KR0146555B1 - Multi-media dictionary system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a multimedia electronic encyclopedia of a computer system equipped with a CD-ROM drive running a Windows environment, comprising: a first step of determining whether to search for a headword / natural language; and a headword / natural language search in the first step. A second step of allowing the user to select a heading card corresponding to the keyword of the user, a third step of outputting the heading card selected in the second step on the screen, and an image / video in the case of not being a heading / natural language search in the first step. / 4th step for determining whether to search / animation / map / audio, and if the search is not desired, and a user for image / video / animation / map / audio search in the fourth step. A fifth step of providing the user with the contents of the list or the map list or the topic and selecting the desired image; and the fifth step. A standing selected multimedia data according to the attribute of the media is composed of a sixth step of outputting on the screen based on the Hangul, and to provide an effect of providing a natural language interface to obtain a rudimentary user easily the desired information.

Description

Multimedia Electronic Encyclopedia System

1 is an overall flowchart of a multimedia electronic encyclopedia system according to the present invention.

2 is a detailed flowchart of the headword / natural language search unit shown in FIG.

3 is a detailed flowchart of the multimedia data retrieval unit shown in FIG.

The present invention relates to a method for publishing an encyclopedia as an electronic book, and more particularly, to a multimedia electronic encyclopedia system for enabling a user's convenience according to data search through an interface of various search methods.

In general, in recent years, the development of a large amount of work environment of a computer, especially in the field of data storage and image support, can store a large amount of data in a small volume (for example, CD-ROM), and image data such as photographs and sound. In addition, as the storage and display becomes possible, the form of books, which are mainly used as a medium for disseminating knowledge, is gradually changing for computers at the time of increasing the voice of environmental conservation.

In accordance with the recent trend as described above, various titles have been developed that allow users to conveniently use stored information based on data storage capability at home and abroad.

Looking at the development status of domestic and international CD-ROM titles, various titles have been developed overseas, and encyclopedia CD-ROM titles that can be used together with various multimedia materials and abundant text materials are showing strength. The mainstream CD-ROM titles being developed in the United States are educational materials and educational programs for children.

The reason for the above phenomenon is that there is no automatic production system that can electronically correlate a large amount of text information and multimedia data in Korea and search for data that can easily access necessary information from a large amount of information. It does not provide an interface and an effective search interface for multimedia.

Therefore, the problem of weakening national competitiveness in industry arises.

In addition, the commonly used search interface for data applies a headword search method, and since the general headword search method is a simple string comparison method, a very cumbersome headword search if the user does not know the exact headword of the data to be searched. Inconvenience of the user was presented as a problem because the work must be performed.

An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is to provide a natural language search method as well as the headword search commonly used in the search interface and to provide an independent search interface for any multimedia material to facilitate the user's convenience. The present invention provides a multimedia electronic encyclopedia system.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a first step of determining whether a user wants to search for a headword / natural language by a user's selection, and if the user's keyword is a headword in the first step, the headword card is used. A second step of selecting the title word and informing the user of a list of the most suitable headwords if the user's keyword is a natural language, and selecting a desired heading card, a third step of outputting the heading card selected in the second step on the screen; A fourth step of determining whether to search an image / video / animation / map / audio when the first step is not a headword / natural word search, and determining whether to terminate the search when the search is not desired; and the fourth step. For image / video / animation / map / audio search in the Provide the user with a list of images corresponding to the user's input image name or natural language to select the desired image.For map search, map list corresponding to the index or map name of the region corresponding to the location information of the mouse input by the user. Provides a user with a user to select a desired map. For audio retrieval, a fifth step of providing a user with a hierarchical tree of topics to select contents of a desired topic, and the multimedia data selected in the fifth step are attributes of the media. The present invention provides a control method of a multimedia electronic encyclopedia comprising a sixth step of outputting the image on a screen.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First of all, the environment of the system to which the present invention is applied may be a general-purpose computer equipped with a CD-ROM drive (for example, IBM 80386 or higher), and the process of manufacturing a CD-ROM storing an encyclopedia as data. Since data is classified / stored in the reverse order of the search method described below, description thereof is omitted.

1 is an overall flowchart of a multimedia electronic encyclopedia system according to the present invention, which is a flowchart of operations of the multimedia electronic encyclopedia system after the user de-claves the initial screen of the encyclopedia according to the present invention.

When the operation is started by step S100, in step S100, it is determined whether the user wants to search for a headword or a natural language from the selection menu displayed on the initial screen for data search. do.

In step S200, after selecting a keyword that the user inputs through the keyboard, that is, a headword card corresponding to a headword or natural language, the flow proceeds to step S300.

In this case, in the case of the headword in step S200, the headword card may be selected, but in the case of natural language, the headword card determined to be the most similar from the list of extracted headwords is selected.

In step S300, the title card selected in step S200 is output to the screen.

