In this paper I examine the psychological traits that can play a constitutive role in having an evil character, using a recent affect-based account by Colin McGinn as my starting point. I distinguish several such traits and defend the importance of both affect and action-based approaches. I then argue that someone who possesses these characteristics to the greatest possible extent—the purely ev...

There is increasing concern about English-Korean (E-K) transliteration recently. In the previous works, direct converting methods from English alphabets to Korean alphabets were a main research topic. In this paper, we present an E-K transliteration model using pronunciation and contextual rules. Unlike the previous works, our method uses phonetic information such as phoneme and its context. We...

At NTCIR-10 we participated in the cross-lingual link discovery (CrossLink-2) task. In this paper we describe our systems for discovering cross-lingual links between the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) Wikipedia and the English Wikipedia. The evaluation results show that our implementation of the crosslingual linking method achieved promising results.

As suggested by Grimshaw and Mester (1988) for the analysis of the corresponding Japanese verb suru, ha-ta ‘do’ is ‘light’ in that it is partially or completely devoid of its own θ-marking capacities. In (1a), the arguments John and Tom are semantically selected, not by ha-ta but by the Sino-Korean noun (hereafter the MAIN PREDICATE) tayhwa ‘talk’, and similarly in (1b) the arguments John and y...