Implementation of Korean Syllable Structures in the Typed Feature Structure Formalism

It has been known that the syllable structures in Korean are different from those in English. The goal of this paper is to provide computational implementations for Korean syllable structures in the typed feature structure formalism. The system that we adopted in this paper is the Linguistic Knowledge Building system. We first implemented the type hierarchies and AVMs for segment and suprasegment. The types consonant and vowel were included under the type segment, and the various different types were included under the type suprasegment for syllable structures. Then, we provided the rules for syllable structures. Unlike English syllabification, it has been known that onset and nucleus form a unit in Korean, which is called core. Accordingly, we provided the rules for onset, nucleus, and coda; then, the rules for core and syllable to combine segments into syllable structures. This paper also employed the type nf to solve the ambiguity problems.