• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.631-640
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• 2023

Short-text similarity calculation is one of the hot issues in natural language processing research. The conventional keyword-overlap similarity algorithms merely consider the lexical item information and neglect the effect of the word order. And some of its optimized algorithms combine the word order, but the weights are hard to be determined. In the paper, viewing the keyword-overlap similarity algorithm, the short English text similarity algorithm based on lexical chunk theory (LC-SETSA) is proposed, which introduces the lexical chunk theory existing in cognitive psychology category into the short English text similarity calculation for the first time. The lexical chunks are applied to segment short English texts, and the segmentation results demonstrate the semantic connotation and the fixed word order of the lexical chunks, and then the overlap similarity of the lexical chunks is calculated accordingly. Finally, the comparative experiments are carried out, and the experimental results prove that the proposed algorithm of the paper is feasible, stable, and effective to a large extent.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.30-37
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• 2014

The current study was conducted to examine the temporal and spatial activation sequences related to morphosyntactic, semantic and orthographic-lexical sentences, focusing on the morphological-orthographic and lexical-semantic deviation processes in Korean language processing. The Event-related Potentials (ERPs) of 15 healthy students were adopted to explore the processing of head-final critical words in a sentential plausibility task. Specifically, it was examined whether the ERP-pattern to orthographic-lexical violation might show linear precedence over other processes, or the presence of additivity across combined processing components. For the morphosyntactic violation, fronto-central LAN followed by P600 was found, while semantic violation elicited N400, as expected. Activation of P600 was distributed in the left frontal and central sites, while N400 appeared even in frontal sites other than the centro-parietal areas. Most importantly, the orthographic-lexical violation process revealed by earlier N2 with fronto-central activity was shown to be complexes of morphological and semantic functions from the same critical word. The present study suggests that there is a linear precedence over the morphological deviation and its lexical semantic processing based on the immediate possibility of lexical information, followed by sentential semantics. Finally, late syntactic integration processes were completed, showing different topographic activation in order of importance of ongoing sentential information.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.85-94
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to see the effects of pitch and length patterns on spoken word recognition. In Experiment 1, a syllable monitoring task was used to see the effects of pitch and length on the pre-lexical level of spoken word recognition. For both Seoul dialect speakers and Daegu dialect speakers, pitch and length did not affect the syllable detection processes. This result implies that there is little effect of pitch and length in pre-lexical processing. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task was used to see the effect of pitch and length on the lexical access level of spoken word recognition. In this experiment, word frequency (low and high) as well as pitch and length was manipulated. The results showed that pitch and length information did not play an important role for Seoul dialect speakers, but that it did affect lexical decision processing for Daegu dialect speakers. Pitch and length seem to affect lexical access during the word recognition process of Daegu dialect speakers.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.1588-1597
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• 1996

This paper describes an estimation method for lexical probabilities in Korean lexical disambiguation. In the stochastic to lexical disambiguation lexical probabilities and contextual probabilities are generally estimated on the basis of statistical data extracted form corpora. It is desirable to apply lexical probabilities in terms of word phrases for Korean because sentences are spaced in the unit of word phrase. However, Korean word phrases are so multiform that there are more or less chances that lexical probabilities cannot be estimated directly in terms of word phrases though fairly large corpora are used. To overcome this problem, similarity for word phrases is defined from the lexical analysis point of view in this research and an estimation method for Korean lexical probabilities based on the similarity is proposed. In this method, when a lexical probability for a word phrase cannot be estimated directly, it is estimated indirectly through the word phrase similar to the given one. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective for Korean lexical disambiguation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.3-6
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• 2008

