Hwang, Seung-won (황승원)

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests

Data(-driven) intelligence, knowledge graph
Search engines, query optimization
Language understanding

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2005
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2000
B.S. in Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1998

Contact

Office: 301-520

Email: seungwonh@snu.ac.kr

Website: https://seungwonh.github.io/

Publications

Counterfactual-Consistency Prompting for Relative Temporal Understanding in Large Language Models, ACL 2025 (short)
Jongho Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
RoToR: Towards More Reliable Responses for Order-Invariant Inputs, ACL 2025
Soyoung Yoon, Dongha Ahn, Youngwon Lee, Minkyu Jung, HyungJoo Jang, Seung-won Hwang.
STUN: Structured-Then-Unstructured Pruning for Scalable MoE Pruning, ACL 2025
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Aurick Qiao, Daniel Campos, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
ECoRAG: Evidentiality-guided Compression for Long Context RAG, Findings of ACL 2025
Yeonseok Jeong, Jinsu Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
Tree-of-Prompts: Abstracting Control-Flow for Prompt Optimization, Findings of ACL 2025
Jihyuk Kim, Shubham Garg, Lahari Poddar, Seung-won Hwang, Christopher Hench.
FaVe: Factored and Verified Search Rationale for Long-form Answer, Findings of ACL 2025
Jihyuk Kim, Sungjin Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Yang Liu.
Smarter, Not Harder: Training-Free Adaptive Computation for Transformers, Findings of ACL 2025
{Romain Storaï, Jaeseong Lee}, Seung-won Hwang.
ConvCodeWorld: Benchmarking Conversational Code Generation in Reproducible Feedback Environments, ICLR 2025
Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang, Rajhans Samdani, Yuxiong He.
Query-focused Referentiability Learning for Zero-shot Retrieval, NAACL 2025
Jaeyoung Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
PROM: Pivoted and Regulated Optimization for Multilingual Instruction Learning, NAACL 2025
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Hojin Lee, Yunju Bak, Changmin Lee.
tRAG: Term-level Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-shot Retrieval, NAACL 2025
Dohyeon Lee, Jongyoon Kim, Jihyuk Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Joonsuk Park.
HARP: Hesitation-Aware Reframing in Transformer Inference Pass, NAACL 2025
Romain Storaï, Seung-won Hwang.
CORD: Balancing COnsistency and Rank Distillation for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation, NAACL 2025 (short)
Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Daniel Campos, Filip Graliński, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
Inference Scaling for Bridging Retrieval and Augmented Generation, Findings of NAACL 2025
Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Daniel Campos, Filip Graliński, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
Query Variant Detection Using Retriever as Environment, NAACL 2025 (Industry Track)
{Minji Seo, Youngwon Lee}, Seung-won Hwang, Seoho Song, Hee-Cheol Seo, Young-In Song.
PLEX: Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Code LLMs using Lottery-Tickets, NAACL 2025 (Industry Track)
{Jaeseong Lee, Hojae Han}, Jongyoon Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Naun Kang, KyungJun An, Sungho Jang.
PERC: Plan-As-Query Example Retrieval for Underrepresented Code Generation, COLING 2025 (short)
Jaeseok Yoo, Hojae Han, Youngwon Lee, Jaejin Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Piano performance evaluation dataset with multilevel perceptual features, Scientific Reports 14 (2024)
{Jisoo Park, Jongho Kim}, Jeong Mi Park, Ahyeon Choi, Wen-Syan Li, Jonghwa Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Breaking ReLU Barrier: Generalized MoEfication for Dense Pretrained Models, EMNLP 2024
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Wonpyo Park, Mingi Ji.
Interventional Speech Noise Injection for ASR Generalizable Spoken Language Understanding, EMNLP 2024
YeonJoon Jung, Jaeseong Lee, Seungtaek Choi, Dohyeon Lee, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
QuBE: Question-based Belief Enhancement for Agentic LLM, EMNLP 2024
Minsoo Kim, Jongyoon Kim, Jihyuk Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Meta-Prompting Efficient Task-Adaptive Query Generator for Retrieval, Findings of EMNLP 2024
Yoonsang Lee, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Intended Target Identification for Anomia Patients with Gradient-based Selective Augmentation, Findings of EMNLP 2024
