• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.219-229
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• 2017

The study was conducted to find out lexical complexity and syntactic complexity for Korean learners by telling stories to see pictures. The results were as follows. First, there was no meaningful difference according to nationality. Second, we checked the differences on lexical complexity and syntactic complexity according to Korean studying period, only number of difference words showed meaningful difference among lexical complexity sub variables, but there was no difference among syntactic complexity sub variables. Third, we also checked correlation among staying period of Korea, Korean studying period, and other language related variables. It showed meaningful correlation staying period in Korea and other language related variable except Korean studying period and TTR. The directions for teaching Korean learners were suggested on the point of converge view according to results.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.31-35
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose a variable vocabulary word recognizer that is able to recognize new words not exist in training data. For the variable vocabulary word recognizer, we must have an on-line lexicon generator to transform new candidate words to the corresponding pronunciation sequences of phones without any large lexicon table. And, we also must make outputs. In order to model the phones and allophones reliably, we define Korean allophones by triphone clustering based on phonetic knowledge of preceding and succeeding phones of each phone. Using the clustering method, we generated 1,548 allophones with POW (Phonetically Optimized Words) 3,848 word DB. We evaluated the proposed word recognizer with POW 3,848 DB, PBW (Phonetically Balanced Words) 445 DB, and 244 word DB in hotel reservation task. Experimental results showed word recognition accuracy of 79.6% for the POW DB corresponding to vocabulary-dependent case, 79.4% in case of 445 word lexicon and 88.9% in case of 100 word lexicon for the PBW DB, and 71.4% for the hotel reservation DB corresponding to vocabulary-independent case.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.318-324
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• 2020

The present study was conducted to investigate the influences of emotion priming and the number of negation words on the task of sentential predicate reasoning in groups with or without anxiety symptoms. 3 types of primed emotions and 2 types of stimulus and 3 conditions of negation words were used as a within-subject variable. The subjects were instructed to make facial expressions that match the directions, and were asked to choose the correct answer from the given examples. Mixed repeated measured ANOVA analyses on reaction time first showed main effects for the variables of emotion, stimulus, number of negation words and anxiety level, and the interaction effects for the negation words x anxiety combination. These results are presumably suggested to reflect that externally intervening emotion works on language comprehension in a way that anxiety could delay task processing speed regardless of the emotion and stimulus type, meanwhile the number of negation words can slower language processing only in a anxiety group. Implications and limitations were discussed for the future work.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.22-27
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 ETRI에서 개발한 가변 어휘 음성 인식기의 어휘 독립 음향 모델링 방법을 기술하고, 이 모델의 어휘 종속, 어휘 독립 및 어휘적응 성능을 평가하기 위하여 다 양한 고립단어 및 연속음성 DB에 대하여 실험한 결과를 분석하였다. 평가를 위하여 사용한 음성 DB로는 고립단어 음성으로 POW(Phonetically Optimized Words) 3848, PBW(Phonetically Balanced Words) 445, PBW 452, 호텔예약 244 단어, 게임 제어용 단어 등이며, 연속음성으로 일반 문장 음성 및 연속 숫자음을 이용하였다. 성능 분석 결과 40개 음소 모델만으로도 비교적 높은 인식률을 보여 주었지만, 어휘독립의 경우는 어휘종속에 비 하여 성능이 크게 낮았고, 특히 대상 어휘가 숫자음, 알파벳, 연속음 등의 경우에는 POW 데이터나 PBW 데이터만 가지고는 우수한 가변 어휘 음성 인식기를 구현하기에 한계가 있 음을 알 수 있다. 또한, 훈련 데이터의 어휘와 평가데이터의 어휘가 비슷할 경우에는 변이음 모델을 사용하면 음소 모델만을 사용할 경우에 비하여 그 성능이 우수하였지만, 일반적인 어휘독립의 상황에서는 효과가 별로 없음을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.3-8
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• 1999

Previous variable vocabulary speech recognition systems with context-independent acoustic modeling, could not represent the effect of neighboring phonemes. To solve this problem, we use allophone-based context-dependent acoustic model. This paper describes the method to improve acoustic model of the system effectively. Acoustic model is improved by using allophone clustering technique that uses entropy as a similarity measure and the optimal allophone model is generated by changing the number of allophones. We evaluate performance of the improved system by using Phonetically Optimized Words(POW) DB and PC commands(PC) DB. As a result, the allophone model composed of six hundreds allophones improved the recognition rate by 13% from the original context independent model m POW test DB.

