• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.786-788
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• 2010

최근 시맨틱 웹의 등장과 발전은 웹 2.0의 발전과 더불어 새로운 웹의 문화를 바꾸어 놓았다. 시맨틱 웹의 적용분야는 다양하지만 그중에서 의미 정보 검색과 다국어 정보 검색 기술을 통한 다국어 지원 번역이 연구 분야로의 필요성이 있다. 기존 기계번역이 번역률에 있어서 가장 큰 한계점은 단어 의미 중의성과 문법적은 오류이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 시맨틱 웹과 단어 의미 중의성을 해소 시킬 새로운 알고리즘을 제안함으로써 단점을 제거하여 번역률을 향상시켜 모바일에 적용하였다. 모바일에 입력된 신문기사 이미지를 OCR을 통해 텍스트로 변환하고 사전 및 분야 온톨로지와 문장 규칙 추론을 동해 처리 속도 및 정확도 높은 번역시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.8B no.6
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• pp.685-692
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• 2001

This paper describes how to disambiguate the aspectual meaning of Japanese expression "-te iru" in Japanese-Korean machine translation Due to grammatical similarities of both languages, almost all Japanese- Korean MT systems have been developed under the direct MT strategy, in which the lexical disambiguation is essential to high-quality translation. Japanese has a progressive aspectual marker “-te iru" which is difficult to translate into Korean equivalents because in Korean there are two different progressive aspectual markers: "-ko issta" for "action progressive" and "-e issta" for "state progressive". Moreover, the aspectual system of both languages does not quite coincide with each other, so the Korean progressive aspect could not be determined by Japanese meaning of " te iru" alone. The progressive aspectural meaning may be parially determined by the meaning of predicates and also the semantic meaning of predicates may be partially reshicted by adverbials, so all Japanese predicates are classified into five classes : the 1nd verb is used only for "action progrssive",2nd verb generally for "action progressive" but occasionally for "state progressive", the 3rd verb only for "state progressive", the 4th verb generally for "state progressive", but occasIonally for "action progressive", and the 5th verb for the others. Some heuristic rules are defined for disambiguation of the 2nd and 4th verbs on the basis of adverbs and abverbial phrases. In an experimental evaluation using more than 15,000 sentances from "Asahi newspapers", the proposed method improved the translation quality by about 5%, which proves that it is effective in disambiguating "-te iru" for Japanese-Korean machine translation.translation quality by about 5%, which proves that it is effective in disambiguating "-te iru" for Japanese-Korean machine translation.anslation.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.33-48
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• 2006

The Semantic Web and its related technologies have been opening the era of information sharing via the Web. There are, however, several huddles still to overcome in the new era, and one of the major huddles is the issue of information integration, unless a single unified and huge ontology could be built and used which could address everything in the world. Particularly in the e-business area, the problem of information integration is of a great concern for product search and comparison at various Internet shopping sites and e-marketplaces. To overcome this problem, we proposed an ontology-driven mapping algorithm between heterogeneous product classification and description frameworks. We also peformed a comparative evaluation of the proposed mapping algorithm against a well-Down ontology mapping tool, PROMPT.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.526-537
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• 2006

The most representative approach for efficient storing of XML data is to store XML data in relational databases. The merit of this approach is that it can easily accept the realistic status that most data are still stored in relational databases. This approach needs to convert XML data into relational data or relational data into XML data. The most important issue in the translation is to reflect structural and semantic relations of RDB to XML schema model exactly. Many studies have been done to resolve the issue, but those methods have several problems: Not cover structural semantics or just support explicit referential integrity relations. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for extracting implicit referential integrities automatically. We also design and implement the suggested algorithm, and execute comparative evaluations using translated XML documents. The proposed algorithm provides several good points such as improving semantic information extraction and conversion, securing sufficient referential integrity of the target databases, and so on. By using the suggested algorithm, we can guarantee not only explicit referential integrities but also implicit referential integrities of the initial relational schema model completely. That is, we can create more exact XML schema model through the suggested algorithm.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2003

We introduce a way to generate morphologically and syntactically well-formed English sentences when building Korean to English bilingual dictionary for Machine Translation Systems. It has been proved that basic inflectional or structural descriptions for English sentences are by no means enough to generate proper English sentences because of traditional dictionary structures. Furthermore, much research has been focused only on how to disambiguate semantic ambiguities of words in a bilingual dictionary To take advantage of existing paperback Korean to English bilingual dictionary, its automatic conversion to an electronic version and methodologies to assign proper features to the descriptions for well-formed English sentences with minimum human effort have been proposed on the basis of the dictionary-specific structures. This approach was originally motivated for a glossary-based machine translation system, but it can be also applied to large scale dictionary work.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.29-51
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• 1994