When the screen output is performed in step S300, control passes to step S100.

If it is not the headword / natural word search in step S100, control passes to step S400.

In step S400, it is determined whether the menu selected by the user is an audio selection, a video selection, an image selection, an animation selection, or a map search. If applicable, the flow proceeds to step S500, and if not, the flow proceeds to step S700.

In step S500, the user receives a keyword, a natural language query, and a hypertext type query from the user to search for multimedia data. In step S600, the multimedia data retrieved in step S500 is output on the screen according to the attributes of the media.

When the screen output is performed in step S600, control passes to step S100.

In step S700, it is determined whether to finish the operation of the multimedia encyclopedia system, and when the operation is completed, the operation of the encyclopedia system is terminated by step S800. If the operation of the system has not been completed in step S700, control passes to step S100 to perform the operation from step S100 again.

Next, detailed operations of the headword / natural language search unit and the multimedia data search unit will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

FIG. 2 is a detailed flowchart of the headword / natural language search unit of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a detailed flowchart of the multimedia data search unit of FIG.

First, the detailed operation of the headword / natural language search unit will be described with reference to FIG. When the operation is started by step S201, control passes to step S202 to receive a user's query as an input. In step S203, it is determined whether or not the query input in step S202 is a natural language. If the query entered in step S203 is a natural language, control passes to step S204 to extract a keyword list for the entered natural language.

For example, if the input natural language query is for late impressionist artists, the keyword list is extracted from late, late idealists, late impressionist artists, and impressionist artists. Also, from the extracted keyword list, the positions of the heading cards related to the lists are found.

In step S205, a ranking relationship between the title cards is determined. The ranking in step S205 is determined in alphabetical order in case of Hangul. In step S206, a list, which is listed from the headword of the card with the highest ranking, is displayed on the screen in order to show the user.

When the screen output is completed, control passes to stem S209 to determine whether to complete the operation of the headword / natural language search unit.

On the other hand, if the query input in step S203 is not a natural language query, control passes to step S207. In step S207, the input query is regarded as a headword query, and the position of the headword is determined from the position calculation of the headword. At this time, the positions of the headings in a certain portion up / down of the headings in the alphabetical order are obtained.

In step S208, a list of headword cards corresponding to the positions of the headwords obtained in step S207 is displayed on the screen for showing to the user.

When the screen output is performed, control passes to step S209, and when the headword / natural word search unit ends, the headword / natural word search operation ends in step S210.

If the operation of the headword / natural word search unit is not completed in step S209, then control passes to step S202 to perform the operation from step S202 again.

From the list of headwords output by step S206, a heading card is then output in step S300, through which the user can obtain desired information.

The heading card is largely divided into a text window and an image window, with text describing the heading appearing in the text window, and an associated image in the image window.

At the bottom of the image window is the multimedia data associated with the card. If the user wishes to view the data, they can view and listen to the data by clicking the button.

Text that appears in the text window comes first in the headword. In the text content, similar words or anchors of hypertext appear, and clicking on these words finds the card on which the word is a heading and presents it to the user.

The internal data structure implemented in the header card program is as follows.

In the above card structure, the MEDIA structure is another structure having a name for each media corresponding to the multimedia data.

buffer stores the text describing the header card, and * curHWord stores the currently selected anchor among the number of numHWord anchors stored in * hWords.

At this time, hWordSelected becomes TRUE. dispYPos and dispYLen respectively indicate the position and length of the text to be displayed, and offset and length respectively store the relative position and length in the file in which the contents of the current heading card are maintained for all heading cards.

And nextFlag is TRUE if there is a card next to the current card and prevFlag is TRUE if there is a card before the current card. index holds the index to this card title.

Next, the detailed operation of the multimedia data retrieval unit will be described with reference to FIG.

When the operation starts in step S501, it is determined in step S502 whether or not it is an image search.

In the case of no image search in step S502, control passes to step S510, and in case of an image search, step S503 receives an image name or a natural language query.

In step S504, it is determined whether the query input in step S503 is a natural language query. If it is not a natural language query, that is, an image name, control goes to step S508, and in the case of a natural language query, control goes to step S505. .

In step S505, the input natural language is analyzed to extract a list of the most relevant keywords. In step S506, a ranking is assigned to images corresponding to each keyword of the extracted list.

In step S507, a list of ranking images is output. When the output of the image list is finished, control passes to step S502 and the operation from step S502 is performed again.

If the image name is not a natural language query in step S504, step S508 is performed. In step S508, the image position corresponding to the image name is calculated to determine the position of the image.

At this time, an alphabetical list of image names is determined together with the image name corresponding to the position of the image.

In step S509, the determined image list is output, and control is passed to step S502.

On the other hand, if it is not an image search in step S502, step S510 is performed to determine whether or not it is a map search.

