Joonsuk Park is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Richmond, where he is also affiliated with Linguistics and Cognitive Science.
His research primarily focuses on theoretical and empirical methods to assist human communication from the perspectives of logicality, factuality, and ethicality. Specific areas of research include argument mining, fact verification, and ethics.
Aside from such data science and NLP topics, he also conducts research on computer science education and seeks to apply the findings in his own classes.
Contact Information:
park@joonsuk.org
Department of Computer Science, Jepson Hall 222
221 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
latest news
8/2024: Panelist @ Workshop on Argument Mining (ACL), Thailand
7/2024: Invited Talk @ Korea University, South Korea
12/2023: Co-organizer @ Workshop on Argument Mining (EMNLP), Singapore
6/2023: Invited Talk @ Kyunghee University, South Korea
6/2023: Invited Talk @ KAIST, South Korea
5/2023: Invited Talk @ Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
5/2023: Invited Talk @ Seoul National University, South Korea
5/2023: Invited Talk @ Seoul National University, South Korea
4/2023: Invited Talk @ University of Hannover, Germany
1/2023: Invited Talk @ National University of Hanoi, Vietnam (Virtual)
12/2022: Panelist @ Workshop on Argument Mining (COLING), South Korea
research
selected publications
Hierarchical Deconstruction of LLM Reasoning: A Graph-Based Framework for Analyzing Knowledge Utilization
Miyoung Ko, Sue Hyun Park, Joonsuk Park, and Minjoon Seo
In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2024.
DADA: Distribution-Aware Domain Adaptation of PLMs for Information Retrieval
Dohyeon Lee*, Jongyoon Kim*, Seung-won Hwang, and Joonsuk Park
(*Equal contributions)
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2024.
LifeTox: Unveiling Implicit Toxicity in Life Advice
Minbeom Kim, Jahyun Koo, Hwanhee Lee, Joonsuk Park, Hwaran Lee, and Kyomin Jung
In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). 2024.
Argument Quality Assessment in the Age of Instruction-Following Large Language Models
Henning Wachsmuth, Gabriella Lapesa, Elena Cabrio, Anne Lauscher, Joonsuk Park, Eva Maria Vecchi, Serena Villata, and Timon Ziegenbein
In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). 2024.
A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L.C. Guo, Md Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Agnia Sergeyuk, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia H. Rho, Shannon Zejiang Shen, and Pao Siangliulue
In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2024.
Relevance-aware Generation for Robust Zero-shot Retrieval
Jihyuk Kim, Minsoo Kim, Joonsuk Park and Seung-won Hwang
In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): Industry Track. 2023.
From Values to Opinions: Predicting Stances on Specific Issues Using Value-injected LLMs
Dongjun Kang, Joonsuk Park, Yohan Jo, and JinYeong Bak
In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2023.
mRedditSum: A Multimodal Abstractive Summarization Dataset of Reddit Threads with Images
Keighley Overbay, Jaewoo Ahn, Fatemeh Pesaran Zadeh, Joonsuk Park, and Gunhee Kim.
In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2023.
Tree of Clarifications: Answering Ambiguous Questions with Large Language Models
Gangwoo Kim, Sungdong Kim, Byeong Guk Jeon, Joonsuk Park, and Jaewoo Kang
In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2023.
Asking Clarification Questions to Handle Ambiguity in Open-Domain QA
Dongryeol Lee*, Segwang Kim*, Minwoo Lee, Hwanhee Lee, Joonsuk Park, Sang-Woo Lee, and Kyomin Jung (*Equal contributions)
In Findings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2023.
Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compressed Large Language Models via sub-4-bit Integer Quantization
Jeonghoon Kim, Jung Hyun Lee, Sungdong Kim, Joonsuk Park, Kang Min Yoo, Se Jung Kwon, and Dongsoo Lee
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 2023.
KoSBi: A Dataset for Mitigating Social Bias Risks Towards Safer Large Language Model Applications
Hwaran Lee*, Seokhee Hong*, Joonsuk Park, Takyoung Kim, Gunhee Kim and Jung-Woo Ha (*Equal contributions)
In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Industry Track. 2023.
