Research Areas: corpus linguistics, lexicography, language models, social media intelligence, text analysis, information preservation and dissemination, misinformation/disinformation, information privacy and protection
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Research Assistant
UBC iSchool
JUN 2018 – DEC 2018 | Misinformation Project
- Build a framework for characterizing post hoc fact-checking methods
- Investigate fact-checking organizations hosted in English, Arab, and Hebrew speaking countries
- Funded through the SSHRC Grant
NOV 2017 – APR 2018 | Sauder Drive Project
- Propose and initiate the project by bringing together the Robert H. Lee Graduate School staff and the iSchool faculty
- Create a department-specific retention schedule with consideration to the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPPA)
- Assess the needs of the user community through observations and interviews
- Design an information governance structure that caters to the user community culture and tradition
- Funded by the University
Research Assistant
Yonsei Institute of Language and Information Studies
APR 2016 – JUL 2017 | Dictionary of Handbag Terminology Project
- Compile and index the terminologies used in the process of designing and manufacturing handbags – styles, parts, methods, machines & tools, materials
- Funded by and in collaboration with Simone Ltd.
- News articles on the project: MK News, MoneyToday, Chosun News, Sisa News
JUN 2015 – OCT 2017 | Textbook Digitization Project
- Digitize historic textbooks (1950 – 2010)
- Refine and analyze the digitized text using a POS tagger
- News articles on the project: Yonhap News, Newsis, Kookbang News
MAY 2014 – AUG 2014 | Yonsei Frequency Dictionary Project
- Perform preliminary data analysis and literature review
- Compile statistical data
MAR 2014 – JUN 2014 | Newspaper Digitization Project
- Digitize the Independent Newspaper (Tongnip Sinmun)
- Refine digitized text by removing noise and correcting Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors
- Mark up text in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) metadata
PUBLICATIONS
Park, J.K. and Feng, N.C. (2024), Personal Information of Medical Learners in Canada: A Review of Policies and Expectations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61: 290-299. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1028
Freud, L., Park, J., Alshehri, A., & Abdul-Mageed, M. (2018, November). Towards a Framework for Characterizing Post Hoc Fact-Checking. Workshop session presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, Canada.
Seo et al. (2017). The Dictionary of Handbag Terminology. Seoul: Communication Books. ISBN 9791128807077.
Park, Jay. (2016). A Corpus-Based Study on the Translation of ‘My’ Through the Features of the Modified Noun in English to Korean Texts. Seoul: Yonsei University Press.
Park, Jay. (2015, December). Schema.org for Wikipedia’s Articles on Architecture. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information, Seoul, South Korea (pp. 316-317). Springer.
Park, Jay, and Seong, Jimin. (2015). A Corpus-Based Study of Translated Idiomatic Expressions. Yonsei Journal, 62(2), 233-245.