• Journal of Korean language education
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.25-53
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• 2018

This study examined the influence of lexical factors on verbal Eojeol recognition. To meet the goal, forty-five L2 Korean learners and twenty-two Korean native speakers took Eojeol decision tasks measured with the lexical factors such as 'number of strokes', 'number of consonants and vowels', 'number of syllables', 'number of morphemes', 'whole Eojeol frequency', 'root frequency', 'first-syllable-sharing frequency', and 'number of dictionary meanings.' As a result, 'whole Eojeol frequency' was the most effective factor to predict Eojeol recognition reaction time for native speakers and L2 learners, which supports the full-list model. Other lexical factors influencing Eojeol recognition reaction time in L2 learners were different following their proficiency level.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.65-68
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 대화체 연속음성인식 과정에서 사용되는 다중발음사전의 개념을 확장하여 대화체 발화에 빈번하게 나타나는 불규칙한 발음변이 현상을 포용하도록 한 확장된 발음사전의 방법을 적용하여 대화체 연속음성인식에서 인식성능의 향상을 가져오게 됨을 실험을 통해 보여준다. 대화체 음성에서 빈번하게 나타나는 음운축약 및 음운탈락, 전형적인 오발화, 양성음의 음성음화 등의 발음변이는 언어모델의 효율성을 떨어뜨리고 어휘 수를 증가시켜 음성인식의 성능을 저하시키고, 또한 음성인식 결과로 나타나는 출력형태가 정형화되지 못하는 단점을 가지고 있다. 이에 이러한 발음변이들을 발음사전에 수용할 때 각각의 대표어휘에 대한 변이발음으로 처리하고, 언어모델과 어휘사전은 대표어휘만을 이용해 구성하도록 한다. 그리고, 음성인식기의 탐색부에서는 각각의 변이발음의 발음열도 탐색하되 대표어휘로 언어모델을 참조하도록 하고, 인식결과를 출력하도록 하여 결과적으로 인식성능을 향상시키고, 정형화된 출력패턴을 얻도록 한다. 본 연구에서는 어절단위 뿐 아니라 의사형태소[2] 단위의 발음사전에도 발음변이를 포용하도록 하여 실험을 하였다. 실험을 통해 어절단위의 다중발음사전 구성을 통해 ERR 10.9％, 의사형태소 단위의 다중발음 사전의 구성을 통해 ERR 4.3％의 성능향상을 보였다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.97-104
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• 2005

교차언어 검색 과정에서는 질의나 문서의 언어를 일치시키기 위한 변환 과정이 필수적이며, 이런 변환 과정에서 어휘의 중의성으로 인해 하나의 어휘에 대응하는 다수의 대역어가 생성됨으로써 사용자의 정보 욕구를 왜곡시켜 검색의 성능을 저하시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 어휘 중의성 문제를 해결하기 위해서 질의의 문맥 정보를 이용하여 변환 질의의 확률을 구함으로써 중의성을 해소하는 방식을 제시하고, 질의의 길이, 중의도, 중의성을 가진 어휘의 비율 등에 따라서 성능이 어떻게 변하는지 비교함으로써 이 방법의 장점과 단점을 분석한다. 또한 현재의 단점을 보완하기 위한 차후 연구 방향을 제시한다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.339-363
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• 2013

The age of acquisition effect is the phenomenon in which the words acquired early in life are processed better than the words acquired later in life. Age of acquisition and word frequency are critical factors in lexical processing. In this study we examined the age of acquisition effects in Hangul word recognition. In Experiment 1, we examined the AoA effects in word naming and lexical decision tasks. The results showed that there was an interaction between task and age of acquisition. The AoA effects appeared only in the lexical decision task. In Experiment 2, we examined the relationship between age of acquisition and word frequency in the lexical decision task. The results showed that the two variables were significant. The early-acquired words were processed better than the words acquired later, and the words with high frequency were processed better than the words with low frequency. However, there was no interaction between the two variables. In Experiment 3, we examined how phonological changes in Hangul words influence the AoA effects. The results show that the AoA effects were similar whether phonological changes occur or not. Our results are discussed in terms of several theoretical hypotheses.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.103-110
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• 2015

Sentiment lexicon is an essential element for expressing sentiment on a text or recognizing sentiment from a text. We propose a graph-based semi-supervised learning method to construct a sentiment dictionary as sentiment lexicon set. In particular, we focus on the construction of domain-specific sentiment dictionary. The proposed method makes up a graph according to lexicons and proximity among lexicons, and sentiments of some lexicons which already know their sentiment values are propagated throughout all of the lexicons on the graph. There are two typical types of the sentiment lexicon, sentiment words and sentiment phrase, and we construct a sentiment dictionary by creating each graph of them and infer sentiment of all sentiment lexicons. In order to verify our proposed method, we constructed a sentiment dictionary specific to the movie domain, and conducted sentiment classification experiments with it. As a result, it have been shown that the classification performance using the sentiment dictionary is better than the other using typical general-purpose sentiment dictionary.