SQuARe: A Large-Scale Dataset of Sensitive Questions and Acceptable Responses Created Through Human-Machine Collaboration [Best Paper Nomination]
Hwaran Lee*, Seokhee Hong*, Joonsuk Park, Takyoung Kim, Meeyoung Cha, Yejin Choi, Byoungpil Kim, Gunhee Kim, Eun-Ju Lee, Yong Lim, Alice Oh, Sangchul Park and Jung-Woo Ha (*Equal contributions)
In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2023.
Critic-Guided Decoding for Controlled Text Generation
Minbeom Kim, Hwanhee Lee, Kangmin Yoo, Joonsuk Park, Hwaran Lee, and Kyomin Jung
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2023.
ClaimDiff: Comparing and Contrasting Claims on Contentious Issues
Miyoung Ko, Ingyu Seong, Hwaran Lee, Joonsuk Park, Minsuk Chang and Minjoon Seo
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2023.
Can AI Support Fiction Writers Without Writing For Them?
Jessi Stark, Anthony Tang, Young-Ho Kim, Joonsuk Park, and Daniel Wigdor.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing). CHI 2023.
@inproceedings{stark-etal-2023-fiction,
title = "Can AI Support Fiction Writers Without Writing For Them?",
author = "Stark, Jessi and
Tang, Anthony and
Kim, Young-Ho and
Park, Joonsuk and
Wigdor, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants",
month = apr,
year = "2023",
address = "Hamburg, Germany",
}
Argument Mining for Review Helpfulness Prediction
Zaiqian Chen, Daniel Verdi do Amarante, Jenna Donaldson, Yohan Jo and Joonsuk Park
In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2022.
@inproceedings{chen-etal-2022-argument,
title = "Argument Mining for Review Helpfulness Prediction",
author = "Chen, Zaiqian and
Verdi do Amarante, Daniel and
Donaldson, Jenna and
Jo, Yohan and
Park, Joonsuk",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.609",
pages = "8914--8922",
}
Masked Summarization to Generate Factually Inconsistent Summaries for Improved Factual Consistency Checking
Hwanhee Lee, Kang Min Yoo, Joonsuk Park, Hwaran Lee, and Kyomin Jung
In Findings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). 2022.
@inproceedings{lee-etal-2022-masked,
title = "Masked Summarization to Generate Factually Inconsistent Summaries for Improved Factual Consistency Checking",
author = "Lee, Hwanhee and
Yoo, Kang Min and
Park, Joonsuk and
Lee, Hwaran and
Jung, Kyomin",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.76",
pages = "1019--1030",
}
Plug-and-Play Adaptation for Continuously-updated QA
Kyungjae Lee, Wookje Han, Seung-won Hwang, Hwaran Lee, Joonsuk Park, and Sang-Woo Lee
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2022.
@inproceedings{lee-etal-2022-plug,
title = "Plug-and-Play Adaptation for Continuously-updated {QA}",
author = "Lee, Kyungjae and
Han, Wookje and
Hwang, Seung-won and
Lee, Hwaran and
Park, Joonsuk and
Lee, Sang-Woo",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.37",
pages = "438--447",
}
Argument Mining on Twitter: A Case Study on the Planned Parenthood Debate [Best Paper Nomination]
Muhammad Mahad Afzal Bhatti, Ahsan Suheer Ahmad, and Joonsuk Park
In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining). EMNLP 2021.
@inproceedings{bhatti-etal-2021-argument,
title = "Argument Mining on {T}witter: A Case Study on the Planned Parenthood Debate",
author = "Bhatti, Muhammad Mahad Afzal and
Ahmad, Ahsan Suheer and
Park, Joonsuk",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.argmining-1.1",
pages = "1--11",
}
Automatic Fact-Checking with Document-level Annotations using BERT and Multiple Instance Learning
Aalok Sathe and Joonsuk Park In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER). EMNLP 2021.
@inproceedings{sathe-park-2021-automatic,
title = "Automatic Fact-Checking with Document-level Annotations using {BERT} and Multiple Instance Learning",
author = "Sathe, Aalok and
Park, Joonsuk",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER)",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.fever-1.11",
pages = "101--107",
}
Analyzing Cultural Assimilation through the Lens of Yelp Restaurant Reviews
Zaiqian Chen and Joonsuk Park In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA). 2021.
