Jinkyung Jo


2023

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An Integrated Search System for Korea Weather Data
Jinkyung Jo | Dayeon Ki | Soyoung Yoon | Minjoon Seo
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track

We introduce WeatherSearch, an integrated search system deployed at the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). WeatherSearch enables users to retrieve all the relevant data for weather forecasting from a massive weather database with simple natural language queries. We carefully design and conduct multiple expert surveys and interviews for template creation and apply data augmentation techniques including template filling to collect 4 million data points with minimal human labors. We then finetune mT5 on the collected dataset and achieve an average MRR of 0.66 and an average Recall of 0.82. We also discuss weather-data-specific characteristics that should be taken into account for creating such a system. We hope our paper serves as a simple and effective guideline for those designing similar systems in other regions of the world.