Wonbin Kim

Wonbin studied at Pusan National University in South Korea, where she received her B.A. and M.A. in English language and literature. Her research interests are corpus-based research using computational techniques, natural language processing, corpus linguistics, usage-based linguistics, cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, and semantics. Her dissertation research is focused on corpus-based research employing artificial intelligence (AI). She tracks semantic change of Korean neologisms using Korean Twitter data and AI methodology (e.g., word2vec and LSTM). From 2015 to 2020, she taught Korean, working as a Teaching Assistant at the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Georgia.

Wonbin graduated with her Ph.D. in December of 2022 and is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English Language and Literature at Yonsei University in South Korea. Her committee members were Dr. William Kretszchmar (major professor), Dr. Linda Harklau, and Dr. Paula Mellom.