Publications

Publications [International Conference]

1. NeurIPS 2026 E&D

   

   MLAIRE: Multilingual Language-Aware Information Retrieval Evaluation Protocol

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, and Heuiseok Lim

   A multilingual, language-aware evaluation protocol for information retrieval.

   @inproceedings{jang2026mlaire,
     title = {MLAIRE: Multilingual Language-Aware Information Retrieval Evaluation Protocol},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Evaluations \& Datasets Track},
   }

2. EMNLP 2026

   

   MIMO: Multilingual Information Retrieval from Monolingual Oracles

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, and Heuiseok Lim

   Multilingual information retrieval leveraging monolingual oracles.

   @inproceedings{jang2026mimo,
     title = {MIMO: Multilingual Information Retrieval from Monolingual Oracles},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   }

3. EMNLP 2026 Findings

   

   SHIFT: Semantic Harmonization via Index-side Feature Transformation for Multilingual Information Retrieval

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, and Heuiseok Lim

   Semantic harmonization via index-side feature transformation for multilingual information retrieval.

   @inproceedings{jang2026shift,
     title = {SHIFT: Semantic Harmonization via Index-side Feature Transformation for Multilingual Information Retrieval},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   }

4. EMNLP 2026

   

   SemBridge: Language Transfer in Sparse Encoders via Multilingual Semantic Bridge

   Seongtae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Jia-Huei Ju, Hyeonseok Moon, and Heuiseok Lim

   Language transfer in sparse encoders via a multilingual semantic bridge.

   @inproceedings{hong2026sembridge,
     title = {SemBridge: Language Transfer in Sparse Encoders via Multilingual Semantic Bridge},
     author = {Hong, Seongtae and Jang, Youngjoon and Ju, Jia-Huei and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
   }

5. SIGIR 2026

   

   Beyond Hard Negatives: The Importance of Score Distribution in Knowledge Distillation for Dense Retrieval

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, and Heuiseok Lim

   Investigating the importance of score distribution in knowledge distillation for dense retrieval, going beyond hard negatives.

   @inproceedings{jang2026sigir,
     title = {Beyond Hard Negatives: The Importance of Score Distribution in Knowledge Distillation for Dense Retrieval},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)},
   }

6. ICLR 2026

   

   Improving Semantic Proximity in Information Retrieval through Cross-Lingual Alignment

   Seongtae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Jungseob Lee, Hyeonseok Moon, and Heuiseok Lim

   Improving semantic proximity in information retrieval through cross-lingual alignment techniques.

   @inproceedings{hong2026iclr,
     title = {Improving Semantic Proximity in Information Retrieval through Cross-Lingual Alignment},
     author = {Hong, Seongtae and Jang, Youngjoon and Lee, Jungseob and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
   }

7. ICLR DATA-FM 2026

   

   LEGALMIDM: Use-Case-Driven Legal Domain Specialization for Korean Large Language Model

   Youngjoon Jang, Chanhee Park, Hyeonseok Moon, Young-kyoung Ham, Jiwon Moon, Jinhyeon Kim, JuKyung Jung, and Heuiseok Lim

   Use-case-driven legal domain specialization for Korean Large Language Model.

   @inproceedings{jang2026legalmidm,
     title = {LEGALMIDM: Use-Case-Driven Legal Domain Specialization for Korean Large Language Model},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Park, Chanhee and Moon, Hyeonseok and Ham, Young-kyoung and Moon, Jiwon and Kim, Jinhyeon and Jung, JuKyung and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models Workshop (ICLR Data-FM Workshop)},
   }

8. ACL 2026

   

   CLEAR: Cross-Lingual Enhancement in Retrieval via Reverse-training

   Seungyoon Lee, Minhyuk Kim, Seongtae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Dongsuk Oh, and Heuiseok Lim

   Cross-lingual enhancement in retrieval via reverse-training.

   @inproceedings{lee2026clear,
     title = {CLEAR: Cross-Lingual Enhancement in Retrieval via Reverse-training},
     author = {Lee, Seungyoon and Kim, Minhyuk and Hong, Seongtae and Jang, Youngjoon and Oh, Dongsuk and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
   }

9. ACL MeLLM 2026

   

   Improving Korean-English Cross-Lingual Retrieval: A Data-Centric Study of Language Composition and Model Merging

   Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, Seungyoon Lee, Andrew Matteson, and Heuiseok Lim

   A data-centric study on improving Korean-English cross-lingual retrieval through language composition and model merging techniques.

   @inproceedings{jang2025crosslingual,
     title = {Improving Korean-English Cross-Lingual Retrieval: A Data-Centric Study of Language Composition and Model Merging},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Son, Junyoung and Lee, Taemin and Hong, Seongtae and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lee, Seungyoon and Matteson, Andrew and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models (ACL MeLLM Workshop)},
   }

10. ACL MeLLM 2026

    

    QUERY-SYNERGY: Leveraging High-Resource Languages for Improving Retrieval Performance Across Multiple Languages

    Seongtae Hong, Jungseob Lee, Hyeonseok Moon, Seungyoon Lee, Youngjoon Jang, and Heuiseok Lim

    Leveraging high-resource languages to improve retrieval performance across multiple languages.

