Chan Young Park
I’m a PhD candidate advised by Yulia Tsvetkov at Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I’m currently at University of Washington as a visiting PhD student. Broadly, my research interests are in the area of natural language processing and computational social science. I am a recipient of KFAS Fellowship and was a research intern at Meta AI and Adobe Research. Before joining CMU, I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yonsei University, South Korea. For more information, please check my CV.
Research Interests
My research specifically centers on the importance of sociocultural knowledge within the context of NLP, investigating the ways in which language use differs based on people’s cultural and social background. I aim to enhance the sociocultural awareness of language technologies to improve their effectiveness, fairness, and adaptability to diverse populations. Additionally, I’m interested in making the latest language technologies more accessible and practical for other disciplines, such as social science, political science, and communication studies.
- NLP: community aware langauge models, domain adaptation, hate speech detection, affect analysis
- Computational Social Science: information campaigns, social norms
- AI Ethics: societal biases in data & models
News
- [Aug 2023] My research (and my interview) was featured in MIT Technology Review and Washington Post.
- [Aug 2023] I’m serving as an area chair of the Ethics track of EMNLP 2023.
- [Jul 2023] Our paper on political biases of LLMs received the best paper award at ACL 2023!!
- [Jun 2023] Our paper on social biases in Wikipedia was selected as Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023.
- [Oct 2022] I was selected as UChicago Rising Stars in Data Science!
- [Aug 2022] Our new PNAS paper on emotion analysis of 2019 #BLM movement tweets is now available! It was covered by UW and CMU News too!
- [Jun 2020] Washington Post news article, which features our collaboration with WaPo investigative journalist to find the evidence of anti-Black discrimination in China over COVID fears is out!
Publications
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023.
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022.
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Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 2022.
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021.
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Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021.
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Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021.
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Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2020.
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 2019.