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Summarizing the Differences in Chinese-Vietnamese Bilingual News

  • Wu, Jinjuan;Yu, Zhengtao;Liu, Shulong;Zhang, Yafei;Gao, Shengxiang
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.1365-1377
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    • 2019
  • Summarizing the differences in Chinese-Vietnamese bilingual news plays an important supporting role in the comparative analysis of news views between China and Vietnam. Aiming at cross-language problems in the analysis of the differences between Chinese and Vietnamese bilingual news, we propose a new method of summarizing the differences based on an undirected graph model. The method extracts elements to represent the sentences, and builds a bridge between different languages based on Wikipedia's multilingual concept description page. Firstly, we calculate the similarity between Chinese and Vietnamese news sentences, and filter the bilingual sentences accordingly. Then we use the filtered sentences as nodes and the similarity grade as the weight of the edge to construct an undirected graph model. Finally, combining the random walk algorithm, the weight of the node is calculated according to the weight of the edge, and sentences with highest weight can be extracted as the difference summary. The experiment results show that our proposed approach achieved the highest score of 0.1837 on the annotated test set, which outperforms the state-of-the-art summarization models.

Performance Improvement of Bilingual Lexicon Extraction via Pivot Language and Word Alignment Tool (중간언어와 단어정렬을 통한 이중언어 사전의 자동 추출에 대한 성능 개선)

  • Kwon, Hong-Seok;Seo, Hyeung-Won;Kim, Jae-Hoon
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2013
  • 본 논문은 잘 알려지지 않은 언어 쌍에 대해서 병렬말뭉치(parallel corpus)로부터 자동으로 이중언어 사전을 추출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 중간언어(pivot language)를 매개로 하고 문맥 벡터를 생성하기 위해 공개된 단어 정렬 도구인 Anymalign을 사용하였다. 그 결과로 초기사전(seed dictionary)을 사용한 문맥벡터의 번역 과정이 필요 없으며 통계적 방법의 약점인 낮은 빈도수를 가지는 어휘에 대한 번역 정확도를 높였다. 또한 문맥벡터의 요소 값으로 특정 임계값 이상을 가지는 양방향 번역 확률 정보를 사용하여 상위 5위 이내의 번역 정확도를 크게 높였다. 본 논문은 두 개의 서로 다른 언어 쌍 한국어-스페인어 그리고 한국어-프랑스어 양방향에 대해서 각각 이중언어 사전을 추출하는 실험을 하였다. 높은 빈도수를 가지는 어휘에 대한 번역 정확도는 이전 연구에서 보인 실험 결과에 비해 최소 3.41% 최대 67.91%의 성능 향상을 보였고 낮은 빈도수를 가지는 어휘에 대한 번역 정확도는 최소 5.06%, 최대 990%의 성능 향상을 보였다.

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The Mental Representation of English Verb in Korean-English Moderate Bilingual (한국어-영어 이중언어화자의 외국어 동사 표상)

  • Shin Jung-Moo;Nam Ki-Chun
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.113-116
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    • 2006
  • This research was investigate to understand how moderate bilingual subjects represent the lexicon in second language. Although most researches have focused only on high proficient bilinguals, we analysed how moderate bilinguals who have learned English mostly in school represent the prototype of verb and its inflected form of verb. Results of lexical decision task showed that moderate bilingual subjects used different mental representation depending on whether the verb have regular or irregular conjugation. With regular verbs, the identification of an inflected form was affected by both the frequency of its prototype and that of inflected form, but with irregular verbs, it is affected only by the frequency of inflected form.

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A Study on the Pitch and Formants of Vowels Produced by Monolingual and Bilingual Children (이중언어 환경 아동의 모음 포먼트 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Mi-Ji;Ko, Young-Ok;Kim, Hye-Kyung;Lee, Eun-Jeong;Jeong, Ok-Ran
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2007
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the pitch and formant characteristics of vowels produced by monolingual and bilingual children. We collected sustained phonation of single vowels, /a/, /i/, /u/, from children aged 6 through 10 and compared their acoustic characteristics, fo, F1, F2. Results showed a significant difference between the groups in fo and F1 in the sustained phonation /a/, but not in F2. In the sustained phonation /i/, F2 revealed a significant difference but fo and F1 showed no significant difference. The F2 showed a significant difference in the sustained phonation /u/, but fo and F1 revealed no significant difference between the groups. It is needed to study further on the acoustic characteristics of bilingual children so that we can make a proper language intervention strategy for them.

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The Effects of Semantic Association Task by Drawing in a Korean Bilingual Aphasic: A Case Study

  • Lee, Ok-Bun;Jeong, Ok-Ran
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.157-165
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of associative drawing task in a Korean bilingual aphasic. The subject is a 41-year old male and lived and was educated in the United States for over 25 years(from the age of 14 through 39). His former occupation was a psychiatrist. He has had a massive lesion in the occipital lobe. This study focused on improving his spontaneous language performances by associative drawing task. The associative drawing task along with spontaneous speech is to help the subject's cognition. The ten target words in this treatment were familiar words and could be drawn easily. The results were that the associative drawing task was effective on improving the patient's drawing ability-writing ability in English only-and naming performance both in English and Korean. However, the patient's writing ability in Korean did not show any improvement.