    @inproceedings{hong2026querysynergy,
      title = {QUERY-SYNERGY: Leveraging High-Resource Languages for Improving Retrieval Performance Across Multiple Languages},
      author = {Hong, Seongtae and Lee, Jungseob and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lee, Seungyoon and Jang, Youngjoon and Lim, Heuiseok},
      year = {2026},
      booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models (ACL MeLLM Workshop)},
    }

11. ACL SRW 2025

    

    From Ambiguity to Accuracy: The Transformative Effect of Coreference Resolution on Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems

    Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Junyoung Son, Sungjin Park, Chanjun Park, and Heuiseok Lim

    Investigating how coreference resolution improves the accuracy of Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.

    @inproceedings{jang2025coreference,
      title = {From Ambiguity to Accuracy: The Transformative Effect of Coreference Resolution on Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems},
      author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Son, Junyoung and Park, Sungjin and Park, Chanjun and Lim, Heuiseok},
      year = {2025},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (ACL SRW)},
    }

12. EMNLP 2024

    

    Where am I? Large Language Models Wandering between Semantics and Structures in Long Contexts

    Seonmin Koo, Jinsung Kim, Youngjoon Jang, Chanjun Park, and Heuiseok Lim

    Exploring how Large Language Models navigate between semantics and structures in long context scenarios.

    @inproceedings{koo2024whereami,
      title = {Where am I? Large Language Models Wandering between Semantics and Structures in Long Contexts},
      author = {Koo, Seonmin and Kim, Jinsung and Jang, Youngjoon and Park, Chanjun and Lim, Heuiseok},
      year = {2024},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
    }

Publications [Domestic Conference]

1. HCLT 2025

   

   KURE: Embedding Model for Korean-Specific Retrieval

   Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee, Seongtae Hong, Jungbae Park, and Heuiseok Lim

   Best Paper

   Best Oral Presentation Award

   Embedding model for Korean-specific retrieval achieving state-of-the-art performance.

   @inproceedings{jang2025kure,
     title = {KURE: Embedding Model for Korean-Specific Retrieval},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Son, Junyoung and Lee, Taemin and Hong, Seongtae and Park, Jungbae and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {The 37th Annual Conference on Human \& Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT)},
   }

2. HCLT 2024

   

   KoE5: A New Dataset and Model for Improving Korean Embedding Performance

   Youngjoon Jang, Junyoung Son, Taemin Lee, Seongtae Hong, Jungbae Park, and Heuiseok Lim

   Introducing KoE5, a new dataset and model specifically designed to improve Korean text embedding performance.

   @inproceedings{jang2024koe5,
     title = {KoE5: A New Dataset and Model for Improving Korean Embedding Performance},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Son, Junyoung and Lee, Taemin and Hong, Seongtae and Park, Jungbae and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {The 36th Annual Conference on Human \& Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT)},
   }

Preprint

1. Preprint

   

   Rescaling MLM-Head for Neural Sparse Retrieval

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Jonah Turner, Chanjun Park, and Heuiseok Lim

   Under Review

   Rescaling the MLM head for neural sparse retrieval.

   @article{jang2026rescale,
     title = {Rescaling MLM-Head for Neural Sparse Retrieval},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Turner, Jonah and Park, Chanjun and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     journal = {Under Review},
   }

2. Preprint

   

   LAMAR: An Open Language-Aware Multilingual Alignment Reranker

   Seongtae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Jungseob Lee, Seungyoon Lee, and Heuiseok Lim

   Under Review

   An open language-aware multilingual alignment reranker.

   @article{hong2026lamar,
     title = {LAMAR: An Open Language-Aware Multilingual Alignment Reranker},
     author = {Hong, Seongtae and Jang, Youngjoon and Lee, Jungseob and Lee, Seungyoon and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     journal = {Under Review},
   }

3. Preprint

   

   KoVRE: Training an Efficient Embedding Model for Korean Visual Document Retrieval

   Yongbin Choi, Gyuho Shim, and Youngjoon Jang^*

   Under Review

   *Corresponding author

   Training an efficient embedding model for Korean visual document retrieval.

   @article{choi2026kovre,
     title = {KoVRE: Training an Efficient Embedding Model for Korean Visual Document Retrieval},
     author = {Choi, Yongbin and Shim, Gyuho and Jang, Youngjoon},
     year = {2026},
     journal = {Under Review},
     note = {*Corresponding author},
   }

4. ArXiv 2025

   

   VAETKI Technical Report

   NC-AI Consortium

   ArXiv Preprint

   Technical report for the VAETKI project by the NC-AI Consortium.

   @article{ncai2025vaetki,
     title = {VAETKI Technical Report},
     author = {{NC-AI Consortium}},
     year = {2025},
     journal = {ArXiv Preprint},
   }