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Development of Foreign Language Fluency Diagnosis Tools For Brain Scientific Language Learning (뇌공학적 외국어 학습을 위한 외국어 능숙도 진단 도구 개발)

  • Lee, Sae-Byeok;Lee, Won-Gyu;Kim, Hyeon-Cheol;Jung, Soon-Young;Lim, Heui-Seok
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the scientific approach to brain engineering is actively being made for effective foreign language learning and diagnosis. In order to supplement the problem of preexistence paper exam, the study aimed to develop a tool for foreign language fluency diagnosis which based on brain engineering. The proposed tools in the paper indirectly measure the aspects of brain information processing by testing learners' 3 abilities of linguistic memory, comprehension, and language production in 5 different ways.

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Semi-Automatic Building of Korean Classifiers in English-Korean MT (영한 자동번역에서의 한국어 분류사의 반자동 구축 방법)

  • Lee, Ki-Young;Choi, Sung-Kwon;Kim, Young-Gil
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.135-139
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    • 2008
  • 본 논문은 영한 기계번역에서 영어 수사가 포함된 영어 명사구를 한국어로 번역할 때, 영어 명사에 대응되는 한국어 명사의 적절한 분류사를 반자동으로 구축하는 방법에 대해 기술한다. 영한 번역의 측면에서, 분류사는 목표언어인 한국어에서만 나타나는 현상이다. 따라서 영어를 한국어로 번역할 때, 적절한 분류사를 생성하지 않으면 한국어 어법에 맞지 않는 부자연스러운 번역 결과를 생성한다. 본 논문에서는 한국어 태그드 코퍼스와 한국어 의미코드 체계에 따라 한국어 분류사를 반자동으로 구축하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에 따라 한국어 명사에 대해서 한국어 분류사가 구축되었으며, 이렇게 구축된 분류사는 영한 기계번역시스템의 번역 사전에 'KCOUNT'라는 자질을 할당하여 부가하였다. 제안하는 방법의 검증을 위해 수동평가와 자동평가를 수행하였으며, 그 결과, 영한 기계번역의 문장 생성에 있어서 자연스러움(fluency)의 측면에서 번역률 향상이 있었다.

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What Effect can Simple Hand Tapping Have on the Accuracy and Fluency of Speech Production in Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders? (단순 손동작 반복이 말소리장애 아동과 일반 아동의 말소리산출의 정확성과 유창성에 미치는 영향)

  • Shin, Yu-Na;Ha, Ji-Wan
    • Therapeutic Science for Rehabilitation
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 2019
  • Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hand tapping on the accuracy and the fluency of speech production in children with speech sound disorder(SSD) and their typically developing peers(TD). Methods : The study subjects were 15 SSD children and 15 TD children aged 4, 5, and 6 years of age. Subjects were asked to give a picture name without hand tapping in the first experimental condition, and with hand tapping in the second experiment condition. Results : The results showed that hand tapping significantly increased disfluency in TD, whereas in SSD. it did not affect the accuracy or fluency of speech production. In addition, TD demonstrated a significant positive correlation with the changes of accuracy and disfluency due to hand tapping, whereas SSD had no correlation. Conclusion : We discussed the possibility that hand tapping could serve as an obstacle distracting attention from SSD and TD, acting as a motor gesture to facilitate phonological processing when facing the difficulty in lexical retrieval for SSD.

The Effect of Hypothesis Formulation using Abduction on Science Processing Skills and Creative Thinking Activities (귀추를 이용한 가설 설정이 과학 탐구 능력과 창의적 사고 활동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Na-Young;Yoo, Pyoung-Kil
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of hypothesis formulations using abduction on science processing skills and the creative thinking activities. As the subject, 2 classes in the $6^{th}$ grade of B elementary school located in Busan were selected. Through the pre/post inspection design between experiment and comparison class, the units of science courses in the second semester of $6^{th}$ grade '1. A change in the weather' and '2. Various gases' were applied. The results were as follows: Firstly, the test on science processing skills showed that there was not statistic meaningful differences between the two groups. And, in the sub-parts, there was not statistic meaningful differences between the two groups. Secondly, it was observed that it would have a meaningful effect to improve the creative thinking activities of students who performed hypothesis formulation using abduction. Especially, through this, the experimental class gave a positive effect on the 'Fluency' and 'Elaboration', one of lower categories of the creative activities. The results of 'Flexibility' and 'Originality' in the experimental class were higher than those of students in the comparative class. However, according to statistical analysis, this result is meaningless. Thirdly, on the survey about the hypothesis formulation using abduction, many students thought that this learning method was very interesting and helpful to study science. In addition, it was observed that the ability to use abduct thinking was improved more than ever before.