If it is not a map search in step S510, the flow goes to step S516, and if it is a map search, control is passed to step S511.

In step S511, it is determined whether the map retrieval method is by keyword query.

If the map is searched through the keyword query in step S511, the map position of the area corresponding to the keyword is determined in step S512. In step S513, a list of neighborhood names is output in alphabetical order of the map name corresponding to the determined map position, and control passes to step S502.

Step S514 is a case where the query is not a keyword query. When the user selects an area to be searched while looking at a map, location information is input.

In step S515, an index of the corresponding area, for example, the name of the area displayed on the screen, etc. is generated from the location information input by the user, and control passes to step S502.

Two methods were applied to map search, one to get the index of the local map to search from the location information of the mouse, and the other to get the list of country names by directly inputting the name of the area.

The steps to which the former technique is applied are step S514 and step S515, and the steps to which the latter technique is applied are step S512 and step S513.

The following program shows that when the user selects an area to search on the map screen, it gets the index from the location and the map file name from the index.

Here, the reason for checking that the imported index value is '0' is that if the imported index value is '0', the region is not a region that is an anchor of the hypertext.

If it is not the map search in step S510, control passes to step S516, and in step S516 it is determined whether or not it is an audio search.

In the case of audio search in step S516, step S517 is performed to output the hierarchical tree of the highest topic on the screen.

In step S518, a desired topic is input by the user's selection of the hierarchical tree of the top-level topics displayed on the screen.

In step S519, it is determined whether the input topic is the lowest topic, and if it is not the lowest topic, the immediately following topic is output to the screen by S520.

After step S520 is performed, control is passed to S518 so that topic selection is continued until the topic selected by the user becomes the lowest topic.

If the topic input in step S519 is the lowest topic, control passes to step S502.

If it is not the audio search in step S516, it is determined whether the multimedia data search is finished by performing step S521. If the multimedia data search is not completed, the control is passed to step S502 and the search is repeated.

When the multimedia data search is completed in step S521, the multimedia data search is completed by performing step S522.

On the other hand, since video search and animation search are the same as image search in that image files are searched, the same method as the method for image search is used.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a multimedia electronic encyclopedia system that is based on Hangul and provides a natural language interface so that even a novice user can easily obtain desired information.

Claims (3)

An electronic encyclopedia of a computer system equipped with a CD-ROM drive running a Windows environment, comprising: a first step of judging whether a headword / natural language search is desired by user selection; In the first step, in the case of the headword / natural word search, if the user's keyword is a headword, the user selects a headword card. A third step of outputting the heading card selected in the second step to the screen; and if the heading / natural word search is not performed in the first step, determining whether to search for an image / video / animation / map / audio; If not, the fourth step of determining whether or not to end the search, and in the case of image / video / animation / map / audio search in the fourth step, the image / video / animation search is performed according to the image name or natural language input by the user. Provide the user with a list of corresponding images to select the desired image For the map search, the user can select the desired map by providing the user with the list of maps corresponding to the map name or the index of the region corresponding to the location information of the mouse input by the user, and the hierarchical tree of the topics for the user for the audio search. And a fifth step of selecting contents of a desired topic, and a sixth step of outputting the multimedia material selected in the fifth step according to the attributes of the media. The method of claim 1, wherein the second step comprises: a first step of determining whether the query is a natural language by receiving a query from a user; A second step of extracting a keyword list from the natural language query, determining a rank of the heading card corresponding to the extracted keyword list, and outputting a list of the heading card for the user to select in case of the natural language query in the first step; And a third step of determining a position of the heading card by calculation and outputting a list of the heading card for the user to select, if it is not a natural language query in the first step. Way. The method of claim 1, wherein the fifth step comprises: a first step of determining whether the image is a natural language query by receiving a user's query which is an image name or a natural language query; A second step of extracting a keyword list from the natural language query, determining a rank of an image list corresponding to the extracted keyword list, and outputting an ranked image list to be selected by the user in the first step; Steps; A third step of calculating and determining an image position from an image name and outputting an image list including a predetermined peripheral image in alphabetical order for the user to select, if the query is not a natural language query in the first step; A fourth step of determining whether the query input by the user is a keyword query when the search is a map search instead of an image search in the first step; In the fourth step, in the case of the keyword query, a fifth step of calculating and determining a map location of a corresponding region from the input map name and outputting a map list including a predetermined neighboring map in alphabetical order for the user to select; ; A sixth step of selecting a search area from a user's mouse input and generating and outputting an index of the selected area when the keyword query is performed in the fourth step; A seventh step of outputting a hierarchical tree of the rare topics to select a desired topic by the user when the search is not a map search but an audio search; An eighth step of repeating display and selection of the topic until the topic selected by the user becomes the lowest topic; And a ninth step of determining whether to terminate the search operation when the audio search is not performed in the seventh step.