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Automatic bilingual lexicon construction via bilingual parallel corpus and pivot language (이국어 병렬말뭉치와 중간언어를 활용한 이국어 사전 자동구축)

  • Seo, Hyeong-Won;Kwon, Hong-Seok;Kim, Jae-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.307-310
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    • 2013
  • 본 논문은 한국어-스페인어와 한국어-불어 간의 양방향 이국어 사전(Bi-directional bilingual lexicon)을 자동으로 구축하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 일반적으로 한국어와 스페인어/불어 간의 병렬 말뭉치를 직접적으로 구축하기에는 어려움에 따르기 때문에, 영어를 중심언어로 하는 영어(EN)-한국어(KR)/스페인어(ES)/불어(FR) 병렬 말뭉치를 이용하여 문맥 벡터를 만들고 그들 간의 유사도를 계산하는 변형된 문맥 벡터 방법을 제안한다. 영어는 다른 언어와의 이국어 병렬 말뭉치가 비교적 많이 공개되어 있기 때문에 이 방법을 이용하면 비교적 쉽게 KR-ES와 KR-FR 양방향 이국어 사전을 구축할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법으로 실험해본 결과 최고 85%(ES${\rightarrow}$KR)의 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다.

Korean-English bilingual children's production of stop contrasts

  • Oh, Eunhae
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2019
  • Korean (L1)-English (L2) bilingual adults' and children's production of Korean and English stops was examined to determine the age effects and L2 experience on the development of L1 and L2 stop contrasts. Four groups of Seoul Korean speakers (experienced and inexperienced adult and child groups) and two groups of age-matched native English speakers participated. The overall results of voice onset time (VOT) and fundamental frequency (F0) of phrase-initial stops in Korean and word-intial stops in English showed a delay in the acquisition of L1 due to the dominant exposure to L2. Significantly longer VOT and lower F0 for aspirated stops as well as high temporal variability across repetitions of lenis stops were interpreted to indicate a strong effect of English on Korean stop contrasts for bilingual children. That is, the heavy use of VOT for Korean stop contrasts shows bilingual children's attention to the acoustic cue that are primarily employed in the dominant L2. Furthermore, inexperienced children, but not adults, were shown to create new L2 categories that are distinctive from the L1 within 6 months of L2 experience, suggesting greater independence between the two phonological systems. The implications of bilinguals' age at the time of testing to the degree and direction of L1-L2 interaction are further discussed.

Enhancing Performance of Bilingual Lexicon Extraction through Refinement of Pivot-Context Vectors (중간언어 문맥벡터의 정제를 통한 이중언어 사전 구축의 성능개선)

  • Kwon, Hong-Seok;Seo, Hyung-Won;Kim, Jae-Hoon
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.41 no.7
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    • pp.492-500
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents the performance enhancement of automatic bilingual lexicon extraction by using refinement of pivot-context vectors under the standard pivot-based approach, which is very effective method for less-resource language pairs. In this paper, we gradually improve the performance through two different refinements of pivot-context vectors: One is to filter out unhelpful elements of the pivot-context vectors and to revise the values of the vectors through bidirectional translation probabilities estimated by Anymalign and another one is to remove non-noun elements from the original vectors. In this paper, experiments have been conducted on two different language pairs that are bi-directional Korean-Spanish and Korean-French, respectively. The experimental results have demonstrated that our method for high-frequency words shows at least 48.5% at the top 1 and up to 88.5% at the top 20 and for the low-frequency words at least 43.3% at the top 1 and up to 48.9% at the top 20.

Impact of Bilingual·Bicultural Home Environment on Mother's Parenting and Children's Outcomes (다문화 가정의 이중언어·이중문화적 양육 환경이 자녀 발달에 미치는 영향 - 어머니 양육참여의 매개 효과를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Hyun-Sun;Rhee, Chaie-won;Rho, Yeonhee;Lee, Sang-Gyun
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.365-388
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    • 2012
  • This study examined the effect of bilingual bicultural home environment and mother's command of Korean language on their participation in child rearing as well as on children's developmental outcomes. We carried out Analysis of Covariance Structure using the 1st year(2011) data of Gyeonggi Education Welfare Panel, which consists of 459 matched pairs of immigrant women and their 5th~6th grade children living in Gyeonggi-do. The results indicated that when the immigrant mother has good command of Korean language and the children are exposed to their maternal culture and language, mothers tend to actively participate in child rearing and this in turn has positive effects on developmental outcomes of their children. These results demonstrate that Korean language programs targeting immigrant women by marriage are important not only for assisting their employment and adaptation but also for enhancing parenting behaviors in multicultural families. Moreover these findings suggest that we need to understand the bilingual bicultural home environment in these families as a significant resource that contribute to their children's developmental outcomes and not as a risk factor to their adaptation, as it has frequently been viewed.