• Language and Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.23-48
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• 2005

This study aims to discuss the word sense distinction of Korean middle verbs for restructuring KorLexVerb 1.0. Despite the duality of its meaning and syntactic structure, the word senses of middle verb are not clearly distinguished in current dictionaries. The underspecification causes very often mismatches that a same Korean word sense is used for two different English verb senses. A close examination on the syntactic and semantic properties of middle verb shows us that the word sense distinction and the reconstruction of hierarchical structure are indispensable. Finally, by doing this fine grained word sense distinction, we propose an alternative way of classification and description of the verb polysemy for KorLexVerb 1.0 as well as for dictionary-like language resources.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1999.10e
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• pp.242-248
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• 1999

이 논문은 지역적 동사구 분할에 바탕을 두고 서술어가 문말에 위치하는 언어에 특성에서 기인하는 속성을 반영하는 부분적 그러나 빠른 구문분석에 관해 논한다. 즉 완벽성 보다는 신속함 그리고 신뢰에 바탕을 둔 새로운 한국어 구문분석에 대해 논의한다. 기존의 문법이론 대신 한국어의 형태적 통사적 특성에 기인한, 성분들의 분할(partitions)에 의한 단위 (chunks) 분석방법을 제안한다. 근간은 동사구 장벽(VP-barrier) 알고리즘이며, 이 알고리즘은 한 문장안에서의 다양한 동사의 파생접사에 의해 형성되는 관형화, 명사화, 부사화 등의 파생구조와 내포된 동사구(인용문, 종속문 등)에 의해 형성되는 지역적 동사구내에서 그 성분들의 논리적인 분할을 구성하고 다시 그 다음 요소와 체계적으로 결합하는 관계로 확장하여 가능한 구조들을 생성한다. 다시 언어의존적인 발견적 규칙(heuristics)들을 점수화하여 가장 높은 점수의 단위구조를 적격한 구조로 선택한다. 이 방법은 하위범주화 및 의미정보를 사용하지 않는, 빠른 구문분석이 요구되는 시스템을 위해 고안되었으며, 집단적인 노력이 아닌 개인적인 노력 및 최소의 자원으로도 최대의 효과를 얻을 수 있다는데 그 의의가 있다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.126-129
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 한국어 PropBank의 구축을 위한 동사의 프레임 파일 확장 및 구축에 대한 연구를 논한다. 문장 단위의 의미 분석에 있어서 가장 중요하다고 볼 수 있는 의미 역 결정을 위해서 필요한 언어자원중, PropBank는 동사의 술어-논항 구조를 태그해 놓은 말뭉치로써 가장 널리 쓰이는 언어자원 중 하나이다. PropBank는 크게 술어-논항 구조를 태그한 말뭉치와 개별 동사들의 논항 구조를 기술한 프레임 파일로 이루어져 있다. 한국어 PropBank 구축을 위해서는 구문 표지 부착 말뭉치에 술어-논항 구조의 표지 부착 작업 및 한국어 동사의 프레임 파일의 구축 및 확장이 이루어져야 하는데, 본 논문에서는 세종 계획에서 발표한 용언 격틀 파일을 사용하여 기존의 한국어 PropBank 프레임 파일을 확장하는 도구를 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.134-138
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to analyse the argument alternations in terms of semantic perspective. Argument alternation has long been an interesting topic for the linguists regardless of their linguistic schools. Semantic analysis of argument alternation is attempted by Dowty(2001) based on the Levin(1993)'s classification. The study is focused on the phenomenon where meaning changes with argument alternations even though those sentences look the same syntactically and lineally. 1 tried not only to classify verbs according to the meaning changes but to explain the alternations in semantic point of view. The verbs are divided into 4 types- Touch type, Hit type, Cut type, and Break type. Each type of verbs are tested if they show special characteristics with three alternations-Middle alternation, Body-part possessor Ascension, and Conative Alternation. And semantic analysis is tried based on that classification.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.36-42
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• 2004

This paper describes the Korean Question answering system using the syntactic-relation information d verbs to overcome lack of reliable knowledge and linguistic resources. The syntactic-relation information consists d the original form d a verb, usual usage pattern, semantic category of each dependent noun, synonym verbs and passive verbs. We use the syntactic-relation information to parse sentences or phrases with usual usage pattern of the verb and semantic conditions of dependent components on the verb. We also use that information to parse answer candidate sentences, and find an answer from questioned case slot. Our experiments that usage of the syntactic-relation information of verbs to mm lack of reliable knowledge and linguistic resources can be utilized efficiently for the Korean question answering system.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1999.10e
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• pp.203-208
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• 1999

