• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2005

유비쿼터스 환경에서 다양한 서비스를 사용자에게 제공하기 위해 지능형 에이전트는 먼저 사용자의 의도를 정확히 파악해야 한다. 명령어 기반의 기존 사용자 인터페이스와는 달리, 대화는 인간과 에이전트 사이의 유연하고 풍부한 의사소통에 유용하지만, 사용자의 배경지식이나 대화의 문맥에 따라 그 표현이 매우 다양하기 때문에 본 논문에서는 '상호주도형' 의사소통을 위한 계층적 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 사용자와 에이전트 사이에 발생하는 대화의 모호성을 해결한다. 서비스 추론 시 정보가 부족할 경우에는 계층적 베이지안 네트워크를 이용하여 추가로 필요한 정보를 분석하고 사용자로부터 수집한다. 제안하는 방법을 유비쿼터스 가정환경에 적용하고 시뮬레이션 환경을 구축하여 그 유용성을 확인하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.67 no.7
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• pp.954-961
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• 2018

In this paper, a chatbot for emotional stress recognition and management using rule-based method and NLP is designed and developed to tackle various emotional stresses of people through questionnaire. For this, Dialogflow as open chatbot development platform and Facebook messenger as chatting platform are used. We can build natural and resourceful conversational experiences through predefined questions by using powerful tools of Dialogflow, and can use developed chatbot on the Facebook page messenger. Developed chatbot perceives emotional stresses of user by user-input which is either text or choice of predefined answer. It also gives user questions according to the user's feeling, and assess the strength of the emotional stresses, and provide a solution to the user. Further research can improve the developed chatbot by using open Korean NLP library and database of emotions and stresses.

• 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.29-34
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• 2017

챗봇 혹은 대화 시스템은 특정 질문이나 발화에 대해 적절한 응답을 해주는 시스템으로 자연어처리 분야에서 활발히 연구되고 있는 주제 중 하나이다. 최근에는 대화 모델 학습에 딥러닝 방식의 시퀀스-투-시퀀스 프레임워크가 많이 이용되고 있다. 하지만 해당 방식을 적용한 모델의 경우 학습 데이터에 나타나지 않은 다양한 형태의 질의문에 대해 응답을 잘 못해주는 문제가 있다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 디노이징 응답 생성 모델을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 다양한 형태의 노이즈가 임의로 가미된 질의문을 모델 학습 시에 경험시킴으로써 강건한 응답 생성이 가능한 모델을 얻을 수 있게 한다. 제안하는 방법의 우수성을 보이기 위해 9만 건의 질의-응답 쌍으로 구성된 한국어 대화 데이터에 대해 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과 제안하는 방법이 비교 모델에 비해 정량 평가인 ROUGE 점수와 사람이 직접 평가한 정성 평가 모두에서 더 우수한 결과를 보이는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.47-51
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• 2015

Debriefing is a conversational session that revolves around the sharing and examining of information after a specific event has taken place. Debriefing may follow a simulated or actual experience and provides a forum for the learners to reflect on the experience and learn from their mistakes. Originating from the military and aviation industry, it is used on a daily basis to reflect and improve the performance in other high-risk industries. Expert debriefers may facilitate the reflection by asking open-ended questions to probe into the framework of the learners and apply lessons learned to future situations. Debriefing has been proven to improve clinical outcomes such as the return of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest and the teaching of teamwork and communication in pediatrics. Incorporating debriefing into clinical practice would facilitate the cultural change necessary to talk more openly about team performance and learn from near misses, errors, and successes that will improve not only clinical outcome but also patient safety.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.650-657
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• 2003

We describe a scheme for developing character-based interface within the context of an agent-based tutoring system in the Web environment. The ideas in this paper stem from original work representing aspects of human emotion in tutoring computer models, where may provide mote natural ways for students to communicate with digital learning materials. The proposed system model is a set of software services that enable developers to incorporate interactive animated characters into their Web pages designed for on-line lectures. The prototypical application is developed and shown for validating the applicability and the effectiveness of this model in real tutoring settings.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.145-155
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe and to analyze real communication about a patient's discomfort between a patient with cancer and a nurse. Method: A dialogue analysis method was utilized. Fifteen patients and 4 nurses who participated in this research gave permission to be videotaped. The data was collected from January, 3 to February 28, 2006. Results: The communication process consisted of 4 functional stages: 'introduction stage', 'assessment stage', 'intervention stage' and 'final stage'. After trying to analyze pattern reconstruction in the 'assessment stage' and 'intervention stage', sequential patterns were identified. In the assessment stage, if the nurse lead the communication, the sequential pattern was 'assessment question-answer' and if the patient lead the communication, it was 'complaint-response'. In the intervention stage, the sequential pattern was 'nursing intervention-acceptance'. Conclusion: This research suggests conversation patterns between patients with cancer and nurses. Therefore, this study will provide insight for nurses in cancer units by better understanding communication behaviors.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.53-58
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to compare the first two vowel formants of the stressed and unstressed English vowels produced by ten young males (in their twenties and thirties) and ten old males (in their forties or fifties) from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech. The results indicate that the stressed and unstressed vowels, /i/ and $/{\ae}/$ in particular, from the two groups are different in their formant frequencies. In addition, the vowel space of the unstressed vowels is somewhat smaller than that of the stressed vowels. Specifically, the range of the second formant of the unstressed vowels and that of the first formant of the unstressed front vowels were compressed. The findings from this study can be applied to the pronunciation training for the Korean learners of English vowels. We propose that teachers of English pay attention to the stress patterns of English vowels as well as their formant frequencies.

• MALSORI
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• no.67
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• pp.61-77
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to blow the characteristics of disfluency in childhood. The subjects were 144 normal children at the age of between 3 to 8 years who lived in Seoul. All the subjects provided spontaneous conversational speech samples during free-play interactions with their friends. We investigated the patterns and the frequency of disfluency and its relevance with subject's age, speaking rate and MLU(mean length of utterance). The results of this study can be summarized as follows. (1) There was no difference in the frequency of disfluency with the speaker's age or speaking rate. (2) Interjection was the most frequently occurring pattern of disfluency. (3) Prolongation, revision, interjection increased with age while part-word repetition, single-syllable word repetition, multi-syllable word repetition decreased gradually. (4) A significant effect of MLU on the frequency of disfluencies were demonstrated. The regression analysis has shown that more disfluencies occurred in utterances of children whose MLU is longer.

• Language and Information
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.21-42
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• 2000

In this paper, I explore the semantic interpretation of the English present perfect by arguing that the perfect is analogous to modals in its interpretation. The perfect produces several different readings, i.e., the resultative and the current relevant reading, to mention a few. Despite this, the meaning of the perfect remains invariable in sentences where it occurs. Instead, the semantic variability of the perfect is due to the nature of the conversational background. This indicates that just as modals are context-dependent, so is the perfect, which inspires a modal-based approach to the semantics of the perfect. By incorporating such an approach into its semantic analysis, we can present a unified account of the different meanings of the perfect.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.17 no.32
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• pp.53-62
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• 1994

This paper deals with the analysis of the PC communication service system performance which will be installed as a gateway between PSTN and PSDN. Firstly, we classify the data traffic pattern into interactive, conversational, and file transfer type from the actual statistics. Secondly, we model the system structure as a closed queueing network model with multiservers and multiple customer classes and derive the analytic method to be able to measure the system performance using Mean Value Analysis. Finally, the simulation results indicate that the analytic method obtained is a good approximation method to measure the system performance of the PC communication service system as a gateway between PSTN and PSDN.