• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.124-129
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• 2006

This parer presents a method of ranking translation word selection for Korean verbs based on lexical knowledge contained in a bilingual Korean-English dictionary and WordNet that are easily obtainable knowledge resources. We focus on deciding which translation of the target word is the most appropriate using the measure of semantic relatedness through the 45 extended relations between possible translations of target word and some indicative clue words that play a role of predicate-arguments in source language text. In order to reduce the weight of application of possibly unwanted senses, we rank the possible word senses for each translation word by measuring semantic similarity between the translation word and its near synonyms. We report an average accuracy of $51\%$ with ten Korean ambiguous verbs. The evaluation suggests that our approach outperforms the default baseline performance and previous works.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.5 s.43
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• pp.75-86
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• 2006

Target word selection is one of the most important and difficult tasks in English-Korean Machine Translation. It effects on the translation accuracy of machine translation systems. In this paper, we present a new approach to select Korean target word for an English noun with translation ambiguities using multiple knowledge such as verb frame patterns, sense vectors based on collocations, statistical Korean local context information and co-occurring POS information. Verb frame patterns constructed with dictionary and corpus play an important role in resolving the sparseness problem of collocation data. Sense vectors are a set of collocation data when an English word having target selection ambiguities is to be translated to specific Korean target word. Statistical Korean local context Information is an N-gram information generated using Korean corpus. The co-occurring POS information is a statistically significant POS clue which appears with ambiguous word. The experiment showed promising results for diverse sentences from web documents.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.1 s.104
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• pp.71-76
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• 2006

To obtain a correctly translated sentence in a machine translation system, we must select target words that not only reflect an appropriate meaning in a source sentence but also make a fluent sentence in a target language. This paper points out that a source language word has various senses and each sense can be mapped into multiple target words, and proposes a new translation disambiguation method based on this 'word-to-sense and sense-to-word' relationship. In my method target words are chosen through disambiguation of a source word sense and selection of a target word. Most of translation disambiguation methods are based on a 'word-to-word' relationship that means they translate a source word directly into a target wort so they require complicate knowledge sources that directly link a source words to target words, which are hard to obtain like bilingual aligned corpora. By combining two sub-problems for each language, knowledge for translation disambiguation can be automatically extracted from knowledge sources for each language that are easy to obtain. In addition, disambiguation results satisfy both fidelity and intelligibility because selected target words have correct meaning and generate naturally composed target sentences.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.56-61
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• 2000

The quality of English to Korean Machine Translation depends on how well it deals with target word selection of verbs containing enormous ambiguity. Verb sense disambiguation can be done by using collocation, but the construction of verb collocations costs a lot of efforts and expenses. So, existing methods should be examined in the practical view points. This paper describes the practical method of target word selection using existing collocation and semantic distance computed from minimum semantic features of nouns.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.17B no.4
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• pp.327-332
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• 2010

Word mismatch is the most significant problem that causes low performance in question classification, whose questions consist of only two or three words that expressed in many different ways. So, it is necessary to apply word association in question classification. In this paper, we propose question classification method using translation-based language model, which use word translation probabilities for question-question pair that is learned in the same category. In the experiment, we prove that translation probabilities of question-question pairs in the same category is more effective than question-answer pairs in total collection.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.6
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• pp.749-758
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new method utilizing only raw corpus without additional human effort for disambiguation of target word selection in English-Korean machine translation. We use two data-driven techniques; one is the Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA) and the other the Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis(PLSA). These two techniques can represent complex semantic structures in given contexts like text passages. We construct linguistic semantic knowledge by using the two techniques and use the knowledge for target word selection in English-Korean machine translation. For target word selection, we utilize a grammatical relationship stored in a dictionary. We use k- nearest neighbor learning algorithm for the resolution of data sparseness Problem in target word selection and estimate the distance between instances based on these models. In experiments, we use TREC data of AP news for construction of latent semantic space and Wail Street Journal corpus for evaluation of target word selection. Through the Latent Semantic Analysis methods, the accuracy of target word selection has improved over 10% and PLSA has showed better accuracy than LSA method. finally we have showed the relatedness between the accuracy and two important factors ; one is dimensionality of latent space and k value of k-NT learning by using correlation calculation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.502-504
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 대량의 말뭉치에서 추출된 잠재의미에 기반하여 단어간 유사도를 측정하고 이를 영한 기계 번역에서의 역어선택에 적용한다. 잠재의미 추출을 위해서는 latent semantic analysis(LSA)와 probabilistic LSA(PLSA)를 이용한다. 주어진 단어의 역어 선택시 기본적으로 연어(collocation) 사전을 검색하고, 미등록 단어의 경우 등재된 단어 중 해당 단어와 유사도가 높은 항목의 정보를 활용하며 이 때 $textsc{k}$-최근접 이웃 방법이 이용된다. 단어들간의 유사도 계산은 잠재의미 공간상에서 이루어진다. 실험에서, 연어사전만 이용하였을 경우보다 최고 15%의 성능 향상을 보였으며, PLSA에 기반한 방법이 LSA에 의한 방법보다 역어선택 성능 면에서 약간 더 우수하였다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1999.10e
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• pp.209-214
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• 1999

패턴기반기계번역방식은 원시언어패턴과 그에 대한 대역언어패턴들의 쌍을 이용하여 구문분석과 변환을 수행하는 기계번역방식이다. 패턴기반 기계번역방식은 번역할 때 발생하는 애매성을 해소하기 위해 패턴의 길이를 문장단위까지 늘이기 때문에, 패턴의 수가 급증하는 문제점을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 패턴의 단위를 구단위로 한정시킬 때 발생하는 애매성을 해소하는 방법으로 시소러스를 기반으로 한 두단계 대역어 선택 방식을 제안함으로써 효과적으로 애매성을 감소시키면서 패턴의 길이를 줄이는 모델을 제시한다. 두단계 대역어 선택 방식은 원시언어의 한 패턴에 대해 여러 가능한 목적언어의 대역패턴들이 있을 때, 첫 번째 단계에서는 원시언어 내에서의 제약조건에 맞는 몇가지 대역패턴들을 선택하고, 두번째 단계에서는 목적언어 내에서의 제약조건에 가장 적합한 하나의 대역패턴을 선택하는 방식이다. 또한 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 모델에서 패턴의 수가 코퍼스의 증가에 따른 수렴가능성을 논한다.