Training and professional background
Research interests
Scientific activities
Awards and research grants
Supervised theses and dissertation
Other international activities
Main publications and conferences
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Since March 2019, I've been working as an assistant professor at the Department of French Language and Literature at Ajou University.
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TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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| 2017 - 2019 : Postdoctoral fellow, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB), University of Canterbury Project title : Statistical learning with and without a lexiconPI : Jen Hay (NZILBB) |
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| 2012 - 2015 : PhD in Language Science, DDL Laboratory, Lyon 2 Thesis title : Complexité et Information Linguistiques : Approches QuantitativesDirector : François Pellegrino (DDL) |
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| 2009 - 2011 : International Master (Erasmus Mundus) in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona & University of Franche-Comté
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| 2004 - 2008 : BA in French Language and Literature, Yonsei University |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| Language universals and linguistic typology |
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| Linguistic complexity and information rate |
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| Oral and written multilingual corpus processing |
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| Quantitative linguistics |
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SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
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| Visiting researcher at the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany, January 12 - April 12, 2015 |
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| Peer reviewer for journals and conference papers: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, English World-Wide, Laboratory Phonology, Glossa, and Interspeech |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| 2015 : Visiting Fellowship in Language Science (SFB 1102) for the research project - "Information Density and the Predictability of Phonetic Structure", Saarland University |
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| 2012 - 2015 : PhD contract (Labex ASLAN) |
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| 2009 - 2011 : Erasmus Mundus Scholarship funded by the European Union |
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| 2008 : Summa Cum Laude, BA in French Language and Literature, Yonsei University |
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SUPERVISED THESES AND DISSERTATION
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| 2017 - 2019 : PhD thesis of Moonsun Choi (University of Canterbury, co-supervision) |
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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| Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS 2013) - "Collective Behaviour and Mobility in Complex Systems", Le Havre, France, July 9-18, 2013. |
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| International Summer School in Language and Speech Technologies (SSLST 2012), Tarragona, Spain, July 30 – August 3, 2012 |
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
LONG VERSION / SHOW SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Oh, Y., 2015, "Linguistic Complexity and Information: Quantitative Approaches", Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences du Langage, Université Lyon 2, Lyon (thesis)
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Oh, Y., 2011, "Traitement des collocations verbales dans un système de Q/R : les verbes supports et les verbes à particule", Mémoire de Master, Departament de Filologia Francesa i Romànica/UFR Sciences du Langage, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Université de Franche-Comté |
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Journals
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Oh, Y., Todd, S., Beckner, C., Hay, J., King, J. & Needle, J., 2020, "Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon", Scientific Reports, 10:22318 (article)
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Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Dediu, D. & Pellegrino, F., 2019, "Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche", Science Advances, 5:9, pp. eaaw2594 (doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594 , GitHub data and code)
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Malisz, Z., Brandt, E., Möbius, B., Oh, Y. & Andreeva, B., 2018, "Dimensions of Segmental Variability: Interaction of Prosody and Surprisal in Six Languages", Frontiers in Communication, 3:25 |
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Oh, Y., Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, F., 2015, "Bridging Phonological System and Lexicon: Insights from a Corpus Study of Functional Load", Journal of Phonetics, 53, pp. 153-176 (final draft)
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Oh, Y., 2011, "Treatment of Verbal Collocations in a Q/A System: Light Verbs and Phrasal Verbs", Bulag (Bulletin de Linguistique Appliquée et Générale), 36, pp. 175-195. |
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Conferences with proceedings
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Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Hay, J. & King, J., 2018, "Phonotactic Sensitivity in Speakers with a Very Small Lexicon"16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16), Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-23 |
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Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Hay, J., King, J. & Racz, P., 2018, "Word-order Maintains OCP-Place Effects across Word Boundaries in Māori"The International Congress of Linguists (ICL20), Cape Town, South Africa, July 2-6 |
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Schulz, E., Oh, Y., Malisz, Z., Andreeva, B. & Möbius, B., 2016, "Impact of Prosodic Structure and Information Density on Vowel Space Size", proc. of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, MA, USA, May 31-June 3 (paper)
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Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F. & Marsico, E., 2014, "Cross-linguistic Investigations of Oral and Silent Reading", proc. of Interspeech 2014, Singapore, September 14-18, pp. 514-518 (poster) (paper, poster)
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Oh, Y., Coupé, C. & Pellegrino, F., 2013, "Effect of Bilingualism on Speech Rate: the Case of Catalan and Basque Bilinguals in Spain", proc. of The International Congress of Linguists, Geneva, July 21-27 (poster) (poster)
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Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Marsico, E., 2013, "Cross-language Comparison of Functional Load for Vowels, Consonants, and Tones", proc. of Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France, August 25-29 (paper)
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Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E. & Coupé, C., 2013, "A Quantitative and Typological Approach to Correlating Linguistic Complexity", proc. of the 5th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14 (abstract) (paper, slides)
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Oh, Y., 2012, "Linguistic Complexity and Information Rate: Quantitative Approaches", proc. of Colloque des doctorants et des jeunes chercheurs (COLDOC) 2012, Traitement de corpus: outils et méthodes, Paris, October 4-5 (poster) (pdf)
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Oh, Y. & Pellegrino, F., 2012, "Quantitative Approaches to Phonological Complexity: the Case of East Asian Languages", proc. of The International Conference of Korean Association for Corpus Linguistics, Busan, South Korea, December 10-11 (slides)
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Conference presentations
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Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Oh, Y. & Dediu, D., 2020, "Evolutionary Perspectives on Speech and Information Rates [poster]", EVOLANG XIII, Brussels, Belgium, 14-17 April 2020 |
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Oh, Y., 2019, "Phonological and Morphological Complexity from a Quantitative and Typological Perspective", Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity (IWMLC 2019), Freiburg, Germany, September 12-13 |
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Oh, Y., Beckner, C., Hay, J. & King, J., 2018, "Non-Māori Speaking New Zealanders Show Surprisingly Sophisticated Māori Phonotactic Knowledge", 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16) satellite workshop, , Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-23 (poster) |
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Oh, Y., 2016, "On the relationship between phonological and morphological complexity: a large-scale, cross-language, quantitative approach", ASLAN Complexity Meeting, Lyon, France, June 16 |
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Magazines paper
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Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Marsico, E., 2014, "La complexité des langues du monde", 82, Dossier Pour la Science, pp. 66-71 (site)
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Movie or radio
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Oh, Y., 2020, "¿Qué idioma es más rápido?", Mundo Ciencia, Radio France Internationale (RFI), 20min |
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