• 영어어문교육
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.151-170
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• 2009

Recently speech texts have been increasingly used for English education because of their various advantages as language teaching and learning materials. The purpose of this paper is to analyze speech texts in a corpus-based lexical approach, and suggest some productive methods which utilize English speaking or writing as the main resource for the course, along with introducing the actual classroom adaptations. First, this study shows that a speech corpus has some unique features such as different selections of pronouns, nouns, and lexical chunks in comparison to a general corpus. Next, from a collocational perspective, the study demonstrates that the speech corpus consists of a wide variety of collocations and lexical chunks which a number of linguists describe (Lewis, 1997; McCarthy, 1990; Willis, 1990). In other words, the speech corpus suggests that speech texts not only have considerable lexical potential that could be exploited to facilitate chunk-learning, but also that learners are not very likely to unlock this potential autonomously. Based on this result, teachers can develop a learners' corpus and use it by chunking the speech text. This new approach of adapting speech samples as important materials for college students' speaking or writing ability should be implemented as shown in samplers. Finally, to foster learner's productive skills more communicatively, a few practical suggestions are made such as chunking and windowing chunks of speech and presentation, and the pedagogical implications are discussed.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2018

This paper presents an acoustic and phonological study of the alveolar flaps in American English. Based on the Buckeye Corpus, the flapping tokens produced by twenty men are analyzed at both lexical and post-lexical levels. The data, analyzed with Pratt speech analysis, include duration, F2 and F3 in voicing during the flap, as well as duration, F1, F2, F3, and f0 in the adjacent vowels. The results provide evidence on two issues: (1) The different ways in which voiced and voiceless alveolar stops give rise to neutralized flapping stops by following lexical and post-lexical levels, (2) The extent to which the vowel features (height, frontness, and tenseness) affect flapping sounds. The results show that flaps are affected by pre-consonantal vowel features at the lexical as well as post-lexical levels. Unlike previous studies, this study uses the Praat method to distinguish flapped from unflapped tokens in the Buckeye Corpus and examines connections between the lexical and post-lexical levels.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.239-265
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• 2010

This study investigates the effects of corpus-based vocabulary tasks on the acquisition of English vocabulary in an attempt to explore the influence of corpus use on EFL pedagogy. For this to be realized, a total of 40 Korean high school students participated in the study over a 4-week period. An experimental group used a set of corpus-based tasks for vocabulary learning, whereas a control group carried out a traditional task (i.e., the L1-L2 translation) for vocabulary learning. To assess learning gains, the students were asked to complete the pre- and post-treatment tests measuring the word form, meaning, and use aspects of target lexical items. Results of the study indicate that in the experimental group the corpus-based vocabulary tasks were beneficial for the learning of word forms and use. In particular, corpus-based benefits were greatest in the low-proficiency EFL learners' collocational aspects of vocabulary use. On the other hand, in the control group, the traditional vocabulary tasks benefited the meaning aspects of target vocabulary items the most. In addition, survey results revealed that most students were positive about the corpus-based learning experience although some expressed reservations about the heavy cognitive load and the time-consuming nature of the analysis of corpus data primarily due to learners' lack of language proficiency.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.35-45
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• 2021

With the wide spread of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) scales, many studies attempt to apply them in routine teaching and rater training, while more evidence regarding criterial features at different CEFR levels are still urgently needed. The current study aims to explore complexity features that distinguish and predict CEFR proficiency levels in oral performance. Using a quantitative/corpus-based approach, this research analyzed lexical and syntactic complexity features over 80 transcriptions (includes A1, A2, B1 CEFR levels, and native speakers), based on an interview test, Standard Speaking Test (SST). ANOVA and correlation analysis were conducted to exclude insignificant complexity indices before the discriminant analysis. In the result, distinctive differences in complexity between CEFR speaking levels were observed, and with a combination of six major complexity features as predictors, 78.8% of the oral transcriptions were classified into the appropriate CEFR proficiency levels. It further confirms the possibility of predicting CEFR level of L2 learners based on their objective linguistic features. This study can be helpful as an empirical reference in language pedagogy, especially for L2 learners' self-assessment and teachers' prediction of students' proficiency levels. Also, it offers implications for the validation of the rating criteria, and improvement of rating system.

• 아시아태평양코퍼스연구
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2021

This paper makes a quantitative analysis of the diachronic evolution of ancient Chinese vocabulary by constructing and counting a large-scale rough annotated corpus. The texts from Si Ku Quan Shu (a collection of Chinese ancient books) are automatically segmented to obtain ancient Chinese vocabulary with time information, which is used to the statistics on word frequency, standardized type/token ratio and proportion of monosyllabic words and dissyllabic words. Through data analysis, this study has the following four findings. Firstly, the high-frequency words in ancient Chinese are stable to a certain extent. Secondly, there is no obvious dissyllabic trend in ancient Chinese vocabulary. Moreover, the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589 AD) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD) are probably the two periods with the most abundant vocabulary in ancient Chinese. Finally, the unique words with high frequency in each dynasty are mainly official titles with real power. These findings break away from qualitative methods used in traditional researches on Chinese language history and instead uses quantitative methods to draw macroscopic conclusions from large-scale corpus.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.132-139
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• 2021

