• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권4E호
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• pp.3-16
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• 2001

An ASCII encoding of Korean has been developed for extended phonetic transcription of the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA). SAMPA is a machine-readable phonetic alphabet used for multilingual computing. It has been developed since 1987 and extended to more than twenty languages. The motivating factor for creating Korean SAMPA (K-SAMPA) is to label Korean speech for a multilingual corpus or to transcribe native language (Ll) interfered pronunciation of a second language learner for bilingual education. Korean SAMPA represents each Korean allophone with a particular SAMPA symbol. Sounds that closely resemble it are represented by the same symbol, regardless of the language they are uttered in. Each of its symbols represents a speech sound that is spectrally and temporally so distinct as to be perceptually different when the components are heard in isolation. Each type of sound has a separate IPA-like designation. Korean SAMPA is superior to other transcription systems with similar objectives. It describes better the cross-linguistic sound quality of Korean than the official Romanization system, proclaimed by the Korean government in July 2000, because it uses an internationally shared phonetic alphabet. It is also phonetically more accurate than the official Romanization in that it dispenses with orthographic adjustments. It is also more convenient for computing than the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) because it consists of the symbols on a standard keyboard. This paper demonstrates how the Korean SAMPA can express allophonic details and prosodic features by adopting the transcription conventions of the extended SAMPA (X-SAMPA) and the prosodic SAMPA(SAMPROSA).

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2005

영어 사전 검색 서비스 이용자들은 원하는 영어 단어의 철자를 정확하게 기억하지 못하고, 발음만을 기억하는 경우가 있다. 이러한 이용자들에게 도움을 주기 위해 본 연구에서는 입말 표기, 즉 영어 단어 발음의 한글 표기를 이용하여 영어 단어를 효과적으로 검색할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 코닉스(KONIX) 코드를 개발하며, 입말 표기와 영어 단어를 코닉스 코드들로 변환한다. 그리고 변환된 코닉스 코드들 사이의 음성적 유사도를 편집 거리 방법과 2-그램 방법을 이용하여 계산한다. 또한 제안한 방법이 입말 표기에 의한 영어 단어 검색에 매우 효과적임을 실험을 통하여 입증한다.

• 인문언어
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• 제8집
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• pp.331-367
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• 2006

In this paper I attempted to investigate the matters related with the clarification of the close relationship between writing system and pronunciation. On the way of pursuing the research on the subject I found the fact that the same topic has been the main academic target in Korea. There have been some remarks about English alphabets and pronunciation. Nevertheless, the relation between alphabet codes and pronunciation tokens wasn't considered as the main key to master the English pronunciation correctly and completely. As the main target of this paper I argue that it is necessary to comprehend the connection. Then, we can recognize the significant role of alphabetic structure for understanding the gist of pronunciation exercise. This paper is classified into four parts. Each part consists of the material to affirm the fact that writing system should be the inevitable equivalent of sound system, and vice versa. In the first section I show that the development of the way of pronouncing English words is closely related with the endeavors of the scholars. While performing the survey of the studies about the alphabetic structure of the age many scholars found that the spelling construction was recorded without any common denominator. Thus, they not only sought to stage the bedrock for the standard written form of words but also to associate the alphabet letters with phonetic features. Secondly I mention the negative aspect of the 'only spelling based English pronunciation education' for the educational goal of 'Phonics methodology.' In this part I suggest the essentiality of phonemic properties with the phonetic prospect: phonemic awareness. Thirdly I refer to the standardization of the spelling system of English. As the realm of application of the language is extended toward the various professional areas such as commercial, scientific, and cultural spheres, it is quite natural to assume that the usage of the language will be transformed according to the areas in the world. Fourthly I introduce the first English-Korean grammar book with the section of 'the introduction to English pronunciation.' At the chapter the author explained the sound features of English based on the regulation of 'Scientific Alphabet' of U.S.A. In the transcribing system all the symbols were postulated on the basis of the English alphabet form instead of the separate phonetic signs of IPA.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.223-235
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• 2011

