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- Goal of the Project
.. The ultimate goal of the 21 Century Sejong Project is to construct the information society
.. on the basis of the Korean language and Han-geul , Korean alphabet system. The goal will
.. be attained by carrying out the following activities.
...(1) Construction of a world-class language database through extensive collection of basic
........data of the Korean language
.. (2) System atization of the Korean language by creating a standardized electronic Korean
........dictionary
...(3) Globalization of the Korean language through distribution of efficient language info-
........rmation system among Korean people in Korea and overseas
...(4) Standardization of the Korean language by establishing systematic standards and tools
........for the language information system

- Stages of Development
...1 Stage (1998-2000): Development of the KLIOP 2nd Stage (2001-2003): Completion
....of the KLIOP 3rd Stage (2004-2007): Full-scale operation of the KLIOP

- Organization and Activities


- Goals of Each Division

- Basic data of the Korean language (primary and special data): Establishment of the infrastructure for the development of the KLIOP by building a large-scale national corpus which shows the state of the Korean language and distributing it to academic circles, schools and businesses

...Construction of the national corpus (300 million words and phrases from modern Korean, ...spoken materials, North Korean language, words of foreign origin, etc.)
...Research for standardization of tags, methodology of syntactic analysis,
...and the recommended standards for tagging
...Development of tools to use the corpus such as an example sentences for general use
...and an intelligent morphological analyzer

- Development of electronic dictionary: Development of a dictionary for comprehensive use to support machine processing of the Korean language

...Construction of electronic dictionaries by categories (nouns, verbs, compounds, proper
...nouns, postpositions, endings, etc.)
...- Basic information: 700,000 words
...- Detailed information: 500,000 words
...Completion of the integrated management environment for the electronic dictionary and
...construction of the language information service network

- Distribution of computer-aided information of the Korean language among Koreans in Korea and overseas: Development of a variety of software designed to contribute to use of the standardized Korean language among all Koreans in the South, the North and the rest of the world

...Development of a search system for orthography
...Construction of a dictionary to compare the usage of the Korean language in the North and
...the South
...Development of the Language Conversion System of the Korean

- Standardization of scientific terminology: Achievement of efficient international communication and exchange by preparing standard translation of scientific terminology

...Construction of the database of scientific terminology
...Review and standardization of the terminology according to the Korean language system
...Information service from the database of scientific terminology

- Education and training of work forces for the KLIOP

...Creation of human infrastructure through education and training programs such as the
...academy for the KLIOP
...Development of educational texts such as A Guide to the Terminology of the KLIOP

- Registration of and support for non-standard letters

...Active operation of the registration and support system for non-standard letters
...Construction of the database for Chinese characters and old Han-geul letters
...Support for development of letter types and application programs required to deal with
...non-standard letters
...Research for international standardization of non-standard letters

- Development and distribution of new letter types

...Promotion for development of new Korean letter types
...Establishment of an efficient distribution system by systematic protection measures
...Examination and distribution of specialized letter types
...Establishment of efficient protection measures for the copyright of newly developed types

- Management and distribution of results: Efficient and systematic management of
...achievements from the 21st Century Sejong Project; Comprehensive public surveys on the
...project results and additional backup to maximize their value

...Operation of an information center for the KLIOP
...Invitation and management of KLIOP members
...Management of the projects homepage
...Management of multimedia data

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