This paper presents a new approach to describing the meanings of English relative clauses with the theoretical framework of Conceptual Structure Theory (henceforth CST)which builds on the pionerring work of Sowa.And this paper aims at proposing some extensions to his work. CST describes the conceptual structrures of sentences with conceptual graphs(henceforth CG). which have begun to be used as an intermediate language in natural language processing and machine translation of computer.CGs are composed of concept types and conceptual relation types. They are a system of logic for semantic representation of sentences. This paper focuses on showing the differences of the CGs according to the functions of English relative clauses. English relative clauses are divided into restrictive and nonrestrictive uses.And this paper describes a restrictive clause with a CG including a expression.which derives from the viewpoint of Montague-semantics and Nom-S Analysis.This paper deals mainly with the relative clauses of double restroction as an example of restrictive relative clauses.The description of a nonrestrictive relative clause does not need any-expression, for it doesn's involve the meaning of set.And this paper links the CG of an appositive relative clause,which is a kind of nonrestrictive clauses,to the concept of the antecedent in the main clause.The description of a nonrestrictive relative clause with adverbial meaning is strated with two CGs for the main clause and the relative clause.They are linked with an appropriate intersentential conceptual relation type according to the contextual realtions between them.This paper also presents a CG of a sentential relative clause,which gives a comment on the main clause.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1999.10e
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• pp.105-109
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• 1999

영-한 기계번역 중 변환 단계에서 한국어 문장을 생성하기 위해서는 구구조 변환 후 조사 및 대역어 선택으로 이루어진다. 그러나 하나의 영어 단어는 여러 개의 한국어 의미들을 가지고 있기 때문에 문장에서 사용된 영어의 정확한 의미에 해당하는 한국어 대역어를 선택하는 것은 번역의 질을 높이고 시스템의 성능에 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 특히 용언 및 체언의 대역어 선택은 문장에서 서로 간의 의미적인 관계를 고려하여야 올바른 대역어를 선택할 수 있다. 기존에는 전자 사전에 용언과 체언간의 연어 정보(collocation information)를 구축하여 대역어 선택의 문제를 해결하려고 하였으나 연어 정보가 사전에 존재하지 않을 때 올바른 대역어를 선택할 수 없었다. 또한 용언과 체언의 관계를 나타내는 조사를 선택하기 위하여 격(case)을 세분화하여 사전을 구축하였으나 격의 분류 및 사전을 구축할 경우 격을 선택하는 어려움이 있었다. 이에 따라 본 논문에서는 문형(sentence pattern)에 의한 방법으로 용언의 대역어 및 용언이 갖는 필수격 체언의 조사와 대역어 선택방법을 제안한다. 문형의 구조적인 정보에는 용언과 체언의 의미적 역할(thematic role)을 하는 조사 및 용언이 갖는 필수격 체언의 의미 자질(semantic feature)을 갖고 있다. 이러한 의미 자질을 wordnet과 한/영 및 영/한 사전을 이용하여 의미 지표(semantic marker)를 갖는 문형 사전을 구축한다. 또한 의미 지표를 갖는 문형 사전을 기반으로 조사 및 대역어 선택 알고리즘을 개발한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.17-27
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• 2012

Open Market is one of the key factors to accelerate the profit. Usually retailers sell items in several Open Market. One of the challenges for retailers is to assign categories of items with different classification systems. In this research, we propose an item category recommendation method to support appropriate products category registration. Our recommendations are based on semantic relation between existing and any other Open Market categorization. In order to analyze correlations of categories, we use Morpheme analysis, Korean Wiki Dictionary, WordNet and Google Translation API. Our proposed method recommends a category, which is most similar to a guide word by measuring semantic similarity. The experimental results show that, our system improves the system accuracy in term of search category, and retailers can easily select the appropriate categories from our proposed method.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.27-32
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• 2008

Sign languages, commonly used in aurally challenged communities, are a kind of visual language expressing sign words with motion. Spatiality and motility of a sign language are conveyed mainly via sign words as predicates. A predicate is modified by an adverbial phrase with an accompanying change in its semantics so that the adverbial phrase can also affect the overall spatiality and motility of expressions of a sign language. In this paper, we analyze the semantic features of adverbial phrases which may affect the motion-related semantics of a predicate in converting expressions in Korean into those in a sign language and propose a system that generates corresponding animation by utilizing these features.

• Language and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-32
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• 2014

This paper provides a corpus study on subjunctives in Korean in a way of comparative semantics. The whole arguments of this paper are bolstered by distributional evidence taken from naturally occurring bitexts (i.e. a bilingual corpus), in which one sentence in a language is aligned with one translation in the other language. Since previous studies regard past tense morphology as the main component to express irrealis and uncertainty, this paper accordingly checks out whether the past tense morpheme (e/a)ss in Korean is also responsible for conveying the meaning of subjunctives. My finding is that the past tense morpheme (e/a)ss is a sufficient condition for forming subjunctives in Korean. The current corpus study verifies that the past tense morpheme is not obligatorily used in present conditional counterfactuals in Korean, unlike English. Yet, if (e/a)ss is used and the antecedent denotes a present situation, the conditional sentence can only be interpreted as conveying counterfactuality. On the other hand, wish constructions in Korean, irrespective of the semantic tense, often contain the past tense morpheme. Hence, this work substantiates Iatridou (2000)'s theory of 'fake past tense' is applicable to Korean subjunctives. The present corpus study, additionally, reveals that a conditional marker telamyen is a component of expressing past counterfactuals in Korean.