Performing approximate data matching has always been an intriguing problem for both industry and academia. This task becomes even more challenging when the requirement of data privacy rises. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to address the problem of efficient privacy-preserving approximate record linkage. The secure framework we propose consists of two basic components. First, we utilize a secure blocking component based on phonetic algorithms statistically enhanced to improve security. Second, we use a secure matching component where actual approximate matching is performed using a novel private approach of the Levenshtein Distance algorithm. Our goal is to combine the speed of private blocking with the increased accuracy of approximate secure matching.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제44호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2002

There are many speech analysis tools available. Among them real-time analysis tool is very useful for interactive experiments. A real-time speech analysis tool was implemented using Matlab. Matlab is a very widely used general purpose signal processing tool. In general, its computational speed is relatively lower than that of the codes from conventional programming languages. Especially, real-time analysis including input of signal and output of the result was not possible in the past. However, due to the improvement of computing power of PCs and inclusion of real-time I/O toolboxes in Matlab, real-time analysis is now possible in some extent by Matlab only. In this experiment, we tried to implement a real-time speech analysis tool using Matlab. Pitch and spectral information is computed in real-time. From the result it is shown that such real-time applications can be implemented easily using Matlab.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.162-173
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• 1998

CAI 프로그램 작성시 자료 공유를 위한 한자 공통코드 정의를 위하여 주요 한자문화권 국가의 한자 코드에 대한 고찰 결과, 한자코드 정의시 발음순과 부수순을 혼용 및 동일 한자에 대한 간체자(중국 GB)와 이체자(일본 Shift JIS)의 개발, 사용이 많아 정체자(KSC 한국)간의 자료 호환시 적절한 변환 장치가 요한다. 발음순 원칙은 동차 이음어가 다른 코드로 인식되어 코드 영역의 낭비가 있고, 부수순 원칙은 자국의 두음법칙에 맞지 않으나 중복 코드를 방지할 수 있어 자료의 복원시 유리하다. KSC 제1수준과 제2수준 한자 영역은 학계 및 업계의 요구를 수용할 수준으로 확대시킬 필요가 있다. 유니코드는 시스템의 호환, 확장에 유리하고, 다양한 문자 표현이 가능하여 교육목적 코드의 일시적인 대안이 될 수 있다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2012

The aims of this study were three. First, to examine the degree of deviation from dictionary prescribed symbols and actual speech made by American English speakers. Second, to measure the frequency of vowel and consonant production of American English speakers. And third, to investigate gender differences in the segmental sounds in a speech corpus. The Buckeye Speech Corpus was recorded by forty American male and female subjects for one hour per subject. The vowels and consonants in both the phonemic and phonetic transcriptions were extracted from the original files of the corpus and their frequencies were obtained using codes of a free software R. Results were as follows: Firstly, the American English speakers produced a reduced number of vowels and consonants in daily conversation. The reduction rate from the dictionary transcriptions to the actual transcriptions was around 38.2%. Secondly, the American English speakers used more front high and back low vowels while three-fourths of the consonants accounted for stops, fricatives, and nasals. This indicates that the segmental inventory has nonlinear frequency distribution in the speech corpus. Thirdly, the two gender groups produced vowels and consonants similarly even though there were a few noticeable differences in their speech. From these results we propose that English teachers consider pronunciation education reflecting the actual speech sounds and that linguists find a way to establish unmarked segmentals from speech corpora.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.45-54
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• 1995

본 연구는 ASCII 코드중에서 잘 쓰이지 않는 코드를 반달점(ˇ)으로 할당, 글꼴을 제작하여, 사용자가 국어 로마자 표기법 기본원칙을 모르더라도 한글단어, 문장, 문서를 문자열(string)로 입력받아 알고리즘화된 음운법칙을 적용하여 소리글자로 자동 변환 후 현행 정부 표준안인 국어 로마자 표기법 테이블에서 대응 글자를 참조하여 기계화 코드 변환이 가능토록 설계하였으며, 예외어 처리, 화면색상 및 풀다운 팝업 메뉴 방식을 지원, 마우스 활용 방식을 채택, 사용자 편리성을 제공하였으며, 다양한 서체, 글꼴 확대 및 축소, 이단ㆍ혼합 인쇄기능 등을 고려 C언어를 이용하여 구현하였다.