Software and NLP R&D Strategy in Korea (Prof. Se Young Park)

Se Young Park
Professor, Dept of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University
Email: seyoung@knu.ac.kr

Abstract:
I will begin the talk with an introduction to the R&D strategy for the Information and Communication Industry in Korea. This strategy has turned out to provide IT services successfully to competitors, commercialize them and lead the IT service industry market. The Ministry of Information and Communication initiated the IT839 Strategy that envisions enhancing competitiveness of the Information and Communication Industry through eight services, three infrastructures and nine new growth engines.
I will then introduce the SW R&D policy in the context of the IT839 Strategy. Many important SW R&D issues such as open source SW, embedded SW including NLP will be dealt with. Especially, I will present NLP and semantic web technologies as a new SW infrastructure that enables the interoperability among ubiquitous IT services.

CURRICULUM VITAE

GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Se Young Park
Birthday: March 21, 1957
Address: 357-5 BoRyung Villa, JangDae-Dong, YuSeong, DaeJeon, Korea

EDUCATION
Feb. 1980: Kyungpook National University, Department of Electronics, B.S
Feb. 1982: KAIST, Department of Computer Science, M.S
Feb. 1989: Paris 7 University, France, Ph.D

EXPERIENCES
Feb. 1982 – Apr. 2000:
          Director of Natural Language Department, Electronics &  Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Apr. 2000 – Aug. 2003:
          President, Searchcast Inc.
Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2005:
          Project Manager of Digital Contents & S/W Solution, Institute of Information Technology Assessment (IITA)
          Project Manager of Digital Contents & S/W Solution, IT Policy Advisory Group, Ministry of Information and Communication, Republic of KOREA
Apr. 2005 – Current:
         Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University