the opportunities that would not have been given to me without their generosity.

Life After Ertegun House

As of 2018, I am a PhD student advised by Dr. Paul Smolensky at the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, where I am developing computational models of gradience in natural language. I am also interested in understanding and evaluating neural network models of language (see https://najoungkim.github.io/ for more details).