• Language and Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.53-75
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• 2014

This study discovers the dynamic nature of an interactional hierarchy as well as an institutional hierarchy in the use of Korean honorifics. Data was collected from the conversations of two Korean female interlocutors. The interlocutors met for the first time in the U.S. and often changed their use of honorifics. The paper examines the method in which the two interlocutors negotiate hierarchies during interaction and how the negotiation is reflected in their use of honorific shifts. The paper also investigates honorific shifts in terms of self-representation to suggest that there is another hierarchy at work other than the institutional hierarchy. An examination of the data shows that the shifts occurred not randomly but strategically. The findings suggest that 1) interlocutors may negotiate interactional hierarchy during their conversation, often in the same sentence, 2) interactional hierarchy often cross the boundary of the institutional hierarchy to obtain interactional goals, in this case, intimacy, and 3) the utterance contents may play a significant role in the interlocutors' honorific shifts.

• Lingua Humanitatis
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.321-347
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• 2002

The Russian language uses more words that imply collectivism than Western Indo-European languages. In Korean, the first-person plural pronouns are used more often than in Western languages. In this respect, Russian seems to stand closer to the latter, although typologically it belongs to the Indo-European family. The predominance of 'we' over 'I,' which took place in the history of the Russian language, had something to do with the Russian commune and the ecclesiastical and spiritual concept of 'sobornost' (equation omitted). A similarity between the Russian and the Korean nations lies in a collective way of life as compared to Western nations. The Russian concepts of (equation omitted) and (equation omitted) ('commune') have direct analogues in the Korean language. In all societies a commune involves a certain sense of collectivity, or spiritual unity of the people - 'sobornost' (equation omitted). Korean collectivity is more familial and moral in character, whereas Russian 'sobornost' is more spiritual. This has its direct reflection in Korean and Russian languages. One can say that a sort of a family version of Russian 'sobornost' takes place in Korean society.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.153-166
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine Korean young children's acquisition of honorific expressions. The participants of the present study were 297 young children (ages 3-5 years) from Kyunggi province. The results of the study showed that young children acquire honorific markers in the order of hearer-honorific expressions, subject-honorific expressions, and then object-honorific expressions. Five-year old children acquired at least 75% of the hearer-honorific expressions. The result can be explained by the fact that most of them were used in greetings. Even though more than 90% of five-year old children acquired the subject-honorific marker si, the acquisition rates of subjecthonorific nouns and subject-honorific verbs were less than 10%. Finally, the acquisition rates of objecthonorific expressions were less than 20%, with the exception of the object-honorific noun ce. The results of the study suggest that educational programs should be developed in order to facilitate the acquisition of honorific markers in young children.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2001.10d
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• pp.365-372
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• 2001

한국어나 일본어는 영어 등 서구의 언어와 비교하여 매우 발달된 경어 체계를 가지고 있다. 그러나 이러한 경어 체계는 이들 언어를 모국어로 사용하지 않는 사람들을 포함하여 모국어로 사용하는 많은 사람들까지도 정확하게 구사하기는 어려워 하는 것이 현실이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 경어 체계의 정확한 구사 능력은 적절한 어휘 선택 능력과 함께 자연스러운 의사 소통을 위한 중요한 언어 능력으로 간주되고 있다. 특히 기계번역기나 문법검사기를 구현하고자 할 때 이러한 경어 체계를 정확하게 이해하는 시스템의 구현은 한 차원 높은 자연스러운 표현을 제공하기 위하여 필수적이라고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국어의 경어 체계를 조사하고 결합범주문법을 통하여 이를 검증하는 시스템을 소개한 뒤 사극 대본을 대상으로 하여 이 시스템의 성능을 확인한다.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.93-119
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• 2009

