• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.38-47
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• 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of cultural competence on nursing professionalism among nursing students in South Korea. Methods: A sample of 218 nursing students in three universities answered a self-report questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U-test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson's correlation analyses, and hierarchical multiple regression were used to analyze the data. Results: There were significant differences in cultural competence depending on the use of foreign language, having foreign friends, frequency of interaction with foreigners, multi-cultural education experiences, and level of demand for multicultural education. There were significant differences in nursing professionalism depending on grade level, satisfaction with major choice, college life satisfaction, and foreign language learning experience. There was a significant positive correlation between cultural competence and nursing professionalism. Lastly, significant predictors of nursing professionalism included satisfaction with major choice (${\beta}=.22$, p=.004), cultural awareness (${\beta}=.22$, p=.007) and cultural experience (${\beta}=.17$, p=.026). The regression model explained 20.2% of nursing professionalism. Conclusion: In order to establish desirable nursing professionalism, strategies for enhancing cultural awareness and cultural experiences in nursing education courses are needed both inside and outside the curriculum.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.111-119
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• 2018

This paper proposes a method to improve speech recognition performance by extracting various pronunciations of the pseudo-morpheme unit from an eojeol unit corpus and generating a new recognition unit considering pronunciation variations. In the proposed method, we first align the pronunciation of the eojeol units and the pseudo-morpheme units, and then expand the pronunciation dictionary by extracting the new pronunciations of the pseudo-morpheme units at the pronunciation of the eojeol units. Then, we propose a new recognition unit that relies on pronunciation by tagging the obtained phoneme symbols according to the pseudo-morpheme units. The proposed units and their extended pronunciations are incorporated into the lexicon and language model of the speech recognizer. Experiments for performance evaluation are performed using the Korean speech recognizer with a trigram language model obtained by a 100 million pseudo-morpheme corpus and an acoustic model trained by a multi-genre broadcast speech data of 445 hours. The proposed method is shown to reduce the word error rate relatively by 13.8% in the news-genre evaluation data and by 4.5% in the total evaluation data.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.64 no.4
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• pp.629-649
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• 2018

To date, one of the prevailing criticisms of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe has seen the adventure novel as a celebration of the rise of mercantile capitalism and the beginnings of colonialism. From this point of view, the Englishman has often been interpreted as an early embodiment of the concept of the sovereign economic subject. Prominent social critics who took up this interpretation have included Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Within literary studies proper, the work of Ian Watt offered perhaps the earliest version of this point of view of the novel. Influenced by both Weber and Rousseau, Ian Watt argued that Defoe's wandering protagonist embodies the rise of economic individualism. More recent criticism has tended to challenge this dominant interpretation by laying greater stress on such countervailing factors as Crusoe's mental uncertainty and inner conflict. Drawing inspiration from Fredric Jameson's diagnosis of the ills of late capitalism, this paper analyzes the ways in which Defoe's hero, rather than championing modern rationality, can in fact be seen as suffering from many forms of emotional psychosis. Robinson Crusoe can, after all, be better viewed as a contradictory multi-layered text that, despite its outward valorization of economic individualism, portrays its hero as a victim of negative capitalistic forces, a hero driven by his desire to possess but haunted by a fear of loss, a hero who flaunts inflated feelings of self-worth even as he reveals deflated notions of material insecurity and mental persecution.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.107-127
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• 2008

Critics are inclined to interpret J.M. Coetzee's novels in South African contexts, which Coetzee's own background seems to support. One has to bear in mind, however, that Coetzee tends to "see the South African situation as only one manifestation of a wider historical situation to do with colonialism, late colonialism, neo-colonialism." In other words, putting too much emphasis on South African contexts may diminish or undermine significance of Coetzee's multi-layered novels. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to highlight what Coetzee has to say about American colonialism/imperialism and to emphasize importance of "postcolonial rhetoric of simultaneity" which is repeatedly shown in his fictional works. It gives a meticulous attention to and analyzes "Vietnam Project," the first novella of Dusklands, Coetzee's very first novel, which depicts and characterizes "what Chomsky in the context of Vietnam [War] called 'the backroom boys.'" "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," "When a Woman Grows Older," and Diary of a Bad Year are occasionally brought into discussion as well. This kind of study seems timely and pertinent especially when we take into account the rampant American imperialism which has devastated and almost traumatized the world.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.993-1011
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• 2009

Generally, the parts narrated by Esther in Bleak House has been considered less convincing and reliable than those by the anonymous narrator for some problematic qualities in her character and narration. However, Esther's narrative shows Dickens' masterly depiction of emotional deprivation, the psychic consequences of the Victorian sexual repression on its victim. Therefore, to restore the reliability of Esther's narrative is the prerequisite for claiming its value as an appropriate locus of the meanings of the text. On the other hand, the anonymous narrator is not so omniscient as he has been regarded. As the chapters proceed, his omniscient power and authority is conspicuously weakened, and even transferred to other characters such as Esther and Mr. Bucket. This shows that the identity of the omniscient voice is unstable and that Dickens does not intend his voice to be the sole center of meanings of the text. In short, these two narratives are the necessary partners in imagining and understanding the society in its wholeness. Alternating and sometimes intersecting each other throughout the novel, these opposing viewpoints make us see the contradictory multi-leveledness of the Victorian society. The equality of them implies Dickens' notion that more than single unified voice is needed to portray ideological conflicts of his age.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.109-117
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• 2021

