• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.378-385
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to analyze cohesion and word information among different types of questions in the English reading section of the College Scholastic Ability Tests (CSAT). The types of questions were divided into three categories: macro reading, micro reading, and indirect writing. Reading texts from 1994 to 2017 CSAT were analyzed by Coh-Metrix, an automated evaluation program of text and discourse. The findings of this study indicated that there were statistical differences among the three categories of questions for noun overlap, stem overlap, adversative and contrastive connective, additive connective, pronoun incidence, age of acquisition, concreteness for content word, imagability, and meaningfulness. The information of the findings bore pedagogic implications for developing textbooks, questions for CSAT, and reading strategies by students.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.41-49
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• 2019

We are to build an unsupervised machine learning-based language model which can estimate the amount of information that are in need to process words consisting of subword-level morphemes and syllables. We are then to investigate whether the reading times of words reflecting their morphemic and syllabic structures are predicted by an information-theoretic measure such as surprisal. Specifically, the proposed Morfessor-based unsupervised machine learning model is first to be trained on the large dataset of sentences on Sejong Corpus and is then to be applied to estimate the information-theoretic measure on each word in the test data of Korean words. The reading times of the words in the test data are to be recruited from Korean Lexicon Project (KLP) Database. A comparison between the information-theoretic measures of the words in point and the corresponding reading times by using a linear mixed effect model reveals a reliable correlation between surprisal and reading time. We conclude that surprisal is positively related to the processing effort (i.e. reading time), confirming the surprisal hypothesis.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.691-696
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• 2022

This study explored the lexical sophistication features to distinguish the group membership of English proficiency, using the automatic analysis program of lexical sophistication. A total of 600 essays written by 300 Korean college students were extracted from the ICNALE (International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English) corpus and a discriminant function analysis was performed using SPSS program. Results showed that the lexical features to distinguish three groups of English proficiency are SUBTLEXUS frequency content words, age of acquisition content words, lexical decision mean reaction time function words, and hypernymy verbs. High-level Korean students used frequent content words from SUBTLEXUS corpus to a lesser degree and produced more sophisticated words that can be learned at a later age and take longer reaction time in lexical decision task, and more concrete verbs.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.242-251
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• 2017

For the purposes of this research, a corpus of words was created from the English textbooks of the "First Middle School" for the gifted in North Korea, and using the corpus, their linguistic characteristics were analyzed. Although there have been many studies that identified the traits of English textbooks in the North Korea's general middle school, not much focus has been placed on the English textbooks used at North Korea's First Middle School. Initially, the structure of English textbooks of the first, second, fourth, and sixth grades that had been procured from the Information Center on North Korea was reviewed, after which their corpus was created. Then, by using Wordsmith Tools 7.0, linguistic properties and high frequency content words appeared in the English textbook of the first grade were analyzed specifically. Basic statistical data gathered indicated that while the number of vocabulary did not increase as students progress through the grades, the words used tended to diversify incrementally. In the mean time, a distribution of the high frequency content words by grade illustrated that a big difference was found between the content words used in the English texts of each grade, and it was a subject matter of the texts that determined such difference.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.139-157
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• 2006

As the Communicative Approach has become the norm in foreign language teaching, the objectives of teaching English in school have changed radically in Korea. The focus in high school English textbooks has shifted from mere mastery of structures to communicative proficiency. This paper will study five polysemous words which appear in twelve high school English textbooks used in Korea. The twelve text books are incorporated into a single corpus and analyzed to classify the usage of the selected words. Then the usage of each word was compared with that of three other corpora based sources: the BNC(British National Corpus) Sampler, ICE Singapore(International Corpus of English for Singapore) and Collins COBUILD learner's dictionary which is based on the corpus, "The Bank of English". The comparisons carried out as part of this study will demonstrate that Korean text books do not always supply the full range of meanings of polysemous words.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.444-450
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• 2014

Most researches on word sense disambiguation have used static sized context regardless of sentence patterns. This paper proposes to use dynamic sized context considering sentence patterns and distance between words for word sense disambiguation. We evaluated our system 12 words in 32,735sentences with Sejong POS and sense tagged corpus, and dynamic sized context showed 92.2% average accuracy for predicates, which is better than accuracy of static sized context.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.133-139
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• 2004

