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Jinho Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science as well as the Institute of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University. He obtained a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics (dual degree) from Coe College in 2002, a M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with Mitchell Marcus, a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science (joint degree) from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012 with Martha Palmer, and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014 with Andrew McCallum. He was a full-time lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Military Academy from 2004 to 2007 while he was serving his military duty in South Korea. He was a R&D team lead of the Amelia project, the next generation machine reading system developed at IPsoft Inc.

Jinho Choi has been active in research on natural language processing; especially, on the optimization of low-level NLP (e.g., part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, semantic role labeling) for robustness on various data and scalability on large data. He has developed an open source project called ClearNLP, providing NLP components with state-of-the-art accuracy and speed, which has been widely used for both academic and industrial research. His current research focuses on the development of NLP components for different domains (e.g., social media, medical data) and the applications of these NLP components for end-user systems such as question-answering, information extraction, dialog management, etc. He is also interested in interdisciplinary research where NLP can enhance researches in other areas.