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Bridging the Gap between Grammar and Conversation in Korean College English Conversation Classes

  • Lee, Eun-Ah
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • no.5
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    • pp.27-48
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    • 1999
  • College students frequently feel their grammar knowledge from primary and middle school is not useful when they are asked to speak in college conversation classes. Because of their frustration at their lack of communicational ability as well as inappropriate teaching methods and class textbooks that have little to do with the student's major course of study, the student often has a low motivation to study. It is not uncommon for students to seek English education outside of their college classrooms by going to language institutes or studying abroad. College teachers need to find a way to use the student's background in grammar from primary and secondary schools. Despite the student's sentiment about his/her grammar education, grammar is an essential key to successful English conversation. Some ways that teachers can close the gap between primary and secondary school grammar education and college conversation classes are: to use a theme-based methodology, cue cards, and modeling. Activities such as Grammar Clinic, Grammar Police, and Show and Tell can be effective ways to bridge this gap. Teachers can use these activities and methods to correct such student errors as: incorrect word order, missing or unnecessary be verbs, confusion between be and do verbs, subject-verb agreement. and incorrect tense.

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Dependency Grammar and the Parsing of Chinese Sentences

  • Lai, Bong-Ycung-Tom;Huang, Changning
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 1994.02a
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 1994
  • Dependency Grammar has been used by Iinguists as the basis of the syntactic components of their grammar formalisms. It has also been used in natural langauge parsing. In China, attempts have been made to use this grammar formalism to parse Chinese sentences using corpus based techniques. This paper reviews the properties of Dependency Grammar as embodied in four axioms for the well-formedness conditions for dependency structures. It is shown that allowing mul tiple governors as done by some followers of this formalism is unnecessary. The practice of augmenting Dependency Grammar with functional labels is discussed in the light of building functional structures when the sentence is parsed. This will also facilitate semantic interpretion.retion.

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Using Corpora for Studying English Grammar

  • Kwon, Heok-Seung
    • Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.61-81
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    • 2004
  • This paper will look at some grammatical phenomena which will illustrate some of the questions that can be addressed with a corpus-based approach. We will use this approach to investigate the following subjects in English grammar: number ambiguity, subject-verb concord, concord with measure expressions, and (reflexive) pronoun choice in coordinated noun phrases. We will emphasize the distinctive features of the corpus-based approach, particularly its strengths in investigating language use, as opposed to traditional descriptions or prescriptions of structure in English grammar. This paper will show that a corpus-based approach has made it possible to conduct new kinds of investigations into grammar in use and to expand the scope of earlier investigations. Native speakers rarely have accurate information about frequency of use. A large representative corpus (i.e., The British National Corpus) is one of the most reliable sources of frequency information. It is important to base an analysis of language on real data rather than intuition. Any description of grammar is more complete and accurate if it is based on a body of real data.

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Parsing Korean Comparative Constructions in a Typed-Feature Structure Grammar

  • Kim, Jong-Bok;Yang, Jae-Hyung;Song, Sang-Houn
    • Language and Information
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2010
  • The complexity of comparative constructions in each language has given challenges to both theoretical and computational analyses. This paper first identifies types of comparative constructions in Korean and discusses their main grammatical properties. It then builds a syntactic parser couched upon the typed feature structure grammar, HPSG and proposes a context-dependent interpretation for the comparison. To check the feasibility of the proposed analysis, we have implemented the grammar into the existing Korean Resource Grammar. The results show us that the grammar we have developed here is feasible enough to parse Korean comparative sentences and yield proper semantic representations though further development is needed for a finer model for contextual information.

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Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning

  • Atsushi Mizumoto;Yoichi Watari
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.25-42
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    • 2023
  • The number of studies on data-driven learning (DDL) has increased in recent years, and DDL's overall effectiveness as an L2 (second language) teaching methodology has been reported to be high. However, the degree of its effectiveness in grammar instruction, particularly for the goal of correcting errors in L2 writing, is still unclear. To provide guidelines for focused grammar instruction with DDL in the Japanese classroom setting, we aimed to identify the typical grammatical errors made by Japanese learners in the Cambridge Learner Corpus First Certificate in English (CLC FCE) dataset. The results revealed that three error types (nouns, articles, and prepositions) should be addressed in DDL grammar instruction for Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. In light of the findings, pedagogical implications and suggestions for future DDL research and practice are discussed.

