• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.179-188
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• 2007

We propose a multi-strategic concept-spotting approach for robust spoken language understanding of conversational Korean in a hostile recognition environment such as in-car navigation and telebanking services. Our concept-spotting method adopts a partial semantic understanding strategy within a given specific domain since the method tries to directly extract predefined meaning representation slot values from spoken language inputs. In spite of partial understanding, we can efficiently acquire the necessary information to compose interesting applications because the meaning representation slots are properly designed for specific domain-oriented understanding tasks. We also propose a multi-strategic method based on this concept-spotting approach such as a voting method. We present experiments conducted to verify the feasibility of these methods using a variety of spoken Korean data.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.57-63
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• 2021

Spoken language understanding, which aims to understand utterance as naturally as human would, are mostly focused on English language. In this paper, we construct a Korean language dataset for spoken language understanding, which is based on a conversational corpus between reservation system and its user. The domain of conversation is limited to restaurant reservation. There are 7 types of slot tags and 5 types of intent tags in 6857 sentences. When a model proposed in English-based research is trained with our dataset, intent classification accuracy decreased a little, while slot filling F1 score decreased significantly.

• MALSORI
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• no.63
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• pp.101-112
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• 2007

Spoken dialog system development includes many laborious and inefficient tasks. Since there are many components such as speech recognition, language understanding, dialog management and knowledge management in a spoken dialog system, a developer should take an effort to edit corpus and train each model separately. To reduce a cost for editing corpus and training each model, we need more systematic and efficient working environment. For the working environment, we propose DialogStudio as a spoken dialog system workbench.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 1992.02a
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• pp.1-13
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• 1992

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.339-342
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• 2012

Nowadays, Spoken Dialogue System is rapidly growing by investing a lot from researches as well as organizations. One of concrete evidences is that the appearance of commercial systems such as Siri, SVoice, DARPA, CLASSiC, GSearch etc. Moreover, Spoken Dialogue System is widely believed to be the future direction of software development. In Spoken Dialogue System, users interact to software by using their own voice instead of use their hands, keyboard, and mouse. This paper continuously presents our development of the Spoken Dialogue System on News. Particularly, we propose detailed design such as semantic concepts, semantic frames, slots, and so on for applying Hidden Vector State Model into our Spoken Dialogue System for Spoken Language Understanding.

• 대한상한금궤의학회지
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.93-98
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• 2012

Objective : to increase understanding of readers of Idan with translating in compliance with and restraining spoken language Method : referred to Chinese ancient language grammar and Korean standard language grammar Results & Conclusions : 1. spaced the original text by adequate syntax 2. corrected typo in typed text under the original text 3. translated in compliance with and restraining spoken language 4. footnoted in reference to fables and phrases.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2004.10d
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• pp.20-24
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 환경 잡음과 원거리 음성 입력 그리고 노인 발화 등의 열악한 음성 인식 환경에서의 음성 언어이해(spoken language understanding)를 위한 정보 추출 접근 방식에 대해 논하고 있다. 정보 추출의 목적은 미리 정의된 slot에 적절한 값을 찾는 것이다. 음성 언어 이해를 위한 정보 추출은 필수적인 요소만을 추출하는 것을 목적으로 하는 개념 집어내기(concept spotting) 접근 방식을 사용한다. 이러한 방식은 미리 정의된 개념 구조 slot에만 관심을 가지기 때문에. 음성 언어 이해에서 사용되는 정보 추출은 언어를 완전히 이해한다기보다는 부분적으로 이해하는 방식을 취하고 있다. 음성 입력 언어는 주로 열등한 인식 환경에서 이루어지기 때문에 많은 인식 오류를 가지고 이로 인해 텍스트 입력에 비해 이해하기 어렵다. 이러한 점을 고려하여, 특정 정보에 집중함으로써 음성 언어를 이해하고자 시도하였다. 도로 정보 안내 영역을 대상으로 한 실험에서 텍스트 입력(WER 0%)과 음성 입력(WER 39.0%)이 주어졌을 때, 개념 집어내기 방식의 F-measure 값은 각각 0.945, 0.823을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-25
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• 2008

Spoken dialog tasks incur many errors including speech recognition errors, understanding errors, and even dialog management errors. These errors create a big gap between the user's intention and the system's understanding, which eventually results in a misinterpretation. To fill in the gap, people in human-to-human dialogs try to clarify the major causes of the misunderstanding to selectively correct them. This paper presents a method of clarification techniques to human-to-machine spoken dialog systems. We viewed the clarification dialog as a two-step problem-Belief confirmation and Clarification strategy establishment. To confirm the belief, we organized the clarification process into three systematic phases. In the belief confirmation phase, we consider the overall dialog system's processes including speech recognition, language understanding and semantic slot and value pairs for clarification dialog management. A clarification expert is developed for establishing clarification dialog strategy. In addition, we proposed a new design of plugging clarification dialog module in a given expert based dialog system. The experiment results demonstrate that the error verifiers effectively catch the word and utterance-level semantic errors and the clarification experts actually increase the dialog success rate and the dialog efficiency.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.1E
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• pp.27-31
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• 1999

Recent linguistic researches have brought into focus the relations between prosodic structures and syntactic, semantic or phonological structures. Most of them prove that prosodic information is available for understanding syntactic, semantic and discourse structures. But this result has not been integrated yet into recent Korean speech recognition or understanding systems. This study, as a part of integrating prosodic information into the speech recognition system, proposes an automatic detection technique of Korean accentual phrase boundaries by using one-stage DP, and the normalized pitch pattern. For making the normalized pitch pattern, this study proposes a method of modified normalization for Korean spoken language. For the experiment, this study employs 192 sentential speech data of 12 men's voice spoken in standard Korean, in which 720 accentual phrases are included, and 74.4% of the accentual phrase boundaries are correctly detected while 14.7% are the false detection rate.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.3-8
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• 2014

대화형 개인 비서 시스템은 사람의 음성을 통해 인식된 음성 인식 결과를 분석하여 사용자에게 제공할 정보가 무엇인지 파악한 후, 정보가 포함되어 있는 앱(app)을 실행시켜 사용자가 원하는 정보를 제공하는 시스템이다. 이러한 대화형 개인 비서 시스템의 가장 중요한 모듈 중 하나는 음성 대화 인식 모듈(SLU: Spoken Language Understanding)이며, 발화의 "의미 분석"을 수행하는 모듈이다. 본 논문은 음성 인식결과가 잘못되어 의미 분석이 실패하는 것을 방지하기 위하여 음성 인식 결과에서 잘못 인식된 명사, 개체명 단어를 보정 시켜주는 미등록어(OOV:Out-of-vocabulary) 처리 모듈을 제안한다. 제안하는 미등록어 처리 모듈은 미등록어 탐색 모듈과 미등록어 변환 모듈로 구성되며, 미등록어 탐색 모듈을 통해 사용자의 발화에서 미등록어를 분류하고, 미등록어 변환 모듈을 통해 미등록어를 사전에 존재하는 유사한 단어로 변환하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법을 적용하였을 때의 실험 결과, 전체 미등록어 중 최대 52.5%가 올바르게 수정되었으며, 음성 인식 결과를 그대로 사용했을 경우 "원본 문장"과 문장 단위 67.6%의 일치율을 보인 것에 반해 미등록어 처리 모듈을 적용했을 때 17.4% 개선된 최대 85%의 문장 단위 일치율을 보였다.