• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.19B no.1
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• pp.43-52
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• 2012

Semantic role labeling is the research area analyzing the semantic relationship between elements in a sentence and it is considered as one of the most important semantic analysis research areas in natural language processing, such as word sense disambiguation. However, due to the lack of the relative linguistic resources, Korean semantic role labeling research has not been sufficiently developed. We, in this paper, propose an automatic predicate-argument analyzer to begin constructing the Korean PropBank which has been widely utilized in the semantic role labeling. The analyzer has mainly two components: the semantic lexical dictionary and the automatic predicate-argument extractor. The dictionary has the case frame information of verbs and the extractor is a module to decide the semantic class of the argument for a specific predicate existing in the syntactically annotated corpus. The analyzer developed in this research will help the construction of Korean PropBank and will finally play a big role in Korean semantic role labeling.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.220-226
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• 2015

Semantic role labeling (SRL) systems determine the semantic role labels of the arguments of predicates in natural language text. An SRL system usually needs to perform four tasks in sequence: Predicate Identification (PI), Predicate Classification (PC), Argument Identification (AI), and Argument Classification (AC). In this paper, we use the Korean Propbank to develop our Korean semantic role labeling system. We describe our Korean semantic role labeling system that uses sequence labeling with structured Support Vector Machine (SVM). The results of our experiments on the Korean Propbank dataset reveal that our method obtains a 97.13% F1 score on Predicate Identification and Classification (PIC), and a 76.96% F1 score on Argument Identification and Classification (AIC).

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.112-122
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• 2007

Training a statistical model for semantic role labeling requires a large amount of manually tagged corpus. However. such corpus does not exist for Korean and constructing one from scratch is a very long and tedious job. This paper suggests a modified algorithm of self-training, an unsupervised algorithm, which trains a semantic role labeling model from any raw corpora. For initial training, a small tagged corpus is automatically constructed iron case frames in Sejong Electronic Dictionary. Using the corpus, a probabilistic model is trained incrementally, which achieves 83.00% of accuracy in 4 selected adverbial cases.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.9
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• pp.946-953
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• 2017

Semantic Role Decision defines the semantic relationship between the predicate and the arguments in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The semantic role information and semantic category information should be used to make Semantic Role Decisions. The Sejong Electronic Dictionary contains frame information that is used to determine the semantic roles. In this paper, we propose a method to extend the Sejong electronic dictionary using word embedding and synonyms. The same experiment is performed using existing word-embedding and retrofitting vectors. The system performance of the semantic category assignment is 32.19%, and the system performance of the extended semantic category assignment is 51.14% for words that do not appear in the Sejong electronic dictionary of the word using the word embedding. The system performance of the semantic category assignment is 33.33%, and the system performance of the extended semantic category assignment is 53.88% for words that do not appear in the Sejong electronic dictionary of the vector using retrofitting. We also prove it is helpful to extend the semantic category word of the Sejong electronic dictionary by assigning the semantic categories to new words that do not have assigned semantic categories.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.773-780
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• 2016

Semantic information and features are very important for Semantic Role Labeling(SRL) though many SRL systems based on machine learning mainly adopt lexical and syntactic features. Previous SRL research based on semantic information is very few because using semantic information is very restricted. We proposed the SRL system which adopts semantic information, such as named entity, word sense disambiguation, filtering adjunct role based on sense, synonym cluster, frame extension based on synonym dictionary and joint rule of syntactic-semantic information, and modified verb-specific numbered roles, etc. According to our experimentations, the proposed present method outperforms those of lexical-syntactic based research works by about 3.77 (Korean Propbank) to 8.05 (Exobrain Corpus) F1-scores.

• Language and Information
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.81-120
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• 1998

The case marking phenomenon in Korean is closely related to semantic entailment and should be studied as an interface between syntax and semantics. Assuming a direct mapping between syntactic realization and semantic information, this study investigates the role of the accusative marker ul/lul in Korean, and explores the semantic constraints working on the argument realization on the basis of proto-roles hypothesis. Specifically, I will study various types of case alternations in Korean and clarify the role of the accusative marker ul/lul, which manifests the distinction between direct object NPs and oblique NPs.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.327-349
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• 2009

Traditional keyword-based searching methods suffer from low accuracy and high complexity due to the rapid growth in the amount of information. Accordingly, many researchers attempt to implement a so-called semantic search which is based on the semantics of the user's query. Semantic information can be described using a semantic modeling language, such as Topic Map. In this paper, we propose a new method to map a topic map to a traditional Relational Database (RDB) without any information loss. Although there have been a few attempts to map topic maps to RDB, they have paid scant attention to handling multi-role topics. In this paper, we propose a new storage structure to map multi-role topics to traditional RDB. The proposed structure consists of a mapping table, role tables, and content tables. Additionally, we devise a query translator to convert a user's query to one appropriate to the proposed structure.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.73-85
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• 1997

The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of semantic and syntactic knowledge in the first language acquisition of Korean classifiers. The elicited classifiers production test(EPT) was conducted to 105 children aged from 2 to 7. EPT consisted of 16 classifiers and two items for each classifier. 32 items were divided into 2 major semantic features: animacy and inanimacy. The semantic features of inanimacy were subcategorized into 3 features such as neutral, shape and function. The results revealed that; 1) children produced the correct structure of classification from the very early age with correct word order of the noun phrase showing early fundamental syntactic knowledge; 2) The earliest response pattern was to respond to all nouns in the same way using a neutral classifier showing no apparent semantic basis for their choice; 3) Children didn't show any preference for animate, shape, or function classifiers.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.429-438
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• 2014

Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a task in natural-language processing with the aim of detecting predicates in the text, choosing their correct senses, identifying their associated arguments, and predicting the semantic roles of the arguments. Developing a high-performance SRL system for a domain requires manually annotated training data of large size in the same domain. However, such SRL training data of sufficient size is available only for a few domains. Constructing SRL training data for a new domain is very expensive. Therefore, domain adaptation in SRL can be regarded as an important problem. In this paper, we show that domain adaptation for SRL systems can achieve state-of-the-art performance when based on structural learning and exploiting a prior model approach. We provide experimental results with three different target domains showing that our method is effective even if training data of small size is available for the target domains. According to experimentations, our proposed method outperforms those of other research works by about 2% to 5% in F-score.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.36-43
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• 2017

Syntactic information represents the dependency relation between predicates and arguments, and it is helpful for improving the performance of Semantic Role Labeling systems. However, syntax analysis can cause computational overhead and inherit incorrect syntactic information. To solve this problem, we exclude syntactic information and use only morpheme information to construct Semantic Role Labeling systems. In this study, we propose an end-to-end SRL system that only uses morpheme information with Stacked Bidirectional LSTM-CRFs model by extending the LSTM RNN that is suitable for sequence labeling problem. Our experimental results show that our proposed model has better performance, as compare to other models.