• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.64 no.4
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• pp.585-600
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• 2018

Over the last three decades, the field of American Studies has increasingly paid attention to transnational approaches in an effort to diversify and expand the field's concerns beyond the narrow sense of the nation-state in today's globalizing world. Yet, the mediation of the transnational requires a careful analysis of the nation that is still in transit. In this context, this essay examines Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851) as a case study that vividly shows how reading American literature and culture through transnationalism not only offers new interpretations of canonical texts, but also helps us to better understand the historical roots and cultural contexts of contemporary issues such as global labor and migration, US citizenship and racial justice. To address the complexity of the text's circulation and reproduction, coupled with US national ideology and cultural conditions, I first turn to the canonization of Melville's Moby-Dick during the Cold War era as a national project and then explore the possibilities of transnational readings by focusing on the politics of race and global capitalism in the nineteenth century whaling industry. In doing so, I argue that critical transnationalism allows readers to keep questioning about their own understanding of race, nation, and cultural identity while remaining attentive to the destructive force of US imperialism and global capitalism in the twenty-first century.

• Journal of Arbitration Studies
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.25-42
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• 2021

Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism based on the parties' agreement to resolve any disputes parties may have by arbitration rather than litigation in court. Parties' consent to arbitrate, which must be manifest in the parties' arbitration clause or agreement, is the foundation for arbitration; thus, the language of an arbitration agreement is often of utmost importance in determining the intent of the parties regarding many aspects of arbitration proceedings, such as, the scope of arbitral proceedings, arbitral seat, and authority of arbitral tribunals, among others. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela (2019) that ambiguity in arbitration agreement as to availability of class arbitration should be resolved in favor of individual arbitration, and therefore, class arbitration would be precluded. Such holding was met with criticism by four separate dissenting opinions, in which the dissenting Justices have disagreed with the majority's interpretation of the arbitration agreement at issue, as well as, its rejection of application of state law in resolving contractual ambiguity. This article analyzes the Supreme Court's decision and reviews the Court's approach in construction of the arbitration agreement. Nevertheless, because the Supreme Court declined to provide clear guidelines as to precisely what contractual basis is required to permit class arbitration, either silence or ambiguity in arbitration agreements will be resolved by disallowing class arbitration.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.64 no.1
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• pp.25-37
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• 2018

The turning point is one of the more evocative concepts in the critic's arsenal, as it is equally suited to the evaluation and analysis of a given moment in one's day as to those of a historical event. But how does one recognize a turning point? As we find ourselves always "in the middest," both spatially and temporally, we inhabit sites that may be points at which many things may be seen to turn. Indeed, it is usually only possible to identify a turning point, as it were, from a distance, from the remove of space and time which allows for a sense of recognition, based in part on original context and in part of perceived effects. In this article, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that the apprehension and interpretation of a turning point involves a fundamentally critical activity. Examining three models by which to understand the concept of the turning point-the swerve, the trope, and peripety (or the dialectical reversal)-Tally demonstrates how each represents a different way of seeing the turning point and its effects. Thus, the swerve is associated with a point of departure for a critical project; the trope is connected to continuous and sustained critical activity in the moment, and peripety enables a retrospective vision that, in turn, inform future research. Tally argues for the significance of the turning point in literary and cultural theory, and concludes that the identification, analysis, and interpretation of turning points is crucial to the project of criticism today.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.64 no.3
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• pp.383-401
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• 2018

Wordsworth is a poet who thought seriously about problems of human's relation to the world as perceiving subjects. What he calls "the life of things" illustrates the enabling power of things and their vitalities at play in excess of human elements. Drawing on this, he provides insights into vital materialities that act upon, and are acted upon by, the collaborative circulation between human and nonhuman agency. This paper aims to reinvigorate the debate about Wordsworth's ethics of things in terms of such critical notions as things, objects, agency, and nonhumans in an attempt to explain what he envisions as new environmental realities built upon nonhierarchical, collaborative relationships between all participants. From the vantage point of things, we see clearly what has been neglected in the New Historicist critical method. It holds fast to the conceit that humans are entitled to have sole agential legitimacy, disregarding the vibrancy of things. They opt for the objectified matter or the (re)presented state of things. But in terms of Wordsworth's life of things, all participants have equal amounts of agency regardless of their forms and for that reason humans are expected to respect other things' sovereignty. Through encounters with things, things in their thingness show up for us, only to reveal the ineradicable rupture between themselves and their objectified forms.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.135-140
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• 2022

