자동 형태소 분석 기술을 이용한 한국어 읽기 보조 도구의 개발

The Development of a Reading Support Tool for the Korean Language Using Automatic Morphological Analysis Technology

The purpose of this paper is to give an outline of a web-based reading support tool which provides valuable information for learners of the Korean language, by using the automatic morphological analysis technology. This tool processes Korean texts input by a user and provides information such as: 1) word frequency lists according to the part of speech, 2) learning level of words, 3) Hanja notation. These kinds of information will be helpful for learners to encourage both bottom-up and top-down processes in reading comprehension. In this tool, an open source software “MeCab” is used as the morphological analysis engine, with a dictionary which has approximately 60,000 entries. The reading support tool developed in this study is available on the internet and anyone can use it via a web browser. It is expected that learner autonomy can be fostered by providing the tool through the internet. However, there are some problems to be solved in the future as follows: a) shortage of dictionary entries, b) additional functions necessary for learners. (Kinki University)