• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.122-124
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• 2017

대화시스템이 적절한 응답을 제시해 주기 위해서는 사용자의 의도를 분석하는 것은 중요한 일이다. 사용자의 의도는 도메인에 독립적인 화행과 도메인에 종속적인 서술자의 쌍으로 나타낼 수 있다. 사용자 의도를 정확하게 분석하기 위해서는 화행과 서술자를 동시에 분석하고 대화의 문맥을 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 모델은 합성곱 신경망에서 공유 계층을 이용하여 화행과 서술자간 상호작용이 반영된 발화 임베딩 모델을 학습한다. 그리고 순환 신경망을 통해 대화의 문맥을 반영하여 발화를 분석한다. 실험 결과 제안 모델이 이전 모델들 보다 높은 성능 (F1-measure로 화행에 대해 0.973, 서술자 0.919)을 보였다.

• Koreanishche Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
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• v.9
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• pp.169-193
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• 2004

In simultaneous interpreting, if the syntactic structure of the source language and the target language are very different, interpreters have to wait before being able to reformulate the source text segments into a meaningful utterance in target language. It is inevitable to adapt the target language structure to that of the source language so as not to unduly increase the memory load and to minimize the pause. While such adaptation enables simultaneous interpretating, it results in damaging the perspective coherence of the text. Discovering when such perspective coherence is impaired, and how the problem can be relieved, will enable interpreters to enhance their performance. This paper analyses the reasons for perspective coherence damage by looking at some examples of German-Korean simultaneous interpreting.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.175-179
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• 2000

음성의 발성속도가 빠른 경우에는 발성속도가 느린 경우보다 적은 정보만으로도 부호화가 가능하다 음성의 발성속도가 빠른 경우에는 청취시 낮은 주파수 대역의 정보가 높은 주파수대역의 정보보다 중요하게 된다. 음성 부호화 기술은 전송를과 복잡도를 줄이고 음질을 향상시키는 방향으로 진행되고 있다. 현재 상용화되고 있는 CELP형 보코더는 낮은 전송를에 비해 우수한 음질을 제공하지만, 기존 방식은 음성의 발성속도에 대해서 처리를 달리하지 않고 사용하고 있다. 음성의 발성속도를 측정하여 발성속도가 빠를 경우에, 발성속도가 느린 경우보다 낮은 대역의 정보만 전송한다면 전송율을 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 CELP 부호화기의 전송률 감소를 위해 발성속도를 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. LSP 파라미터가 가지고 있는 정보로 음소의 변화율을 측정하였다. 각각 다른 발성속도를 갖는 음성시료에 대하여 음소 변화율을 구한 결과 발성속도가 다른 경우, 뚜렷하게 다른 음소 변화율을 갖는 것을 알 수 있었고. 빠르게 발성한 경우가 느리게 발성한 경우보다 42.8％가 높게 나왔다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.169-172
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• 2002

English is one of the stress-timed languages and has much more dynamic rhythm, stress and the tendency toward the isochronism of stressed syllables. It goes with various English utterance restructuring, irrespective of the pauses by syntactic boundaries, and post-lexically phonological phenomena. Specifically in the real speech acts, the natural utterances of fluent speakers or the broadcasting speech cause much more various English restructuring and phonological phenomena. This has been an obstacle for students in speaking fluent English and understanding normal speech. Therefore, this study tried to focus the most problematic factor in English speaking and listening difficulty on English restructuring and post-lexically phonological phenomena caused by stress-timed rhythm and, second, to point out the importance of teaching English rhythm bearing that in mind.

