• Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.83-83
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• 2006

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.171-178
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• 2006

Most approaches for extracting hypernyms of a noun from its definitions in an MRD rely on lexical patterns compiled by human experts. Not only these approaches require high cost for compiling lexical patterns but also it is very difficult for human experts to compile a set of lexical patterns with a broad-coverage because in natural languages there are various expressions which represent same concept. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes a new method for extracting hypernyms of a noun from its definitions in an MRD. In proposed approach, we use only syntactic (part-of-speech) patterns instead of lexical patterns in identifying hypernyms to reduce the number of patterns with keeping their coverage broad. Our experiment has shown that the classification accuracy of the proposed method is 92.37% which is significantly much better than that of previous approaches.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.824-836
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• 2018

The automatic extraction of temporal information from written texts is a key component of question answering and summarization systems and its efficacy in those systems is very decisive if a temporal expression (TE) is successfully extracted. In this paper, three different approaches for TE extraction in Uyghur are developed and analyzed. A novel approach which uses lexical semantics as an additional information is also presented to extend classical approaches which are mainly based on morphology and syntax. We used a manually annotated news dataset labeled with TIMEX3 tags and generated three models with different feature combinations. The experimental results show that the best run achieved 0.87 for Precision, 0.89 for Recall, and 0.88 for F1-Measure in Uyghur TE extraction. From the analysis of the results, we concluded that the application of semantic knowledge resolves ambiguity problem at shallower language analysis and significantly aids the development of more efficient Uyghur TE extraction system.

• Language and Information
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.129-152
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• 2002

This paper argues for a need to adopt a conceptually radical approach to zero anaphora resolution in Korean. It is shown that a number of apparently conflicting constraints, mostly motivated by lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors, are involved in determining the referential identity of zero pronouns in Korean. It is also argued that some of the major concepts of Optimality Theory can provide a good theoretical framework to predict the antecedents to zero pronouns in general. A partial formalization of 07-based constraints at the morpho-syntactic and lexico-semantical level is provided. It is argued that the lexico-semantic restrictions on adjacent expressions play the most important role in the anaphora resolution process along with a variant of the binding principle, formulated in semantic terms. Other pragmatically motivated constraints that incorporate some important intuitions of Centering Theory are proposed too.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.380-382
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• 2003

본 논문은 문서내의 의미적인 관계에 기반하여, 문서의 내용을 보다 잘 추측할 수 있는 의미 인덱스 추출 및 가중치 부여 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 문서 내의 개념 추출에 있어서는 기존의 어휘 체인(lexical chains)에 관한 연구를 확장하여 적용였다. 또한, 추출된 개념에서 중요 어휘에 가중치를 부여하기 위해서, 개념 벡터 공간을 이용한 정보성(information quantity)과 정보비(information ratio)를 정의하고, 인덱스의 가중치를 측정할 수 있는 정량화 할 수 있는 척도로 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.240-244
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 단백질 간 상호작용 자동 식별을 위해서 구문 트리 커널을 확장한 시맨틱 구문 트리 커널을 제안한다. 기존의 구문 트리 커널은 구문 트리의 단말 노드를 구성하는 개별 어휘에 대해서 단순하게 외형적 비교를 수행하기 때문에 실제 의미적으로는 유사한 두 구문 트리의 커널 수치가 상대적으로 낮아져서 단백질 간 상호작용 식별의 성능이 떨어지는 문제점이 발생한다. 이를 극복하기 위해서 두 구문 트리의 구문적 유사도(syntactic similarity)와 어휘 의미적 유사도(lexical semantic similarity)를 동시에 효과적으로 계산하여 이를 결합하는 새로운 커널을 고안하였다. 그리고 제안된 시맨틱 구문 트리 커널을 활용하여 단백질 간 상호작용 식별 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 실험을 통하여 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.92-102
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• 2002

The issue of adjuncts has long been a neglected field of linguistic study whether it be syntactic or semantic. It is only in Pustejovsky (1995) that we find a brief mention of adjuncts. In addition to what the author calls true arguments, default arguments, and shadow arguments, he sets up a class of true adjuncts citing the following sentence, Mary drove down to new York on Tuesday. We will take up a small lexical item sugiru in Japanese, and we will argue that we should posit the notion of implicit adjuncts in describing the properties with the small Japanese lexical item sugiru. Throughout the discussions that follow we will demonstrate how the notion is independently motivated irrespective of what linguistic theory we are going to adopt.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.155-162
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• 2007

In this study, we explore the polysemy of da3 through the ontological conceptual structure found in SUMO. First, we divide several different senses for da3, clustering physical event senses and metaphorical event senses. In here, we only focus on physical event senses of da3. From the physical event senses of da3, we divide them into two main categories: 1) hit and 2) pump. We then use SUMO ontological concepts to identify these physical senses. Finally, we can observe the common patterns of the "hit" sense group and the "pump" sense group for da3.

• Language and Information
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.39-63
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• 1999

Korean manner-of-motion verbs have different characteristics from locomotion verbs syntactically and semantically, and they are aptly encoded as having the primitive semantic element MOVE, not GO of Jackendoff(1990)'s Conceptual Semantics framework. This point is shown on the basis of their behavior, the inability to take the Goal 'NP-lo' phrases, the Purposive 'S-le' clauses, the 'NP-ey' phrases, and the atelic interpretation. It is further shown that the apparent locomotion verb behavior of some manner-of-motion verbs, 'exocentric' phenomenon in their meaning composition, is merely a transferred aspect of manner-of-motion verbs. Three kinds of strategies, transformational, quasi-transformational, and lexical ones, are examined to describe this phenomenon, and the lexical one is determined to be the most appropriate. The remaining part of this paper pursues the possibility of adopting Tenny's(1987, 1994) 'Aspectual Interface Hypothesis' in establishing an argument linking system with special attention to 'measuring-out', but concludes that the hypothesis can be accepted only in a restricted part of verbs, and with a modified notion of measuring-out like Jackendoff's(1996).

• Language and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.77-92
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• 2009

Geis (1973) has provided various properties of the subjects and by + Gerund Phrase (GerP) in English causative constructions. Among them, the two main issues of Geis's analysis are as follows: unlike Lakoff (1965; 1966), the subject of English causative constructions, including causative-inchoative verbs such as liquefy, first of all, should be acts or events, not persons, and the by + GerP in the construction is a complement of the causative verbs. In addition to these issues, Geis has provided various data exhibiting other idiosyncratic properties and proposed some transformational rules such as the Agent Creation Rule and rule orderings to explain them. Against Geis's claim, I propose that English causative verbs require either Proper nouns or GerP subjects and that the by + GerP in the constructions as a Verbal Modifier needs Gerunds, whose understood Affective-agent subject is identical to the subject of causative verbs with respect to the semantic index value. This enables us to solve the two main issues. At the same time, the other properties Geis mentioned also can be easily accounted for in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) by positing a few lexical constraints. On this basis, it is shown that given the few lexical constraints and existing grammatical tools in HPSG, the constraint-based analysis proposed here gives a simpler explanation of the properties of English causative constructions provided by Geis without transformational rules and rule orderings.