Jongho Kim, Romain Storaï, Seung-won Hwang.
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Listwise Reranking with Positional Invariance on Temporal Generalizability, CLEF 2024, LongEval
{Soyoung Yoon, Jongyoon Kim}, Seung-won Hwang.
ListT5: Listwise Reranking with Fusion-in-Decoder Improves Zero-shot Retrieval, ACL 2024
Soyoung Yoon, Eunbi Choi, Jiyeon Kim, Yireun Kim, Hyeongu Yun, Seung-won Hwang.
ArchCode: Incorporating Software Requirements in Code Generation with Large Language Models, ACL 2024
Hojae Han, Jaejin Kim, Jaeseok Yoo, Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
DADA: Distribution-Aware Domain Adaptation of PLMs for Information Retrieval, Findings of ACL 2024
{Dohyeon Lee, Jongyoon Kim}, Seung-won Hwang, Joonsuk Park.
RaDA: Retrieval-augmented Web Agent Planning with LLMs, Findings of ACL 2024
Minsoo Kim, Victor S. Bursztyn, Eunyee Koh, Shunan Guo, Seung-won Hwang.
HIL: Hybrid Isotropy Learning for Zero-shot Performance in Dense retrieval, NAACL 2024
Jaeyoung Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
Script-mix: Mixing Scripts for Low-resource Language Parsing, NAACL 2024
Jaeseong Lee, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
ContrastiveMix: Overcoming Code-Mixing Dilemma in Cross-Lingual Transfer for Information Retrieval, NAACL 2024 (short)
Junggeun Do, Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
COMMIT: Code-Mixing English-Centric Large Language Model for Multilingual Instruction Tuning, Findings of NAACL 2024 (short)
Jaeseong Lee, YeonJoon Jung, Seung-won Hwang.
Chaining Event Spans for Temporal Relation Grounding, EACL 2024
Jongho Kim, Dohyeon Lee, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Learning to Rank Generation with Pairwise Partial Rewards, EMNLP 2023
{Youngwon Lee, Jinu Lee}, Seung-won Hwang.
On Sample-Efficient Code Generation, EMNLP 2023 (Industry Track)
Hojae Han, Yu Jin Kim, Byoungjip Kim, Youngwon Lee, Kyungjae Lee, Kyungmin Lee, Moontae Lee, Kyunghoon Bae, Seung-won Hwang.
Relevance-assisted Generation for Robust Zero-shot Retrieval, EMNLP 2023 (Industry Track)
Jihyuk Kim, Minsoo Kim, Joonsuk Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Multilingual Lottery Tickets to Pretrain Language Models, Findings of EMNLP 2023
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
Intervention-Based Alignment of Code Search with Execution Feedback, Findings of EMNLP 2023
Hojae Han, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Nan Duan, Shuai Lu.
On Monotonic Aggregation for Open-domain QA, INTERSPEECH 2023
{Sang-eun Han, Yeonseok Jeong}, Seung-won Hwang, Kyungjae Lee.
On Complementarity Objectives for Hybrid Retrieval, ACL 2023
Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Kyungjae Lee, Seungtaek Choi, Sunghyun Park.
Retrieval-augmented Video Encoding for Instructional Captioning, Findings of ACL 2023
Yeonjoon Jung, Minsoo Kim, Seungtaek Choi, Jihyuk Kim, Minji Seo, Seung-won Hwang.
When to Read Documents or QA History: On Unified, Selective Open-domain QA, Findings of ACL 2023
{Kyungjae Lee, Sang-eun Han}, Seung-won Hwang, Moontae Lee.
C2LIR: Continual Cross-lingual Transfer for Low-Resource Information Retrieval, ECIR 2023 (short)
{Jaeseong Lee, Dohyeon Lee}, Jongho Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Script, Language, Labels: Overcoming Three Discrepancies for Low-Resource Language Specialization, AAAI 2023
Jaeseong Lee, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
PLM-based World Models for Text-based Games, EMNLP 2022
Minsoo Kim, Yeonjoon Jung, Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
Towards Compositional Generalization in Code Search, EMNLP 2022 (short)
Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang, Shuai Lu, Nan Duan, Seungtaek Choi.
Pseudo-Relevance for Enhancing Document Representation, EMNLP 2022
Jihyuk Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Seoho Song, Hyeseon Ko, Young-In Song.
Normalizing Mutual Information for Robust Adaptive Training for Translation, EMNLP 2022 (short)
Youngwon Lee, Changmin Lee, Hojin Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
FAD-X: Fusing Adapters for Cross-lingual Transfer to Low-Resource Languages, AACL/IJCNLP 2022 (short)
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Taesup Kim.
Collective Relevance Labeling for Passage Retrieval, NAACL 2022 (short)
Jihyuk Kim, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Privacy-Preserving Text Classification on BERT Embeddings with Homomorphic Encryption, NAACL 2022 (short)
