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Korean EFL Students' Reader Responses on an Expository Text and a Narrative Text

  • Lee, Jisun
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.161-175
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    • 2011
  • This paper examines Korean EFL high school students' reader responses on an expository text and a narrative text with the same topic. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether they have different reading models depending on the two genres and whether there are any differences depending on the learners' proficiency levels. The analysis focuses on textual, critical, and aesthetic reading models in the reader responses written in English by science-gifted high school students (N=30). The results show that the participants have different reading models in reading an expository text and a narrative text. They tend to read the expository text in a more critical way while reading the narrative text in a more personal and emotional way. Moreover, regardless of the proficiency levels, they wrote longer responses on the narrative text than the expository text. However, the proficiency level of English does not support any significant differences in the types of reading models. The findings provide Korean EFL high school students' characteristics in L2 reading and suggest the pedagogical implication to pursue linguistic development as well as reading for pleasure.

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Exploring the Meanings of Usage about Onomatopoeia and Mimetic Words in a Child Play Situation (유아 놀이에서 의성어·의태어 사용 의미 탐구)

  • Kim, Yoon Mi;Yun, Eunju
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.63-76
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    • 2017
  • Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the meanings of onomatopoeia and mimetic words contextually used contextually when children play together. Methods: The participants included 40 children (ages 3-5 years) attending "M Daycare Center" in Seoul and "S Daycare Center" in Seongnam (a city in Gyeonggi-do). Twenty rounds of play observations were conducted at the centers. Once per week from May to October 2015. Results: The onomatopoeia and mimetic words observed were primarily relate to physical movements, sounds, and shapes. These types relate to Max van Manen's life-world existentials, correlating with spatiality, corporeality, and relationality. The characteristics of onomatopoeic and mimetic words used were additive and were used by the children to refine and diversify their language skills and enrich their linguistic imaginations. Conclusion: Onomatopoeic and mimetic words help children design their own play situations based on their creativity and help them share the play with their peers.

Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Complemental Characteristics of Linguistic Knowledge and Stochastic Information (언어 지식과 통계 정보의 보완적 특성을 이용한 품사 태깅)

  • Lim, Heui-Seok;Kim, Jin-Dong;Rim, Hae-Chang
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.102-108
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    • 1997
  • 기존의 품사 태깅 방법에서 독립적으로 사용해온 언어 지식과 통계 정보는 품사 태깅의 정확도와 처리 범위의 향상을 위해서 상호 보완적인 특성을 갖는다. 이에 본 논문은 언어 지식과 통계 정보의 보완적 특성을 이용한 규칙 우선 직렬 품사 태깅 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 언어 지식에 의한 품사 태깅 결과를 선호함으로써 규칙 기반 품사 태깅의 정확도를 유지하며, 언어 지식에 의해서 모호성이 해소되지 않은 어절에 통계 정보에 의한 품사 태깅 결과를 할당함으로써 통계 기반 품사 태깅의 처리 범위를 유지한다. 또한, 수정 언어 지식에 의해 태깅 결과의 오류를 보정함으로써 품사 태깅의 정확도를 향상시킨다. 약 2만 어절 크기의 외부 평가 코퍼스에 대해 수행된 실험 결과, 규칙 우선 직렬 품사 태깅 시스템은 통계 정보만을 이용한 품사 태깅의 정확도보다 32.70% 향상된 95.43%의 정확도를 보였다.

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A Study on the Introduction of Fuzzy system into the Decision-Making process of HVAC designers

  • Woo, Se-Jin
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2004
  • This study is designed to grope for logical methods in the decision-making process of human beings such as creation and analysis. With this in mind, the paper worked with a process where the designers of a design team gather and analyze their opinions in a design process to decide on the HVAC system of buildings. The paper introduced the fuzzy theory, or one of the methods to quantitatively describe language values with ambiguous features, suggesting a method to determine the judgement and suggestion values of the HVAC designers with the characteristics of language variables as the values of design factors greatly influencing the HVAC system. As a result, the paper tested the possibility of the fuzzy system as a logical method to gather the judgement of HVAC designers in a stage of HVAC type selection exerting a great influence on the experience and judgement of the designers and having powerful linguistic features and to determine an appropriate HVAC type which can satisfy the suggested values of related design factors.

A Study on the Index Model for Secondary Legal Information Databases (법률정보시스템의 색인에 관한 연구 -특히 2차 법률정보를 중심으로-)

  • 노정란
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.117-134
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    • 1997
  • This study proves that the quoted legal text functions as the index which represents the contents of the text because of the characteristics of legal information, the automatic indexing in the secondary legal full-text databases can be possible without the assitance of the experts. In case of the establishment, amendment or repealing of law, change of words of index can be possible through revising the legal text quoted in the secondary legal full-text databases. Even when we dont input the full-text about retrospective documents, automatic indexing is also possible, and the establihment and the practice of expert knowledge and integrated databases are possible in case of the retrospective documents. This study indicates that it is necessary to have characteristic information the information experts recognize - that is to say, experimental and inherent knowledge only human being can have - built-in into the system rather than to approach the information system by the linguistic, statistic or structuralistic way, and it can be more essential and intelligent information system.

