• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.86-96
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• 2021

This cross-sectional survey research carried out with the inquisitive agenda on satisfaction of the translation outcomes as performed by human translation and (machine translation) post-editing. The survey group consisted of 166 Korean translators primarily working with the English, Chinese, and Japanese languages. They were asked to rate the satisfactory level with accuracy, fluency, idiomatic expression, and terminology in the Richter's scale of four. The result reveals that human translation is more satisfactory than post-editing with respect to accuracy, but it is uneasy to assert that accuracy is unsatisfactory in post-editing. On the other hand, the Korean translators are less satisfied with fluency, idiomatic expression, and terminology than accuracy. It can be assumed that although human translation is more satisfactory than post-editing, the accuracy of post-editing seems to be more acknowledged than fluency, idiomatic expression, and terminology, which lead the translators to take the accuracy of raw machine-translation products and to go on to improve the fluency, idiomatic expression, and terminology. Nevertheless, Korean translators believe Korean idiomatic expressions cannot be satisfactorily produced in post-editing, while fluency and terminology can be improved in post-editing.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.165-171
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• 2018

As the artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in machine translation (MT) which has loomed large as a new translation paradigm, concerns have also arisen if MT can produce a quality product as human translation (HT) can. In fact, several MT experimental studies report cases in which the MT product called post-editing (PE) as equally as HT or often superior ([1],[2],[6]). As motivated from those studies on translation quality between HT and PE, this study set up an experimental situation in which Korean literature was translated into English, comparatively, by 3 translators and 3 post-editors. Afterwards, a group of 3 other Koreans checked for accuracy of HT and PE; a group of 3 English native speakers scored for fluency of HT and PE. The findings are (1) HT took the translation time, at least, twice longer than PE. (2) Both HT and PE produced similar error types, and Mistranslation and Omission were the major errors for accuracy and Grammar for fluency. (3) HT turned to be inferior to PE for both accuracy and fluency.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.239-244
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• 2022

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is gradually breaking down the boundary between human and machine translation. We look at actual cases of human and machine translation and discuss why machine translation needs a human touch. In this paper, we raise three driving questions: Can humans be replaced by machines?; How human translators can remain successful in a NMT-driven world?; Is it possible to eliminate language barrier in the era of NMT and World Englishes? The answers to these questions are all negative. We suggest that machine translation is a useful tool with rapidity, accuracy, and low cost productivity. However, the machine translation is limited in the areas of culture, borrowing, ambiguity, new words and (national) dialects. The machines cannot imitate the emotional and intellectual abilities of human translators since machines are based on machine learning, while humans are on intuition. The machine translation will be a useful tool that does not cause moral problems when using methods such as back translation and human post-editing. To conclude, we propose the blended approach that machine translation cannot be completed without the touch of human translation.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.184-189
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• 2017

With the advent of robust deep learning method, Neural machine translation has recently become a dominant paradigm and achieved adequate results in translation between popular languages such as English, German, and Spanish. However, its results in under-resourced languages Korean and Vietnamese are still limited. This paper reports an attempt at constructing a bidirectional Korean-Vietnamese Neural machine translation system with the supporting of Korean analysis tool - UTagger, which includes morphological analyzing, POS tagging, and WSD. Experiment results demonstrate that UTagger can significantly improve translation quality of Korean-Vietnamese NMT system in both translation direction. Particularly, it improves approximately 15 BLEU scores for the translation from Korean to Vietnamese direction and 3.12 BLEU scores for the reverse direction.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.504-509
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• 2018

Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently achieved the state-of-the-art performance. However, it is reported failing in the word sense disambiguation (WSD) for several popular language pairs. In this paper, we explore the extent to which NMT systems are able to disambiguate the Korean homographs. Homographs, words with different meanings but the same written form, cause the word choice problems for NMT systems. Consistent with the popular language pairs, we discover that NMT systems fail to translate Korean homographs correctly. We provide a Korean word sense disambiguation tool-UTagger to use for improvement of NMT's translation quality. We conducted translation experiments using Korean-English and Korean-Vietnamese language pairs. The experimental results show that UTagger can significantly improve the translation quality of NMT in terms of the BLEU, TER, and DLRATIO evaluation metrics.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.258-261
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• 2019

