Conceptual Analysis is an approach of language analysis based on the meaning and world knowledge with the intention of decreasing dependence on grammar.
To extract conceptual-level meaning from Korean using the conptual analysis approach, this thesis derives the linguistic knowledge and features of Korean, and presents methods to process and make use of them in the process of conceptual analysis, and uses Conceptual Dependency theory as the representation of conceptual-level meaning.
Especially, the role of suffix (jo sa) is classified by the conceptual role of the Conceptual Dependency theory and the processing method of the respective stem-ending is presented.