• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2013

Developing English-Korean machine translation system requires the construction of information about the languages, and the amount of information in English-Korean transfer dictionary is especially critical to the translation quality. Newly created words are out-of-vocabulary words and they appear as they are in the translated sentence, which decreases the translation quality. Also, compound nouns make lexical and syntactic analysis complex and it is difficult to accurately translate compound nouns due to the lack of information in the transfer dictionary. In order to improve the translation quality of English-Korean machine translation, we must continuously expand the information of the English-Korean transfer dictionary by collecting the out-of-vocabulary words and the compound nouns frequently used. This paper proposes a method for expanding of the transfer dictionary, which consists of constructing corpus from internet newspapers, extracting the words which are not in the existing dictionary and the frequently used compound nouns, attaching meaning to the extracted words, and integrating with the transfer dictionary. We also develop the tool supporting the expansion of the transfer dictionary. The expansion of the dictionary information is critical to improving the machine translation system but requires much human efforts. The developed tool can be useful for continuously expanding the transfer dictionary, and so it is expected to contribute to enhancing the translation quality.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.44-57
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• 1991

In the transfer machine translation, transfer dictionary decides the complexity of the transfer phase and the quality of translation according to the types and precision of informations supplied in the dictionary. Using the phrasal level translated informations within the human readable dictionary, human being translates a source sentence correctly and naturally. In this paper, we propose the verb transfer dictionary in which the various informations are constructed so the machine readable format that the Korean-to-English machine translation system can utilize them. In the proposed dictionary, we first provide the criterions by which an appropriate target verb is selected in phrase-to-phrase translations without an additional semantic analysis in transfer phase. Second, we provide the concrete sentence structure of a target verb so that we can resolve the expressive gaps between two languages and reduce the complexity of the various structure transfer in word-to-word translation.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.111-135
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• 2002

An annotation model of a non-native speech database has been devised, wherein English is the target language and Korean is the native language. The proposed annotation model features overt transcription of predictable linguistic information in native speech by the dictionary entry and several predefined types of error specification found in native language transfer. The proposed model is, in that sense, different from other previously explored annotation models in the literature, most of which are based on native speech. The validity of the newly proposed model is revealed in its consistent annotation of 1) salient linguistic features of English, 2) contrastive linguistic features of English and Korean, 3) actual errors reported in the literature, and 4) the newly collected data in this study. The annotation method in this model adopts the widely accepted conventions, Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) and the TOnes and Break Indices (ToBI). In the proposed annotation model, SAMPA is exclusively employed for segmental transcription and ToBI for prosodic transcription. The annotation of non-native speech is used to assess speaking ability for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1991.10a
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• pp.11-27
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• 1991

본 연구는 자연어의 실시간 기체 번역의 설계에 관한 것으로 반도체 메모리에 트랜스퍼 방식의 어휘 사전을 구성하고 어휘 정보 문법을 기본으로한다.

• Language and Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.49-68
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• 2005

Application of chunking to English and some other European languages has shown that it is a viable parsing mechanism for natural languages. Although a small number of attempts have been made to apply chunking to the analysis of the Korean language, it still is not clear enough what criteria there are to identify appropriate units of chunking, and how efficient and valid the chunking algorithms would be when applied to some authentic Korean texts. The purpose of this research is to provide an alternative set of algorithms for chunking Korean, and to implement them, and to test them against some English-Korean parallel corpora, which is English and Korean bibles matched sentence by sentence. It is shown in the paper that aligning related texts and identifying matched phrases between the two languages can be achieved through appropriate chunking and matching algorithms defined on the morphologically-tagged parallel corpus. Chunking and matching processes are based on the content words rather than the function words, and the matching itself is done in terms of the transfer dictionary. The implementation is done in C and XML, and can be accessed through the Internet.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2001.10d
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• pp.294-301
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• 2001

기계번역이 인간의 언어 능력을 기계로 구현한다는 점에서 전산학적 성격이 강하다면, 변환 사전은 인간의 어휘부(lexicon) 정보를 그대로 기계에 표상한다는 점에서 언어학적 성격이 강하다. 여기서는 다양한 어휘부 정보 중에서 한영 기계번역에서 필요한 언어학적 정보를 추출하고 이러한 정보를 바탕으로 적절한 동사 대역어 선택을 위한 변환 사전의 모형을 만들어 보고자 하였다. 한영 기계번역에서 적절한 동사 대역어 선택의 어려움은 한국어 동형어 처리 문제와 한국어에서는 포착되지 않지만 영어로 번역하는 과정에서 발생하는 영어 표현의 특수성 때문에 기인한 것으로 볼 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 논항과 문법 형태소, 선택제약, 개별 어휘 등의 기초적인 언어학적 개념을 이용한 변환사전을 통해 해결한다. 또한 동사 대역어 선택에 영향을 미치는 이러한 개별적인 요인들은 실제 변환사전의 기술에 있어서는 복합적으로 적용됨을 동사 '먹다'의 기술을 통해 확인할 수 있다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.157-162
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• 1994

한국어로부터 자연스러운 영어 역어문장을 생성하기 위한 정보를 사전에 일관성있게 수록하는 방법을 제시하였다. 기계번역의 각 과정에서 필요한 정보는 가장 적당한 형태로 사전으로부터 제공되어야 하는 것이 일반적인 방법이다. 그러나 한국어는 어순의 부분적 자유성, 어미의 복잡한 활용규칙, 조사의 다양한 쓰임새로 인해 이러한 규칙들의 정보를 일관되게 사전에 수록하기가 어려운 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 한국어 문장과 역어 문장을 단어나 구 혹은 절등의 구성요소들의 다대다 매핑규칙을 찾고 이들 규칙을 적당한 형태로 사전에 수록하여야하는 어려움에서 벗어나 문장대 문장구조를 직접대응시켜 구구조단위로 분석된 형태의 부분 파서트리 형태의 트리구조를 역어와 함께 사전에 수록하므로써 사전정보를 손쉽게 구축, 유지하고자 하였다. 또 이들 정보를 추출해내는 알고리즘을 사용함으로써 주어진 한국어 문장에 대해 사전에 수록된 가장 자연스러운 형태의 역어문장을 생성할 수 있도록 하였다.