• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.49-56
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• 2003

In this article, we investigate some structural properties of head-internal relative clauses in Korean and their development in Korean-speaking children. In this study, we found head-internal relative clauses in Korean has a more limited domain than head-external relative clauses with respect to positions that can be relativized and clause boundaries that the head can move across: in head-internal relative clauses, only a subject or an object can be relativized and doubly embedded clause constitutes a barrier to the movement of the head. We also found that head-internal relative clauses are easier to understand and produce than head-external relative clauses. In addition, we found that head-internal relative clauses emerge earlier than head-external relative clauses in the acquisition of relative clauses in Korean. The preference of young children (aged 4 and 5) for head-internal relative clauses over head-external relative clauses suggests that children like to use head-internal relative clauses at an early developmental stage when they have difficulty in using head-external relative clauses.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.2
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• pp.141-144
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• 2007

The longer the input sentences, the worse the syntactic parsing results, Therefore, a long sentence is first divided into several clauses and syntactic analysis for each clause is performed. Finally, all the analysis results art merged into one, In the merging process, it is difficult to determine the dependency among clauses, To handle such syntactic ambiguity among clauses, this paper proposes an SVM-based clause-dependency determination method. We extract various features from clauses, and analyze the effect of each feature on the performance. We also compare the performance of our proposed method with those of previous methods.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.507-533
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• 2009

This paper examines the time course and processing patterns of filler-gap dependencies in Korean relative clauses, using an eyetracking method. Participants listened to a short story while viewing four pictures of entities mentioned in the story. Each story is followed by an auditorily presented question involving a relative clause (subject relative or dative relative). Participants' eye movements in response to the question were recorded. Results showed that the proportion of looks to the picture corresponding to a filler noun significantly increased at the relative verb affixed with a relativizer, and was largest at the filler where the fixation duration on the filler picture significantly increased. These results suggest that online resolution of the filler-gap dependency only starts at the relative verb marked with a relativiser and is finally completed at the filler position. Accordingly, they partly support the filler-driven parsing strategy for Korean, as for head-initial languages. In addition, the different patterns of eye movements between subject relatives and dative relatives indicate the role of case markers in parsing Korean sentences.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.5-27
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• 1995

Based on the given data if three experiments that measured word-by-word reading times of the Korean relative-clause sentences,parsing strategies and performance structures in comprehending Korean sentences were suggested.First,results of the significantily longer reading time of nouns than verbs suggested that Korean parsing processing would be primarily occurred at nouns.Seond,four parsing strategies were proposed to explain increased reading times,working memory loads,and parallel function effects.Third,performance structures of sentence comprehension were constructed from the interword reading time differences.The proposed strategies and structures seem to account for the patterns of word-by-word reading times of the five types of the Korean relative-clause se various ideas for further experimentation were discussed.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.493-503
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• 2018

The present study is a conceptual replication of O'Grady, Lee, and Choo's (2003) earlier study designed to investigate two hypotheses (linear distance hypothesis vs. structural distance hypothesis) in relation to L2 Korean learners' processing of Korean subject and object relative clauses (RCs) in a scholarly attempt to explicate Keenan and Comrie's (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH). In addition, the current study is intended to explore any potential role of working memory capacity (WMC) in the processing of Korean subject and/or object RCs. Chinese-speaking learners of Korean taking a language course offered at a local university in Korea participated in this experimental study. Among those recruited, only 23 learners completed the experimental tasks appropriately according to the specific instructions provided on each task, and thus, subsequent statistical analyses were conducted on their data. Fifteen Korean NSs were also recruited for the control group. Two experimental tasks were administerd to the participants: one picture selection task containing the same test items used in O'Grady et al.'s study to measure their processing of subject-object RCs and an operation span (OSPAN) task to measure their WMC. Somewhat differently from O'Grady et al.'s findings, the participating Chinese learners of Korean performed significantly better on object RCs than on subject RCs, seemingly lending support to the linear distance hypothesis. Further analyses, however, suggested that the results in favor of, or relative ease of processing, object relative clauses were due, most likely, to the learners' excessive use of the canonical sentence strategy, which also led to nonsignificant correlations between WMC and learner performance on the picture selection task.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.404-406
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• 1998

확정절 문법은 구 구조문법을 명시하는데 사용된 후 계산이론적 언어학자들이 많은 연구를 하는 분야이다. 확정절 문법은 혼절에 근거하고 있기 때문에 관계절 공간연결 파서를 구성할 때 메우개-공간 의존을 자연스럽게 설명할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 메우개-공간 의존을 처리할 수 있는 일반 구 구조문법 GPSG의 특성에 대해서 논하고 일반 구 구조 문법을 논리 문법으로 확장할 수 있는 방법에 대해서 기술하였다. [7]에서는 메우개-공간 의존을 설명하기 위해서 직관적 논리를 이용하였다. 여기에서는[7]의 직관적 논리 문법의 한계에 대해서 논하였다. 또 [5]에서는 일차 선형 논리를 이용하였는데, 이는 공간연결 파서로 자연어 문장을 논리식으로 번역하는데 사용될 수 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 고차 선형 논리문법을 이용하여 자연어 파서를 구성하였다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.29-51
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• 1994

