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Korean Speech Act Tagging using Previous Sentence Features and Following Candidate Speech Acts (이전 문장 자질과 다음 발화의 후보 화행을 이용한 한국어 화행 분석)

  • Kim, Se-Jong;Lee, Yong-Hun;Lee, Jong-Hyeok
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.374-385
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    • 2008
  • Speech act tagging is an important step in various dialogue applications, which recognizes speaker's intentions expressed in natural language utterances. Previous approaches such as rule-based and statistics-based methods utilize the speech acts of previous utterances and sentence features of the current utterance. This paper proposes a method that determines speech acts of the current utterance using the speech acts of the following utterances as well as previous ones. Using the features of following utterances yields the accuracy 95.27%, improving previous methods by 3.65%. Moreover, sentence features of the previous utterances are employed to maximally utilize the information available to the current utterance. By applying the proper probability model for each speech act, final accuracy of 97.97% is achieved.

Safety of Workers in Indian Mines: Study, Analysis, and Prediction

  • Verma, Shikha;Chaudhari, Sharad
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 2017
  • Background: The mining industry is known worldwide for its highly risky and hazardous working environment. Technological advancement in ore extraction techniques for proliferation of production levels has caused further concern for safety in this industry. Research so far in the area of safety has revealed that the majority of incidents in hazardous industry take place because of human error, the control of which would enhance safety levels in working sites to a considerable extent. Methods: The present work focuses upon the analysis of human factors such as unsafe acts, preconditions for unsafe acts, unsafe leadership, and organizational influences. A modified human factor analysis and classification system (HFACS) was adopted and an accident predictive fuzzy reasoning approach (FRA)-based system was developed to predict the likelihood of accidents for manganese mines in India, using analysis of factors such as age, experience of worker, shift of work, etc. Results: The outcome of the analysis indicated that skill-based errors are most critical and require immediate attention for mitigation. The FRA-based accident prediction system developed gives an outcome as an indicative risk score associated with the identified accident-prone situation, based upon which a suitable plan for mitigation can be developed. Conclusion: Unsafe acts of the worker are the most critical human factors identified to be controlled on priority basis. A significant association of factors (namely age, experience of the worker, and shift of work) with unsafe acts performed by the operator is identified based upon which the FRA-based accident prediction model is proposed.

Changes to Gaming Acts in Game (게임에서의 게임 행위 변화)

  • Gwak, E-Sac
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2017
  • Recent years have witnessed a surging popularity of games based on augmented reality and virtual reality. While old games embody virtual reality within the game platform, recent popular games based on augmented reality and virtual reality incorporate reality into virtual worlds. They present a new genre that is unprecedented, combined with what gamers have a passionate desire for, and thus provide new experiences. Good examples include smartphone games that were the game changer of the gaming industry in 2010 and the sensational $Pok{\acute{e}}mon$ Go that is gaining popularity nowadays. This study, thus, set out to analyze "gaming act(GA)" directly connected to the experiences of gamers to shed light on games as experiential content. The study analyzed gaming acts based on Park Sang-woo (2009) and assumed that gaming acts would change greatly according to the degree of real space intervening in game space; thus, examining changes to the gaming acts of games in two aspects of realizing virtual space from imaginations in game space and reproducing virtual space in real space.

Director's Self-Dealing and Criminal Liability (주식회사(株式會社) 이사(理事)의 자기거래(自己去來)와 형사책임(刑事責任))

  • Lee, John-Girl;Kim, Pyung-Key
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.9
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    • pp.210-217
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    • 2009
  • Discussions about unfavorable acts of corporations in managing activities include many legal considerations. In general cases, first of all, legality of the given acts should be verified. If they are judged to be illegal in their procedures, whether it is possible to assert nullification for the acts by the corporation law or not should be examined. Next, the claim for damages against the actors should be considered. After that, whether the actors have criminal liability or not should be discussed. In this case, it is difficult and complicated to judge what clauses of the Criminal Code in the substantive law apply to the unfavorable acts. when the director's business judgement in the long run causes the corporation to be unprofitable or suffer damage, the Question of whether criminal punishment can be imposed on the director is a very important one requiring careful consideration.

A Study on Refusal Speech Act of Korean and Thai Learners from a Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Perspective (비교문화적 화용론의 관점에서 본 한국인과 태국인의 거절 화행 연구)

