• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.487-515
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the individual differences in cognitive processes on paragraph comprehension. To do so, the lexical decision task and the pattern comparison task were used to measure the low-level cognitive processes. Digit span task was used to test the phonological loop capacity. The individual differences of the central executive processing capacity were measured by operational span task. Reading span task was used to test the working memory capacity related with the sentence processing. Reading times and accuracies of the logically valid inferences and logically void inferences were tested to measure the high-level cognitive processes. Reading times and accuracies for the target sentences with and without prior explicit causal sentence were measured to test individuals' paragraph comprehension abilities. The results showed that the speed of the low-level cognitive processes was related with the speed of the high-level cognitive processes. Also, the accuracy of the low-level cognitive processes was related with the accuracy of the high-level cognitive processes while there was no significant correlation between the speed and the accuracy in any measures of the cognitive processes. Working memory capacity was related with the accuracy of the cognitive processes while it was not significantly correlated with the speed of the cognitive processes. Most importantly, the speed of low-level cognitive processes significantly affected the speed of the paragraph comprehension while the working memory capacity and the high-level cognitive processes had influences on the accuracies of the paragraph comprehension. The speed of the paragraph comprehension had no influence on the accuracies of the paragraph comprehension.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.89-96
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• 2022

An open domain machine reading comprehension is a model that adds a function to search paragraphs as there are no paragraphs related to a given question. Document searches have an issue of lower performance with a lot of documents despite abundant research with word frequency based TF-IDF. Paragraph selections also have an issue of not extracting paragraph contexts, including sentence characteristics accurately despite a lot of research with word-based embedding. Document reading comprehension has an issue of slow learning due to the growing number of parameters despite a lot of research on BERT. Trying to solve these three issues, this study used BM25 which considered even sentence length and InferSent to get sentence contexts, and proposed an open domain machine reading comprehension with ALBERT to reduce the number of parameters. An experiment was conducted with SQuAD1.1 datasets. BM25 recorded a higher performance of document research than TF-IDF by 3.2%. InferSent showed a higher performance in paragraph selection than Transformer by 0.9%. Finally, as the number of paragraphs increased in document comprehension, ALBERT was 0.4% higher in EM and 0.2% higher in F1.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.184-187
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• 2020

다중 지문 기계독해는 질문과 여러 개의 지문을 입력받고 입력된 지문들에서 추출된 정답 중에 하나의 정답을 출력하는 문제이다. 다중 지문 기계독해에서는 정답이 있을 단락을 선택하는 순위화 방법에 따라서 성능이 크게 달라질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 단락 안에 정답이 있을 확률을 예측하는 단락 재순위화 모델과 선택된 단락에서 서술형 정답을 위한 세부적인 정답의 경계를 예측하는 세부 단락 선별 기법을 제안한다. 단락 순위화 모델 학습의 경우 모델 학습을 위해 각 단락의 출력에 softmax와 cross-entroy를 이용한 손실 값과 sigmoid와 평균 제곱 오차의 손실 값을 함께 학습하고 키워드 매칭을 함께 적용했을 때 KorQuAD 2.0의 개발셋에서 상위 1개 단락, 3개 단락, 5개 단락에서 각각 82.3%, 94.5%, 97.0%의 재현율을 보였다. 세부 단락 선별 모델의 경우 입력된 두 단락을 비교하는 duoBERT를 이용했을 때 KorQuAD 2.0의 개발셋에서 F1 83.0%의 성능을 보였다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.326-329
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• 2019

기계독해를 실용화하기 위해 단락을 검색하는 검색 모델은 최근 기계독해 모델이 우수한 성능을 보임에 따라 그 필요성이 더 부각되고 있다. 그러나 기존 검색 모델은 질의와 단락의 어휘 일치도나 유사도만을 계산하므로, 기계독해에 필요한 질의 어휘의 문맥에 해당하는 단락 검색을 하지 못하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 Word2vec의 입력 단어열의 벡터에 해당하는 IN Weight Matrix와 출력 단어열의 벡터에 해당하는 OUT Weight Matrix를 사용한 단락 검색 모델을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 기존 검색 모델에 비해 정확도를 측정하는 Precision@k에서 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• 한국노년학
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.981-1001
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• 2016

At old age, as people depend on superficial clues when they interpret the overall context of communication, their ability to understand connotative and figurative words and articles could deteriorate. In this study, 50 normal young(junior) people and normal old(senior) people were made to perform a task to understand similes, metaphors, idioms, and proverbs, the sub-areas of figurative language. For the task, participants were made to understand a paragraph consisting of several sentences and select a correct answer representing appropriate figurative language. As a result of the analysis, first, old people showed a lower level of performance than young people in all the sub-areas of figurative language. Second, in understanding idiomatic words and proverbs, old people showed a lower level of performance due to unfamiliarity. Third, for the types of wrong answers, old people mostly understood only the literal meanings in all the sub-areas of figurative language. Due to aging, old people come to have a lowered level of the pragmatic language ability, reasoning ability, and inhibiting ability to efficiently communicate with others considering certain situations and contexts. Thus, old people could have difficulties in understanding inner meanings from others in daily communication.