National Institute of Korean Language

{{Main|Standard Korean Language Dictionary}}

On January 1, 1992, it began work on compiling the Standard Korean Language Dictionary (SKLD). It published the dictionary on October 11, 1999 in three volumes. It published a revised and online version on October 8, 2008.

The NIKL maintains a number of online foreign language dictionaries for a variety of languages, including English,{{Cite web |title=한국어기초사전 |trans-title=Korean-English Learners' Dictionary |url=https://krdict.korean.go.kr/mainAction?lang=eng |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=krdict.korean.go.kr |language=en}} Russian, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Indonesian.{{Cite web |title=Collecting national language resources and reinforcing the integrated information service |url=https://www.korean.go.kr/front_eng/activ/activ_03.do |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=National Institute of Korean Language}}

{{Main|Urimalsaem}}

Urimalsaem ({{Korean|hangul=우리말샘|labels=no}}) is an online, open source, and collaborative dictionary that users can edit in a manner similar to how Wikipedia operates,{{Cite web |title=우리말샘 |trans-title=Urimalsaem |url=https://opendict.korean.go.kr/main |access-date=2023-08-24}}{{Cite web |last=Haye-ah |first=Lee |date=2016-10-05 |title=Gov't launches open Korean dictionary online |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20161005011900315 |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Yonhap News Agency |language=en}} albeit with individual edits reviewed by experts. It was launched on October 5, 2016, with an initial set of 1,109,722 headwords.{{Cite journal |last1=Nam |first1=Kilim |last2=Lee |first2=Soojin |last3=Jung |first3=Hae-Yun |date=2020 |title=The Korean Neologism Investigation Project: Current Status and Key Issues |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/153/article/755105 |journal=Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=105–129 |doi=10.1353/dic.2020.0007 |issn=2160-5076|url-access=subscription }}

The NIKL maintains several datasets for use in research, one of which consists of 3,515,010 news articles in Korean from 2009 to 2018.{{Cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Seungpeel |last2=Kim |first2=Jina |last3=Kim |first3=Dongjae |last4=Kim |first4=Ki Joon |last5=Park |first5=Eunil |date=2023-12-01 |title=Computational approaches to developing the implicit media bias dataset: Assessing political orientations of nonpolitical news articles |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0096300323003880 |journal=Applied Mathematics and Computation |volume=458 |pages=128219 |doi=10.1016/j.amc.2023.128219 |issn=0096-3003|url-access=subscription }} The dataset has been used in a number of papers on natural language processing and machine learning,{{Cite journal |last1=Yoon |first1=Soyoung |last2=Park |first2=Sungjoon |last3=Kim |first3=Gyuwan |last4=Cho |first4=Junhee |last5=Park |first5=Kihyo |last6=Kim |first6=Gyu Tae |last7=Seo |first7=Minjoon |last8=Oh |first8=Alice |date=July 2023 |title=Towards standardizing Korean Grammatical Error Correction: Datasets and Annotation |url=https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.371 |journal=Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) |location=Toronto, Canada |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics |pages=6713–6742 |doi=10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.371|doi-access=free |arxiv=2210.14389 }} and have even had derivative datasets created based on them. In 2015, shortly before the 2016 Korean Sign Language Act, the NIKL began collecting a dataset for Korean Sign Language called the KSL Corpus Project. In 2022, it announced that it had collected 180 hours of language material from 148 deaf people at five locations, and was continuing to collect more.{{Cite book |last1=Matsuoka |first1=Kazumi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2yaEAAAQBAJ&dq=korean+sign+language+act+%22nikl%22&pg=PT190 |title=East Asian Sign Linguistics |last2=Crasborn |first2=Onno |last3=Coppola |first3=Marie |date=2022-12-05 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-1-5015-1016-8 |pages=190–191 |language=en}}

The NIKL was originally founded at a non-governmental level as the Academy of the Korean Language ({{Korean|hangul=국어연구소|labels=no}}) on May 1, 1984. It was established as a subsidiary of the Korean Ministry of Culture on January 23, 1991 under the name National Academy of the Korean Language ({{Korean|hangul=국립국어연구원|labels=no}}). It took its original name again on November 11, 2005, and again changed its name to its current form in October 2015.

On January 18, 2022, the NIKL announced several new initiatives:

• It would create a Korean language proficiency diagnosis system that leveraged assistance from artificial intelligence. The NIKL's director stated that "If we can implement an evaluation system worked on by 80 percent humans, and 20 percent with the help of AI, it can further increase efficiency. This makes it possible to conduct writing tests on a larger scale". The test is to be developed over five years, from 2023 to 2027, with a budget of ₩10 billion won ($8.39 million). The test aims to improve domestic writing skills and to be used on college entrance exams.{{Cite web |last=Hae-yeon |first=Kim |date=2022-01-19 |title=National language institute to use AI to improve writing assessment |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220119000716 |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=The Korea Herald |language=en}}
• It would make significant revisions to their dictionary, after it found that the 1999 Standard Korean Language Dictionary failed to keep up to major changes during the digital era. This project is expected to last between 2022 and 2026.
• To meet increasing demand and quality expectations for Korean language teachers outside of the peninsula, it would create a course and certification program for teachers.

• King Sejong Institute: government organization to spread Korean language and culture
• Seoul Foreign Language Spelling Dictionary – Seoul's dictionary of standard spellings in English, Chinese, and Japanese

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• [https://www.korean.go.kr/ Official website]
• [https://www.korean.go.kr/front_eng/main.do English website]

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