Korean Sign Research Articles

한국수어의 역할전이 인용과 화시소의 전이

한국수어의 역할전이 인용과 화시소의 전이

한국 수어의 코퍼스 기반 신체 개념구현 연구

This study attempts to clarify whether Korean Sign Language (KSL) belongs to a ‘cardiocentrism’ language like Korean or a ‘dichotomy’ language like English. To do this, we collected our data of thought and emotion-related expressions from a corpus of KSL provided by National Institute of Korean Language. We also categorized the data into head, heart, and belly as per location. The results show that reason and thought in KSL are mostly located in the head, while emotion such as joy, anxiety, and sadness lies in the heart. This study concludes that KSL does not conform to the cardiocentrism of Korean but conforms to the dichotomy of English.

한국수어(KSL) 말뭉치 연구 및 구축의 현황과 전망 －2018년 사업을 중심으로－

이 글은 2018 한국수어말뭉치 연구 및 구축 사업의 수행 과정과 결과를 중심으로 더 나은 사업 수행을 위한 개선방향을 제안하고 있다. 한국수어말뭉치는 〈한국수화언어법〉에서 규정하고 있는, 농인등 한국수화언어 사용자의 언어권 및 삶의 질을 향상시키는 데 기초적인 사업이라고 할 수 있다.BR 여기에서는 2018년에 수행된 사업의 전반적인 내용과 결과를 정리하여 앞으로 이 사업이 지속적으로 그리고 더 효율적으로 추진되는 데 도움이 되도록 하였다. 또한 그렇게 하는 데 필요한 사업의 개선 방향을 제시하면서 특히 한국어 연구자의 적극적인 관심과 참여가 필요함을 강조하고 있다.

한국어 교육과 한국수어 교육의 접점 모색

이 글의 목적은 한국어 교육의 입장에서 한국수어 교육을 조망하고 그 체계화에 필요한 사례들을 살핌으로써 한국수어 교육 논의의 폭을 확장하는 것이다. 이 글은 한국어 교육과 한국수어 교육에서 상호 참조할 수 있는 사례들을 통해 두 분야의 접점을 모색할 수 있고 이러한 시도가 두 분야 간에 긍정적인 영향력을 주고받게 할 수 있을 것이라는 문제의식에서 시작되었다.BR 이 글의 2장에서는 논의의 전제로서 수어 교육 연구의 흐름, 한국수어의 체계, 한국수어의 습득과 사용 등에 관해 간략히 정리하고 3장에서는 교육 차원에서 교육과정과 평가, 교사와 교재를 중심으로 한국수어 교육의 현상을 조망해 보았다. 그리고 4장에서는 정책 차원에서 이중언어 교육과 ‘쉬운 언어’ 사용을 제시함으로써 한국어 교육과 한국수어 교육의 접점을 모색해 보고자 하였다.BR 한국수어 교육의 체계화에 필요한 제반 문제를 언어 교육의 틀에서 다각도로 살폈다는 점, 인접 학문 분야인 한국어 교육의 성장 경험을 바탕으로 한국수어 교육에 학제적 접근을 하였다는 점, 한국어 교육 연구자들에게 생소한 영역이었던 한국수어 교육에 관한 인식을 확대하였다는 점 등에서 이 연구의 의의를 찾을 수 있을 것이다.

Word Reordering for Translation into Korean Sign Language Using Syntactically-guided Classification

Machine translation aims to break the language barrier that prevents communication with others and increase access to information. Deaf people face huge language barriers in their daily lives, including access to digital and spoken information. There are very few digital resources for sign language processing. In this article, we present a transfer-based machine translation system for translating Korean-to-Korean Sign Language (KSL) glosses, mainly composed of (1) dictionary-based lexical transfer and (2) a hybrid syntactic transfer based on a data-driven model. In particular, we formulate complicated word reordering problems in syntactic transfer as multi-class classification tasks and propose “syntactically guided” data-driven syntactic transfer. The core part of our study is a neural classification model for reordering order-important constituent pairs with a reordering task that is newly designed for Korean-to-KSL translation. The experiment results evaluated on news transcript data show that the proposed system achieves a BLEU score of 0.512 and a RIBES score of 0.425, significantly improving upon the baseline system performance.

