• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1404-1407
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 객관식 문항을 난이도에 따라 자동으로 생성하는 방법을 고안하여, 학습자 수준에 적합하도록 다양하고 동적인 형태로 문항 제시를 할 수 있는 시스템을 제안하였다. 이를 위해서는 주어진 문장에서 형태소 분석을 통해 키워드를 추출하고, 각 키워드에 대하여 워드넷의 계층적 특성에 따라 의미가 유사한 후보 단어를 제시한다. 의미 유사 후보 단어를 제시할 때, 워드넷에서의 어휘간 유사도 측정 방법을 사용함으로써 생성된 문항의 난이도를 사용자가 원하는 수준으로 조정할 수 있도록 하였다. 단어의 의미 유사도는 동의어를 의미하는 수준 0에서 거의 유사도를 찾을 수 없는 수준 9 까지 다양하게 제시할 수 있으며, 이를 조절함으로써 문항의 전체 난이도를 조절할 수 있다. 후보 어휘들의 의미 유사도 측정을 위해서, 본 논문에서는 두 가지 방법을 사용하여 구현하였다. 첫째는 단순히 두 어휘의 워드넷 상에서의 거리만을 고려한 것이고 둘째는 두 어휘가 워드넷에서 차지하는 비중까지 추가적으로 고려한 것이다. 이러한 방법을 통하여 실제 출제자가 기존에 출제된 문제를 토대로 보다 다양한 내용과 난이도를 가진 문제 또는 문항을 보다 쉽게 출제하게 함으로써 출제에 소요되는 비용을 줄일 수 있었다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.329-350
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• 2017

This paper examined vocabulary used in elementary mathematics textbooks and workbooks for the grade band of 5~6. This study focused on the adequacy of vocabulary using 9-degree of semantic difficulty. The results of this study showed that most vocabulary in the textbooks and workbooks was adequate for the target grades. In some cases, however, vocabulary that was supposed to be difficult for the fifth and sixth graders was employed in a way that the meaning of such vocabulary was difficult for students to infer in the given context. The most frequent vocabularies in the main activities of the mathematics textbooks included 'method', 'investigate', 'number', 'communicate', and 'represent'. Based on these results, this study provides 5~6 grade textbook writers with implications on what to further consider in dealing with vocabulary in instructional materials.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.675-695
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• 2023

To learn mathematics effectively, understanding vocabulary is essential. Accordingly, as a way to present vocabulary for mathematics education, high-frequency vocabulary was extracted from the 2009 revised 1st and 2nd grade mathematics textbooks and the 2015 revised 1st and 2nd grade mathematics textbooks. At this time, mathematics textbooks were analyzed by grade and semester, and vocabulary with a common frequency of 5 or more was extracted. In order to use it effectively in school settings, common vocabulary for each grade and intensive vocabulary for each semester were presented. As a result of the study, 61 vocabulary words for first grade education and 121 vocabulary words for second grade education were selected. As a result of analysis by vocabulary level, various levels of vocabulary from grades 1 to 5 were used. As a result of analysis by vocabulary type, the proportion of academic words increased similarly, but the proportion of technical words was found to be highest in the first semester of the second year. Based on these results, the extracted vocabulary for mathematics education is used as a resource for vocabulary instruction for students' mathematics education in each grade to help students learn mathematics.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.123-143
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• 2011

At what point in the process of speech production are gestures involved? According to the Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis, gestures are involved in the lexicalization in the formulating stage. According to the Information Packaging Hypothesis, gestures are involved in the conceptual planning of massages in the conceptualizing stage. We investigated these hypotheses, using the game situation in a TV program that induced the players to involve in both lexicalization and conceptualization simultaneously. The transcription of the verbal utterances was augmented with all arm and hand gestures produced by the players. Coverbal gestures were classified into two types of gestures: lexical gestures and motor gestures. As a result, concrete words elicited lexical gestures significantly more frequently than abstract words, and abstract words elicited motor gestures significantly more frequently than concrete words. The difficulty of conceptualization in concrete words was significantly correlated with the amount of lexical gestures. However, the amount of words and the word frequency were not correlated with the amount of both gestures. This result supports the Information Packaging Hypothesis. Most of all, the importance of motor gestures was inferred from the result that abstract words elicited motor gestures more frequently rather than concrete words. Motor gestures, which have been considered as unrelated to verbal production, were excluded from analysis in many gestural studies. This study revealed motor gestures seemed to be connected to the abstract conceptualization.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2008

We implemented a system being able to suggest example sentences for multiple choice tests, considering the level of students. To build the system, we designed an automatic method for sentence generation, which made it possible to control the difficulty degree of questions. For the proper evaluation in the multiple choice tests, proper size of question pools is required. To satisfy this requirement, a system which can generate various and numerous questions and their example sentences in a fast way should be used. In this paper, we designed an automatic generation method using a linguistic resource called WordNet. For the automatic generation, firstly, we extracted keywords from the existing sentences with the morphological analysis and candidate terms with similar meaning to the keywords in Korean WordNet space are suggested. When suggesting candidate terms, we transformed the existing Korean WordNet scheme into a new scheme to construct the concept similarity matrix. The similarity degree between concepts can be ranged from 0, representing synonyms relationships, to 9, representing non-connected relationships. By using the degree, we can control the difficulty degree of newly generated questions. We used two methods for evaluating semantic similarity between two concepts. The first one is considering only the distance between two concepts and the second one additionally considers positions of two concepts in the Korean Wordnet space. With these methods, we can build a system which can help the instructors generate new questions and their example sentences with various contents and difficulty degree from existing sentences more easily.