딥러닝을 이용한 Sequence to Sequence 모델의 등장과 Multi head Attention을 이용한 Transformer의 등장으로 기계번역에 많은 발전이 있었다. Transformer와 같은 성능이 좋은 모델들은 대량의 병렬 코퍼스를 가지고 학습을 진행하였는데 대량의 병렬 코퍼스를 구축하는 것은 시간과 비용이 많이 드는 작업이다. 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 합성 코퍼스를 만드는 기법들이 연구되고 있으며 대표적으로 Back Translation 기법이 존재한다. Back Translation을 이용할 시 단일 언어 데이터를 가상 병렬 데이터로 변환하여 학습데이터의 양을 증가 시킨다. 즉 말뭉치 확장기법의 일종이다. 본 논문은 Back Translation 뿐만 아니라 Copied Translation 방식을 통한 다양한 실험을 통하여 데이터 증강기법이 기계번역 성능에 미치는 영향에 대해서 살펴본다. 실험결과 Back Translation과 Copied Translation과 같은 데이터 증강기법이 기계번역 성능향상에 도움을 줌을 확인 할 수 있었으며 Batch를 구성할 때 상대적 가중치를 두는 것이 성능향상에 도움이 됨을 알 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.144-150
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• 2023

With progressive advancements in Man-made consciousness (computer based intelligence) and Profound Learning (DL), contributing altogether to Normal Language Handling (NLP), the precision and nature of Machine Interpretation (MT) has worked on complex. There is a discussion, but that its no time like the present the human interpretation became immaterial or excess. All things considered, human flaws are consistently dealt with by its own creations. With the utilization of brain networks in machine interpretation, its been as of late guaranteed that keen frameworks can now decipher at standard with human interpreters. In any case, simulated intelligence is as yet not without any trace of issues related with handling of a language, let be the intricacies and complexities common of interpretation. Then, at that point, comes the innate predispositions while planning smart frameworks. How we plan these frameworks relies upon what our identity is, subsequently setting in a one-sided perspective and social encounters. Given the variety of language designs and societies they address, their taking care of by keen machines, even with profound learning abilities, with human proficiency looks exceptionally far-fetched, at any rate, for the time being.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.313-321
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 실용적인 기계번역 시스템을 위하여 다양한 입력 형태에서 나타나는 여러 현상을 전처리하는 기법을 설명한다. 전처리기는 문장 분리, Title 및 나열문 인식, HTML Tag의 처리, 하이픈처리, 숫자 표현 처리, 대소문자의 정규화, 고유명사 인식, 복합단위 인식 등을 수행하여 형태소 분석기의 처리 부담을 줄인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.157-165
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• 2002

This paper describes our ongoing Korean-Chinese machine translation system, which is based on verb patterns. A verb pattern consists of a source language pattern part for analysis and a target language pattern part for generation. Knowledge description on lexical level makes it easy to achieve accurate analyses and natural, correct generation. These features are very important and effective in machine translation between languages with quite different linguistic structures including Korean and Chinese. We performed a preliminary evaluation of our current system and reported the result in the paper.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.283-287
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 당 연구소 주관으로 연구개발정보센터(KORDIC), 서울대와 공동으로 개발중인 한영 기계번역 시스템, '에서로/KE'의 prototype system을 설명한다. 에서로/KE는 KORDIC에서 한국어 형태소 분석기와 Tagger를 개발하고, 서울대에서 한국어 구문해석기와 한영 변환기를 개발하고, SERI에서 영어 구문 생성기와 영어 형태소 생성기를 개발한다. 한국어 Tagger는 HMM에 기반하여 제작되었으며 sample 200문장에 대해 98.9%의 정확률을 보인다. 한국어 구문 해석기는 의존 문법에 기반하여 CYK 알고리즘을 사용하여 제작되었으며 중의성 해결을 위해 29개의 최적 parse 선택 규칙이 구현되어 있다. 한영 변환기는 collocation과 idiom에 기반하여 한영 변환을 수행한다. 영어 구문 생성기는 Tree 변환 언어인 GWL(Grammar Writing Language)를 사용하여 작성되었으며, 영어 형태소 생성기는 최종적으로 자연스러운 영어 표층문을 생성한다. 에서로/KE는 현재 1차년도 Prototype system이 Unix 환경에서 구현되어 있으며, 현재 각 모듈별 성능 개선과 대량 사전 구축을 통해 상용화될 예정이다.