• 한국어교육
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.77-100
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• 2012

This study investigates issues in relation to text segmenting, in particular, line breaks in Korean language textbooks. Research on L1 and L2 reading has shown that readers process texts by chunking (grouping words into phrases or meaningful syntactic units) and, therefore, phrase-cued texts are helpful for readers whose syntactic knowledge has not yet been fully developed. In other words, it would be important for language textbooks to avoid awkward syntactic divisions at the end of a line, in particular, those textbooks for beginners and intermediate level learners. According to our analysis of a number of major Korean language textbooks for beginner-level learners, however, many textbooks were found to display line-breaks of awkward syntactic division. Moreover, some textbooks displayed frequent instances where a single word (or eojeol in the case of Korean) is split between different lines. This can hamper not only learners' learning of the rules of spaces between eojeols in Korean, but also learners' development in automatic word recognition, which is an essential part of reading processes. Based on the findings of our textbook analysis and of existing research on reading, this study suggests ways to overcome awkward line-breaks in Korean language textbooks.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2016

In emergency dispatching at 119 Command & Dispatch Center, some inconsistencies between the 'standard emergency aid system' and 'dispatch protocol,' which are both mandatory to follow, cause inefficiency in the dispatcher's performance. If an emergency dispatch system uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) to process the dispatcher's protocol speech during the case registration, it instantly extracts and provides the required information specified in the 'standard emergency aid system,' making the rescue command more efficient. For this purpose, we have developed a Korean large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system for 400,000 words to be used for the emergency dispatch system. The 400,000 words include vocabulary from news, SNS, blogs and emergency rescue domains. Acoustic model is constructed by using 1,300 hours of telephone call (8 kHz) speech, whereas language model is constructed by using 13 GB text corpus. From the transcribed corpus of 6,600 real telephone calls, call logs with emergency rescue command class and identified major symptom are extracted in connection with the rescue activity log and National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS). ASR is applied to emergency dispatcher's repetition utterances about the patient information. Based on the Levenshtein distance between the ASR result and the template information, the emergency patient information is extracted. Experimental results show that 9.15% Word Error Rate of the speech recognition performance and 95.8% of emergency response detection performance are obtained for the emergency dispatch system.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.1002-1013
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• 1996

문자 분할은 필기체 문서 서식의 자동 인식 과정에서 중요한 부분이다. 본 연구는 off-line 필기체 한글로부터 문자를 분할하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 한글의 구조적 특성에 기반을 두고 있다. 먼저 투영에 의하여 입력 단어로 부터 분할 을 위한 특징과 연결 화소, 획을 추출한다. 두 번째 단계에서 획의 모양과 위치, 획과 획과의 관계를 이용하여 한글의 기본 자소 클래스 영역을 찾는다. 세 번째 단계는 분할 과정으로 WRC(While Run Column)다음에 초성이나 수평 모음이 오는 경우 이 WRC에서 수직으로 분할하며, 분할된 세그먼트의 길이가 임계값 이상아면 자소 클래 스와 문자의 칼럼에 대한 특징을 이용하여 예상 분할 영역을 찾고, 이 영역에 있는 획을 따라 요철 형태로 분할한다.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 2003년도 제15회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.227-231
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• 2003

한극 문서의 자동 띄어쓰기는 웹 문서와 검색 질의어, 법률안 제목, 문자 메시지 등에서 띄어쓰지 않은 문장에 대해 자동으로 공백을 삽입해 주는 기능이다. 기존의 자동 띄어쓰기 기법은 각 문자 경계마다 공백 삽입 일치도를 비교하는 방식으로 평가되었으나, 실제 응용 시스템에서는 어절 인식 정확률이 높고, 공백의 과생성 오류가 적으며, 바이그램 데이터 크기가 작아야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 요구 조건에 따라 새로운 평가 기준을 제시하고, 이에 따라 기존 방법보다 바이그램 데이터 크기가 매우 작고, 정확률이 높은 자동 띄어씌기 방법을 제안하였다.

• 한국정보과학회 언어공학연구회:학술대회논문집(한글 및 한국어 정보처리)
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• 한국정보과학회언어공학연구회 1998년도 제10회 한글 및 한국어 정보처리 학술대회
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• pp.137-142
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• 1998

자동 띄어쓰기는 띄어쓰기가 무시된 한글 문서의 자동색인이나 문자인식에서 줄바꿈 문자에 대한 공백 삽입 문제 등을 해결하는데 필요하다. 이러한 문서에서 공백이 삽입될 위치를 찾아 주는 띄어쓰기 알고리즘으로 어절 블록에 대한 문장 분할 기법과 양방향 최장일치법을 이용한 어절 인식 방법을 제안한다. 문장 분할은 한글의 음절 특성을 이용하여 어절 경계가 비교적 명확한 어절 블록을 추출하는 것이며, 어절 블록에 나타난 각 어절들을 인식하는 방법으로는 형태소 분석기를 이용한다. 4,500여 어절로 구성된 두 가지 유형의 문장 집합에 대하여 제안한 방법의 띄어쓰기 정확도를 평가한 결과 '공백 재현율'이 97.3%, '어절 재현율'이 93.2%로 나타났다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.80-87
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• 2024

The Manchu language holds historical significance, but a complete dataset of Manchu script letters for training optical character recognition machine-learning models is currently unavailable. Therefore, this paper describes the process of creating a robust dataset of extracted Manchu script letters. Rather than performing automatic letter segmentation based on whitespace or the thickness of the central word stem, an image of the Manchu script was manually inspected, and one copy of the desired letter was selected as a region of interest. This selected region of interest was used as a template to match all other occurrences of the same letter within the Manchu script image. Although the dataset in this study contained only 4,000 images of five Manchu script letters, these letters were collected from twenty-eight writing styles. A full dataset of Manchu letters is expected to be obtained through this process. The collected dataset was normalized and trained using a simple convolutional neural network to verify its effectiveness.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.139-149
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• 2015

This paper aims to analyze pronunciation variations of loanwords produced by Korean and improve the performance of pronunciation modeling of loanwords in Korean by using syllable-based segmentation and phonological knowledge. The loanword text corpus used for our experiment consists of 14.5k words extracted from the frequently used words in set-top box, music, and point-of-interest (POI) domains. At first, pronunciations of loanwords in Korean are obtained by manual transcriptions, which are used as target pronunciations. The target pronunciations are compared with the standard pronunciation using confusion matrices for analysis of pronunciation variation patterns of loanwords. Based on the confusion matrices, three salient pronunciation variations of loanwords are identified such as tensification of fricative [s] and derounding of rounded vowel [ɥi] and [$w{\varepsilon}$]. In addition, a syllable-based segmentation method considering phonological knowledge is proposed for loanword pronunciation modeling. Performance of the baseline and the proposed method is measured using phone error rate (PER)/word error rate (WER) and F-score at various context spans. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the baseline. We also observe that performance degrades when training and test sets come from different domains, which implies that loanword pronunciations are influenced by data domains. It is noteworthy that pronunciation modeling for loanwords is enhanced by reflecting phonological knowledge. The loanword pronunciation modeling in Korean proposed in this paper can be used for automatic speech recognition of application interface such as navigation systems and set-top boxes and for computer-assisted pronunciation training for Korean learners of English.