• School Mathematics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.903-922
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• 2016

This paper examined vocabulary in elementary mathematics textbooks and workbooks for the grade band of 3~4. This study focused on the adequacy of vocabulary using 9-degree of semantic difficulty. The results of this study showed that about three to eight percent of vocabulary with difficulty for students in grades 3~4 was employed. Whereas some difficult vocabularies were used along with the picture that helps students understand their meanings, others were presented without any illustrative tools. The most frequent vocabularies in the main activities of the mathematics textbooks included 'investigate', 'represent', 'number', 'how many', and 'method'. Based on these results, this study provides textbook writers with implications on what to further consider in dealing with vocabulary in instructional materials.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.247-267
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• 2016

It has been pointed out that the mathematics textbooks according to 2009 revised national curriculum cause difficulty not by mathematical knowledge but concomitantly by words and sentences for the first graders who just started learning Korean alphabets. This study focused on the suitability of words and sentences in mathematics textbooks for elementary first grade. We analyzed the degree of difficulty and familiarity in terms of words and the structure, length, and expression in terms of sentences. The results show some causes that lead the first graders to the difficulty. In more detail, we found 108 difficult words and 6 unfamiliar words for the first graders. And it is noticed that the textbooks contain 37 compound sentences, 727 complex sentences, and 38 compound-complex sentences. They also contain 237 long sentences that are composed of 9 words or more, 168 sentences that assign two activities or more, and 52 sentences that contain three nouns or adjectives or more successively. Based on these results and discussions, we suggested several implications for writing mathematics textbooks for the lower grades in elementary school.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.181-191
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to suggest a direction for efficient teaching and learning idiomatic expressions in Korean to improve the vocabulary of Korean language learners. In order to make learning more interesting and enhance learning effectiveness for Korean language learners, the drama, , which was popular in Korea, was used as educational material. Since idomatic language is formed and used based on Korean history, culture, and social background, dramas containing Korean culture and sentiments can be said to be suitable materials for the teaching and learning of Korean idiomatic expressions. By analyzing the drama , 277 significant vocabularies were extracted from the drama based on vocabulary actually used. Among these, 124 idiomatic expressions were extracted after excluding overlapping expressions. Idiomatic expressions extracted in this way were classified based on vocabulary used more than 2 times. In addition, in order to select idiomatic expressions suitable for the level of the learners, 46 final expressions for Korean language education were selected considering the difficulty of vocabulary. Lastly, when the materials selected in the drama were used for education, the precautions for teaching and learning, and the direction of education on idiomatic language were classified into elementary, intermediate, and advanced grades and presented.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.75-90
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• 2024

This study analyzed the vocabularies presented in the 1st to 2nd grade elementary school mathematics field review textbook according to the 2022 revised curriculum using a 9th grade vocabulary system and improved them. The result of the analysis shows that the frequency of vocabulary that was not appropriate for the students' level was found to be 6.67% in the first semester of the first year and 12.17% in the second semester of the first year. For the first semester of the second year, it was 11.73%, and for the second semester of the second year, it was 14.19%. This shows that the frequency of vocabulary that may be difficult for students gradually increases. Based on the analysis results, vocabulary that had a high difficulty level but was not essential in the textbook was deleted, and essential vocabulary or vocabulary that was difficult for students was presented with pictures added or revised in more detail. In addition, words that can be modified with similar words with low lexical difficulty were replaced and presented. In this way, research on vocabulary difficulty can identify aspects of vocabulary used in textbooks and can help develop high-quality textbooks by appropriately modifying vocabulary for effective mathematics learning.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1290-1293
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• 2013

본 논문은 문장 내에서 나타나는 어휘간의 관계를 통해 표현 수준을 자동으로 평가할 수 있는 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 영어에세이 코퍼스 내의 문장에서 발생하는 철자 및 문법의 오류와 함께 어휘와 문법 패턴에 따른 표현난이도를 평가할 수 있는 자질을 생성하고 다양한 기계학습기법을 사용하여 문장의 수준을 평가하고자 하였다. 또한 기존에 연구되어온 규칙기반의 문장 평가시스템을 구현하고 기계학습기법을 이용한 문장 평가시스템과 비교하였다. 이를 통해 철자 및 문법의 오류율뿐만 아니라 표현난이도를 평가할 수 있는 자질들이 유용함을 확인할 수 있었다. 영어작문 문장의 수준평가를 위해서 국내 학생들의 토플 에세이 코퍼스를 수집하여 2,000문장을 추출하였고, 4명의 전문평가자들을 통해 6단계로 평가하여 학습 및 테스트 세트를 구성하였다. 성능척도로는 정확률과 재현율을 사용하였으며, 제안하는 방법으로 67.3%의 정확률과 67.1%의 재현율을 보였다.