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Gil-Am Nam

Yonsei University · Arts and Humanities

About the Lab

Professor Gil-Am Nam's research lab specializes in corpus-based and computational linguistics, focusing on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analysis of Korean linguistic phenomena. The lab investigates morphosyntactic constructions such as 'ida' and '-l yejeongida' types, explores the motivations behind word-formation and neologism creation in digital and social media, and examines the functional use of negation across spoken, written, and online registers. A central theme is the integration of corpus data with linguistic theory to uncover native speakers' linguistic intuition and usage patterns in authentic language use.

corpus linguisticsKorean syntaxneologismmorpheme-based analysisnegation in Korean

Research Overview

Papers
90
Total Citations
107
Papers (5y)
24
Primary Field
Arts and Humanities

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
24total
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Citations per year (5y)
5total
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Selected Papers

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1
Article|17 citations·2004
활용 양용 용언 연구- 말뭉치 용례를 중심으로-
남길임

이 연구는 특히 형태적 측면에서 동사와 형용사 모두로 활용하는 부류를 임시적으로 ‘활용 양용 용언’이라고 하고, 말뭉치 용례의 계량적 분석과 형태·통사적 분석을 통하여, 이러한 용언들의 특이한 활용 양상을 분석하고 분류하여 양용 활용의 원인을 파악한 것이다. 개별 용언의 ‘활용’ 형태의 선택은 그 어휘를 사용하는 화자의 언어 의식을 반영한다는 기본 전제 하에, 이 연구에서는 연구 대상을 실제 언어 사용 양상을 그대로 담은 말뭉치, 그 중에서도 교과서나 규범적인 텍스트가 아닌 소설 말뭉치로 삼았다. 말뭉치의 용례 분석을 기반으로 하여, 이 연구는 활용 현상이 동사의 어떤 의미적 특성과 어떤 관련을 가지고 있는지, 화자의 언어 직관이 활용 형태 선택에 어떻게 관여하는지를 밝히고자 하였다. 연구 결과, 양용 용언류의 활용형 선택은 화자가 용언의 의미 그 중에서도 용언의 상적인 의미를 어떻게 파악하고 있는가와 관련을 가지며, 부가적으로 화자 및 주어의 사건에 대한 주, 객관적 판단이 관련이

2
Article|10 citations·2003
'이다' 구문의 한 유형―양태 구문으로서의 '이다' 구문 연구―
남길임
한글

A Study on 'Ida' Constructions asModality Constructions

3
Article|3 citations·2004
‘-ㄹ 예정이다’류 구문 연구- 말뭉치 용례의 통사 정보 분석을 중심으로-
남길임

Nam, Kil-im. 2004.2. A Study on the ‘-l yejeongida’ constructions. Korean Linguistics 22, 69 94. The purpose of this study is to examine ‘-n/l noun+ida’ constructions based on corpus, and to identify its syntactic-semantic characteristics. In this study, the ‘-n/l noun+ida’ constructions are defined as ‘-l yejeongida’ type.In the pre-study, which referred to ‘ida’, the ‘-l yejeongida’ type constructions are mostly excluded since these are considered as non-typical type of the ‘ida’ construction;

4
Article|3 citations·2016
A morpheme-based analysis of lexical bundles in Korean
Kilim Nam, Hyunju Song, Jun Seong Choi
SJR Q3Lexicography

This study proposes a new methodology for morpheme-based analysis designed to identify multi-word patterns in Korean, which is a typical example of agglutinative languages. The need for a new approach in corpus linguistics, which takes language typological characteristics into consideration, is also a crucial point of this paper. In Korean, functional words like prepositions or conjunctions arerealized as bound morphemes (emi or cosa) that function as ‘minimal grammatical units’. When formulaic

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
5
Article|2 citations·2020
The Korean Neologism Investigation Project: Current Status and Key Issues
Kilim Nam, Soojin Lee, Hae-Yun Jung
SJR Q1Dictionaries

This paper reports on the Korean Neologism Investigation Project and discusses a number of issues related to neologism research. Since 1994, when the government of South Korea initiated the project, the use of the Internet and mobile phones has increased exponentially and the methods and scope of the investigation into Korean neologisms have been modified accordingly. This project consists of collecting all the neologisms that appear each year in news articles on the Naver portal using a Web-bas

Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
6
Article|1 citations·2024
Lexicography, artificial intelligence, and dictionary users
Kilim Nam, Ye-lee An, Hae-Yun Jung
SJR Q3Lexicography

This volume of Lexicography: Journal of ASIALEX is a special issue featuring four selected papers presented at the 16th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX, 2023), held in June 2023 in Seoul, South Korea.

Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
7
Article|1 citations·2014
Research Trends and Issues on Corpus-linguistics-as-theory
Kilim Nam
Korean Semantics
Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
8
Article|1 citations·2025
Detection and Description of Neologisms in Korean Lexicography: Methodological Issues in Corpus Balance, Word Unit Bias and LLM Assistance
Kilim Nam, Soo Jin Lee, Hae-Yun Jung
SJR Q1LexikosOA

This study explores the potential application of large language models (LLMs) in Korean neologism extraction and dictionary compilation while critically examining the limitations of existing methods, including the bias toward news-oriented data and morphological neologisms. By analysing data from news corpora alongside messenger and online post corpora, the study identifies significant limitations in current news-centred approaches, particularly in detecting the first occurrences and extracting

Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
9
Article|1 citations·2015
A corpus linguistical approach on the meanings and the discourse functions of ‘-l su eobs-’
Kilim Nam
텍스트언어학
ArcheologyArts and Humanities
10
Book Chapter|1 citations·2022
The emergence and spread of Korean COVID-19 neologisms in news articles and user comments and their lexicographic description
Kilim Nam, Jinsan An, Hae-Yun Jung
OA

The emergence and spread of Korean COVID-19 neologisms in news articles and user comments and their lexicographic description 1 Introduction COVID-19-related new words have been coined extensively since December 2019, reflecting linguistic response to a social reality and indicating the dynamics of new words to cope with unprecedented pandemic situations. From an internal linguistic perspective, COVID-19 neologisms are first of all a set of new words which are focused on a specific period and a

Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
11
Article|1 citations·2021
Overcoming issues in frequency-based extraction and lexicographic lnclusion of Korean neologisms
Kilim Nam
SJR Q3Lexicography

This paper discusses issues regarding frequency as a criterion for Korean neologism extraction from the perspective of corpus linguistics and lexicography. Most studies agree that frequency plays a central role in the inclusion of neologisms in the dictionary; however, frequency entails a number of complex factors such as the time span of a word’s use as well as the variety of registers. The use of web data to extract neologisms – instead of a balanced corpus – has brought about a new range of i

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
12
Article|1 citations·2005
The Present State of Affairs and the Task in Corpus- based Lexicography
Kilim Nam
Korean Language Research
Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
13
Article|1 citations·2017
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to the Study of Korean Negation Construction
Kilim Nam
Korean Semantics

The objective of this study is twofold. First, it aims to investigate the extent to which Korean negation is used in written, spoken corpus and online product review corpus by contrast of affirmation. Second, it examines the co-relationship between the meta-function of negation and communicative purpose of each register. There have been few quantitative studies of Korean negation even though many studies have been performed from the perspective of syntax and semantics. This study analyses Korean

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
14
Article|0 citations·2016
A Study of Sentiment Expressions in Product Reviews : An Interface between Sentiment Analysis and Korean Linguistics
Kilim Nam
The Journal of Linguistics Science

This study aims to define sentiment expressions from the perspective of Korean linguistics and present the research process for extracting sentiment expressions in Korean product reviews. For the purpose of this study, an 8 million word clothing corpus was built; this was composed of product reviews, online magazines and professional fashion blogs, which have been morphologically annotated. Chapter 2 presents the corpus-driven methodology adopted for the research process, which focuses on n-gram

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
15
Article|0 citations·2014
Extraction of Key-constructions on Korean Academic Texts: Focused on Academic Corpora in the Field of Korean Linguistics and Literature
Kilim Nam, Choi Jun
Eo-Mun-Lon-Chong
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine

Research Areas

Language and LinguisticsAerospace EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthExperimental and Cognitive Psychology

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