Fourth-year students of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the Artificial Intelligence interdepartmental major — Park Jun-yong, Lee Dae-ho, Bang Yoon and Lee Na-yeon (supervisor: Professor Kim Ji-hwan) — received the Excellence Award in the undergraduate division of the Undergraduate/Junior Paper Competition at the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers' Korea Computer Congress 2021, held online from 23 to 24 June 2021.

▲ (From left) Park Jun-yong, Lee Dae-ho, Bang Yoon and Lee Na-yeon

▲ Certificate for the Excellence Award at the Korea Software Congress 2021

The Korea Computer Congress (KCC 2021) is an information science and technology conference at which the latest research results across every area of information technology — artificial intelligence, computer systems, information security and high-assurance computing and more — are presented. The paper is titled 'An Analysis of KoBART Model Performance Using the KorQuAD Dataset and the KoBERT Tokenizer'. To assess BART model performance on Korean-language datasets, the paper fine-tunes the question answering (QA) dataset KorQuAD using the pre-trained Korean KoBART model and the KoBERT tokenizer, and compares and analyses the results against the existing BERT model. By showing higher EM and F1 scores than the existing model, the research is expected to contribute to Korean natural language understanding, an active area of AI research.