This paper presents a new approach to describing the meanings of English relative clauses with the theoretical framework of Conceptual Structure Theory (henceforth CST)which builds on the pionerring work of Sowa.And this paper aims at proposing some extensions to his work. CST describes the conceptual structrures of sentences with conceptual graphs(henceforth CG). which have begun to be used as an intermediate language in natural language processing and machine translation of computer.CGs are composed of concept types and conceptual relation types. They are a system of logic for semantic representation of sentences. This paper focuses on showing the differences of the CGs according to the functions of English relative clauses. English relative clauses are divided into restrictive and nonrestrictive uses.And this paper describes a restrictive clause with a CG including a expression.which derives from the viewpoint of Montague-semantics and Nom-S Analysis.This paper deals mainly with the relative clauses of double restroction as an example of restrictive relative clauses.The description of a nonrestrictive relative clause does not need any-expression, for it doesn's involve the meaning of set.And this paper links the CG of an appositive relative clause,which is a kind of nonrestrictive clauses,to the concept of the antecedent in the main clause.The description of a nonrestrictive relative clause with adverbial meaning is strated with two CGs for the main clause and the relative clause.They are linked with an appropriate intersentential conceptual relation type according to the contextual realtions between them.This paper also presents a CG of a sentential relative clause,which gives a comment on the main clause.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.91-98
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• 2007

한국어에서 절들의 의존관계를 밝히는 작업은 구문 분석 작업에서 가장 어려운 작업들 중에 하나로 인식되고 있다. 절의 의존관계를 파악하는 일은 표면적으로 나타나는 정보만을 가지고 처리할 수 없고, 의미 정보 같은 추가적인 정보가 필요할 것으로 판단하고 처리해왔다. 본 논문에서는 추가적인 정보를 사용하지 않고, 문장에서 얻을 수 있는 표면적인 정보만을 사용하여 절들 간의 의존관계를 파악하는 방법을 제안한다. 문장에서 얻을 수 있는 표면적인 정보는 문장의 구문 정보(tree structure information)와 어휘 및 거리 정보를 가지고 있는 정적인 정보(static information)로 나누어 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 절들 간의 의존 관계 파악을 위하여 구문 정보 및 어휘정보 등을 하나 이상의 커널의 결합해서 사용하는 복합 커널(composite kernel)을 제안하고, 이 커널에 맞는 다양한 인스턴스 공간의 설정을 제안한다. 실험 데이터는 구문 트리로 표현된 STEP 2000코퍼스를 사용하였다. 실험은 최적화된 인스턴스 공간을 절들 간의 의존관계 파악 및 문장 수준에서 성능을 검정하였다. 관계 인스턴스 공간은 절들 간의 연결을 기준으로 Path-enclosed Tree와 Flattened Path-enclosed Tree로, 하부절(관형절)의 표현 유무로 Complete Tree, Contex-sensitive Tree, Simple Tree로 나누어 각각의 조합으로 실험하여 결정하였다. 그리고 결정된 인스턴스 공간에서 복합커널을 사용한 방법이 좋은 성능을 발휘함을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.13-23
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• 2022

In this study we leveraged a probing method to evaluate how a pre-trained L2 LSTM language model represents sentences with relative and coordinate clauses. The probing experiment employed adapted models based on the pre-trained L2 language models to trace the syntactic properties of sentence embedding vector representations. The dataset for probing was automatically generated using several templates related to different sentence structures. To classify the syntactic properties of sentences for each probing task, we measured the adaptation effects of the language models using syntactic priming. We performed linear mixed-effects model analyses to analyze the relation between adaptation effects in a complex statistical manner and reveal how the L2 language models represent syntactic features for English sentences. When the L2 language models were compared with the baseline L1 Gulordava language models, the analogous results were found for each probing task. In addition, it was confirmed that the L2 language models contain syntactic features of relative and coordinate clauses hierarchically in the sentence embedding representations.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.134-139
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• 2021

This paper discusses the types and functions of English subordinate clauses, whether English subordinate clauses (SC) are headed by a Complementizer (CP) or headed by a lexical (but not functional) Preposition (PP). Furthermore, unlike the standard classification, the current paper provides a finer-grained analysis and classification of English SCs. The traditional or prescriptive view on the functions of English SCs includes Noun SC such as complement clauses, Adjectival SC including relative clauses, and Adverbial SCs that cover a garden variety of subordinators. Added to the existing classification of subordination in English is what I notate as Verbless subordinate clause (V-less SC). Of these 4 different types of subordinate clauses with different functions, properties, and distributions, Subjectless Verbless subordinate clause is further divided into Smallest small clause (SSC) which accounts for English subordination mechanism more uniformly and consistently with respect to their clausal architecture, especially when the subordinate clause is neither PP nor CP.