• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.24
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• pp.62-83
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• 2011

The totality of language learning comprises three integrated components: linguistic, cultural, and attitudinal (Wilkes, 1983).Positively sensitizing students to cultural phenomena is urgent and crucial. A positive attitude toward L2 culture is a factor in language learning that leads to cross cultural understanding. This research examined, through a survey analysis, how three groups of students (one high school group and two university student groups) viewed the role of their foreign culture (i.e., American and British cultures) in achieving cultural understanding. The focus was upon how EFL learners approach the target language culture as well as their own culture.

• Journal of Korean language education
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.49-72
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to introduce an efficient measure in Korean language education for learners of Korean by applying shadowing techniques which focus on improving not only listening and speaking skills but also reading and writing skills. First of all, the study discusses about the definition of shadowing along with the effect of shadowing. The second part will be about examining the proposed method related to shadowing technique which is comprised of original shadowing techniques and other techniques transformed from the original. Thirdly, the paper will be discussing background information of the shadowing technique in previous researches and experiments using shadowing techniques in Korean language education. Finally, there will be an introduction of learning measures that apply to skill unification. Most of the previous researches of the shadowing technique were limited to a few students with only mid-to-high level learners while this method could cover up to a wide range of learners. The most effective way of learning a foreign language would firstly be the suggested method and the focus should be on repetition and practice of the learners.

• 중국학논총
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• no.66
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• pp.85-103
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• 2020

We use prototypes (also known as referent in semiotics) when we understand the outside world. Different language users use different prototypes to decode the same sound. When we learn Chinese language as a foreign language, during it's sound perceptual process, Korean learners' target language prototypes are different from Chinese native speakers'. The purpose of the paper is to examine the theory of speech perception and the theory of constructivism teaching, and to suggest to the Chinese language teachers to have Cunstructivist approach while they design there teaching course. For this, we concerned three things: First is to review speech perception theory and constructivism teaching theory. Second based on the preceding study, we review that learner's prototypes are different from Chinese native speaker and this cause the error of listening and pronunciation. Finally, we introduced two simple speech visualization programs developed to help us learn pronunciation.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.1087-1093
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• 2017

Educating foreigners in Korean language is attracting increasing attention with the growing number of foreigners who want to learn Korean or want to reside in Korea. Existing spell checkers mostly focus on native Korean speakers, so they are inappropriate for foreigners. In this paper, we propose a correction method for the Korean language that reflects the contextual characteristics of Korean and writing characteristics of foreigners. Our method can extract frequently used expressions by Koreans by constructing syllable reverse-index for eojeol bi-gram extracted from corpus as correction candidates, and generate ranked Korean corrections for foreigners with upgraded edit distance calculation. Our system provides a user interface based on keyboard hooking, so a user can easily use the correction system along with other applications. Our system improves the detection rate for foreign language users by about 45% compared to other systems in foreign language writing environments. This will help foreign users to judge and correct their own writing errors.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.195-213
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• 2013

This study aims at establishing the identity of teaching Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) domain by using journal profiling and co-word analysis in comparison with the relevant and adjacent domains. Firstly, by extracting and comparing topic terms, we calculate the similarity of academic journals of the three domains, KFL, teaching Korean as a Native Language (KNL), and Korean Linguistics (KL). The result shows that the journals of KFL form a distinct cluster from the others. The profiling analysis and co-word analysis are then conducted to visualize the relationship among all the three domains in order to uncover the characteristics of KFL. The findings show that KFL is more similar to KNL than to KL. Finally, the comparison of knowledge structures of these three domains based on the co-word analysis demonstrates the uniqueness of KFL as an independent domain in relation with the other relevant domains.

• Korean Architects
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• s.494
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• pp.20-25
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.89-95
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• 2004

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.627-637
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• 2009

Our economic system highly depends on the international trade market and demands high level of foreign language abilities to the young generation. Scores of various internationally authorized language tests are used to estimate students's language ability before giving their admission to universities or high schools. According to increase of unemployment rate of the young people, universities put their strength on the language abilities of their students, and each university uses some authorized language scores before determining students who win scholarships. This study suggests two types of indices to evaluate students's relative achievement of foreign language abilities between two time points considering their current abilities. One, named one-side relative achievement index, is defined as the ratio of additional score between two time points to the remaining score at the base time point to the full score. The second one, named two-side relative achievement index, is defined as the same manner as the first one if the score is improved, and if not, is defined as the ratio of the amount of losing scores to the current score at the base time point. Two-side achievement index is more useful since it has smaller variation than the former and is easier to interpret. However, both indices are useful to compare the achievements of different tests.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.195-200
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• 2016

본 연구는 MUSE 감성 코퍼스를 활용하여 문장의 극성과 키워드의 극성이 얼마만큼 일치하고 일치하지 않은지를 분석함으로써 특히 문장의 극성과 키워드의 극성이 불일치하는 유형에 대한 연구의 필요성을 역설하고자 한다. 본 연구를 위하여 DICORA에서 구축한 MUSE 감성주석코퍼스 가운데 IT 리뷰글 도메인으로부터 긍정 1,257문장, 부정 1,935문장을, 맛집 리뷰글 도메인으로부터는 긍정 2,418문장, 부정 432문장을 추출하였다. UNITEX를 이용하여 LGG를 구축한 후 이를 위의 코퍼스에 적용하여 나타난 양상을 살펴 본 결과, 긍 부정 문장에서 반대 극성의 키워드가 실현된 경우는 두 도메인에서 약 4~16%의 비율로 나타났으며, 단일 키워드가 아닌 구나 문장 차원으로 극성이 표현된 경우는 두 도메인에서 약 25~40%의 비교적 높은 비율로 나타났음을 확인하였다. 이를 통해 키워드의 극성에 의존하기 보다는 문장과 키워드의 극성이 일치하지 않는 경우들, 가령 문장 전체의 극성을 전환시키는 극성전환장치(PSD)가 실현된 유형이나 문장 내 극성 어휘가 존재하지 않지만 구 또는 문장 차원의 극성이 표현되는 유형들에 대한 유의미한 연구가 수행되어야 비로소 신뢰할만한 오피니언 자동 분류 시스템의 구현이 가능하다는 것을 알 수 있다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.304-309
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 한국어 전자사전 DECO(Dictionnaire Electronique du COreen)와 다단어(Multi-Word Expressions: MWE) 개체명을 부분 패턴으로 기술하는 부분문법그래프(Local-Grammar Graph: LGG) 프레임에 기반하여 반자동으로 개체명주석 코퍼스 DecoNAC을 구축한 후, 이를 개체명 분석에 활용하고 또한 기계학습에 필요한 도메인별 학습 데이터로 활용하는 DecoNERO 개체명인식 플랫폼을 소개하는 데에 목적을 두었다. 최근 들어 좋은 성과를 보이는 것으로 보고되고 있는 기계학습 방법론들은 다양한 도메인을 기반으로한 대규모의 학습데이터를 필요로 한다. 본 연구에서는 정교하게 설계된 개체명 사전과 다단어 개체명 시퀀스에 대한 언어자원을 바탕으로 하는 반자동으로 학습데이터를 생성하는 방법론을 제안하였다. 본 연구에서 제안된 개체명주석 코퍼스 DecoNAC 기반 접근법의 성능을 실험하기 위해 온라인 뉴스 기사 텍스트를 바탕으로 실험을 진행하였다. 이 실험에서 DecoNAC을 적용한 경우, KoBERT 모델만으로 개체명을 인식한 결과에 비해 약 7.49%의 성능향상을 기대할 수 있음을 확인하였다.