Recent Research Trends in Dementia Discourse : Tasks, Transcription and Measures (치매환자 담화분석의 최근 연구동향 : 과제, 전사 및 측정요인)

  • Kim, Bo Seon;Kim, HyangHee
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.351-363
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    • 2015
  • Discourse analysis is useful for examining discourse characteristics of dementia patients and differentiating them from normal adults. However, inconsistent tasks, transcription methods and measures have been utilized, thus analyses were inevitably unsystematic. The purpose of this study was to investigate tasks, transcription methods and measures of discourse studies in dementia. Studies on dementia discourses written in English were collected via Scopus database containing abstracts and citations from 2005 to 2014, and were analyzed in detail. From the results, the most frequently used task was 'storytelling-topic'. It was observed that use of consistent transcription conventions rendered more reliable transcription data. Measures could be categorized into coherence, cohesion, productivity, propositional syntactic lexical analysis, and fluency, and each category belonged to discourse processing levels (i.e., processing of conceptual networks, propositions, and natural language units). In conclusion, future research warrants not only utilization of discourse tasks depending on dementia types and features, but also application of consistent transcription conventions. Additionally, measures based on the discourse processing theory would enable us to systematically interpret discourse studies.

Effects of Box Shape and Diverse Components of Large-Sized Products on Consumers' Product Evaluations in Logistic Business

  • Dongkyun Ahn;Seolwoo Park
    • Journal of Korea Trade
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.83-95
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    • 2022
  • Purpose - With the recent spread of COVID-19, U.S. consumers' consumption pattern is changing towards purchasing large-capacity products, as they stay at home longer. Thus, the current research investigates the effects of box shape and component diversity for large-sized products on product evaluation in logistic business. Moreover, this research examines that information-processing fluency mediates the moderating effects of box shape and product components on target evaluations to confirm psychological mechanism for generating this effect. Design/methodology - In order to examine the hypotheses, the current research conducts two online experiments. The 184 participants (Study 1), and 205 participants (Study 2) of U.S. nationality were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk. This research analyzes the data by using SPSS 25 and PROCESS macro 4.0. Findings - Study 1 demonstrates that when the height of a box is greater than its width, products with single components promote positive target evaluations, while when the width of box is greater than its height, products with a variety of components lead to positive target evaluations. Study 2 shows that the same results are replicated in other product categories and with different box shape ratios. Moreover, Study 2 also finds that the ease of information processing mediates the interaction effects of box shape and component diversity on U.S. consumers' target evaluations. Originality/value - The current research has originality in that it investigates the effect of box shape and product composition diversity on U.S. consumer product evaluation from the perspective of information-processing theory Moreover, this research has practical implications for global traders who prepare for entering the U.S. market.

The Impact of Online Reviews on Hotel Ratings through the Lens of Elaboration Likelihood Model: A Text Mining Approach

  • Qiannan Guo;Jinzhe Yan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.17 no.10
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    • pp.2609-2626
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    • 2023
  • The hotel industry is an example of experiential services. As consumers cannot fully evaluate the online review content and quality of their services before booking, they must rely on several online reviews to reduce their perceived risks. However, individuals face information overload owing to the explosion of online reviews. Therefore, consumer cognitive fluency is an individual's subjective experience of the difficulty in processing information. Information complexity influences the receiver's attitude, behavior, and purchase decisions. Individuals who cannot process complex information rely on the peripheral route, whereas those who can process more information prefer the central route. This study further discusses the influence of the complexity of review information on hotel ratings using online attraction review data retrieved from TripAdvisor.com. This study conducts a two-level empirical analysis to explore the factors that affect review value. First, in the Peripheral Route model, we introduce a negative binomial regression model to examine the impact of intuitive and straightforward information on hotel ratings. In the Central Route model, we use a Tobit regression model with expert reviews as moderator variables to analyze the impact of complex information on hotel ratings. According to the analysis, five-star and budget hotels have different effects on hotel ratings. These findings have immediate implications for hotel managers in terms of better identifying potentially valuable reviews.