{Garam Lee, Minsoo Kim, Jai Hyun Park}, Seung-won Hwang, Jung Hee Cheon.
ReACC: A Retrieval-Augmented Code Completion Framework, ACL 2022
Shuai Lu, Nan Duan, Hojae Han, Daya Guo, Seung-won Hwang, Alexey Svyatkovskiy.
Debiasing Event Understanding for Visual Commonsense Tasks, Findings of ACL 2022 (short)
{Minji Seo, YeonJoon Jung}, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang, Bei Liu.
Plug-and-Play Adaptation for Continuously-updated QA, Findings of ACL 2022
Kyungjae Lee, Wookje Han, Seung-Won Hwang, Hwaran Lee, Joonsuk Park, Sang-Woo Lee.
C2L: Causally Contrastive Learning for Robust Text Classification, AAAI 2022
{Seungtaek Choi, Myeongho Jeong}, Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang.
Bridging Code-Text Representation Gap using Explanation, ACML 2021
Hojae Han, Youngwon Lee, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Structure-Augmented Keyphrase Generation, EMNLP 2021
Jihyuk Kim, Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang.
Robustifying Multi-hop QA through Pseudo-Evidentiality Training, ACL/IJCNLP 2021
Kyungjae Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sang-eun Han, Dohyeon Lee.
Web Document Encoding for Structure-Aware Keyphrase Extraction, SIGIR 2021 (short)
Jihyuk Kim, Young-In Song, Seung-won Hwang.
SCOPA: Soft Code-Switching, Pairwise Alignment for Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer, CIKM 2021 (short)
{Dohyeon Lee, Jaeseong Lee}, Gyewon Lee, Byung-Gon Chun, Seung-won Hwang.
Counterfactual Generative Smoothing for Imbalanced Natural Language Classification, CIKM 2021 (short)
Hojae Han, Seungtaek Choi, Myeongho Jeong, Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Label, Context Augmentation for Response Selection at DSTC8, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, Language Processing (TASLP), 2021
{Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi}, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang.
Query Generation for Multimodal Documents, EACL 2021
Kyungho Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Young-In Song, Seungwook Lee.
Retrieval-Augmented Controllable Review Generation, COLING 2020
Jihyeok Kim, Seungtaek Choi, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang.
Less is More - Attention Supervision with Counterfactuals for Text Classification, EMNLP 2020
Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang.
Conditional Response Augmentation for Dialogue Using Knowledge Distillation, INTERSPEECH 2020
{Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi}, Hojae Han, Kyungho Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Training Data Optimization for Pairwise Learning to Rank, ICTIR 2020
Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang, Young-In Song, Siyeon Kim.
Instructional Video Summarization Using Attentive Knowledge Grounding, ECML/PKDD 2020
{Kyungho Kim, Kyungjae Lee}, Seung-won Hwang.
Bert is Not All You Need for Commonsense Inference, ICASSP 2020
{Sunghyun Park, Junsung Son}, Seung-won Hwang, KyungLang Park.
Segment-Then-Rank - Non-Factoid Question Answering on Instructional Videos, AAAI 2020
Kyungjae Lee, Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Jason Li, Seung-won Hwang.
Meta-supervision for Attention Using Counterfactual Estimation, Data Sci. Eng. 5(2): 193-204 (2020)
Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Conversion Prediction from Clickstream - Modeling Market Prediction, Customer Predictability, IEEE TKDE 2020
Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka.
XINA - Explainable Instance Alignment Using Dominance Relationship, IEEE TKDE 2020
Jinyoung Yeo, Haeju Park, Sanghoon Lee, Eric Wonhee Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
SQuAD2-CR - Semi-supervised Annotation for Cause, Rationales for Unanswerability in SQuAD 2.0, LREC 2020
Gyeongbok Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Hyunsouk Cho.
Learning with Limited Data for Multilingual Reading Comprehension, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
Kyungjae Lee, Sunghyun Park, Hojae Han, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang, Juho Lee.
MICRON: Multigranular Interaction for Contextualizing RepresentatiON in Non-factoid Question Answering, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (short)
Hojae Han, Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Categorical Metadata Representation for Customized Text Classification, TACL 2019
Jihyeok Kim, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kyungjae Lee, Sua Sung, Minji Seo, Seung-won Hwang.
Text Length Adaptation in Sentiment Classification, ACML 2019
