공문서의 띄어쓰기 양상 분석 및 띄어쓰기 규정 개선 방안

Abstract

This study investigates errors in spacing words in official documents and presents an alternative. For analysis, press releases, charters, documents on symbols and history, and status reports are collected from 16 homepages of local governments. The errors are divided into two types: no spacing when needed(e.g. 아래요건) and unnecessary spacing(e.g. 기대 한다). Out of the total 15,813 eojeol analyzed, 92.7% of the errors are found to be the first type, while the latter type accounts for 7.3%. It is found that 75.8% of the first type errors occur in noun sequences. The problem identified from examining uses of spacing is that the spacing rules are not applied consistently to noun phrases of the same condition. It is also observed that there are more errors of non-spacing than those resulting from spacing. The non-spacing errors typically occur when noun sequences are recognized as one word as a semantic unit, and space is omitted. Thus, this proposes the spacing rules involving nouns be modified to allow noun sequences to be written as one word without space.