• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 1995.02a
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• pp.237-242
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• 1995

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.404-410
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• 2002

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• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.984-989
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• 2005

This study aims to identify grammatical relations (GRs) in Korean sentences. The key task is to find the GRs in sentences in terms of such GR categories as subject, object, and adverbial. To overcome this problem, we are fared with the many ambiguities. We propose a statistical model, which resolves the grammatical relational ambiguity first, and then finds correct noun phrases (NPs) arguments of given verb phrases (VP) by using the probabilities of the GRs given NPs and VPs in sentences. The proposed model uses the characteristics of the Korean language such as distance, no-crossing and case property. We attempt to estimate the probabilities of GR given an NP and a VP with Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers. Through an experiment with a tree and GR tagged corpus for training the model, we achieved an overall accuracy of $84.8\%,\;94.1\%,\;and\;84.8\%$ in identifying subject, object, and adverbial relations in sentences, respectively.

• Journal of Korean language education
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.337-366
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• 2017

This study examines the acquisition of the multiple semantic functions of the Korean adverbial particle -ey by L1 American English learners of Korean as a second language at U.S. institutions. Participants at beginning, intermediate, and advanced proficiency levels (N = 45) were tested on the ability to interpret and produce five of the meanings of -ey, which they had been taught in formal classroom settings in the first semester of their Korean language learning. The results show different developmental trajectories for the particle's different semantic functions. The findings of a statistical analysis indicate that the beginning and intermediate proficiency learners had largely acquired the time, goal, and stative location meanings, but not the contact and unit meanings; the advanced learners demonstrated acquisition of all except for the unit meaning. The study suggests that in addition to factors such as semantic complexity and cross-linguistic influence, several other factors including L2 frequency, the availability of linguistic input, and instructional method also contribute to the acquisition of -ey.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.147-161
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• 2008

The present study compared characteristics of Korean nominal particles (occurrence, error, error patterns) of ten 5- to 6-year-old Korean-English simultaneous bilingual children with ten Korean monolingual children. Data were analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman Rank Correlation and by qualitative analysis. Results were (1) bilingual children showed significantly lower frequency based on the number of occurrence of nominal particles per utterance. (2) The error percentage of adverbial markers was significantly higher for bilingual children. (3) Error patterns of bilingual children showed a higher percentage of in-case substitution and double use error. These findings suggest that Korean-English simultaneous bilingual children have a different Korean nominal particles development from Korean monolingual children.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.211-221
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• 2002

The prosody can play a crucial role in differentiating ambiguous sentences to correctly reflect their intended syntactic structures. In what way do the speakers in Tokyo and Sendai dialects of Japanese use prosodic elements to differentiate syntactic ambiguities? Acoustic measurement was made of utterances of ambiguous sentences in Japanese to observe prosodic strategies for disambiguation. Materials were sentences of the type ADV-VP1-NP-VP2, ADV-NP1-NP2-VP2, where the ambiguity lies in locative adverbial modification, ADV modifying either VP1 or VP2. For this construction the Japanese create the same ambiguities. After defining the depth of a syntactic boundary, F0 of the phrase before and after the boundary, and duration of the syllable and pause before the boundary were measured. The results show that Tokyo dialects speakers use F0 after syntactic boundary, and Sendai dialects speakers use of the syllable and/or pause before the boundary.

• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.99-116
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• 2006

There has been several proposals to resolve the gentle murder paradox; Forrester claims that the paradox shows that the deontic closure principle should be abandoned, while Sinnott-Armstrong claims that the paradoxical result arises from the scope ambiguity. However, I shall argue, the gentle murder paradox hinges on the logical structure of adverbial expressions. Although Davidson shows an insightful way of understanding logical structure of adverbs, there has been misunderstandings concerning the nature of his account. Especially what is called neo-Davidsonian event semantics is based upon combination of two fundamentally conflicting ideas. I shall propose a new way of understanding Davidson's account, on the basis of which I continue to give a new diagnosis of the gentle murder paradox.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2001.10d
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• pp.310-316
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• 2001

이 논문은 '에서', '으로'와 같은 한국어의 부사격 조사들을 다국어 기계번역 시스템에서 다룰 때 올바른 역어 선택을 위한 3단계 변환 방식과 이를 위한 부사격 조사의 언어학적 모델링 방법을 제시한다. 3단계 변환 방식은 부사격 조사의 의미 모호성 해소, 의사 중간언어표상 (Quasi-Interlingua Representation)으로의 변환, 전치사 선택의 3단계로 구성되어 있다. 본 논문에서 중점적으로 다루게 될 세번째 단계, 즉 영어나 독일어에서 한국어의 부사격 조사에 대한 전치사 선택의 단계에서 올바른 대역어 선정 방법론의 핵심이 되는 부사격 조사에 대한 언어학적 모델링을 위해 Pustejovsky (1995)의 생성 어휘부 이론 (Generative Lexicon Theory)을 도입한다. 이 논문에서 제시한 방법론은 그 타당성의 수학적 검증을 위해 통합기반 기계번역 시스템인 CAT2에서 구현되었으나, 방법론 자체는 특정 시스템에 제한됨 없이 범용적으로 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.120-126
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• 2005

세종전자사전의 용언사전과 체언사전에 기재된 용언의 격틀과 명사의 의미부류는 문장의 의미분석을 위한 핵심적인 언어자원이다. 본 논문에서는 용언사전을 전산처리가 용이한 격틀사전으로 변형한 다음 이를 이용한 의미역 결정 시스템을 구축하였고 기계학습 방법에 기반한 의미역 결정 시스템과 혼합하여 한국어에 있어 '에, 로'를 격표지로 하는 부사격에 대한 의미역 결정 방법에 대해 다루고 있다.

• Language and Information
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.49-75
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• 2008

English absolutes and free adjuncts, despite their abridged syntactic forms, function as full subordinating adverbial clauses, with their semantic roles varied according to the interpretation of the matrix clauses. This paper investigates how to represent the syntactic structures and semantic variability of absolutes and free adjuncts in a unified way, accounting for overlapping properties among various subtypes of the constructions on the one hand, and differences on the other. In the proposed analysis, the clausal properties of absolutes and free adjuncts are captured by the subject selecting property and the clausal meaning associated with a predicative phrase, thus not calling for a null verb or complementizer. In classifying and defining diverse subtypes of the constructions via type constraints, the present work also provides an account of different uses of with involved in absolutes and free adjuncts.