최근 Document Retrieval을 비롯한 대부분의 자연어처리 분야에서는 BERT와 같이 self-attention을 기반으로 한 사전훈련 모델을 활용하여 SOTA(state-of-the-art)를 이루고 있다. 그러나 self-attention 메커니즘은 입력 텍스트 길이의 제곱에 비례하여 계산 복잡도가 증가하기 때문에, 해당 모델들은 선천적으로 입력 텍스트의 길이가 제한되는 한계점을 지닌다. Document Retrieval 분야에서는, 문서를 특정 토큰 길이 단위의 문단으로 나누어 각 문단의 유사 점수 또는 표현 벡터를 추출한 후 집계함으로서 길이 제한 문제를 해결하는 방법론이 하나의 주류를 이루고 있다. 그러나 논문, 특허와 같이 섹션 형식(초록, 결론 등)을 갖는 문서의 경우, 섹션 유형에 따라 고유한 정보 특성을 지닌다. 따라서 문서를 단순히 특정 길이의 문단으로 나누어 학습하는 PARADE와 같은 기존 방법론은 각 섹션이 지닌 특성을 반영하지 못한다는 한계점을 지닌다. 본 논문에서는 섹션 유형에 대한 정보를 포함하는 문단 표현을 학습한 후, 트랜스포머 인코더를 사용하여 집계함으로서, 결과적으로 섹션의 특징과 상호 정보를 학습할 수 있도록 하는 SERADE 모델을 제안하고자 한다. 실험 결과, PARADE-Transformer 모델과 비교하여 평균 3.8%의 성능 향상을 기록하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2021

최근 방대한 양의 텍스트 정보가 인터넷에 유통되면서 정보의 핵심 내용을 파악하기가 더욱 어려워졌으며, 이로 인해 자동으로 텍스트를 요약하려는 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 텍스트 자동 요약을 위한 다양한 기법 중 특히 트랜스포머(Transformer) 기반의 모델은 추상 요약(Abstractive Summarization) 과제에서 매우 우수한 성능을 보이며, 해당 분야의 SOTA(State of the Art)를 달성하고 있다. 하지만 트랜스포머 모델은 매우 많은 수의 매개변수들(Parameters)로 구성되어 있어서, 충분한 양의 데이터가 확보되지 않으면 이들 매개변수에 대한 충분한 학습이 이루어지지 않아서 양질의 요약문을 생성하기 어렵다는 한계를 갖는다. 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위해 본 연구는 소량의 데이터가 주어진 환경에서도 양질의 요약문을 생성할 수 있는 문서 요약 방법론을 제안한다. 구체적으로 제안 방법론은 한국어 사전학습 언어 모델인 KoBERT의 임베딩 행렬을 트랜스포머 모델에 적용하는 방식으로 문서 요약을 수행하며, 제안 방법론의 우수성은 Dacon 한국어 문서 생성 요약 데이터셋에 대한 실험을 통해 ROUGE 지표를 기준으로 평가하였다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.355-369
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• 2023

Since the widespread adoption of deep-learning and related distributed representation, there have been substantial advancements in part-of-speech (POS) tagging for many languages. When training word representations, morphology and shape are typically ignored, as these representations rely primarily on collecting syntactic and semantic aspects of words. However, for tasks like POS tagging, notably in morphologically rich and resource-limited language environments, the intra-word information is essential. In this study, we introduce a deep neural network (DNN) for POS tagging that learns character-level word representations and combines them with general word representations. Using the proposed approach and omitting hand-crafted features, we achieve 90.47%, 80.16%, and 79.32% accuracy on our own dataset for three morphologically rich languages: Uyghur, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz. The experimental results reveal that the presented character-based strategy greatly improves POS tagging performance for several morphologically rich languages (MRL) where character information is significant. Furthermore, when compared to the previously reported state-of-the-art POS tagging results for Turkish on the METU Turkish Treebank dataset, the proposed approach improved on the prior work slightly. As a result, the experimental results indicate that character-based representations outperform word-level representations for MRL performance. Our technique is also robust towards the-out-of-vocabulary issues and performs better on manually edited text.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.16-21
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• 2021