Internalized Confucian cultural scripts trigger meta-pragmatic thinking in Korean communication. Commonly shared cultural knowledge acts as a powerful constraint upon the behavioral patterns of each participant and this knowledge can be strategically manipulated to avoid confrontations. The strategic use of address reference terms utilizes cultural values as a face-redress mechanism to achieve situation-specific goals. This paper offers a view of Korean address reference terms that rests on four revisions of politeness theory (Brown & Levinson, 1978, 1987). First, the notion of discernment - or 'wakimae' - as a culture-specific mechanism is reanalyzed. Secondly, culture-specific values as another R (ranking of imposition) variable are introduced. Thirdly, a reevaluation of the notion of positive face (respect) is discussed. Finally, the address reference terms in combination with other honorifics by the speaker that can be strategically applied either to threaten or to enhance the face of the hearer is observed. Because Confucianism is embedded in Korean cultural identity, teaching cultural values integrated and their roles in situation-dependent politeness is required in order to understand interactional nature of politeness occurring from particular discourse contexts.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.161-166
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• 2021

본 연구는 한국어 문장 임베딩(embedding)에 담겨진 언어적 속성을 평가하기 위한 프로빙 태스크(Probing Task)를 소개한다. 프로빙 태스크는 임베딩으로부터 문장의 표층적, 통사적, 의미적 속성을 구분하는 문제로 영어, 폴란드어, 러시아어 문장에 적용된 프로빙 테스크를 소개하고, 이를 기반으로하여 한국어 문장의 속성을 잘 보여주는 한국어 문장 임베딩 프로빙 태스크를 설계하였다. 언어 공통적으로 적용 가능한 6개의 프로빙 태스크와 한국어 문장의 주요 특징인 주어 생략(SubjOmission), 부정법(Negation), 경어법(Honorifics)을 추가로 고안하여 총 9개의 프로빙 태스크를 구성하였다. 각 태스크를 위한 데이터셋은 '세종 구문분석 말뭉치'를 의존구문문법(Universal Dependency Grammar) 구조로 변환한 후 자동으로 구축하였다. HuggingFace에 공개된 4개의 다국어(multilingual) 문장 인코더와 4개의 한국어 문장 인코더로부터 획득한 임베딩의 언어적 속성을 프로빙 태스크를 통해 비교 분석한 결과, 다국어 문장 인코더인 mBART가 9개의 프로빙 태스크에서 전반적으로 높은 성능을 보였다. 또한 한국어 문장 임베딩에는 표층적, 통사적 속성보다는 심층적인 의미적 속성을 더욱 잘 담고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.213-219
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to prove the students' understanding of audiovisual translation and the class effect by using the lesson plan that can efficiently teach the audiovisual translation class, which is one of the major elective courses at S University. After taking the course, a questionnaire was surveyed and the results were analyzed. The response and satisfaction with the content of the class was positive and very high, and it was confirmed that the background knowledge of the movie was especially helpful for translation practice. The effect of the class was focused on translating subtitles, and only the abbreviated part of the response to the questionnaire was expressed in a table, and the rest was expressed descriptively. Specifically, the response rate for abbreviations, pronouns, titles suitable for personal relationships, putting subjects and predicates close together were the most positive, followed by natural expressions, sign writing, handling of honorifics and informal words, attaching subject and predicates closer, translating them in reverse, and converting units.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.219-240
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• 2023

Conversational AI which allows users to interact with satisfaction is a long-standing research topic. To develop conversational AI, it is necessary to build training data that reflects real conversations between people, but current Korean datasets are not in question-answer format or use honorifics, making it difficult for users to feel closeness. In this paper, we propose a conversation dataset (KOMUChat) consisting of 30,767 question-answer sentence pairs collected from online communities. The question-answer pairs were collected from post titles and first comments of love and relationship counsel boards used by men and women. In addition, we removed abuse records through automatic and manual cleansing to build high quality dataset. To verify the validity of KOMUChat, we compared and analyzed the result of generative language model learning KOMUChat and benchmark dataset. The results showed that our dataset outperformed the benchmark dataset in terms of answer appropriateness, user satisfaction, and fulfillment of conversational AI goals. The dataset is the largest open-source single turn text data presented so far and it has the significance of building a more friendly Korean dataset by reflecting the text styles of the online community.