This paper proposes a Korean sentence boundary detection system which employs k-nearest neighbor algorithm. We proposed three scoring functions to classify sentence boundary and performed comparative analysis. We uses domain independent linguistic features in order to make a general and robust system. The proposed system was trained and evaluated on the two kinds of corpus; ETRI corpus and KAIST corpus. As experimental results, the proposed system shows about $98.82\%$ precision and $99.09\%$ recall rate even though it was trained on relatively small corpus.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.216-221
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• 1996

변형 규칙 기반 품사 태거는 태깅 규칙을 코퍼스로부터 자동 학습할 수 있고, 견고하며 태깅 결과를 이해하고 분석하기가 쉽다는 장점을 갖는다. 이에 최근 한국어 특성을 고려한 변형 규칙 기반 한국어 품사 태거가 개발되었다. 하지만 이 시스템은 오류 어절의 어휘 정보를 사용하지 않으므로 수정 가능 오류에 대한 변형 규칙이 제대로 학습되지 못하며, 변형 규칙 적용 과정에 새로운 오류를 발생시킨다는 문제점이 있다. 이에 본 논문은 오류 어절의 어휘 정보를 참조할 수 있는 세부변형 규칙 추출을 이용한 변형 규칙 기반 한국어 품사 태거의 개선 방안을 제안한다. 어휘 정보를 참조할 수 있는 세부 변형 규칙의 형태는 특정 문맥 C에서 어절 W의 어절 태그 ${\alpha}$를 어절 태그 ${\beta}$로 변형한다와 같다. 제안된 방법은 약 10만 어절 크기의 학습 코퍼스에서 57개의 세부 규칙을 학습하였고, 2만 어절 크기의 실험코퍼스에 적용한 결과 95.6%의 정확도를 보임으로써 기존의 변형 규칙 기반 품사 태거의 정확도를 약 15.4% 향상시켰다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1999.10e
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• pp.484-490
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• 1999

품사 태그세트 매핑은 서로 다른 품사 태그세트로 태깅되어 있는 대량의 코퍼스들로부터 정보를 얻고 또한 제공함을 통해 코퍼스의 재사용성(reusability)을 높이는데 유용하게 사용된다. 본 논문은 포항공대 자연언어처리 연구실의 자연언어처리 엔진(SKOPE)의 품사 태거(POSTAG)에서 사용되는 태그세트와 한국전자통신연구원의 표준 태그세트 간의 양방향 태그세트 매핑을 다룬다. 매핑을 통해 표준태그세트로 태깅된 코퍼스로부터 POSTAG를 위한 대용량 학습자료를 얻고 POSTAG 가 두 가지 태그세트로 결과를 출력할 수 있다. 특히 한국어 태그세트 매핑에서 발생할 수 있는 여러 가지 문제점들, 즉 사전 표제어 차이 (형태소 분할 차이), 태그 할당 차이, 축약 처리 차이 등과 그것들의 기계적인 해결책을 살펴보고, 태그세트 매핑의 정확도를 측정하기 위해서 매핑 전과 후의 태깅 시스템의 정확도를 서로 비교함으로써 매핑의 정확도를 측정하는 실험을 수행하였다. 본 자동 매핑 방법을 반영한 POSTAG 는 제 1회 형태소 분석기 평가 대회(MATEC'99)에 적용되어 성공적으로 사용되었다.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.45
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• pp.109-143
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• 2016

This article examines distinctive linguistic shifts of translational English in an effort to verify the validity of the translation universals hypotheses, including simplification, explicitation, normalization and leveling-out, which have been most heavily explored to date. A large-scale study involving comparable corpora of translated and non-translated English newspaper texts has been carried out to typify particular linguistic attributes inherent in translated texts. The main findings are as follows. First, by employing the parameters of STTR, top-to-bottom frequency words, and mean values of sentence lengths, the translational instances of simplification have been detected across the translated English newspaper corpora. In contrast, the portion of function words produced contrary results, which in turn suggests that this feature might not constitute an effective test of the hypothesis. Second, it was found that the use of connectives was more salient in original English newspaper texts than translated English texts, being incompatible with the explicitation hypothesis. Third, as an indicator of translational normalization, lexical bundles were found to be more pervasive in translated texts than in non-translated texts, which is expected from and therefore support the normalization hypothesis. Finally, the standard deviations of both STTR and mean sentence lengths turned out to be higher in translated texts, indicating that the translated English newspaper texts were less leveled out within the same corpus group, which is opposed to what the leveling-out hypothesis postulates. Overall, the results suggest that not all four hypotheses may qualify for the label translation universals, or at least that some translational predictors are not feasible enough to evaluate the effectiveness of the translation universals hypotheses.