• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.37-45
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• 2014

Korean wh-questions and yes-no questions have morphologically the same structure. In speech, however, two types of questions are distinguished by prosodic difference. In this study, we examined if Korean native speakers can distinguish wh-question and yes-no questions produced by Chinese Korean leaners based on the prosodic information contained in the sentences. For this purpose, we performed perception analysis, and 15 Korean native speakers participated in the perception test. The results show that two types of interrogative sentences produced by Chinese Korean leaners were not distinguished by constant pitch contours. These results reveal that Chinese Korean leaners cannot match prosodic meaning and prosodic form. The most saliant prosodic feature used perceptually by native speakers to discriminate two types of interrogative sentences is pitch difference between the F0 pick of wh-word and boundary tone.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.77-90
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• 2001

This study used 2 coordination tasks to examine the strategy and quality of interactions between mothers and their children. Results were: (1) Most frequently employed strategies of mothers were feedback, orders, explanations followed by questions and opinions. Most frequently employed strategies of children were offering opinions followed by recognition and explanation. (2) In mother-initiated interactions, the mother's-question/child's-opinion sequence was most frequent, and child's acceptance of mother's order, explanation, suggestion, or opinion; child's question to mother's order, and child's explanation were also frequent. In child-initiated interactions, child's-opinion/mother's-feedback occurred most frequently. Mothers' feedback to child's explanation, acceptance, and question was also observed. (3) When mothers and children used strategies of low quality, such as rejection or reprimand, the interactions tended to be negative.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.1-30
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• 1993

Providing users who intend to retrieve document information in korean natural language with direct access to retrieval systems, a korean question processing system was developed in which korean natural language was translated into boolean search statements, which are the most frequently used in current information retrieval systems.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.53-68
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• 2000

This study investigated differences between the ability of children and young adults to describe their experience. Forty 5-year-olds and 40 16-year-olds viewed 12 pictures(Azmitia, 1987) and responded to open-ended, closed and misleading questions. Responses were categorized by the SPSS WIN program into rate of correctness, incorrectness, unresponsiveness and "don't know". Data were analyzed by t-test. On open-ended questions, the rate of incorrectness by young adults was higher than that of children. On closed questions, children had a higher rate of incorrectness than young adults. On misleading questions, children showed a lower performance in the rate of correctness and "don't know" and the rate of incorrectness by children was higher than that of young adults.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.311-318
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• 1993

In this paper, we consider the test based on using Forced question model instead of Warner model and compare the power of two randomized respose models. The estimator for the prportion of the individuals belonging to the sensitive group is obtained by using Forced question model and the conditions that the estimator by Forced question model will be more efficient than the estimators by Warner model are found when the respondents are truthrul in their answers.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.891-902
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• 2008

The software once developed enters in to the $2^{nd}$ phase of its useful operational life, where it performs its functions for which it has been developed. This is an important phase of software life, wherein the developers and users have to assess the performance of the software to prolong its operational life with efficiency, effectiveness and economy. Performance of the software is based on the measurement of the quality characteristics to ascertain that it is meeting or exceeding the needs of customers in terms of its functionality, usability, efficiency, reliability, availability, maintainability, portability etc. These software quality attributes defined under ISO 9126 provide an overall good framework for assessing the performance of the software. This paper describes a Software Performance Assessment (SPA) model using the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) paradigm which has been applied to the operational software in real context with successful results.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.789-804
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• 2022

Striking result of Vybíral [51] says that Schur product of positive matrices is bounded below by the size of the matrix and the row sums of Schur product. Vybíral used this result to prove the Novak's conjecture. In this paper, we define Schur product of matrices over arbitrary C^*-algebras and derive the results of Schur and Vybíral. As an application, we state C^*-algebraic version of Novak's conjecture and solve it for commutative unital C^*-algebras. We formulate Pólya-Szegő-Rudin question for the C^*-algebraic Schur product of positive matrices.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.95-99
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• 2022

오픈 도메인 질의 응답 (ODQA, Open-Domain Question Answering)은 주어진 질문에 대한 답을 찾는 과업으로서 질문과 관련있는 지식을 찾는 "검색" 단계를 필요로 한다. 최근 이미지, 테이블 등의 검색을 요구하는 멀티 모달 ODQA에 대한 연구가 많이 진행되었을 뿐만 아니라 산업에서의 중요도 또한 높아지고 있다. 본 논문은 여러 종류의 멀티 모달 ODQA 중에서도 테이블 - 텍스트 기반 멀티 모달 ODQA 데이터 집합으로 Fusion-in-Decoder (FiD)를 이용한 멀티 모달 오픈 도메인 질의 응답 연구를 제안하며 베이스라인 대비 최대 EM 20.5, F1 23.2 향상을 보였다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.177-195
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• 2003

In a traditional customer support environment, mainly call centers or service centers are responsible for receiving inquiries from their customers via telephone calls. Due to the rapid growth of Internet with its widespread acceptance and accessibility, means of communication with customers in the traditional customer support center, such as telephones, letters, and direct-visiting, have been replaced by e-mails and bulletin board systems (BBSs) using the Internet constantly. BBSs are basically question and answer systems, they require some lead time to get answer from administrator. To reduce lead time, BBSs enable remote customers or users to log on and tap into a knowledge database that is generally formatted in the form of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that provide answers and solutions to the common problems. And, many different types of the questions are mixed on the BBS. It is a burden to administrator. To build FAQs and to support BBS adminstrator, a supporting tool which is to categorize questions is helpful. In this research, we suggest an interactive question categorizing methodology which consists of steps to present question using keywords, identifying keywords' affinity, computing similarity among questions, and clustering questions. This methodology allows users to interact iteratively for clear manifestation of ambiguous questions. We also developed a prototype system, IQC (interactive question categorizer) and evaluated its performance using the comparison experiments with other systems. IQC is not a general purposed system, but it produces a good result in a given specific domain.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.412-425
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• 2008

One of the important elements for improving academic achievement of learners in education through e-learning is to support learners to study by finding questions they want with providing various evaluation questions. However, most of question retrieval systems usually depend on keyword search based on only a syntactical analysis and/or a hierarchical browsing system classified by the topics of subjects. In such a system it is not easy to find integrative questions associated with each other. In order to improve this problem, in this paper we proposed a question management and retrieval system which allows users to easily manage questions and also to effectively find questions for study on the Web. Then, we implemented a system that gives to access questions for the domain of C language programming. The system makes it possible to easily search questions related to not only a single theme but also questions integrated by interrelationship between topics and questions. This is done by supporting to be able to retrieve questions according to conceptual interrelationships between questions from user query. Consequently, it is expected that the proposed system will provide learners to understand the basic theories and the concepts of the subjects as well as to improve the ability of comprehensive knowledge utilization and problem-solving.