Respondents from eight Korean and U.S. higher education institutions were surveyed as to their knowledge and experience with various forms of computer malware. The surveys provide insight into knowledge of rootkits that have become coffee lounge discussion following the once secretive Sony rootkit news break in late 2005 and then the rash of accusations and acknowledgements of other rootkits th...

Many English words appear in Asian language texts, especially in the news reports and technical documents. Although a foreign term and its counterpart in English refer to the same concept, they are erroneously treated as independent index units in traditional monolingual IR. For CLIR, one of the major hindrances to achieving retrieval performance at the level of monolingual information retrieva...

Despite of much work on TTS technologies and several TTS systems customized for Korean, current TTS systems output many errors in transliterating non-alphabetic symbols such as Arabic numerals and text symbols. This paper proposes TLAN (Transliteration Learner for Arabic-Numeral expressions) which can efficiently disambiguate the reading and meaning of Arabic Numeral Expressions (ANEs) in texts...

In this paper, we describe our approach to English-to-Korean transliteration task in NEWS 2012. Our system mainly consists of two components: an letter-to-phoneme alignment with m2m-aligner,and transliteration training model DirecTL-p. We construct different parameter settings to train several transliteration models. Then, we use two reranking methods to select the best transliteration among th...

We present a comparative evaluation of two data-driven models used in translation selection of English-Korean machine translation. Latent semantic analysis(LSA) and probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) are applied for the purpose of implementation of data-driven models in particular. These models are able to represent complex semantic structures of given contexts, like text passages. G...

DONALD KENNEDY’S EDITORIAL “GOOD NEWS—AND BAD” (13 JAN., P. 145) on the intelligent design Dover, Pennsylvania, court decision and the South Korean stem cell scandal overlooks some of the bad news in the good and the good news in the bad. The fraud perpetrated by at least some members of Hwang’s research group is indeed bad news. But the good news is that the fraud was caught very soon after pu...

This study analyzes the impact of investors’ attention, market sentiment, and company characteristics on stock price responses to earnings announcements, using Korean data from 2003 2019. First, we find that prices respond in same direction as unexpected earnings, significance response decreases time passes post-event period. Specifically, value stocks quickly appropriately during an event The ...