한국수어 일치 현상

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the syntactic distribution and constraints of argument-verb covariance in person, number and gender features of Korean Sign Language (KSL) and to discuss KSL’s distinctive grammatical characteristics in the area of agreement. The result of the acceptability study on the syntactic distribution and constraints leads us to regard that person features expressed through locus as well as number/gender features expressed through hand shapes equally participate in a same syntactic operation. In particular, KSL offers several notable characteristics in agreement phenomena. First, in KSL person, number and gender features all participate in agreement, as number and gender features display the same argument-verb covariance as person features do. Second, in KSL a viable approach to the syntactic operation of agreement is suggested to be feature checking rather than feature sharing or copying as unmarked-marked/marked-unmakred argument-verb relationship is allowed. Third, KSL shows a utilization of an existing grammatical feature for a pragmatic feature, as in the case of multiple spoken languages (Wiltscho 2019). The locus morpheme bearing the first person feature (‘s’) is proposed to have its person feature ‘recycled’ to a logophoric feature. It is hoped that these characteristics found in KSL be of value for the future sign language agreement research.

Agreements Signed by Korea in the XIX Century

As a result of the relaxation of the self-isolation policy of the Korean state, the Ganghwa treaty with Japan was signed in 1876. In the same year, the "Rules for trade" and the "Additional articles for the 1876 Treaty" were signed as well, which gave Japanese citizens exterritoriality, opened ports for trade with Japan, allowed them to rent land and more. The American-Korean treaty of peace, friendship, trade and navigation of 1882, the British-Korean (1883), German-Korean (1883), French-Korean (1886) and Russian-Korean (1884) treaties were signed as well, all with similar provisions. When signing agreements with the Korean state, Western countries such as Germany, USA, England etc. applied to China for a letter of recommendation. However, Russia followed a different strategy. Russian diplomat K. I. Veber, authorized to negotiate with the Korean government and sign the Russian-Korean treaty, negotiated directly with King Gojong. South Korean historiographers have different opinions regarding the above treaties signed by Korea with the Western powers.

Neural Sign Language Translation Based on Human Keypoint Estimation

We propose a sign language translation system based on human keypoint estimation. It is well-known that many problems in the field of computer vision require a massive dataset to train deep neural network models. The situation is even worse when it comes to the sign language translation problem as it is far more difficult to collect high-quality training data. In this paper, we introduce the KETI (Korea Electronics Technology Institute) sign language dataset, which consists of 14,672 videos of high resolution and quality. Considering the fact that each country has a different and unique sign language, the KETI sign language dataset can be the starting point for further research on the Korean sign language translation. Using the KETI sign language dataset, we develop a neural network model for translating sign videos into natural language sentences by utilizing the human keypoints extracted from the face, hands, and body parts. The obtained human keypoint vector is normalized by the mean and standard deviation of the keypoints and used as input to our translation model based on the sequence-to-sequence architecture. As a result, we show that our approach is robust even when the size of the training data is not sufficient. Our translation model achieved 93.28% (55.28%, respectively) translation accuracy on the validation set (test set, respectively) for 105 sentences that can be used in emergency situations. We compared several types of our neural sign translation models based on different attention mechanisms in terms of classical metrics for measuring the translation performance.

Iconicity of Korean Sign Language and “Tip of the Fingers” Experiences

Iconicity of Korean Sign Language and “Tip of the Fingers” Experiences

한국어 수화의 도상성을 활용한 교육적 시사점 모색

한국어 수화의 도상성을 활용한 교육적 시사점 모색

Development and Standardization of a Vocational Aptitude Test for the Deaf Adolescents with Korean Sign Language Video

Development and Standardization of a Vocational Aptitude Test for the Deaf Adolescents with Korean Sign Language Video

한국수어통역서비스에 대한 농인과 수어통역사 간의 인식 유형 비교

한국수어통역서비스에 대한 농인과 수어통역사 간의 인식 유형 비교

한국수어의 재귀 표현

한국수어의 재귀 표현

The iconic aspects and semantic properties of Korean Sign Language

The iconic aspects and semantic properties of Korean Sign Language

한국수어의 수향(Orientation, 手向)에 대한 재고

한국수어의 수향(Orientation, 手向)에 대한 재고

한국수어 사전에서 변이 표제어 연구

한국수어 사전에서 변이 표제어 연구

한국수어에서 관용표현 개념 정립을 위한 제언

한국수어에서 관용표현 개념 정립을 위한 제언

한국수어의 단어 형성 : ‘사람’ 관련 명사를 중심으로

한국수어의 단어 형성 : ‘사람’ 관련 명사를 중심으로

A Study of the Formation and Function of Korean Sign Language and Braille - On the language formation for the hearing and visually impaired -

A Study of the Formation and Function of Korean Sign Language and Braille - On the language formation for the hearing and visually impaired -

A Constitutional Study on Korean sign language: In terms of constitutional customs

A Constitutional Study on Korean sign language: In terms of constitutional customs