Computational Analysis of Poetry
Unbiased AI for Poetry Analysis: Toward Equitable and Diverse Digital Libraries
In this Early Career Research Development project funded by IMLS, I develop an open-source AI framework for digital libraries to explore, curate, and analyze large collections of digitized poetry texts, which includes a development of an unbiased AI model that understands poetry
What Is This Song Really About?
Computational Lyricology
Song lyrics and poetry contain multiple layers of meaning, often misleading machines that attempt to understand it. We developed a community-driven data enrichment framework, which actively harmonizes human readers’ understanding of those hard-to-understand text documents into the supervised machine learning framework. Yes, we are still better than them.
About Me
Kahyun Choi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before then, she was an assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington (2019-2024). She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before pursuing her Ph.D., she worked as a software engineer at Naver, an Internet portal in Korea. Kahyun Choi’s research applies computational methods and machine learning across various modalities, including audio and text, bridging technology with humanities and culture. She focuses on ethical AI workflows for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs), music information retrieval, computational analysis of poetic texts, and public library-based AI education programs. As a researcher and educator, she has been recognized with several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the 2023 IU Trustees Teaching Award, the 2022 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Research Development Project Grant, the 2021 IMLS National Leadership Grant, and the 2021 Luddy Faculty Fellowship. Through her teaching, research, and service, she continues to make significant contributions to the fields of information science and artificial intelligence.
Contact
501 E. Daniel St. MC-493
Champaign, IL61820-6211
kahyun AT illinois DOT edu