• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.77-89
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• 2018

Speech articulators are coordinated for the purpose of segmental constriction in terms of a task. In particular, vertical jaw movements repeatedly contribute to consonantal as well as vocalic constriction. The current study explores vertical jaw movements in conjunction with bilabial constriction in bilabial stop /p/ in the context /a/-to-/a/. Revisiting kinematic data of /p/ collected using the electromagenetic midsagittal articulometer (EMMA) method from seven (four female and three male) speakers of Seoul Korean, we examined maximum vertical jaw position, its relative timing with respect to the upper and lower lips, and lip aperture minima. The results of those dependent variables are recapitulated in terms of linguistic (different word boundaries) and paralinguistic (different speech rates) factors as follows. Firstly, maximum jaw height was lower in the across-word boundary condition (across-word < within-word), but it did not differ as a function of different speech rates (comfortable = fast). Secondly, more reduction in the lip aperture (LA) gesture occurred in fast rate, while word-boundary effects were absent. Thirdly, jaw raising was still in progress after the lips' positional extrema were achieved in the within-word condition, while the former was completed before the latter in the across-word condition. Lastly, relative temporal lags between the jaw and the lips (UL and LL) were more synchronous in fast rate, compared to comfortable rate. When these results are considered together, it is possible to posit that speakers are not tolerant of lenition to the extent that it is potentially realized as a labial approximant in either word-boundary condition while jaw height still manifested lower jaw position in the across-word boundary condition. Early termination of vertical jaw maxima before vertical lower lip maxima across-word condition may be partly responsible for the spatial reduction of jaw raising movements. This may come about as a consequence of an excessive number of factors (e.g., upper lip height (UH), lower lip height (LH), jaw angle (JA)) for the representation of a vector with two degrees of freedom (x, y) engaged in a gesture-based task (e.g., lip aperture (LA)). In the task-dynamic application toolkit, the jaw angle parameter can be assigned numerical values for greater weight in the across-word boundary condition, which in turn gives rise to lower jaw position. Speech rate-dependent spatial reduction in lip aperture may be able to be resolved by means of manipulating activation time of an active tract variable in the gestural score level.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.317-322
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• 2010

This paper proposes how to improve performance of the Korean document sentiment-classification system using semantic properties of the sentiment words. A sentiment word means a word with sentiment, and sentiment features are defined by a set of the sentiment words which are important lexical resource for the sentiment classification. Sentiment feature represents different sentiment intensity in general field and in specific domain. In general field, we can estimate the sentiment intensity using a snippet from a search engine, while in specific domain, training data can be used for this estimation. When the sentiment intensity of the sentiment features are estimated, it is called semantic orientation and is used to estimate the sentiment intensity of the sentences in the text documents. After estimating sentiment intensity of the sentences, we apply that to the weights of sentiment features. In this paper, we evaluate our system in three different cases such as general, domain-specific, and general/domain-specific semantic orientation using support vector machine. Our experimental results show the improved performance in all cases, and, especially in general/domain-specific semantic orientation, our proposed method performs 3.1% better than a baseline system indexed by only content words.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.423-428
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• 2017

These days, various and tons of education information are rapidly increasing and spreading due to Internet and smart devices usage. Recently, as e-Learning usage increasing, many instructors and students (learners) need to set a goal to maximize learners' result of education and education system efficiency based on big data analytics via online recorded education historical data. In this paper, the author applied Word2Vec algorithm (neural network algorithm) to find similarity among education words and classification by clustering algorithm in order to objectively recognize and analyze online recorded education historical data. When the author applied the Word2Vec algorithm to education words, related-meaning words can be found, classified and get a similar vector values via learning repetition. In addition, through experimental results, the author proved the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective and adverb) have same shortest distance from the centroid by using clustering algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.21-30
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• 1987

Length normalization by variable frame size is proposed as a novel approach to length normalization to solve the problem that the length variation of spoken word results in a lowing of recognition accuracy. This method has the advantage of curtailment of recognition time in the recognition stage because it can reduce the number of frames constructing a word compared with length normalization by a fixed frame size. In this paper, variable frame length normalization is applied to multisection vector quantization and the efficiency of this method is estimated in the view of recognition time and accuracy through practical recognition experiments.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.96-99
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• 1997