• MALSORI
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• v.55
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• pp.33-43
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• 2005

This paper investigates the word accent pattern of Cheju dialects in Korean and determines whether it varies according to the age as well as the word itself and where the speakers come from. On the basis on the theory of pitch accent, which was suggested by Koo(1993) and Jung(1965) for the Korean standard accent, the fundamental frequency of each syllable is measured. The syllable that has the highest frequency is labelled for 2, while the rests for 1. The results of the experiment are that the two syllabic words have 21 accent pattern, while the three syllabic words 121 pattern and the four syllabic words 1211. In addition to this characteristic of accent pattern in Cheju dialects, it is interesting that the older the speakers, the less accent pattern the utterance has as suggested above.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.27-38
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• 2002

The purpose of the study is to examine intonation patterns of cochlear implanted children compared with those of normal hearing children. The data tokens of three normal and five cochlear implanted children were collected and investigated. Their intonation patterns were analyzed using the speech analysis tool, Praat. The characteristics of the two utterance types, interrogative and declarative, were investigated. No significant difference in intonation patterns between the two subject groups was found. However, the general pitch of cochlear implanted children was higher than that of normal hearing children. In addition, cochlear implanted children showed frequent pitch breaks.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.185-200
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• 2005

The objective of this study is to examine acoustic cues in spoken French for the assessment of pronunciation which is necessary to realization of the multimedia system. The corpus is composed of simple expressions which consist of the French phonological system include all phonemes. This experiment was made on 4 male and female French native speakers and on 20 Korean speakers, university students who had learned the French language more than two years. We analyzed the recorded data by using spectrograph and measured comparative features by the numerical values. First of all, we found the mean and the deviation of all phonemes, and then chose features which had high error frequency and great differences between French and Korean pronunciations. The selected data were simplified and compared among them. After we judged whether the problems of pronunciation in each Korean speaker were either the utterance mistake or the interference of mother tongue, in terms of articulatory and auditory aspects, we tried to find acoustic features as simplified as possible. From this experiment, we could extract acoustic cues for the construction of the French pronunciation training system.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.95-109
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• 2004

Metrical Phonology has asserted that stress shift does not occur in English compounds because it violates the Continuous Column Constraint. Noun phrases, on the other hand, freely allow for stress shift, whereby the preceding stress moves forward to the preceding heavy syllable. This paper hypothesizes that stress does not shift in compounds as opposed to noun phrases and compares their pitch accentual patterns in a phonetic experiment. More specifically, we examined two-word combinations, noun phrases and compounds, whose boundaries involve stress clash and assured that the preceding words involve a heavy syllable ahead of the stress to guarantee the place for a shifting stress. Depending on where the preceding pitch accent is aligned, stress shift is determined. Results show that stress shift occurs in approximately 47% of the noun phrases and 59% of the compounds; therefore, the hypothesis is not borne out. This suggests that the surface representations derived by phonological rules may not be implemented in real utterance but that phonetic forms may be determined by the phonetic constraints. directly operating on human speech.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.135-139
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• 2010

Forensic speaker identification needs high accuracy and reliability. However, the current level of speaker identification does not reach its demand. Therefore, the confidence evaluation of results is one of the issues in forensic speaker identification. In this paper, we propose a new confidence measure of forensic speaker identification system. This is based on pitch differences between the registered utterances of the identified speaker and the test utterance. In the experiments, we evaluate this confidence measure by speech identification tasks on various environments. As the results, the proposed measure can be a good measure indicating if the result is reliable or not.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2014

This study aims to discuss pitch slope on Korean intonation curve in spontaneous speech data. For this study, 656 utterances were taken in the spoken corpus and used 'close-copy stylization'. And then the physical feature of pitch movements was extracted for the study. The pitch slope was calculated on the basis of time and pitch range in each utterance. As a result, the average and distribution of pitch slope is similar between men and women in the range of the pitch movement except for essential differences. The slope of pitch movement confirms that there are no differences between men and women. Pitch slope on a scale of -10 to 10 is 90% of the entire pitch slope; pitch slope that moves by time scale without curve is 33.1%; pitch slope that moves half of the pitch bandwidth during the average time for pitch movement is 23.4%; pitch slope that moves 100% of pitch bandwidth during a half of the average time for pitch movement is 10.4%. Those results imply the possibility of standardization methods of Korean intonation by pitch slope.