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Digital Data and the Variety of Semantic Research Methodology

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2017, 56(), pp.89-109
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : June 30, 2017

KIM, ILHWAN 1

1고려대학교 민족문화연구원

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to introduce the present state of digital data used for semantic research in the digital age represented by Big Data, Digital Humanities, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as well as to suggest a new method of research based on this information. This new method adds another dimension to semantic research by introducing the process of extracting and analyzing contextual synonyms based on vector similarity and utilizing large-scale data from newspapers. This study also focuses on discussions regarding the construction and analysis methods of word co-occurrence networks using the time series approach in order to investigate the development of words’ meanings. As a result of this study the new discovery of contextual synonyms obtained through the comparison and measurement of similarity amongst word co-occurrences, as well as their meanings, were revealed. Through the time series approach for word co-occurrence networks of the words ‘coffee shop’ and ‘café’, the process by which the meaning of these two words changed was analyzed. This study is meaningful in that proposes a new methodology of semantic research targeted on large-scale data.

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