• Korean Linguistics
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• v.63
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• pp.103-132
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• 2014

This study compares various speech rates of Korean learners with those of native Korean. Speech data were collected from 34 native Koreans and 33 Korean learners (19 Chinese and 14 Japanese). Each participant recorded a 9 syllabled Korean sentence at three different speech rate types. A total of 603 speech samples were analyzed by speech rate types (normal, slow, and fast), native languages (Korean, Chinese, Japanese), and learners' proficiency levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). We found that learners' L1 background plays a role in categorizing different speech rates in the L2 (Korean), and also that the leaners' proficiency correlates with the increase of speaking rate regardless of speech rate categories. More importantly, faster speech rate values found in the advanced level of learners do not necessarily match to the native speakers' speech rate categories. This means that learning speech rate categories can be more complex than we think of proficiency or fluency. That is, speech rate categories may not be acquired automatically during the course of second language learning, and implicit or explicit exposures to various rate types are necessary for second language learners to acquire a high level of communicative skills including speech rate variation. This paper discusses several pedagogical implications in terms of teaching pronunciation to second language learners.

• Journal of Korean language education
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.345-363
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to compare the speech rate of advanced Korean(L2) learners and Korean native speakers in spontaneous utterances. Specifically, the current study investigated the difference of the two groups' speech pattern according to utterance length. Eight advanced Korean(L2) learners and eight Korean native speakers participated in this study. The data were collected by recording their conversation and physical measurements (speaking rate, articulatory rates, pause and several types of speech disfluency) were taken on extracted 120 utterances from 12 out of the 16 participants. The findings show that advanced Korean learners' speech pattern is similar to that of Koreans in the short-length utterance. However, in the long-length utterance, two groups show different speech patterns; while the articulatory rate of Korean native speakers increased in the long-length utterance, that of Korean learners decreased. This suggests that the frequency of speech disfluency factors might affect this result.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.198-204
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• 2022

대화 요약은 다중 발화자와 발화문으로 이루어진 멀티턴 형식의 문서에 대해 핵심내용을 추출하거나 생성하는 태스크이다. 대화 요약 모델은 추천, 대화 시스템 등에 콘텐츠, 서비스 기록에 대한 분석을 제공하는 데 유용하다. 하지만 모델 구축에 필요한 한국어 대화 요약 데이터셋에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 생성 기반 대화 요약을 위한 데이터셋을 제안한다. 이를 위해 국내 방송사의 대용량 콘텐츠로 부터 원천 데이터를 수집하고, 주석자가 수작업으로 레이블링 하였다. 구축된 데이터셋 규모는 6개 카테고리에 대해 약 100K이며, 요약문은 단문장, 세문장, 2할문장으로 구분되어 레이블링 되었다. 또한 본 논문에서는 데이터의 특성을 내재화하고 통제할 수 있도록 대화 요약 레이블링 가이드를 제안한다. 이를 기준으로 모델 적합성 검증에 사용될 디코딩 모델 구조를 선정한다. 실험을 통해 구축된 데이터의 몇가지 특성을 조명하고, 후속 연구를 위한 벤치마크 성능을 제시한다. 데이터와 모델은 aihub.or.kr에 배포 되었다.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.93-105
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• 2022

This study investigated the aspects of how three preservice elementary school teachers conducted the data-text transforming discourses in their science simulation teaching and how their epistemological conversations worked for learners' construction of scientific knowledge. Three preservice teachers, who had presented simulation teaching on the seasonal change of constellations, participated in the study. The results revealed that one preservice teacher, who had implemented the transforming discourses of data-to-evidence and model-to-explanation, appeared to facilitate learners' knowledge construction. The other two preservice teachers had difficulty helping learners construct science knowledge due to their lack of transforming discourses. What we should consider for improving preservice elementary school teachers' teaching competencies was discussed based on a detailed comparison of three cases of preservice teachers' data-text transforming.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.9-16
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• 1999

Generally, a speaker structures utterances very clearly by grouping words into phrases. This facilitates the listener's recovery of the meaning of the utterance and the speaker's intention. To this purpose, a speaker uses, among other things, prosodic information such as intonation pause, duration, intensity, etc. The research described here is concerned with the relationship between the strength of prosodic boundaries in spoken utterances as perceived by untrained listeners(Perceptual boundary strength, PBS)-In this paper, the preceptual boundary strength is used as the same meaning of the prosodic boundary strength-and prosodic information. We made a rule determinating the prosodic boundaries and verified the usefulness of the prosodic phrase as a recognition unit. Experiments results showed that the performance of speech recognition(SR) is improved in aspect of recognition rate and time compared with that using sentences as recognition unit. In the future we will suggest the methods that estimate more appropriate boundaries and study more various methods of prosody assisted SR.

• Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.81-87
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• 2008

The cigarette holds more than 10 percents of the entire fire accidents despite the number of smokers rapidly decreases every year. The purpose of this study is to examine the ignition characteristics of cigarette by experimentation. This study analyzed the cases of fires inferred that they were caused by cigarette in Incheon during 2006. As the representative ignition materials, corrugated board, gasoline, lacquer thinner, tarpaulin, flexible PVC sheet, and poly ethylene were tested. In this experimentation, the corrugated board was ignited by cigarette. However gasoline, lacquer thinner, tarpaulin, flexible PVC sheet, and poly ethylene were seldom ignited. Meanwhile most fire investigators have argued that oils and tents were ignited by cigarette, but this study experimentally proved that such an argument might be ungrounded.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.51-66
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• 2022

This study aims to help Korean English learners to learn English pronunciation by revealing which suprasegmentals affect the implementation of English sentences closer to native English speakers when they read English sentences. To this end, Korean middle school English learners were selected as subjects and research data were gathered through sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative), as well as syllables. Speech rate, pause frequency, pause duration, F0 range, and rhythm among suprasegmentals were used for analysis of these English sentence utterances. Mean analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were performed. The results showed that speech rate, pause frequency, pause duration, and F0 range affected the evaluation of fluency levels. In the regression analysis between all suprasegmentals and fluency levels, the suprasegmentals that most affected fluency levels were speech rate and F0 range. Rhythm had no meaningful relation with fluency levels. Therefore, when teaching English pronunciation, it is necessary to teach students to increase their speech rate and F0 range. In addition, students should be trained to reduce both the number and the duration of pauses during utterance to improve their fluency. It is noteworthy that of the four sentence types, exclamative sentences were produced with faster speech rate, fewer pauses, shorter pause duration, and higher rhythm values.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.341-346
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• 1997

개념기반 분석방법은 발화문에서 발화자가 전달하고자 하는 중요한 부분만을 추출하여 개념어로 대표하여 분석하기 때문에 문장에서 발생하는 불필요한 여러 언어현상을 무시하고 주요 의미만 추출할 수 있는 강건함을 가장 큰 장점으로 갖는다. 한국어는 영어권 언어와는 달리 교착어와 부분 자유 어순의 특징을 가지기 때문에 구문정보를 이용하지 않는 순수 개념 기반의 분석기법을 한국어에 그대로 적용하면 문법의 복잡도가 증가하여 시스템 성능이 크게 저하된다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 구문정보를 이용한 개념기반의 분석방법은 순수 개념 기반의 분석기법이나 구문정보만을 사용하는 방법보다 모호성이 적고, 문법의 기술이 용이하며, 대화체 처리의 어려운 점들을 상당수 극복할 수 있다. 또한 분석루틴의 skip기능은 자연 발화문의 분석률을 높여주며, 어근으로부터 분리한 어미를 일정한 개념으로 분류함으로써 교착어의 특성으로 인한 문법의 복잡도를 해소하였고, 분석문법으로 부분 자유 어순에 따른 다양한 문장들을 수용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.211-213
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• 2022

Lip Reading(독순술(讀脣術)) 이란 입술의 움직임을 보고 상대방이 무슨 말을 하는지 알아내는 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 MBC, SBS 뉴스 클로징 영상에서 쓰이는 문장 10개를 데이터로 사용하고 CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) 아키텍처 중 모바일 기기에서 동작을 목표로 한 MobileNet을 모델로 이용하여 발화자의 입모양을 통해 문장 인식 연구를 진행한 결과를 제시한다. 본 연구는 MobileNet과 LSTM을 활용하여 한국어 입모양을 인식하는데 목적이 있다. 본 연구에서는 뉴스 클로징 영상을 프레임 단위로 잘라 실험 문장 10개를 수집하여 데이터셋(Dataset)을 만들고 발화한 입력 영상으로부터 입술 인식과 검출을 한 후, 전처리 과정을 수행한다. 이후 MobileNet과 LSTM을 이용하여 뉴스 클로징 문장을 발화하는 입모양을 학습 시킨 후 정확도를 알아보는 실험을 진행하였다.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.35-46
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• 2021

In this study, we examined the interactive aspects between pitch reduction phenomena considered a universal language phenomenon and native language interference in the production of L2 intonation performed by Chinese learners of Korean. To investigate their interaction, we conducted an acoustic analysis using acoustic measures such as pitch span, pitch level, pitch dynamic quotient, skewness, and kurtosis. In addition, the correlation between text comprehension and pitch was examined. The analyzed material consisted of four Korean discourses containing five and seven sentences of varying difficulty. Seven Korean native speakers and thirty Chinese learners who differed in their Korean proficiency participated in the production test. The results, for differences by language, showed that Chinese had a more expanded pitch span, and a higher pitch level than Korean. The analysis between groups showed that at the beginner and intermediate levels, pitch reduction was prominent, i.e., their Korean was characterized by a compressed pitch span, low pitch level, and less sentence internal pitch variation. Contrariwise, the pitch use of advanced speakers was most similar to Korean native speakers. There was no significant correlation between text difficulty and pitch use. Through this study, we observed that pitch reduction was more pronounced than native language interference in the phonetic layer.