본 연구는 의미적 정보 검색을 위한 연구 중의 하나로, 현재까지의 의미적 문서 검색에서 큰 걸림돌이었던 사전에 정의되지 않은 단어(Unknown Word)들의 어휘 사전(Lexical Dictionary)을 자동으로 생성하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 UW를 기존의 영어 어휘 사전인 워드넷(WordNet)에 정의되지 않은 단어로 간주하고, 웹 문서의 입력을 통하여 UW와 관련된 단어들을 추출하여 의미적 관련 정도를 확률적, 의미적 방법으로 측정한다. 본 논문에서는 UW Lexical Dictionary를 자동으로 구축하기 위한 방법에 대해서만 기술하였고, 정량적이고 객관적인 평가는 포함하지 않고 있다. 하지만 본 연구의 효용성을 확인하기 위한 몇 가지 문서로부터 추출된 결과는 본 연구가 상당히 의미적이며 가치가 높을 것으로 기대되고 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2010

This study offered lexical knowledge acquisition model of unsupervised learning method in order to overcome limitation of lexical knowledge hand building manual of supervised learning method for research of natural language processing. The offered model obtains the lexical knowledge from the lexical entry which was given by inputting through the process of vectorization, clustering, lexical knowledge acquisition automatically. In the process of obtaining the lexical knowledge acquisition of model, some parts of lexical knowledge dictionary which changes in the number of lexical knowledge and characteristics of lexical knowledge appeared by parameter changes were shown. The experimental results show that is possibility of automatic building of Machine-readable dictionary, because observed to the number of lexical class information cluster collected constant. also building of lexical ditionary including left-morphosyntactic information and right-morphosyntactic information is reflected korean characteristic.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.135-137
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• 2007

This study has experimented and materialized a computational lexical processing model which hybridizes full model and decomposition model as applying lexical acquisition, one of early stages of human lexical processes, to Korean. As the result of the study, we could simulate the lexical acquisition process of linguistic input through experiments and studying, and suggest a theoretical foundation for the order of acquitting certain grammatical categories. Also, the model of this study has shown proofs with which we can infer the type of the mental lexicon of the human cerebrum through fu1l-list dictionary and decomposition dictionary which were automatically produced in the study.

• Language and Information
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.21-37
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• 2001

Pustejovsky (1995) rekindled debate on the dual problems of how to represent lexical meaning and on the information that is to be encoded in a lexicon. For natural language processing such as machine translation, these are important issues. When a lexical-conceptual mismatch occurs in translation of corresponding words from two different languages, the appropriate representation of their meanings is very important. This paper proposes a new formalism for representing lexical entries by first analysing observable mismatches in comparable pairs of nouns, verbs, and adjectives in English and Korean. Inherent mis-interpretations and mis-readings in each pair are identified. Then, concept theories such as those presented by Ganter and Wille (1996) and Priss (1998) are extended in order to reflect the cognitivist view that meaning resides in concept, and also to incorporate the propositions of the so-called ‘multiple inheritance’system. An alternative to the formalism of Pustejovsky (1995) and Pollard & Sag (1994) is then proposed. Finally, representative examples of lexical mismatches are analysed using the new model.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.43-53
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of phonology in lexical access of bilingual processing for Korean-English bilinguals. Four experiments have been conducted in order to adjudicate the nonselective lexical access hypothesis, which argues simultaneous phonological activation of two bilingual languages, and the selective lexical access hypothesis. which argues phonological activation of only one bilingual language. The results showed that the Korean target word processing was significantly affected by the phonological manipulation of the English target word(Exp. 2). Similarly, the English target word processing showed the tendencies that it is affected by the phonological manipulation of the Korean prime word(Exp. 2). This results indicates that the phonological information of another bilingual language is automatically activated when we process one of bilingual languages, and the process of English which is the second language for most Korean, is phonologically activated.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2004.10d
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• pp.240-247
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of phonology in lexical access of bilingual processing for Korean-English bilinguals. Four experiments have been conducted in order to adjudicate the nonselective lexical access hypothesis, which argues simultaneous phonological activation of two bilingual languages, and the selective lexical access hypothesis, which argues phonological activation of only one bilingual language. The results showed that the Korean target word processing was significantly affected by the phonological manipulation of the English prime word(Exp. 2). Similarly, the English target word processing showed the tendencies that it is affected by the phonological manipulation of the Korean prime word(Exp. 2). This results indicates that the phonological information of another bilingual language is automatically activated when we process one of bilingual languages, and the process of English, which is the second language for most Korean, is phonologically activated.