About

Hello, I am Seyoung Song (송세영), an Ph.D. student advised by Professor Alice Oh at the Users & Information Lab, KAIST. My research interests include developing and applying machine learning models for multilingual NLP, with a special focus on low-resource languages and ancient languages. Please feel free to contact me via email at {firstname}.{lastname} (at) kaist.ac.kr.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, KAIST (Sep 2025 - Present)
• M.S. in Computer Science, KAIST (Mar 2024 - Aug 2025)
• B.S. in Computer Science, KAIST (Mar 2018 - Feb 2024)

Work Experience

• Intern at Upstage AI, Remote (Sep 2025 - Dec 2025)
• Intern at U&I Lab, KAIST (Dec 2022 - Feb 2024)
• Intern at COINSE Lab, KAIST (Dec 2021 - Jun 2022)
• Part-time Data Technician at Korea Environment Institute (Jun 2022)
• Intern at Procuratio (Aug 2020 - Jan 2021)

Publications

• Are they lovers or friends? Evaluating LLMs’ Social Reasoning in English and Korean Dialogues (ACL 2026)
  • Eunsu Kim, Junyeong Park, Juhyun Oh, Kiwoong Park, [Seyoung Song], A. Seza Doğruöz, Najoung Kim, Alice Oh
  • arXiv
• Open Korean Historical Corpus: A Millennia-Scale Diachronic Collection of Public Domain Texts (LREC 2026)
  • [Seyoung Song], Nawon Kim, Songeun Chae, Kiwoong Park, Jiho Jin, Haneul Yoo, Kyunghyun Cho, Alice Oh
  • arXiv
• Shared Heritage, Distinct Writing: Rethinking Resource Selection for East Asian Historical Documents (IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Findings)
  • [Seyoung Song], Haneul Yoo, Jiho Jin, Kyunghyun Cho, Alice Oh
  • arXiv
• MUG-Eval: A Proxy Evaluation Framework for Multilingual Generation Capabilities in Any Language (EMNLP 2025 Findings)
  • [Seyoung Song]*, Seogyeong Jeong*, Eunsu Kim, Jiho Jin, Dongkwan Kim, Jay Shin, Alice Oh
  • arXiv
• LLM-C3MOD: A Human-LLM Collaborative System for Cross-Cultural Hate Speech Moderation (NAACL 2025 C3NLP workshop)
  • Junyeong Park*, Seogyeong Jeong*, [Seyoung Song]*, Yohan Lee, Alice Oh
  • arXiv

Others

• Solar Open Technical Report (2026)
  • Sungrae Park, …, [Seyoung Song], Keunwoo Choi, Hwalsuk Lee, Sunghun Kim, Du-Seong Chang, Kyunghyun Cho, Junsuk Choe, Hwaran Lee, Jae-Gil Lee, KyungTae Lim, Alice Oh
  • arXiv
• HERITAGE: An End-to-End Web Platform for Processing Korean Historical Documents in Hanja (2025)
  • [Seyoung Song], Haneul Yoo, Jiho Jin, Kyunghyun Cho, Alice Oh
  • arXiv

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming (Fall 2024 – Spring 2026)