Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion plays an important role in text-to-speech applications and other fields of computational linguistics. Although Korean uses a phonemic writing system, it must have a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for speech synthesis because Korean writing system does not always reflect its actual pronunciations. This paper describes a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion method based o...

How the news media cover cancer may have profound significance for cancer prevention and control; however, little is known about the actual content of cancer news coverage in Korea. This research thus aimed to examine news portrayal of specific cancer types with respect to threat and efficacy, and to investigate whether news portrayal corresponds to actual cancer statistics. A content analysis ...

A recent disclosure of a presidential scandal and the following development of subsequent events have been a major news topic in South Korea. We conducted a data-driven study to examine public reactions to the scandal and their effect on the Korean media landscape. Our analysis is based on 59,224 news articles published by five popular newsrooms that received a total of 47,906,770 Likes on Face...

The Web is a great resource and archive of news articles for the world. We present a framework, based on probabilistic topic modeling, for uncovering the meaningful structure and trends of important topics and issues hidden within the news archives on the Web. Central in the framework is a topic chain, a temporal organization of similar topics. We experimented with various topic similarity metr...

This paper describes our approach to English-Korean and English-Chinese transliteration task of NEWS 2015. We use different grapheme segmentation approaches on source and target languages to train several transliteration models based on the M2M-aligner and DirecTL+, a string transduction model. Then, we use two reranking techniques based on string similarity and web co-occurrence to select the ...

This paper describes our approach to English-Korean transliteration in NEWS 2011 Shared Task on Machine Transliteration. We adopt the substring-based transliteration approach which group the characters of named entity in both source and target languages into substrings and then formulate the transliteration as a sequential tagging problem to tag the substrings in the source language with the su...

This article represents a diachronic corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of South Korean news reports on inter-Korean summits in 2000, 2007, and 2018. By examining similarities differences between conservative liberal newspaper corpora, the study identifies discursive shifts that took place first second summit accordance with developments changes relations. The comparative indicates clu...