소방 본부의 119 종합상황실에서는 24시간 국민의 안전을 위해 긴급 신고를 접수한다. 수보사 분들은 24시간 교대 근무를 하며 신고 전화에 접수 및 응대 뿐만 아니라 출동, 지휘, 관제 업무를 함께 수행한다. 이 논문에서는 이 같은 수보사의 업무 지원을 위해 우리가 구축한 음성 인식과 결합된 실시간 텍스트 분석 시스템에 대해서 소개하고, 출동 지령서 자동 작성을 위한 키워드 검출 및 대화 요약 및 개체명 인식에 기반한 대화 상태 추척 방법에 대해 설명하고자 한다. 대화 요약 기술은 음성 인식 결과를 실시간으로 분석하여 중요한 키워드의 검출 및 지령서 자동 작성을 위한 후처리를 수행하며, 문장 수준에서 개체명 인식 및 관계 분석을 통한 목적 대화의 대화 상태 추적을 수행한다. 이 같은 응용 시스템은 딥러닝 및 기계학습 기반의 자연어 처리 시스템이 실시간으로 텍스트 분석을 수행할 수 있는 기술 수준이 되었음을 보여주며, 긴급한 상황에서 많은 신고 전화를 접수하는 수보사의 업무 효율 증진 뿐만 아니라, 정확하고 신속한 위치 파악으로 신고자를 도와주어 국민안전 증진에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• SUVANNABHUMI
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.109-132
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• 2017

This article is about the emergence of Islamic modernism among Cham Muslim communities in Cambodia and Cochinchina during the early 20th century. Based on a combined critical reading of existing scholarship, historicized first-hand anthropological accounts, as well as archival sources from the National Archives of Cambodia and the Vietnam National Archives II, it argues accounts of modernists in these sources were either (1) cast through a French colonial reading of a Buddhist state lens and (2) cast through a Malay lens, based upon the Kaum Muda/Kaum Tua divide. First, it proceeds with a historical explanation of the emergence of Islam and the discourse used to describe Muslim communities in Vietnamese, French, and Cham language sources. Then, it turns the narrative toward an examination of the emergence of the "Kaum Muda" or "New Group" of reformist-minded modernist Muslims in early 20th century Cambodia. Delineating the networks of these intellectuals as they stretched across the border through Cochinchina, also highlights a pre-existing transnational element to the community, one that well predates current discussions of twenty-first-century transnationalism. Through a combination of the study of multiple language sources and historical methods, the article highlights the importance of polylingualism in the study of the history of Muslims in Southeast Asia.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2023.10a
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• pp.525-530
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• 2023

최근 소셜 네트워크 서비스(SNS) 및 모바일 서비스가 증가함에 따라 사용자들은 다양한 종류의 위험에 직면하고 있다. 특히 온라인 그루밍과 온라인 루머 같은 위험은 한 개인의 삶을 완전히 망가뜨릴 수 있을 정도로 심각한 문제로 자리 잡았다. 그러나 많은 경우 이러한 위험들을 판단하는 시점은 사건이 일어난 이후이고, 주로 법적인 증거채택을 위한 위험성 판별이 대다수이다. 따라서 본 논문은 이러한 문제를 사전에 예방하는 것에 초점을 맞추었고, 계속적으로 발생하는 대화와 같은 event를 실시간으로 감지하고, 위험을 사전에 탐지할 수 있는 Real-Time Early Risk Detection(RERD) 문제를 정의하고자 한다. 온라인 그루밍과 루머를 실시간 조기 위험 감지(RERD) 문제로 정의하고 해당 데이터셋과 평가지표를 소개한다. 또한 RERD 문제를 정확하고 신속하게 해결할 수 있는 강화학습 기반 새로운 방법론인 RT-ERD 모델을 소개한다. 해당 방법론은 RERD 문제를 이루고 있는 온라인 그루밍, 루머 도메인에 대한 실험에서 각각 기존의 모델들을 뛰어넘는 state-of-the-art의 성능을 달성하였다.