  • Hwang, Sunyoung;Noh, Ahsil;Kunghae, Samawadee
    • Journal of Korean language education
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.225-254
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to contrast the patterns of realization and understanding of refusal speech acts between Korean and Thai learners. This study intends to answer the following questions: (1) Do Koreans and Thai learners perform refusal speech acts differently? (2) Do Koreans and Thai learners understand refusal speech acts differently? A DCT and a follow-up interview were conducted to collect data of two groups of 30 native Korean speakers and 30 native Thai speakers. For research question 1, we analyzed the refusal strategy and provided reasons given by Koreans and Thai learners depending on the context. For research question 2, we ran a chi-squared test on the elements of the follow-up interviews, such as the weight of burden of refusing, and whether the participant would actually refuse or not. The differences between the refusal strategies of the two groups could be categorized by the preceding inducing speech act. In refusing a request, the difference was prominent in the apologizing strategy, whereas in refusing a suggestion, the difference was mainly in the direct refusal strategy. When refusing an invitation, the most evident difference was the number of refusal strategies employed. When providing an explanation of refusal to people with high social status, Koreans gave more specific reasons for refusals, whereas Thai learners tended to use more vague reasons. Moreover, when refusing an invitation, Koreans primarily mentioned the relationship, and Thai learners showed the spirit of Greng Jai. When asked the weight of burden of refusing, Koreans felt pressured to refuse a request from people with high social status, and a suggestion or invitation from people with high level of intimacy while Thai learners found it highly difficult to make a refusal in all cases. In answering whether they would actually refuse or not, Koreans tried not to make a refusal to people with high level of intimacy, and such a trend was not evident among the Thai. This study can help us better understand the learner's pragmatic failure, and serve as a basis in establishing a curriculum for teaching speech acts.

Analysis on Domestic and Foreign Privacy Information Acts to Suggest Directions for Developing Korean Privacy Information Protection Act (국내 개인정보보호법의 발전방향 제시를 위한 국외 개인정보보호법 분석)

  • You, Han-Na;Kim, Hyung-Joo;Lee, Jae-Sik;Park, Tae-Sung;Jun, Moon-Seog
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.1091-1102
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    • 2012
  • With a recent rapid increase in infringement on privacy information, a need to protect privacy information is called for more than ever. Keeping pace with such concern and demands of the times, Korea has established and executed "Privacy Information Protection Act" on September 30th, 2011. This regulation was enacted from an individually regulated method to a basic regulation that includes public and private institutions. Also, the regulation includes diverse contents for the sake of protecting privacy information by expanding a range of protection subjects and limiting the process of uniquely identifiable information. In this context, the study has suggested a direction for development on Korea's Privacy information Protection Act by taking a look at the status on privacy information protection acts from home and foreign nations and conducting a comparative analysis between domestic and foreign acts.

Critical Review of the Former Korean Regulations for Consumer Chemicals and the Humidifier Disinfectant Disaster (가습기 살균제 참사와 관련된 당시 생활화학물질 관리 법령에 대한 비판적 고찰)

  • Cho, Dae Hwan;Zoh, Kyung Ehi;Park, Taehyun;Choi, Yeyong;Park, Dong-Uk
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.183-194
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    • 2022
  • Background: No study has examined the regulatory factors associated with fatal health problems due to the use of humidified disinfectants (HD) in South Korea. Objectives: This study aimed to identify and discuss the deficiencies and limitations found in the Toxic Chemical Control Acts (TCCA) that failed to prevent the health risk of chemicals in HD products. Methods: The South Korean TCCA was reviewed focusing on acts in operation from 1994 through the end of 2011, the period when HD was allowed in manufacturing and marketing. Results: The TCCA was the act intended to regulate the toxicity of chemicals in HD products. We found the TCCA to lack three key legal clauses which would have been essential to controlling the health risk of HD. First, there was the exemption of toxic and hazard testing for existing chemicals, including chloromethylisothiazolinone (CMIT), methylisothiazolinone (MIT), and benzalkonium chloride (BKC). Secondly, there were no articles requiring industry to provide animal inhalation test result for polymers such as polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) and Oligo(2-)ethoxyethoxyethyl guanidine chloride (PGH). Finally, there was a lack of articles on examining the risk of products as well as on addressing changes in the usage of products. These articles were found to be generally provided in the US Toxic Substance Chemical Act (TSCA) and the EU Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH). Conclusions: In conclusion, the Ministry of Environment of South Korea had not updated key articles for regulating hazardous chemicals, causing large-scale health problems due to HD which had been fundamentally addressed in chemical-related acts in other countries.

Numerical Analysis on the Flow Field around Tiller Rotor for Soil Improvement in Coastal Fisheries (연안어장의 토질 개선을 위한 경운기 로터 주변의 유동장에 대한 수치해석)

  • Kim, Jang-Kweon;Oh, Seok-Hyung
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.20-28
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    • 2017
  • The steady-state, incompressible and three-dimensional numerical analysis was performed to investigate the flow fields around the seabed tiller used for soil improvement in coastal fisheries and the pulling force and buoyancy generated by tiller operation. The turbulence model used in this study is a realizable $k-{\varepsilon}$. As a results, at a stationary current or a current speed of 1.2 knots, where rotor rotates in a clockwise direction, a typical vortex pair appears near the tip of the rotor except for the edge, and the strength of the vortex pair increases with the number of revolutions of the rotor. The pulling force of the tiller rotating in the counterclockwise direction increases with the number of revolutions. Also, when the current flows at 1.2 knots and the rotor rotates clockwise, the pulling force of the tiller acts on the upstream side irrespective of the number of rotations of the rotor, so that no force is applied. The buoyancy of the tiller acts on the seawater surface if the flow direction inside the rotor is the same as the direction of rotation of the rotor, regardless of the current velocity, otherwise it acts on the seabed.