• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제54호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2005

The aim of this paper was to analyze the lexical effects on spoken word recognition of Korean monosyllabic word. The lexical factors chosen in this paper was frequency, density and lexical familiarity of words. Result of the analysis was as follows; frequency was the significant factor to predict spoken word recognition score of monosyllabic word. The other factors were not significant. This result suggest that word frequency should be considered in speech perception test.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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• pp.137-140
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• 2002

This study was conducted to examine the korean word length effects on auditory word recognition. Linguistically, word length can be defined by several sublexical units such as letters, phonemes, syllables, and so on. In order to investigate which units are used in auditory word recognition, lexical decision task was used. Experiment 1 and 2 showed that syllable length affected response time, and syllable length interacted with word frequency. As a result, in recognizing auditory word syllable length was important variable.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제44호
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• pp.33-46
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• 2002

This study was conducted to examine the effect of word length on auditory word recognition. Word length can be defined by several sublexical units, such as letters, phonemes, syllables, etc. To find out which sublexical units are influential in auditory word recognition, the auditory lexical decision task was used. In Experiment 1, we examined the partial correlation between the speed of reaction time and the number of sublexical units, and in Experiment 2, we executed ANOVA to find out which sublexical length variable was an influential unit. Through these two experiment, we concluded syllable length was the most important variable on auditory word recognition.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.109-115
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• 2009

Many isolated word recognition systems may generate non-similar words for recognition candidates because they use only acoustic information. In this paper, we investigate several techniques which can exclude non-similar words from N-best candidate words by applying Levenstein distance measure. At first, word distance method based on phone and syllable distances are considered. These methods use just Levenstein distance on phones or double Levenstein distance algorithm on syllables of candidates. Next, word similarity approaches are presented that they use characters' position information of word candidates. Each character's position is labeled to inserted, deleted, and correct position after alignment between source and target string. The word similarities are obtained from characters' positional probabilities which mean the frequency ratio of the same characters' observations on the position. From experimental results, we can find that the proposed methods are effective for removing non-similar words without loss of system performance from the N-best recognition candidates of the systems.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.85-94
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to see the effects of pitch and length patterns on spoken word recognition. In Experiment 1, a syllable monitoring task was used to see the effects of pitch and length on the pre-lexical level of spoken word recognition. For both Seoul dialect speakers and Daegu dialect speakers, pitch and length did not affect the syllable detection processes. This result implies that there is little effect of pitch and length in pre-lexical processing. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task was used to see the effect of pitch and length on the lexical access level of spoken word recognition. In this experiment, word frequency (low and high) as well as pitch and length was manipulated. The results showed that pitch and length information did not play an important role for Seoul dialect speakers, but that it did affect lexical decision processing for Daegu dialect speakers. Pitch and length seem to affect lexical access during the word recognition process of Daegu dialect speakers.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2016

단어는 언어의 기초적인 의미 단위이기 때문에 단어재인에 대한 연구는 언어 연구에서 중요하며 단어처리에 기여하는 변인이 무엇인지에 관한 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 한국어 단어재인 과정의 주요 변인 중 단어 빈도와 단어길이의 영향을 탐색하였다. 먼저 단어 빈도와 관련하여, 한국어의 특징 중 하나인 한자어로 이루어진 단어에서도 기존의 연구와 동일한 양상의 빈도 효과가 나타나는지를 탐색하였다. 이를 위해 순 한글 단어와 한자어로 이루어진 단어를 비교하였으며, 그 결과 한자어로 이루어진 단어에서는 빈도 효과가 나타나지 않았다. 한편 단어 길이 효과의 경우, 단음절로 구성된 단어의 양상을 확인해 보고자, 음절의 개수를 변화시켜 단어 길이 효과를 측정하였다. 그 결과 단음절 단어는 이음절 단어에 비해 느리게 처리되었다. 특정 유형의 단어에 대한 빈도 효과의 부재 및 단음절 단어의 느린 처리는 한국어의 특징을 반영한 결과라 할 수 있으며 추후 연구를 통해 이에 대한 좀더 자세한 탐색이 필요할 것이다.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2005년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.77-80
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• 2005

The aim of this paper was to analyze the lexical effects on spoken word recognition of Korean monosyllabic word. The lexical factors chosen in this paper was frequency, density and lexical familiarity of words. Result of the analysis was as follows; frequency was the significant factor to predict spoken word recognition score of monosyllabic word. The other factors were not significant. This result suggest that word frequency should be considered in speech perception test.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제59호
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• pp.53-68
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• 2006

We report the evaluation results of the Korean speech recognition platform called ECHOS. The platform has an object-oriented and reusable architecture so that researchers can easily evaluate their own algorithms. The platform has all intrinsic modules to build a large vocabulary speech recognizer: Noise reduction, end-point detection, feature extraction, hidden Markov model (HMM)-based acoustic modeling, cross-word modeling, n-gram language modeling, n-best search, word graph generation, and Korean-specific language processing. The platform supports both lexical search trees and finite-state networks. It performs word-dependent n-best search with bigram in the forward search stage, and rescores the lattice with trigram in the backward stage. In an 8000-word continuous speech recognition task, the platform with a lexical tree increases 40% of word errors but decreases 50% of recognition time compared to the HTK platform with flat lexicon. ECHOS reduces 40% of recognition errors through incorporation of cross-word modeling. With the number of Gaussian mixtures increasing to 16, it yields word accuracy comparable to the previous lexical tree-based platform, Julius.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2016

Emotion recognition is an important component of affective computing, and is significant in the implementation of natural and friendly human-computer interaction. An effective approach to recognizing emotion from text is based on a machine learning technique, which deals with emotion recognition as a classification problem. However, in emotion recognition, the texts involved are usually very short, leaving a very large, sparse feature space, which decreases the performance of emotion classification. This paper proposes to resolve the problem of feature sparseness, and largely improve the emotion recognition performance from short texts by doing the following: representing short texts with word cluster features, offering a novel word clustering algorithm, and using a new feature weighting scheme. Emotion classification experiments were performed with different features and weighting schemes on a publicly available dataset. The experimental results suggest that the word cluster features and the proposed weighting scheme can partly resolve problems with feature sparseness and emotion recognition performance.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.44-50
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 연속분포 HMM을 이용한 대용량 한국어 연속음성인식 시스템에 관하여 기술한다. 인식 시스템의 성능을 개선하기 위하여 음성 모델링 단위의 선정, 단어간 모델링, 탐색 알고리듬, 문법에 관하여 연구하였다. 기본 인식단위로 트라이존을 사용하며 학습성을 개선하고 기능어에서의 에러 발생을 줄이기 위하여 일반화된 트라이폰과 function word-de-pendent phone을 사용한다. 단어 사이에는 묵음 모델과 null transition을 사용하여 선택적으로 묵음을 추가하였다. 언어모델로는 단어 클래스에 근거한 word pair 문법과 bigram 모델이 이용된다. 또한 지식 정보들을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있도록 N개의 후보 문장들을 탐색할 수 있는 알고리듬을 구현하였다. 후처리기에서는 word triple문법을 사용하여 N개의 최적 문장을 재정렬하여 최종적인 인식 문장을 결정하며, 마지막으로 후치사와 관련된 사소한 에러들을 수정한다. 3천단어의 연속음성 데이타베이스에 대한 인식실험에서, 후처리로 word triple 문법을 사용하여 $93.1\%$의 단어 인식률과 $73.8\%$의 문장 인식률을 얻었다.