The Relationship between Neurocognitive Functioning and Emotional Recognition in Chronic Schizophrenic Patients (만성 정신분열병 환자들의 인지 기능과 정서 인식 능력의 관련성)

  • Hwang, Hye-Li;Hwang, Tae-Yeon;Lee, Woo-Kyung;Han, Eun-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.155-164
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    • 2004
  • Objective:The present study examined the association between basic neurocognitive functions and emotional recognition in chronic schizophrenia. Furthermore, to Investigate cognitive variable related to emotion recognition in Schizophrenia. Methods:Forty eight patients from the Yongin Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center were evaluated for neurocognitive function, and Emotional Recognition Test which has four subscales finding emotional clue, discriminating emotions, understanding emotional context and emotional capacity. Measures of neurocognitive functioning were selected based on hypothesized relationships to perception of emotion. These measures included:1) Letter Number Sequencing Test, a measure of working memory;2) Word Fluency and Block Design, a measure of executive function;3) Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Korean version, a measure of verbal memory;4) Digit Span, a measure of immediate memory;5) Span of Apprehension Task, a measure of early visual processing, visual scanning;6) Continuous Performance Test, a measure of sustained attention functioning. Correlation analyses between specific neurocognitive measures and emotional recognition test were made. To examine the degree to which neurocognitive performance predicting emotional recognition, hierarchical regression analyses were also made. Results:Working memory, and verbal memory were closely related with emotional discrimination. Working memory, Span of Apprehension and Digit Span were closely related with contextual recognition. Among cognitive measures, Span of Apprehension, Working memory, Digit Span were most important variables in predicting emotional capacity. Conclusion:These results are relevant considering that emotional information processing depends, in part, on the abilities to scan the context and to use immediate working memory. These results indicated that mul- tifaceted cognitive training program added with Emotional Recognition Task(Cognitive Behavioral Rehabilitation Therapy added with Emotional Management Program) are promising.

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The Differences of Executive Function according to Type of Early English Learning Experience of 5-years old (조기영어학습 경험의 유형에 따른 만 5세 유아의 실행기능의 차이)

  • Kim, Rae-Eun
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.133-143
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this paper was to analyze the differences in executive function according to type of early English learning experience. The subjects were 75 5-years-old who had immersive early English learning in language school, and daycare center. The measurement tools were stroop, DCCST, memorize numbers, pattern fluency, and maze. We conducted covariance analysis with total intelligence as the covariates. In the results, there were significant differences in attention control and cognitive flexibility, but weren't significant differences in information processing and goal setting according to type of early English learning experience. This study suggests that experience of immersive early English learning positively affected attention control and cognitive flexibility, and didn't affect information processing and goal setting.

A Study on User Experience(UX) in the Usage Context of Erasing (지우는 맥락 상황에서의 사용자 경험(UX)에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Youngsoo;Lee, Sunhwa;Kim, Yeunju;Im, Chaerin;Kim, Jinwoo
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2015
  • Nowadays, people start to focus on the value of 'Mindfulness' and 'Slowness', instead of the importance of 'Development' and 'Advancement' in their whole life. According to this background, we attempted to find new research opportunities on User Experience(UX) in usage context of 'Erasing'. Through a interdisciplinary literature review on related works regarding the concept of erasing, we tried to understanding the meaning of erasing within the perspective of philosophy, psychology, and human-computer interaction(HCI). We also conducted the contextual inquiry, one of the qualitative research methods to examine the actual usage context and the user's experience, with 79 users who were required to erase something in three usage contexts, including Paper-Eraser condition, Computer-Keyboard condition, and Tablet PC condition. The results indicate that it is important to provide not only effective erasing but also satisfaction for users in the usage-context of erasing. From these attempts, we expect that our findings will be helpful to understand the meaning of the erasing in academic and practical fields.