This paper proposes a very fast preprocessor for isolated word recognition. The proposed preprocessor has a small computational cost for extracting candidate words. In the preprocessor, we used a feature sorting algorithm instead of vector quantization to reduce the computational cost. In order to show the effectiveness of our preprocessor, we compared it to a speech recognition system based on semi-continuous hidden Markov Model and a VQ-based preprocessor by computing their recognition performances of a speaker independent isolated word recognition. For the experiments, we used the speech database consisting of 244 words which were uttered by 40 male speakers. The set of speech data uttered by 20 male speakers was used for training, and the other set for testing. As the results, the accuracy of the proposed preprocessor was 99.9% with 90% reduction rate for the speech database.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.619-623
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• 2020

한국어는 교착어로 1개 이상의 형태소가 단어를 이루고 있기 때문에 텍스트 분석 시 형태소를 분리하는 작업이 필요하다. 자연어를 처리하는 대부분의 알고리즘은 영미권에서 만들어졌고 영어는 굴절어로 특정 경우를 제외하고 일반적으로 하나의 형태소가 단어를 구성하는 구조이다. 그리고 영문은 주로 띄어쓰기 위주로 토큰화가 진행되기 때문에 텍스트 분석이 한국어에 비해 복잡함이 떨어지는 편이다. 이러한 이유들로 인해 한국어 텍스트 분석은 영문 텍스트 분석에 비해 한계점이 있다고 알려져 있다. 한국어 텍스트 분석의 성능 향상을 위해 본 논문에서는 번역 전처리 기법을 제안한다. 번역 전처리 기법이란 원본인 한국어 텍스트를 영문으로 번역하고 전처리를 거친 뒤 분석된 결과를 재번역하는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 한국어 뉴스 기사 데이터와 번역 전처리 기법이 적용된 영문 뉴스 텍스트 데이터를 사용했다. 그리고 주제어 역할을 하는 키워드를 단어 간의 유사도를 계산하는 알고리즘인 Word2Vec(Word to Vector)을 통해 유사 단어를 추출했다. 이렇게 도출된 유사 단어를 텍스트 분석 전문가 대상으로 성능 비교 투표를 진행했을 때, 한국어 뉴스보다 번역 전처리 기법이 적용된 영문 뉴스가 약 3배의 득표 차이로 의미있는 결과를 도출했다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 2020

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, various techniques have been developed to extract meaningful information from unstructured text data which constitutes a large portion of big data. Over the past decades, text mining technologies have been utilized in various industries for practical applications. In the field of business intelligence, it has been employed to discover new market and/or technology opportunities and support rational decision making of business participants. The market information such as market size, market growth rate, and market share is essential for setting companies' business strategies. There has been a continuous demand in various fields for specific product level-market information. However, the information has been generally provided at industry level or broad categories based on classification standards, making it difficult to obtain specific and proper information. In this regard, we propose a new methodology that can estimate the market sizes of product groups at more detailed levels than that of previously offered. We applied Word2Vec algorithm, a neural network based semantic word embedding model, to enable automatic market size estimation from individual companies' product information in a bottom-up manner. The overall process is as follows: First, the data related to product information is collected, refined, and restructured into suitable form for applying Word2Vec model. Next, the preprocessed data is embedded into vector space by Word2Vec and then the product groups are derived by extracting similar products names based on cosine similarity calculation. Finally, the sales data on the extracted products is summated to estimate the market size of the product groups. As an experimental data, text data of product names from Statistics Korea's microdata (345,103 cases) were mapped in multidimensional vector space by Word2Vec training. We performed parameters optimization for training and then applied vector dimension of 300 and window size of 15 as optimized parameters for further experiments. We employed index words of Korean Standard Industry Classification (KSIC) as a product name dataset to more efficiently cluster product groups. The product names which are similar to KSIC indexes were extracted based on cosine similarity. The market size of extracted products as one product category was calculated from individual companies' sales data. The market sizes of 11,654 specific product lines were automatically estimated by the proposed model. For the performance verification, the results were compared with actual market size of some items. The Pearson's correlation coefficient was 0.513. Our approach has several advantages differing from the previous studies. First, text mining and machine learning techniques were applied for the first time on market size estimation, overcoming the limitations of traditional sampling based- or multiple assumption required-methods. In addition, the level of market category can be easily and efficiently adjusted according to the purpose of information use by changing cosine similarity threshold. Furthermore, it has a high potential of practical applications since it can resolve unmet needs for detailed market size information in public and private sectors. Specifically, it can be utilized in technology evaluation and technology commercialization support program conducted by governmental institutions, as well as business strategies consulting and market analysis report publishing by private firms. The limitation of our study is that the presented model needs to be improved in terms of accuracy and reliability. The semantic-based word embedding module can be advanced by giving a proper order in the preprocessed dataset or by combining another algorithm such as Jaccard similarity with Word2Vec. Also, the methods of product group clustering can be changed to other types of unsupervised machine learning algorithm. Our group is currently working on subsequent studies and we expect that it can further improve the performance of the conceptually proposed basic model in this study.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.938-942
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• 2007

