• Speech Sciences
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.33-52
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• 2001

A bilingual sound dictionary in Korean and English has been created for a broad range of sound reference to cross-linguistic, dialectal, native language (L1)-transferred biological and allophonic variations. The paper demonstrates that the pronunciation dictionary of the lexicon is inadequate for sound reference due to the preponderance of unmarked sounds. The audio registry consists of the three-way comparison of 1) English speech from native English speakers, 2) Korean speech from Korean speakers, and 3) English speech from Korean speakers. Several sub-dictionaries have been created as the foundation research for independent development. They are 1) a pronunciation dictionary of the Korean lexicon in a keyboard-compatible phonetic transcription, 2) a sound dictionary of L1-interfered language, and 3) an audible dictionary of Korean sounds. The dictionary was designed to facilitate the exchange of the speech signal and its corresponding text data on various media particularly on CD-ROM. The methodology and findings of the construction are discussed.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2003

We introduce a way to generate morphologically and syntactically well-formed English sentences when building Korean to English bilingual dictionary for Machine Translation Systems. It has been proved that basic inflectional or structural descriptions for English sentences are by no means enough to generate proper English sentences because of traditional dictionary structures. Furthermore, much research has been focused only on how to disambiguate semantic ambiguities of words in a bilingual dictionary To take advantage of existing paperback Korean to English bilingual dictionary, its automatic conversion to an electronic version and methodologies to assign proper features to the descriptions for well-formed English sentences with minimum human effort have been proposed on the basis of the dictionary-specific structures. This approach was originally motivated for a glossary-based machine translation system, but it can be also applied to large scale dictionary work.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.53-60
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• 2020

Sentiment analysis is the automated process of understanding attitudes and opinions about a given topic from written or spoken text. One of the sentiment analysis approaches is a dictionary-based approach, in which a sentiment dictionary plays an much important role. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically generate Korean sentiment lexicon from the well-known English sentiment lexicon called VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner). The proposed method consists of three steps. The first step is to build a Korean-English bilingual lexicon using a Korean-English parallel corpus. The bilingual lexicon is a set of pairs between VADER sentiment words and Korean morphemes as candidates of Korean sentiment words. The second step is to construct a bilingual words graph using the bilingual lexicon. The third step is to run the label propagation algorithm throughout the bilingual graph. Finally a new Korean sentiment lexicon is generated by repeatedly applying the propagation algorithm until the values of all vertices converge. Empirically, the dictionary-based sentiment classifier using the Korean sentiment lexicon outperforms machine learning-based approaches on the KMU sentiment corpus and the Naver sentiment corpus. In the future, we will apply the proposed approach to generate multilingual sentiment lexica.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.26.1-26.3
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• 2021

Previous approaches to create a controlled vocabulary for Japanese have resorted to existing bilingual dictionary and transformation rules to allow such mappings. However, given the possible new terms introduced due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the emphasis on respiratory and infection-related terms, coverage might not be guaranteed. We propose creating a Japanese bilingual controlled vocabulary based on MeSH terms assigned to COVID-19 related publications in this work. For such, we resorted to manual curation of several bilingual dictionaries and a computational approach based on machine translation of sentences containing such terms and the ranking of possible translations for the individual terms by mutual information. Our results show that we achieved nearly 99% occurrence coverage in LitCovid, while our computational approach presented average accuracy of 63.33% for all terms, and 84.51% for drugs and chemicals.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.124-129
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• 2006

This parer presents a method of ranking translation word selection for Korean verbs based on lexical knowledge contained in a bilingual Korean-English dictionary and WordNet that are easily obtainable knowledge resources. We focus on deciding which translation of the target word is the most appropriate using the measure of semantic relatedness through the 45 extended relations between possible translations of target word and some indicative clue words that play a role of predicate-arguments in source language text. In order to reduce the weight of application of possibly unwanted senses, we rank the possible word senses for each translation word by measuring semantic similarity between the translation word and its near synonyms. We report an average accuracy of $51\%$ with ten Korean ambiguous verbs. The evaluation suggests that our approach outperforms the default baseline performance and previous works.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.45-53
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• 2018

Recently, studies about bilingual word embedding have been gaining much attention. However, bilingual word embedding with Korean is not actively pursued due to the difficulty in obtaining a sizable, high quality corpus. Local embeddings that can be applied to specific domains are relatively rare. Additionally, multi-word vocabulary is problematic due to the lack of one-to-one word-level correspondence in translation pairs. In this paper, we crawl 868,163 paragraphs from a Korean-English law corpus and propose three mapping strategies for word embedding. These strategies address the aforementioned issues including multi-word translation and improve translation pair quality on paragraph-aligned data. We demonstrate a twofold increase in translation pair quality compared to the global bilingual word embedding baseline.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06b
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• pp.288-290
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• 2012

서로 다른 분야에서 사용되는 어휘는 서로 다르게 번역된다. 본 논문에서는 특정 분야를 고려해 번역하기 위하여 대역 사전을 통계기계번역과 결합한 방법을 제안한다. 한/일 병렬 말뭉치를 500문장을 이용해 평가해 본 결과 학습용 병렬 말뭉치의 양이 너무 적거나 특정 분야의 병렬 말뭉치가 존재하지 않을때 대역 사전을 결합하면 번역 성능이 향상되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1997.06a
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• pp.137-142
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• 1997

One of the inherent problems in constructing the sign language dictionary is how to make retrieval and comparison operations on the visual database of signs. This paper describes a retrieval method, especifically for Japanese signs. This method has a useful capability for flexible retrieval of the sign from a bilingual dictionary. Our method can retrieve similar signs to the given input. The retrieval mechanism is essentially based on similarity between the given verbal description and verbal descriptions in a retrieval database. The similarity measure of verbal descriptions can be considered as the approximations for the similarity of sign motion images. As a results of our experiment, the success ratio of the retrievals is 96% in averages.

• 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.

• 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.