Donghyun Kim

Education/Experience

• Yonsei University, South Korea
  Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Kyong-Ho Lee)
  Sep. 2019 - Present
• Republic of Korea Army, South Korea
  Commissioned Officer (Platoon Leader)
  Mar. 2017 - Jun. 2019
• Pusan National University, South Korea
  B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
  Mar. 2013 - Feb. 2017

Publications

International

• [15] FLOW: Complex Fact-Checking through Linking Implicit and Explicit Claims with Large Language Model Reasoning
  Heeyeon Koo, Donghyun Kim, Hyojun Choi, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  Under Review
• [14] R4KGV: Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Validation with Large Language Models
  Donghyun Kim, Hyeongjun Yang, Chanhee Lee, Seokju Hwang, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  Under Review
• [13] Reliable Distillation of Recommendation Rationales from Large Language Models for Conversational Recommendation
  Hyeongjun Yang, Donghyun Kim, Kyuhwan Yeom, Kyong-Ho Lee, Byungkook Oh, and Xiongnan Jin
  Under Review
• [12] FineESC: Fine-Grained Emotional Support Conversation with Turn-level Importance Modeling via Subquestion Reasoning
  Seokju Hwang, Midan Shim, Yeseul Gong, Donghyun Kim, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  Under Review
• [11] LLM-Assisted Ontology Restriction Verification with Clustering-based Description Generation
  Seungyeon Kim, Donghyun Kim, Seokju Hwang, Kyong-Ho Lee, and Kyunghwa Lee
  IEEE Access, 2025 [LINK]
• [10] Active Learning Framework for Improving Knowledge Graph Accuracy
  Donghyun Kim, Hyeongjun Yang, Seokju Hwang, Kyuhwan Yeom, Midan Shim, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  IEEE Access, 2025 [LINK]
• [9] CoreSense: Social Commonsense Knowledge-Aware Context Refinement for Conversational Recommender System
  Hyeongjun Yang, Donghyun Kim, Gayeon Park, Kyuhwan Yeom, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2025 [LINK]
• [8] Optimizing Training Data for Persona-Grounded Dialogue via Synthetic Label Augmentation
  Chanhee Lee, Donghyun Kim, Wongyu Kim, Kyungchan Lee, Youbin Ahn, Kyong-Ho Lee, Donghoon Shin, and Yeonsoo Lee
  Expert Systems With Applications, 2025 [LINK]
• [7] Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking via Dual Dynamic Graph with Hierarchical Slot Selector
  Yeseul Gong, Heeseon Kim, Seokju Hwang, Donghyun Kim, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025 [LINK]
• [6] Dialogue Act-based Partner Persona Extraction for Consistent Personalized Response Generation
  Kyungchan Lee, Chanhee Lee, Donghyun Kim, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  Expert Systems With Applications, 2024 [LINK]
• [5] Active Learning for Cross-sentence N-ary Relation Extraction
  Seungmin Seo, Byungkook Oh, Jeongbeom Jeoung, Donghyun Kim, Kyong-Ho Lee, Donghoon Shin, and Yeonsoo Lee
  Information Sciences, 2023 [LINK]
• [4] Persona Expansion with Commonsense Knowledge for Diverse and Consistent Response Generation
  Donghyun Kim, Youbin Ahn, Wongyu Kim, Chanhee Lee, Kyungchan Lee, Kyong-Ho Lee, Jeonguk Kim, Donghoon Shin, and Yeonsoo Lee
  EACL 2023 [LINK]
• [3] Concept-based Persona Expansion for Improving Diversity of Persona-Grounded Dialogue
  Donghyun Kim, Youbin Ahn, Chanhee Lee, Wongyu Kim, Kyong-Ho Lee, Donghoon Shin, and Yeonsoo Lee
  EACL 2023 [LINK]
• [2] Emp-RFT: Empathetic Response Generation via Recognizing Feature Transitions between Utterances
  Wongyu Kim, Youbin Ahn, Donghyun Kim, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  NAACL 2022 [LINK]
• [1] Active Learning on Pre-trained Language Model with Task-Independent Triplet Loss
  Seungmin Seo, Donghyun Kim, Youbin Ahn, and Kyong-Ho Lee
  AAAI 2022 [LINK]

Domestic

• [2] Ontology-based Fact Checking for Verification of Defense Domain Sentences
  Seokju Hwang, Donghyun Kim, Kyong-Ho Lee, and Kyunghwa Lee
  Journal of Korea Multimedia Society, 2024
• [1] Building a Korean Dataset for Knowledge Extraction in the Military Domain: Focusing on Navy Force and Weapon Systems
  Kyuhwan Yeom, Donghyun Kim, Seungyeon Kim, Yongsu Bae, Kyong-Ho Lee, and Kyunghwa Lee
  Journal of Korea Multimedia Society, 2024