A Korean Grammar Checker based on the Trees Resulted from a Full Parser (전체 문장 분석에 기반한 한국어 문법 검사기)

  • 이공주;황선영;김지은
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.992-999
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of a grammar checker is to find a grammatical erroneous expression in a sentence, and to provide appropriate suggestions for them. To find those errors, grammar checker should parse the whole input sentence, which is a highly time-consuming job. B7or this reason, most Korean grammar checkers adopt a partial parser that can analyze a fragment of a sentence without an ambiguity. This paper presents a Korean grammar checker using a full parser in order to find grammatical errors. This approach allows the grammar checker to critique the errors between the two words in a long distance relationship within a sentence. As a result, this approach improves the accuracy in correcting errors, but it nay come at the expense of decrease in its performance. The Korean grammar checker described in this paper is implemented with 65 rules for checking and correcting the grammatical errors. The grammar checker shows 96.49% in checking accuracy against the test corpus including 7 million words.

Identifying Space Grammar in the Unit Plans of Contemporary Indonesian Houses

  • Ju, Seo Ryeung;Maisarah, Maisarah;Kim, Min Kyoung
    • Architectural research
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.9-20
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    • 2019
  • In the spatial configuration of a unit plan, two rules exist: one that governs the arrangement of spaces, and one that controls the design process of generating a unit plan. This study defines space grammar as an integration of the two rules that give birth to a given spatial configuration and as the process of the generation of unit plans. To understand the distinctive features of Indonesian row houses, this study analyzes the unit plans of row houses in new towns of the metropolitan cities of Indonesia, derives a common space grammar from the unit plans, and interprets the sociocultural background that has produced this space grammar. This study employs Seo's (2007a; 2007b) graph-theoretic methodology to analyze the spatial configurations of unit plans along with a topographical approach to systematically illustrate the design process. The guest space was found as the most unique space of Indonesian houses, which cannot be found in other Southeast Asian houses. Kitchen was clearly seperated from the dining and living spaces, following traditional custom. Dining space was found to serve as a circulation center, connecting the entrance, the lving area and the kitchen. This study locates the basic orders of primary space and the design principles that dictate the unique spatial configurations of Indonesian row houses. This study reveals the basic space grammar that underpins the forms of Indonesian row houses, explaining the sociocultural and geo-climatic factors affecting this space grammar and proposing unique characteristics of Indonesian contemporary houses.

QRS Recognition Using Attribute Grammar Interpreter (어트리뷰트 그래머 인터프리터를 이용한 QRS 인식)

  • 이병채;남승우
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 1991
  • This paper presents a QRS recognition algorithm using attribute grammar and its interpreter. This system extracts primitive and their attributes by linear approximation technique and then represented linguistic formation using attribute grammar. These nonterminals and their attributes are evaluated by attribute grammar interpreter. The performance of the QRS recognition algorithm has been evaluated using arrhythmia simulator and CSE ECG library.

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On-Line Recognition of Handwritten Hangeul by Augmented Context Free Grammar (보강문맥자유문법을 이용한 필기체한글 온라인 인식)

  • 이희동;김태균
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.769-776
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    • 1987
  • A method of on-line recognition of Korean characters (Hangeul) by augmented conterxt free grammar is described in this paper. Syntactic analysis with context free grammar oftern has ambiguity. Insufficient description of relations among Hangrul sub-patterns causes this ambiguity can be determined through repetition of experiments. Flexible syntactic analysis is executed by adapting the condition to the (advice)part of augmented context free grammar. The ratio of correct recognition of this method is more than 99%.

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Korean Probabilistic Dependency Grammar Induction by morpheme (형태소 단위의 한국어 확률 의존문법 학습)

  • Choi, Seon-Hwa;Park, Hyuk-Ro
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.9B no.6
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    • pp.791-798
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    • 2002
  • In this thesis. we present a new method for inducing a probabilistic dependency grammar (PDG) from text corpus. As words in Korean are composed of a set of more basic morphemes, there exist various dependency relations in a word. So, if the induction process does not take into account of these in-word dependency relations, the accuracy of the resulting grammar nay be poor. In comparison with previous PDG induction methods. the main difference of the proposed method lies in the fact that the method takes into account in-word dependency relations as well as inter-word dependency relations. To access the performance of the proposed method, we conducted an experiment using a manually-tagged corpus of 25,000 sentences which is complied by Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The grammar induction produced 2,349 dependency rules. The parser with these dependency rules shoved 69.77% accuracy in terms of the number of correct dependency relations relative to the total number dependency relations for best-1 parse trees of sample sentences. The result shows that taking into account in-word dependency relations in the course of grammar induction results in a more accurate dependency grammar.