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seonjae Lim, Seung-won Hwang.
Soft Representation Learning for Sparse Transfer, ACL 2019
Haeju Park, Jinyoung Yeo, Gengyu Wang, Seung-won Hwang.
Explanatory and Actionable Debugging for Machine Learning: A TableQA Demonstration, SIGIR 2019 (demo)
Minseok Cho, Gyeongbok Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
Paraphrase Diversification Using Counterfactual Debiasing, AAAI 2019
Sunghyun Park, Seung-won Hwang, Fuxiang Chen, Jaegul Choo, Jung-Woo Ha, Sunghun Kim, Jinyeong Yim.
AutoSense Model forWord Sense Induction, AAAI 2019
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang, Min Song.
QADiver: Interactive Framework for Diagnosing QA Models, AAAI 2019 (demo)
Gyeongbok Lee, Sungdong Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
List Intersection for Web Search: Algorithms, Cost Models, and Optimization, VLDB 2019
Sunghwan Kim, Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sameh Elnikety.
List Intersection for Web Search - Algorithms, Cost Models, and Optimizations, VLDB 2018
Sunghwan Kim, Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sameh Elnikety.
Machine-Translated Knowledge Transfer for Commonsense Causal Reasoning, AAAI 2018
Jinyoung Yeo, Geungyu Wang, Hyunsouk Cho, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang.
Cold-Start Aware User and Product Attention for Sentiment Classification, ACL 2018
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Jihyeok Kim, Sua Sung, Seung-won Hwang.
Adversarial TableQA - Attention Supervision for Question Answering on Tables, ACML 2018
Minseok Cho, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang, Jonghyuck Park.
Translations as Additional Contexts for Sentence Classification, IJCAI 2018
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kyungjae Lee, Jinyeong Yeo, Seung-won Hwang.
Semi-supervised Training Data Generation for Multilingual Question Answering, LREC 2018
Kyungjae Lee, Kyoungho Yoon, Sunghyun Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Visual Choice of Plausible Alternatives - An Evaluation of Image-based Commonsense Causal Reasoning, LREC 2018
Jinyoung Yeo, Gyeongbok Lee, Gengyu Wang, Seungtaek Choi, Hyunsouk Cho, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang.
Entity Commonsense Representation for Neural Abstractive Summarization, NAACL-HLT 2018
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seonjae Lim, Seung-won Hwang.
Efficient Keyword-Aware Representative Travel Route Recommendation, IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Yu Ting Wen, Jinyoung Yeo, Wen-Chih Peng, Seung-won Hwang.
Multimodal KB Harvesting for Emerging Spatial Entities, IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Jinyoung Yeo, Hyunsouk Cho, Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Aspect Sentiment Model for Micro Reviews, ICDM 2017
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang.
Gradable Adjective Embedding for Commonsense Knowledge, PAKDD 2017
Kyungjae Lee, Hyunsouk Cho, Seung-won Hwang.
Understanding Relations using Concepts and Semantics, DSMM@SIGMOD 2017
Jouyon Park, Hyunsouk Cho, Seung-won Hwang.
Predicting Online Purchase Conversion for Retargeting, WSDM 2017
Jinyoung Yeo, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Seung-won Hwang, Nedim Lipka.
Cost-aware triage ranking algorithms for bug reporting systems, Knowl. Inf. Syst.
Jin-Woo Park, Mu-Woong Lee, Jinhan Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Sunghun Kim.
Fine-Grained Semantic Conceptualization of FrameNet, AAAI 2016
Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang, Haixun Wang.
Understanding Emerging Spatial Entities, AAAI 2016
Jinyoung Yeo, Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang.
ECO - Entity-level captioning in context, ASONAM 2016
Hyunsouk Cho, Seung-won Hwang.
Trivia quiz mining using probabilistic knowledge, ASONAM 2016
Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zhongyuan Wang.
Probabilistic Prototype Model for Serendipitous Property Mining, COLING 2016
Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zhongyuan Wang.
Event Grounding from Multimodal Social Network Fusion, ICDM 2016
{Hyunsouk Cho, Jinyoung Yeo}, Seung-won Hwang.
Linking, integrating, and translating entities via iterative graph matching, TAAI 2016
Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
Browsing2purchase - Online Customer Model for Sales Forecasting in an E-Commerce Site, WWW 2016
Jinyoung Yeo, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Seung-won Hwang, Nedim Lipka.