신문 기사 및 상품 평은 특정 주제나 상품을 대상으로 하여 글쓴이의 감정과 의견이 잘 나타나 있는 대표적인 문서이다. 최근 여론 조사 및 상품 의견 조사 등 다양한 측면에서 대용량의 문서의 의미적 분류 및 분석이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 문서에 나타난 내용을 기준으로 문서가 나타내고 있는 감정을 긍정과 부정의 두 가지 범주로 분류하는 시스템을 구현한다. 문서 분류의 시작은 감정을 지닌 대표적인 종자 어휘(seed word)로부터 시작하며, 자질의 선정은 한국어 특징상 감정 및 감각을 표현하는 명사, 형용사, 부사, 동사를 대상으로 한다. 가중치 부여 방법은 한글 유의어 사전을 통해 종자 어휘의 의미를 확장하여 각각의 가중치를 책정한다. 단어 벡터로 표현된 입력 문서를 이진 분류기인 지지벡터 기계를 이용하여 문서에 나타난 감정을 판단하는 시스템을 구현하고 그 성능을 평가한다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.22-29
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• 1993

This paper describes development of a real-time voice recognition dialing system which can recognize around one hundred word vocabularies in speaker independent mode. The voice recognition algorithm is implemented on a DSP board with a telephone interface plugged in an IBM PC AT/486. In the DSP board, procedures for feature extraction, vector quantization(VQ), and end-point detection are performed simultaneously in every 10msec frame interval to satisfy real-time constraints after the word starting point detection. In addition, we optimize the VQ codebook size and the end-point detection procedure to reduce recognition time and memory requirement. The demonstration system is being displayed in MOBILAB of Korea Mobile Telecom at the Taejon EXPO '93.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.12A no.6 s.96
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• pp.539-546
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• 2005

Recently, as the number of Internet users are growing explosively, e-learning has been applied spread, as well as remote evaluation of intellectual capacity However, only the multiple choice and/or the objective tests have been applied to the e-learning, because of difficulty of natural language processing. For the intelligent marking of short-essay typed answer papers with rapidness and fairness, this work utilize heterogenous linguistic knowledges. Firstly, we construct the semantic kernel from un tagged corpus. Then the answer papers of students and instructors are transformed into the vector form. Finally, we evaluate the similarity between the papers by using the semantic kernel and decide whether the answer paper is correct or not, based on the similarity values. For the construction of the semantic kernel, we used latent semantic analysis based on the vector space model. Further we try to reduce the problem of information shortage, by integrating Korean Word Net. For the construction of the semantic kernel we collected 38,727 newspaper articles and extracted 75,175 indexed terms. In the experiment, about 0.894 correlation coefficient value, between the marking results from this system and the human instructors, was acquired.