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Safety Assessment of Human Body for the Electromagnetic Field of Unbalanced Power System (불평형 계통에서의 전자계에 대한 인체안전평가)

  • 김상철;송현선;김두현
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.54-62
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    • 1999
  • This paper presents a study on the safety assessment of human body for electromagnetic field at unbalanced power system. The 3-phase load flow algorithm uses Newton-Raphson method based on Taylor series expansion of power flow equations in rectangular coordinates. The use of such a method can result in a solution with good convergence characteristics. In the safety assessment of human body, the approach based on fuzzy linguistic variable is employed to overcome the shortcomings resulting from a crisp set concept. The suggested scheme is applied to a 24bus system to validate the usefulness. The results for an unbalanced power system are compared with the results for a balanced power system.

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Language Identification in Handwritten Words Using a Convolutional Neural Network

  • Tung, Trieu Son;Lee, Gueesang
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.38-42
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    • 2017
  • Documents of the last few decades typically include more than one kind of language, so linguistic classification of each word is essential, especially in terms of English and Korean in handwritten documents. Traditional methods mostly use conventional features of structural or stroke features, but sometimes they fail to identify many characteristics of words because of complexity introduced by handwriting. Therefore, traditional methods lead to a considerably more-complicated task and naturally lead to possibly poor results. In this study, convolutional neural network (CNN) is used for classification of English and Korean handwritten words in text documents. Experimental results reveal that the proposed method works effectively compared to previous methods.

Fuzzy Expert PID Control of Magnetic Bearing System (자기베어링 시스템의 퍼지 전문가 PID 제어)

  • Gyeong, Jin-Ho;Kim, Yu-Il;Kim, Jong-Seon;Lee, Hae
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.23
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 1993
  • This study presents an intelligent PID control method based on the fuzzy logic and this method is applied to the active magnetic bearing system. By using an appropriate fuzzy matrix, some changes of values of the three coefficients of the controller are determined during system operation and these lead to the improvement of the transient and steady state behavior of the closed loop system. The presented method is actually a combination of the principles of PID control and fuzzy logic. Since the fuzzy logic using linguistic variables in place of numeric variables has many points of likeness to the human logic, the improvement in performance is notable especially in case of large nonlinearity and uncertainty such as the controller start and the excessive mass unbalance. A set of simulation and experimental results illustrate and considerable improvement in the control performance including small overshoot and small transient currents in magnet coils, while maintaining the overal static and dynamic characteristics near the equilibrium position.

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Techniques in teaching English as a foreign language in the elementary school (초등학교 영어교육을 위한 기법에 관한 소고)

  • Cha, Ho-Soon
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.4
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    • pp.117-130
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    • 1998
  • It is simply not true that anyone who can speak English can teach it. Language teaching is both a science and an art; its methods are based on a theoretical foundation and implemented by techniques. However, at a time like the present, when the scientific justification for our methods seems to be uncertain, we should concern ourselves less with theory and more with developing techniques that work with our students. The success of language teaching must be evaluated by the effectiveness of the techniques used. The purpose of the present study is to suggest some useful techniques that the teacher can utilize in teaching English as a foreign language in the elementary school. The techniques suggested are based on the investigation of the characteristics peculiar to children. The investigation takes into account cognitive, affective, and linguistic factors affecting specific techniques. The goal of language teaching is communication and all techniques should move toward this end. The resourceful teacher will provide techniques which exact more and more from the students and less and less from the teacher.

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A Suggestion of Nonlinear Fuzzy PID Controller to Improve Transient Responses of Nonlinear or Uncertain Systems

  • Kim, Jong-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.87-100
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    • 1995
  • In order to control systems which contain nonlinearities of uncertainties, control strategies must deal with the effects of them. Since most of control methods based on system mathematical models have been mainly developed focused on stability robustness against nonlinearities or uncertainties under the assumption that controlled systems are linear time invariant, they have certain amount of limitations to smartly improve the transient responses of systems disturbed by nonlinearities or uncertainties. In this paper, a nonlinear fuzzy PID control method is suggested which can stably improve the transient responses of systems disturbed by nonlinearities, as well as systems whose mathematical characteristics are not perfectly known. Although the derivation process is based on the design process similar to general fuzzy logic controller, resultant control law has analytical forms with time varying PID gains rather than linguistic forms, so that implementation using common-used versatile microprocessors cna be achieved easily and effectively in real-time control aspect.

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