본 코퍼스 기반 연구는 통사론 영역에서 자주 등장하는 학술어휘들을 목록화하고 추출된 단어 목록을 Coxhead(2000)의 학술어휘 목록(AWL) 및 West(1953)의 기본어휘 목록(GSL)과 비교하여 통사론 코퍼스 내의 어휘 분포와 범위를 조사하였다. 이를 위해 영어교육 전공자들이 주로 사용하는 필수 통사론 전공 서적을 546,074 단어 수준의 전문 코퍼스로 구축한 다음 AntWordProfiler 1.4.1로 분석하였다. 빈도를 기준으로 분석한 결과 16회 이상 등장한 학술어휘는 288개(50.5%), 15회 이하 등장한 학술어휘는 218개(38.2%)로 나타났다. AWL과 GSL의 출현 범위는 각각 9.19%와 78.92%로 나타났으며 GSL과 AWL을 포함한 비중은 전체 토큰의 88.11%에 달하였다. AWL이 광범위한 학술 요구를 충족시키는데 중추적인 역할을 할 수 있다는 점을 감안할 때, 본 연구는 학문 문식성과 학업 능력을 향상시키기 위한 방안으로 학문 분야별 학술 어휘목록을 편성할 필요가 있음을 강조하였다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.1588-1597
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• 1996

본 논문은 한국어 어휘 중의성 해소(lexical disambiguation)에서 어휘 확률 (lexical probability) 평가방법에 대해 기술하고 있다. 통계적 접근 방법의 어휘 중 의성 해소에서는 일반적으로 말뭉치(corpus)로부터 추출된 통계 자료에 기초하여 어 휘 확률과 문맥 확률(contextual probability)을 평가한다. 한국어는 어절별로 띄어 쓰기가 이루어지므로 어절 단위로 어휘 확률을 적용하는 것이 바람직하다. 하지만 한 국어는 어절의 다양성이 심하기 때문에 상당히 큰 말뭉치를 사용하더라도 어절 단위 로는 어휘 확률을 직접 평가할 수 없는 경우가 다소 있다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해 본 연구에서는 어휘 분석 측면에서 어절의 유사성을 정의하고 이에 기반을 둔 한국어 어휘 확률 평가 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법에서는 어떤 어절에 대해 어휘 확률 을 직접 평가할 수 없는 경우 이와 어휘 분석이 유사한 어절들을 통해 간접적으로 평 가한다. 실험결과 제안된 접근방법이 한국어 어휘 중의성 해소에 효과적인 것으로 나 타나고 있다.

• 한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.81-102
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to provide corpus-based quantitative analyses of HEART and HEAD in order to examine their actual usage status and to consider some cognitive linguistic aspects associated with their use. The two corpora COCA and COHA are used for analysis in this study. The analysis of COCA corpus reveals that the total frequency of HEAD is much higher than that of HEART, and that the figurative use of HEART (60%) is two times higher than its literal use (32%); by contrast, the figurative use of HEAD (41%) is a bit higher than its literal use (38%). Among all four genres, both lexemes occur most frequently in fictions and then in magazines. Over the past two centuries, the use of HEART has been steadily decreasing; by contrast, that the use of HEAD has been steadily increasing. It is assumed that the decreasing use of HEART has partially to do with the decrease in its figurative use and that the increasing use of HEAD is attributable to its diverse meanings, the increase of its lexical use, and the partial increase in its figurative use. The analysis of the collocation of verbs and adjectives preceding HEART and HEAD, as well the modifying and predicating forms of HEART and HEAD also provides some relevant information of the usage of the two lexemes. This paper showcases that the quantitative information helps understanding not only of the actual usage of the two lexemes but also of the cognitive forces working behind it.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.265-275
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• 1994

어휘중의성 해소는 음성 인식/생성, 정보 검색, 발뭉치 태킹 등 자연언어 처리에서 가장 기초가 되는 분야 중의 하나이다. 본 논문은 말뭉치로부터 추출된 통계정보를 이용하는 한국어 어휘중의성해소 기법에 대해 기술한다. 이 기법에서는 좀더 정밀한 중의성해소를 위해 품사태그 대신 형태소분석 결과에 해당하는 토큰태그를 사용하고 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 어휘선택함수는 어미나 조사의 호응 관계등 한국어의 어휘적 특성을 잘 반영하기 때문에 상당히 높은 정확성을 보여준다. 그리고 활용분야에 적합하게 사용될 수 있도록 유일선택 방식과 다중선택 방식이라는 두가지 중의성해소 방식을 지원하고 있다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.549-557
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• 2001

Morphological analysis and POS tagging require a dictionary for the language at hand . In this fashion though it is impossible to analyze a language a dictionary. We also have difficulty if significant portion of the vocabulary is new or unknown . This paper explores the possibility of learning morphology of an agglutinative language. in particular Korean language, without any prior lexical knowledge of the language. We use unsupervised learning in that there is no instructor to guide the outcome of the learner, nor any tagged corpus. Here are the main characteristics of the approach: First. we use only raw corpus without any tags attached or any dictionary. Second, unlike many heuristics that are theoretically ungrounded, this method is based on statistical methods , which are widely accepted. The method is currently applied only to Korean language but since it is essentially language-neutral it can easily be adapted to other agglutinative languages.