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title={Analyzing Cultural Assimilation through the Lens of Yelp Restaurant Reviews},
year={2021},
pages={1-10},
doi={10.1109/DSAA53316.2021.9564170}
}
Automatic Fact-checking of Claims from Wikipedia
Aalok Sathe, Salar Ather, Tuan Mahn Le, Nathan Perry and Joonsuk Park In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). 2020.
@InProceedings{sathe-EtAl:2020:LREC,
author = {Sathe, Aalok and Ather, Salar and Le, Tuan Manh and Perry, Nathan and Park, Joonsuk},
title = {Automated Fact-Checking of Claims from Wikipedia},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {May},
year = {2020},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {6876--6884},
url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.849}
}
A Corpus of eRulemaking User Comments for Measuring Evaluability of Arguments
Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie In Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). 2018.
@InProceedings{PARK18.679,
author = {Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie},
title = {A Corpus of eRulemaking User Comments for Measuring Evaluability of Arguments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)},
year = {2018},
month = {may},
date = {7-12},
location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
address = {Paris, France},
isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9},
language = {english}
}
Using Argumentative Structure to Interpret Debates in Online Deliberative Democracy and eRulemaking
John Lawrence, Joonsuk Park, Barbara Konat, Claire Cardie, Katarzyna Budzynska, and Chris Reed
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). 2017.
@article{Lawrence:2017:UAS:3106680.3032989,
author = {Lawrence, John and Park, Joonsuk and Budzynska, Katarzyna and Cardie, Claire and Konat, Barbara and Reed, Chris},
title = {Using Argumentative Structure to Interpret Debates in Online Deliberative Democracy and eRulemaking},
journal = {ACM Trans. Internet Technol.},
issue_date = {July 2017},
volume = {17},
number = {3},
month = jul,
year = {2017},
issn = {1533-5399},
pages = {25:1--25:22},
articleno = {25},
numpages = {22},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3032989},
doi = {10.1145/3032989},
acmid = {3032989},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Argument, analytics, argumentation, corpus, dialogue, engagement, sensemaking},
}
Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs
Vlad Niculae, Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie
In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2017.
@InProceedings{P17-1091,
author = "Niculae, Vlad
and Park, Joonsuk
and Cardie, Claire",
title = "Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ",
year = "2017",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
pages = "985--995",
location = "Vancouver, Canada",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P17-1091",
url = "http://aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1091"
}
A Corpus of Argument Networks: Using Graph Properties to Analyse Divisive Issues
Barbara Konat, John Lawrence, Joonsuk Park, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed In Proceedings of the 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). 2016.
@InProceedings{KONAT16.307,
author = {Barbara Konat and John Lawrence and Joonsuk Park and Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed},
title = {A Corpus of Argument Networks: Using Graph Properties to Analyse Divisive Issues},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
year = {2016},
month = {may},
date = {23-28},
location = {Portorož, Slovenia},
editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Marko Grobelnik and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Helene Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
address = {Paris, France},
isbn = {978-2-9517408-9-1},
language = {english}
}
The Effects of Peer- and Self-assessment on the Assessors
Joonsuk Park and Kimberly Williams
In Proceedings of the 47th Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium. 2016.
@inproceedings{Park:2016:EPS:2839509.2844602,
author = {Park, Joonsuk and Williams, Kimberley},
title = {The Effects of Peer- and Self-assessment on the Assessors},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education},
series = {SIGCSE '16},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3685-7},
location = {Memphis, Tennessee, USA},
pages = {249--254},
numpages = {6},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2839509.2844602},
doi = {10.1145/2839509.2844602},
acmid = {2844602},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {active learning, peer-assessment, self-assessment},
}
Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Questions
Shohini Bhattasali, Jeremy Cytryn, Elana Feldman and Joonsuk Park
In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2015.
@InProceedings{bhattasali-EtAl:2015:ACL-IJCNLP,
author = {Bhattasali, Shohini and Cytryn, Jeremy and Feldman, Elana and Park, Joonsuk},
title = {Automatic Identification of Rhetorical Questions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
month = {July},
year = {2015},
address = {Beijing, China},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
pages = {743--749},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P15-2122}
}
Toward Machine-assisted Participation in eRulemaking: An Argumentation Model of Evaluability
Joonsuk Park, Cheryl Blake and Claire Cardie
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL). 2015.
