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Machine Learning Language Model Implementation Using Literary Texts (문학 텍스트를 활용한 머신러닝 언어모델 구현)

  • Jeon, Hyeongu;Jung, Kichul;Kwon, Kyoungah;Lee, Insung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.427-436
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to implement a machine learning language model that learns literary texts. Literary texts have an important characteristic that pairs of question-and-answer are not frequently clearly distinguished. Also, literary texts consist of pronouns, figurative expressions, soliloquies, etc. They hinder the necessity of machine learning using literary texts by making it difficult to learn algorithms. Algorithms that learn literary texts can show more human-friendly interactions than algorithms that learn general sentences. For this goal, this paper proposes three text correction tasks that must be preceded in researches using literary texts for machine learning language model: pronoun processing, dialogue pair expansion, and data amplification. Learning data for artificial intelligence should have clear meanings to facilitate machine learning and to ensure high effectiveness. The introduction of special genres of texts such as literature into natural language processing research is expected not only to expand the learning area of machine learning, but to show a new language learning method.

Metaphoric Creativity in Aldo Rossi Design (Aldo Rossi의 San Cataldo 공동묘지에 나타나는 은유적 창조성에 관한 연구)

  • Cha, Myeong-Yeol
    • The Journal of Engineering Research
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.139-150
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    • 2004
  • Metaphor, considered as figurative language and used as methods for emphasis and resonance in verbal communications for over two millennia, has had entailed an important role in thought as well as language, especially in creative thought, Also, in architectural design lots of creative works have been produced using metaphor. Metaphorical expression in architectural design can be seen in many great works, therefore metaphorical thought must have been critical in architectural design. This research mainly focuses on what is the mechanism of metaphor in design and how metaphor works in creative architectural design.

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Yorick's "besoin de Voyager": Mobility and Sympathy in Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey

  • Choi, Ja Yun
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.64 no.1
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    • pp.117-133
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    • 2018
  • This article examines Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey in the context of eighteenth-century British travel literature. While literary critics generally read Sterne's work as a sentimental novel, contemporary readers initially interpreted the text as a travel narrative. It is my argument that travel writing, particularly the motion entailed in travelling, plays a significant role in Sterne's critical examination of sympathy and its cultural function during this period. By narrating in great detail his narrator Yorick's mobility and the effects it has on his sentimental encounters, Sterne illustrates how sympathy is not only difficult to activate and therefore requires added stimulation in the form of motion, but also does not necessarily result in charitable actions, a moral failure that is dramatized by the literal distance Yorick maintains from the objects of his sympathy. Calling to mind the figurative distance that constitutes an integral part of Adam Smith's formulation of sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, the distance Yorick establishes through his travels indicates sympathy's failure to bridge the emotional and socioeconomic distance between individuals, thereby highlighting sympathy's limitations as a moral instrument. I argue that by using Yorick's repeated acts of sympathy to explore the problems of sentimentalism, Sterne both draws from and innovates the tradition of employing imaginary voyages to engage in philosophical inquiries.

Byron's Don Juan VII-VIII: Characters' Diverse Attitudes toward Glory through War

  • Yu, Jie-Ae
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.429-443
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this article is to examine how Byron's Don Juan VII-VIII depicts the various facets of characters' minds and actions in taking attitude toward glory during wartime in Ismail, Turkey. It explores the multifaceted sides of their hidden intentions and military activities in the self-centered and ruthless battle. Byron investigates their diverse and unreasonable causes, which drive them to undertake their particular deeds while participating in the combat. He unfolds the complex, dark layers of man's motivations and acts in responding to such martial ideals as fame, honor, success, or triumph. By making an effective characterization of four major figures such as Suwarrow, Juan, Johnson, and the Turkish Khan, Byron, indeed, enriches the poem with a variety of their different conceptions and stances toward these remarkable achievements. While fighting in the same battle, they, interestingly, reveal strikingly different attitudes, especially in responding to the complex aspects of reputation, glory, war, manliness or fate. The article also considers how the two Cantos of Don Juan feature the ironic results of the characters' quest for glory, which bring about an extensive range of inhuman consequences. The poet accentuates the diverse, negative aftermaths of their illusionary, abusive pursuit of fame and honor. In doing so, he effectively utilizes figurative portrayals of brutal pictures to highlight the unanticipated boundaries and dreadful outcomes, which have been caused by the undesirable or irrational exercises of their freedom of choice in pursuing such self-centered desires and renown.

Empirical Analysis on the Holy Bible Texts' Cliche for English-Korean Interpretation and Translation (영·한 통번역을 위한 성경 텍스트 클리셰(cliche)의 실증적 분석)

  • You, Seon-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.10
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    • pp.54-64
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the cliche for English-Korean interpretation and translation with special reference to the cliche based on the Holy Bible texts. Cliches are figurative or literal expressions and are overused expressions in various different cultures. In addition, cliches are languages, a tool of communication in an appealing way. Therefore, cliches are must be clearly distinguished from the term of idioms that are figurative phrases with an implied meaning; the phrase is not to be taken literally. Also, cliches are the single most important factor that characterizes socioculturally. Through this empirical analysis on cliches we see that this study has conceptualized the meaning of cliche. Based on this result, I expect that anyone who researches English-Korean interpretation and translation field should be concerned about cliches. I hope this study will be a guide to the right uses of cliches in English language fields.

