VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Songha Kim
dblp:425/8484
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0005-9742-2457ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Language models and text generation · 43% Knowledge representation and reasoning · 29% Question answering and dialogue systems · 29% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
2 papers |
Information retrieval · 64% Recommender systems · 36% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model › large language model adaptation › personalization
LLM personalization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PersonaPlugin: A Multi-Source Persona Framework for LLM Personalization in Telecommunications · SIGIR 2026 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
commonsense reasoning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Connecting the Knowledge Dots: Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Connection for Commonsense Reasoning · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › knowledge-intensive question answering
knowledge-grounded question answering |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Connecting the Knowledge Dots: Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Connection for Commonsense Reasoning · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model evaluation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | PersonaPlugin: A Multi-Source Persona Framework for LLM Personalization in Telecommunications · SIGIR 2026 |
Recommender systems
user modeling |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | PersonaPlugin: A Multi-Source Persona Framework for LLM Personalization in Telecommunications · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval
retrieval-augmented generation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Connecting the Knowledge Dots: Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Connection for Commonsense Reasoning · EMNLP 2025 |
Information retrieval
retrieval models |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Connecting the Knowledge Dots: Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Connection for Commonsense Reasoning · EMNLP 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
persona injection · 2.0large language model · 2.0LLM-as-a-judge · 2.0retrieval-augmented language model · 1.7knowledge aggregation · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PersonaPlugin: A Multi-Source Persona Framework for LLM Personalization in TelecommunicationsabstractPersonalizing large language model (LLM) responses in enterprise environments faces unique challenges: heterogeneous data sources, strict on-premise constraints, and unreliable LLM outputs. We present PersonaPlugin, a production-ready framework that transforms real-world telecom signals—call summaries, app usage, and location patterns—into structured personas for LLM personalization. Our system processes 1M+ behavioral records daily, entirely on-premise. The framework comprises three specialized engines, with the call extraction engine achieving >99% parsing success through cascaded fallback mechanisms. We conduct a comprehensive two-track evaluation: (1) general personalization across 800 scenarios, and (2) call-context personalization across 400 scenarios. Our LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation, validated against human judgments (κ=0.71), demonstrates that persona injection significantly improves personalization: +24.0% in P-Score and +26.7% in Adherence over baseline. Integrating call context with personas yields +11% additional improvement, validating the synergistic value of multi-source persona construction. Jinmo Kang, Minseop Lee, Songha Kim, Junho Shin, Yeonghwan Jeon, Hyuncheol Jo |
SIGIR | 3 |
| 2025 | Connecting the Knowledge Dots: Retrieval-augmented Knowledge Connection for Commonsense ReasoningabstractWhile large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, LLMs exhibit a limited understanding of commonsense reasoning due to the necessity of implicit knowledge that is rarely expressed in text.Recently, retrieval-augmented language models (RALMs) have enhanced their commonsense reasoning ability by incorporating background knowledge from external corpora.However, previous RALMs overlook the implicit nature of commonsense knowledge, potentially leading to the retrieved documents not directly contain information needed to answer questions.In this paper, we propose Retrieval-augmented knowledge Connection, RECONNECT, which transforms indirectly relevant documents into a direct explanation to answer the given question.To this end, we extract relevant knowledge from various retrieved document subsets and aggregate them into a direct explanation.Experimental results show that RECONNECT outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) baselines, achieving improvements of +2.0% and +4.6% average accuracy on in-domain (ID) and outof-domain (OOD) benchmarks, respectively 1 . Soyeon Bak, Minju Hong, Songha Kim, Tae-Eui Kam, SangKeun Lee 0001 |
EMNLP | 5 |