Jinhong Jeong
Author directory2026
Mind the Motions: Benchmarking Theory-of-Mind in Everyday Body Language
Seungbeen Lee | Jinhong Jeong | Donghyun Kim | Yejin Son | Youngjae Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Seungbeen Lee | Jinhong Jeong | Donghyun Kim | Yejin Son | Youngjae Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Our ability to interpret others’ mental states through nonverbal cues (NVCs) is fundamental to our survival and social cohesion. While existing Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks have primarily focused on false-belief tasks and reasoning with asymmetric information, they overlook other mental states beyond belief and the rich tapestry of human nonverbal communication. We present Motion2Mind a framework for evaluating the ToM capabilities of machines in interpreting NVCs. Leveraging an expert-curated body-language reference as a knowledge base, we build Motion2Mind, a carefully curated video dataset with fine-grained nonverbal cue annotations paired with manually verified psychological interpretations. It encompasses 222 types of nonverbal cues and 397 mind states. Our evaluation reveals that current AI systems struggle significantly with NVC interpretation, exhibiting not only a substantial performance gap in Detection, as well as patterns of over-interpretation in Explanation compared to human annotators.
Right at My Level: A Unified Multilingual Framework for Proficiency-Aware Text Simplification
Jinhong Jeong | Junghun Park | Youngjae Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jinhong Jeong | Junghun Park | Youngjae Yu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Text simplification supports second language (L2) learning by providing comprehensible input, consistent with the Input Hypothesis. However, constructing personalized parallel corpora is costly, while existing large language model (LLM)-based readability control methods rely on pre-labeled sentence corpora and primarily target English. We propose Re-RIGHT, a unified reinforcement learning framework for adaptive multilingual text simplification without parallel corpus supervision. We first show that prompting-based lexical simplification at target proficiency levels (CEFR, JLPT, TOPIK, and HSK) performs poorly at easier levels and for non-English languages, even with state-of-the-art LLMs such as GPT-5.2 and Gemini 2.5. To address this, we collect 43K vocabulary-level data across four languages (English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) and train a compact 4B policy model using Re-RIGHT, which integrates three reward modules: vocabulary coverage, semantic preservation, and coherence. Compared to the stronger LLM baselines, Re-RIGHT achieves higher lexical coverage at target proficiency levels while maintaining original meaning and fluency.