Analyzing 3D Imaging of Type as Formative Language (조형언어적 타입의 공간적 이미지화 분석)

  • Chung, Hoon-Dong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.104-116
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    • 2009
  • Today's Digital Environment made Typography to enter into a new phase. The Type which is a principal component of Typography is no exception to this aspect. However since the existing two-dimensional space has figurative potential, Visual Communication designers are still striving to explore both X axis and Y axis. In this context, Z axis which signifies 'Depth' is often recognized as an unfamiliar mathematical concept unrelated to Design Sensibility. If Z axis is used, the figurative aspect can be acquired, which was hard to be realized in the flat space, because the additional space of depth allows the expansion of omni-directional expression of target. Most notable is the fact that Z axis provided by Digital Environment has actually long existed and is inseparable from Type. This study, therefore, focuses on the three-dimensional expression of Type in the Visual Communication Design area by taking into account the above characteristics.

The study of on the design tendency expression of contemporary architectural matter (현대건축 표피의 표현경향에 관한 연구)

  • 이정열
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.40
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to the design tendency expression of contemporary architectural matter, I can find out how the architecture is represented using the surface of building in its autonomy. I study backgrounds of contemporary architectural matter, method and their natures. In this case, i can notice that 'framework-dressing' method formed a objectified tectonic system, while it supplied arts with room that they hold priority to architecture. So it makes me find that contemporary architectural matter resided in relationship complicated between things and events. Also, this study on analyzing spatial effect by the figurative language derived by researching the dadaisme, pop art, kinetic art, video art hit In conclusion, analyzing the recent experiments in the expressive qualities of exterior skin, in their use of materials, methods of construction and visual effects, it can be argued that the new skin is inclusive of times, and has autonomic, constant and tactile features. Base on their immaterial vocabularies - limits, material, mouvement, media - these could be characterized as vibrant plates.

A Service-Oriented Architecture for Computational Creativity

  • Veale, Tony
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.159-167
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    • 2013
  • Creativity is a long cherished and widely studied aspect of human behavior that allows us to re-invent the familiar, and to imagine the new. Computational creativity (CC) is a newly burgeoning area of creativity research that brings together academics and practitioners from diverse disciplines, genres and modalities, to explore the potential of computers to be autonomously creative, or to collaborate as co-creators with people. We describe here an architecture for creative Web services that will act as a force magnifier for CC, both for academic research, and for the effective deployment of real CC applications in industry. For researchers, this service-oriented architecture supports the pooling of technologies in a robust interoperable framework, in which CC models are conceived, developed and migrated from lab settings to an industrial strength platform. Industry developers, for their part, will be able to exploit novel results of CC research in a robust, low-risk form, without having to re-implement algorithms from a quickly moving field. We illustrate the architecture with the first of a growing set of creative Web services that provide robust figurative language processing on demand.

Structure and Texture: A Note on Ransom′s Dualism (틀과 결: 랜섬의 이원론에 대한 고찰)

  • 봉준수
    • Lingua Humanitatis
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.195-217
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    • 2001
  • According to John Crowe Ransom, "the poem is a loose logical structure with an irrelevant local texture." As is implied in the opposition between "structure" and "texture," Ransom′s is a dualistic, that is, non-organic, theory of poetry, in which the poem′s sound does not have any expressive function while its figurative language always goes beyond the realm of abstract meaning and celebrates the ontological density of the world. His theory relies heavily upon a series of oppositions-poetry and prose, art and science, concrete and universal, artistic and utilitarian, to name only a few-in order to uphold the humanistic value of poetry ("poetry as knowledge"). There is, however, a sense that his theoretical consistency derives from a determined refusal to see the blurry borderline between the oppositions. It is more or less easy to point out where Ransom′s theory falters, but more critical efforts should be made to probe into the personal and cultural significance of his persistent dualistic viewpoint. For Ransom the southerner, life demands the precarious balance between the oppositions as the very precondition for its existence and his dualism represents a way to understand man′s fallen state at the realistic level.

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A Study of the Characteristics for Simile Comprehension of Children with Mental Retardation (정신지체 아동의 직유 이해에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Hu-Nam;Park, Hee-Jung;Kwon, Do-Ha
    • MALSORI
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    • no.60
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    • pp.85-96
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    • 2006
  • The aim of the present study was to investigate a simile comprehension of children with and without mental retardation. Thirteen children with mental retardation and ten normal children with matched receptive vocabulary ability participated in the study. They were between five and eight years old in the age of receptive vocabulary. Fourteen picture plates were used and each plate consisted of three pictures. The findings were as fellows. First, children with mental retardation made significantly more errors than normal children in the comprehension of simile. Second, mental retarded children and normal children did not have a significant correlation between receptive vocabulary development and comprehension of simile. Finally, on simile interpretation type, children with mental retardation were likely to think a tenor into a vehicle because they failed to recognize the syntactic structure of simile, 'A is like B'. Thus, It is important to teach mental retarded children the syntactic structures of simile and to provide them with a variety of experience as well as to let them know an exact meaning of words.

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