The auditory-perceptual evaluation of speech-language pathologists (SLP) in patients with voice disorders is often regarded as a touchstone in the multi-dimensional voice evaluation procedures and provides important information not available in other assessment modalities. Therefore, it is necessary for the SLPs to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of not only voice but also the overall speech production mechanism, and they often encounter various difficulties in the evaluation process. In addition, SLPs should strive to avoid bias during the evaluation process and to maintain a wide and constant spectrum of severity for each parameter of voice quality. Lastly, it is very important for the SLPs to perform a team approach by documenting and delivering important information pertaining to auditory-perceptual characteristics in an appropriate and efficient way through close communication with the laryngologists.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.88-91
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• 2022

디지털 휴먼, 민원 상담, ARS 등 칫챗의 활용과 수요가 증가함에 따라 칫챗의 성능 향상을 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히, 오토 인코더(Auto-encoder) 기반의 생성 모델(Generative Model)은 높은 성능을 보이며 지속적인 연구가 이루어지고 있으나, 이전 대화들에 대한 충분한 문맥 정보의 반영이 어렵고 문법적으로 부적절한 답변을 생성하는 문제가 있다. 이를 개선하기 위해 검색 기반의 생성 모델과 관련된 연구가 진행되고 있으나, 현재 시점의 문장이 유사해도 이전 문장들에 따라 의도와 답변이 달라지는 멀티턴 대화 특징을 반영하여 대화를 검색하는 연구가 부족하다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 멀티턴 대화의 특징이 고려된 검색 방법을 제안하고 검색된 레퍼런스(준정답 문장)를 멀티턴 대화와 함께 생성 모델의 입력으로 활용하여 학습시키는 방안을 제안한다. 제안 방안으로 학습된 발화 생성 모델은 기존 모델과 비교 평가를 수행하며 Rouge-1 스코어에서 13.11점, Rouge-2 스코어에서 10.09점 Rouge-L 스코어에서 13.2점 향상된 성능을 보였고 이를 통해 제안 방안의 우수성을 입증하였다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.348-353
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• 2022

최근 신경망 기반의 언어모델이 발전함에 따라 대부분의 검색 모델에서는 Bi-encoder를 기반으로한 Dense retrieval 모델에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 DPR은 BM25를 통해 정답 문서와 유사한 정보를 가진 하드 네거티브를 사용하여 대조학습을 통해 성능을 더욱 끌어올린다. 그러나 BM25로 검색된 하드 네거티브는 term-base의 유사도를 통해 뽑히기 때문에, 의미적으로 비슷한 내용을 갖는 하드 네거티브의 역할을 제대로 수행하지 못하고 대조학습의 효율성을 낮출 가능성이 있다. 따라서 DRP의 대조학습에서 하드 네거티브의 역할을 본질적으로 수행할 수 있는 문서를 샘플링 하는 방법을 제시하고, 이때 얻은 하드 네거티브의 집합을 주기적으로 업데이트 하여 효과적으로 대조학습을 진행하는 방법을 제안한다. 지식 기반 대화 데이터셋인 MultiDoc2Dial을 통해 평가를 수행하였으며, 실험 결과 기존 방식보다 더 높은 성능을 나타낸다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.184-187
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• 2020

다중 지문 기계독해는 질문과 여러 개의 지문을 입력받고 입력된 지문들에서 추출된 정답 중에 하나의 정답을 출력하는 문제이다. 다중 지문 기계독해에서는 정답이 있을 단락을 선택하는 순위화 방법에 따라서 성능이 크게 달라질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 단락 안에 정답이 있을 확률을 예측하는 단락 재순위화 모델과 선택된 단락에서 서술형 정답을 위한 세부적인 정답의 경계를 예측하는 세부 단락 선별 기법을 제안한다. 단락 순위화 모델 학습의 경우 모델 학습을 위해 각 단락의 출력에 softmax와 cross-entroy를 이용한 손실 값과 sigmoid와 평균 제곱 오차의 손실 값을 함께 학습하고 키워드 매칭을 함께 적용했을 때 KorQuAD 2.0의 개발셋에서 상위 1개 단락, 3개 단락, 5개 단락에서 각각 82.3%, 94.5%, 97.0%의 재현율을 보였다. 세부 단락 선별 모델의 경우 입력된 두 단락을 비교하는 duoBERT를 이용했을 때 KorQuAD 2.0의 개발셋에서 F1 83.0%의 성능을 보였다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2020.10a
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• pp.507-511
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• 2020

오픈 도메인 대화에서 텍스트에 나타난 태도나 성향과 같은 화자의 주관적인 감정정보를 분석하는 것은 사용자들에게서 풍부한 응답을 이끌어 내고 동시에 제공하는 목적으로 사용될 수 있다. 하지만 한국어 감성분석에서 기존의 대부분의 연구들은 긍정과 부정 두개의 클래스 분류만을 다루고 있고 이는 현실 화자의 감정 정보를 정확하게 분석하기에는 어려움이 있다. 또한 최근에 오픈한 다중클래스로된 한국어 대화 감성분석 데이터셋은 중립 클래스가 전체 데이터셋의 절반을 차지하고 일부 클래스는 사용하기에 매우 적은, 다시 말해 클래스 간의 데이터 불균형 문제가 있어 다루기 굉장히 까다롭다. 이 논문에서 우리는 일곱개의 클래스가 존재하는 한국어 대화에서 세션들을 효율적으로 분류하는 기법들에 대해 논의한다. 우리는 극심한 클래스 불균형에도 불구하고 76.56 micro F1을 기록하였다.