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Hahn Koo
Department of Linguistics and Language Development
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA, 95192, U.S.A.
T: +1.408.924.7093
E: hahn *dot* koo *AT* sjsu *dot* edu
Employment
- Aug 2008 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
- Jan 2008 - Jun 2008, Text-to-speech specialist, Nuance Communications, Merelbeke, Belgium
- May 2005 - Aug 2005, Intern, Center for Human Interaction Research, Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, U.S.A.
- May 2004 - Aug 2004, Intern, Center for Human Interaction Research, Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL, U.S.A.
Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2007
- Certificate of Advanced Study in Language and Speech Processing
- Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- B.A. in English Language and Literature, 2002
Teaching
- LING101: Introduction to Linguistics, SJSU, Fall 2009
- LING115: Corpus Linguistics, SJSU, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
- LING201: Phonology - Theory and Applications, SJSU, Spring 2009
- LING165: Computers and Written Language, SJSU, Spring 2009
- LING124: Computers and Spoken Language, SJSU, Fall 2008
Funding
- Koo, H. (PI), "Performance enhancement of the multilingual (Canadian French, Mexican Spanish) grapheme-to-phoneme conversion module", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, April 2009 - September 2009, $50,000.
- Koo, H. (PI), "Development of multilingual (Canadian French, Mexican Spanish) grapheme-to-phoneme conversion module", Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, September 2008 - January 2009, $50,000.
Pending Patent
- Koo, H. & Cheng, Y. M. (U.S. Patent Application 20070094022, filed in 2005 by Motorola). Method and device for recognizing human intent.
Papers
- Koo, H. & Cole, J. (2007). Gradient perceptual facilitation from phonotactic knowledge. Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 43, 1, 167-181.
- Koo, H. (2007). Change in the adult phonological processing system by learning non-adjacent phonotactic constraints from brief experience: An experimental and computational study. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Koo, H. & Oh, Y-i. (2007). Onset-to-onset probability and gradient acceptability in Korean. Language Research, 43, 2, 287-307.
- Koo, H. & Cheng, Y. M. (2006). Incremental learning of MAP context-dependent edit operations for spoken phone number recognition in an embedded platform. Proceedings of ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006, 2310-2313. Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
- Koo, H. & Cole, J. (2006). On learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar. Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 165-168. Athens, Greece.
Talks
- Statistical model of Korean loanword phonology. Paper accepted for presentation at The 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Honolulu, U.S.A, November 12-14, 2009.
- Phonotactic learning beyond tier-adjacency. Paper presented at The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, U.S.A., January 11, 2009.
- Noisy channel model for error correction in speech and language technology. Invited Talk, San Jose State University, February 28, 2008.
- Effect of onset-to-onset probability on non-word speech processing. (with Young-il Oh) Paper presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, U.S.A., January 3, 2008.
- Using an error corrective post-processor to improve speech recognition accuracy. Invited Talk, AT&T Labs-Research, May 22, 2007.
- Gradient perceptual facilitation from phonotactic knowledge. (with Jennifer Cole) Paper presented at The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, U.S.A., May 3, 2007.
- Confusability and perceptual facilitation from knowledge of phonotactic constraints. Invited Talk, San Jose State University, March 1, 2007.
- Gradience in performance does not necessarily mean gradience in grammar: Evidence from artificial grammar learning experiments. Linguistics Departmental Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 22, 2007.
- Complexity and perceptual factors in phonotactic learning: Evidence from artificial grammar learning. (with Jennifer Cole) Paper presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Anaheim, U.S.A., January 5, 2007.
- Incremental learning of MAP context-dependent edit operations for spoken phone number recognition in an embedded platform. (with Yan Ming Cheng) Poster presented at ISCA International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., September 21, 2006.
- On learnability and naturalness as constraints on phonological grammar. (with Jennifer Cole) Paper presented at ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens, Greece, August 29, 2006.
Awards and honors
- College Release Time Award (.20), SJSU, Spring 2009
- Phi Kappa Phi, 2007
- University Travel Grant, UIUC, Fall 2006
- University Fellowship, UIUC, Aug 2002 - May 2004
Services
- Local organization committee for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2009
- Director, Center for Human Language Technology, San Jose State University, August 2008 - Present
- Ad-hoc reviewer for Language, May 2008
- Student reviewer for The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., Oct 2007
- Organizer, Computational Linguistics Reading Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Aug 2004 - May 2005
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