@inproceedings{Park:2015:TMP:2746090.2746118,
author = {Park, Joonsuk and Blake, Cheryl and Cardie, Claire},
title = {Toward Machine-assisted Participation in eRulemaking: An Argumentation Model of Evaluability},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law},
series = {ICAIL '15},
year = {2015},
isbn = {978-1-4503-3522-5},
location = {San Diego, California},
pages = {206--210},
numpages = {5},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2746090.2746118},
doi = {10.1145/2746090.2746118},
acmid = {2746118},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
Conditional Random Fields for Identifying Appropriate Types of Support for Propositions in Online User Comments
Joonsuk Park, Arzoo Katiyar and Bishan Yang
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Argumentation Mining (ArgMining). NAACL 2015.
@InProceedings{park-katiyar-yang:2015:ARG-MINING,
author = {Park, Joonsuk and Katiyar, Arzoo and Yang, Bishan},
title = {Conditional Random Fields for Identifying Appropriate Types of Support for Propositions in Online User Comments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Argumentation Mining},
month = {June},
year = {2015},
address = {Denver, CO},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
pages = {39--44},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-0506}
}
AsseSS: A Tool for Assessing the Support Structures of Arguments in User Comments
Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie
In Proceedings of the Computational Models of Argumentation (COMMA). 2014.
@inproceedings{parkcardie14,
author = {Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie},
title = {AsseSS: {A} Tool for Assessing the Support Structures of Arguments in User Comments},
booktitle = {Computational Models of Argument - Proceedings of {COMMA} 2014, Atholl Palace Hotel, Scottish Highlands, UK, September 9-12, 2014},
pages = {473--474},
year = {2014},
}
Identifying Appropriate Support for Propositions in Online User Comments
Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Argumentation Mining (ArgMining). ACL 2014.
@InProceedings{park-cardie:2014:W14-21,
author = {Park, Joonsuk and Cardie, Claire},
title = {Identifying Appropriate Support for Propositions in Online User Comments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Argumentation Mining},
month = {June},
year = {2014},
address = {Baltimore, Maryland},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
pages = {29--38},
url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-2105}
}
Cornell Expert Aided Query-focused Summarization (CEAQS): A Summarization Framework to PoliInformatics
Lu Wang, Parvaz Mahdabi, Joonsuk Park, Dinesh Puranam, Bishan Yang and Claire Cardie
NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics. 2014.
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author={Wang, Lu and Mahdabi, Parvaz and Park, Joonsuk and Puranam, Dinesh and Yang, Bishan and Cardie, Claire},
title={{Cornell Expert Aided Query-focused Summarization (CEAQS): A Summarization Framework to PoliInformatics.}},
journal={NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics},
year={2014},
}
Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition through Feature Set Optimization
Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie
In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). 2012.
@inproceedings{Park:2012:IID:2392800.2392818,
author = {Park, Joonsuk and Cardie, Claire},
title = {Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue},
series = {SIGDIAL '12},
year = {2012},
location = {Seoul, South Korea},
pages = {108--112},
numpages = {5},
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2392800.2392818},
acmid = {2392818},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA},
}
Facilitative Moderation for Online Participation in eRulemaking
Joonsuk Park, Sally Klingel, Claire Cardie, Mary Newhart, Cynthia Farina, and Joan-Josep Vallbe
In Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). 2012.
@inproceedings{Park:2012:FMO:2307729.2307757,
author = {Park, Joonsuk and Klingel, Sally and Cardie, Claire and Newhart, Mary and Farina, Cynthia and Vallb{\'e}, Joan-Josep},
title = {Facilitative Moderation for Online Participation in eRulemaking},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research},
series = {dg.o '12},
year = {2012},
isbn = {978-1-4503-1403-9},
location = {College Park, Maryland},
pages = {173--182},
numpages = {10},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2307729.2307757},
doi = {10.1145/2307729.2307757},
acmid = {2307757},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
