Publications

Publications [Conference]

1. SIGIR 2026

   

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

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2026

   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)},
   }

2. ICLR 2026

   

   Improving Semantic Proximity in Information Retrieval through Cross-Lingual Alignment

   Seongtae Hong, Youngjoon Jang, Jungseob Lee, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

   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)},
   }

3. ICLR DATA-FM 2026

   

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

   Youngjoon Jang, Chanhee Park, Hyeonseok Moon, and 5 more authors

   In International Conference on Learning Representations Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models Workshop (ICLR Data-FM Workshop), 2026

   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)},
   }

4. ACL 2026

   

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

   Seungyoon Lee, Minhyuk Kim, Seongtae Hong, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026

   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)},
   }

5. 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, and 5 more authors

   In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models (ACL MeLLM Workshop), 2026

   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)},
   }

6. ACL SRW 2025

   

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

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Junyoung Son, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (ACL SRW), 2025

   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)},
   }

7. EMNLP 2024

   

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

   Seonmin Koo, Jinsung Kim, Youngjoon Jang, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

   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, and 3 more authors

   In The 37th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT), 2025

   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, and 3 more authors

   In The 36th Annual Conference on Human & Cognitive Language Technology (HCLT), 2024

   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

   

   MLAIRE: Multilingual Language-Aware Information Retrieval Evaluation Protocol

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, and 1 more author

   Under Review, 2026

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

   @article{jang2026mlaire,
     title = {MLAIRE: Multilingual Language-Aware Information Retrieval Evaluation Protocol},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Moon, Hyeonseok and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     journal = {Under Review},
   }

2. Preprint

   

   MIMO: Multilingual Information Retrieval from Monolingual Oracles

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, and Heuiseok Lim

   Under Review, 2026

   Multilingual information retrieval leveraging monolingual oracles.

   @article{jang2026mimo,
     title = {MIMO: Multilingual Information Retrieval from Monolingual Oracles},
     author = {Jang, Youngjoon and Hong, Seongtae and Lim, Heuiseok},
     year = {2026},
     journal = {Under Review},
   }

3. Preprint

   

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

   Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon, and 1 more author

   Under Review, 2026

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

   @article{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},
     journal = {Under Review},
   }

4. ArXiv 2025

   

   VAETKI Technical Report

   NC-AI Consortium

   ArXiv Preprint, 2025

   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},
   }