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  <Title>Honorific Forms of Compound Verbals in Korean.&amp;quot;</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="697" end_page="697" type="concl">
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6 Concluding Remarks
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have discussed a method to compute relative social status of the individuals involved in a dialogue. The main points are as follows: First, the problem with previous works is that they cannot incorporate sentence-external individuals such as speaker and addressee in honorification phenomenon because just a sentence itself is considered.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Second, since the Korean honorification system consists of subject honorification, object honorification and addressee honorification, these types of honorification should be considered simultaneously when we look at a sentence.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Finally, sentence-external individuals set the criteria for all relations of social status and thus they should be available in the computation of social status.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Our approach makes good use of contextual information such as information about social status and sentence-external individuals. The advantages of including contextual information in the implementation are that it is possible to catch the context where a sentence is felicitous and it is also possible to detect whether a dialogue is coherent. If a dialogue is coherent, the order of the social status of the individuals involved in the dialogue is produced, whereas when a dialogue is found incoherent, the reason for incoherence is produced. Our approach sets a new direction of processing Korean in that it considers and implements the important fact that a Korean sentence is constrained by relative social status of the individuals involved in the sentence.</Paragraph>
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