한국어는 잉여성과 중의성의 범 언어적인 특징과 함께 다른 언어에 비해 주어의 생략이 두드러지며 어순이 자유롭기 때문에 구문 형식의 지배를 덜 받는다는 개별적인 특성을 지닌다. 이러한 특성으로 인해 기계번역의 패턴을 추출할 때 서로 유사 가능성이 있는 패턴에 대한 고려가 없이는 같은 의미의 서로 다른 여러 개의 패턴을 모두 하나의 패턴으로 처리하는 오류를 범할 위험이 있다. 본 연구에서 사용되는 구 단위 패턴은 동사구, 명사구, 형용사구 그리고 부사구를 중심으로 한국어 패턴, 패턴 대표 카테고리, 한국어 패턴의 중심어 및 제약조건 대역영어패턴 의미코드로 나뉜다. 범 언어적인 특성의 한국어와 영어간 격차를 해소하기 위해 각각의 명사에 의미코드를 사용하여 다중 언어기반 체계를 구축하였으며. 한국어의 개별적인 특성으로 인해 발생하는 문제를 해소하기 위해 중심어 부과 자질을 사용하였다. 중심어 부과 자질에 있어서, 특히 술어기능명사를 중심어로 하는 기능동사 '하-' 구문은 다른 동사 구문의 형식과는 달리 논항의 수와 형태를 동사가 아닌 명사가 수행하게 된다. 이러한 특징에 대한 변별적인 자질 부여는 구문의 형태-통사적 특징 뿐만이 아니라 의미적인 고유의 특성까지도 잘 뒷받침하면서 패턴 추출에 월등한 효율성을 제시할 수 있다. 향후 이에 대한 연구는 전반적인 기능동사 구문뿐만이 아니라 개별적인 특징을 보이는 모든 구문에 대한 연구로 확대되어 패턴 기반 기계번역의 패턴 추출에 기본적인 정보의 역할을 담당해야 할 것이다.

• 재활복지
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.279-293
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• 2014

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of task presentation methods (animation vs. picture) on verb naming abilities as a function of verb argument structures for normal elderly adults. Participants were categorized into the two groups: animation group(n=21) vs. picture group(n=21). Data for the animation group were from obtained from Sung and Choi (2012). Percent of accuracy for the verb naming task served as a dependent measure for statistical analyses. After the years of education was controlled as a covariate, a two-way mixed ANOVA was performed with the group as a between-subject factor and the argument structure(1-, 2-, and 3-place) as a within-subject factor. Results revealed that there was a significant interaction between the group and argument structure, whereas there were no main effects for either of the factors. The animation group performed better than the picture group for one-place verb, whereas the opposite pattern was observed for the three-place verbs. The results suggested that the presentation methods are one of the critical factors that influenced verb naming abilities in elderly adults.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.19-30
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• 2018

Visual information understanding is known as one of the most difficult and challenging problems in the realization of machine intelligence. This paper proposes deriving visual verb and construction of ActionNet database as a video database for video semantic understanding. Even though development AI (artificial intelligence) algorithms have contributed to the large part of modern advances in AI technologies, huge amount of database for algorithm development and test plays a great role as well. As the performance of object recognition algorithms in still images are surpassing human's ability, research interests shifting to semantic understanding of video contents. This paper proposes candidates of visual verb requiring in the construction of ActionNet as a learning and test database for video understanding. In order to this, we first investigate verb taxonomy in linguistics, and then propose candidates of visual verb from video description database and frequency of verbs. Based on the derived visual verb candidates, we have defined and constructed ActionNet schema and database. According to expanding usability of ActionNet database on open environment, we expect to contribute in the development of video understanding technologies.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.91-112
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• 2007

Two experiments were conducted to examine psychological reality and incremental nature of thematic processing in Korean sentence comprehension. By using two different types of verbs (i.e., transitive and causative verbs), we manipulated necessity of the thematic reanalysis (i.e., consistent vs. inconsistent condition) in the coordinated sentence structures. In Experiment 1, there was no significant difference in the reading times of the verbs between the consistent and the inconsistent condition. However, there was significant differences in question answering times between the two conditions. In Experiment 2 in which we changed a noun phrase of the test sentences into inanimate one, we found significant thematic reanalysis effects in the reading times of the final verbs. Based on these results we discussed the theoretical importance and universality of the thematic processes.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.353-358
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• 2021

This study provides the syntactic analysis for the agreement attraction by proposing three types of syntactic subject-verb agreement. Because subject-verb number agreement codifies the link between a predicate and its subject, it must be the purely syntactic processes of the head-to-head agreement or the feature percolation, where relevant agreement features percolate upward or downward through the hierarchical syntactic structure. The agreement errors are not affected by linear proximity or minimal interference, but instead are affected by the hierarchical relationship between an agreement target and a local attractor. The data in this paper includes the complex noun phrases with a modifier PP or a relative clause CP. Here, the [+PL] feature is suggested to be a local attractor for subject-verb agreement errors as a strong feature. Therefore, speakers tend to erroneously produce plural agreement for a singular subject in a main clause due to a plural NP in a modifier PP or plural agreement for a singular subject in a relative clause due to plural main subject.