KR101072254B1 - Method and apparatus for providing an online dictionary service - Google Patents

Abstract

A query analysis for extracting the user native language information, the encoding language information of the web page and the search term information by receiving a query including the user native language information, the encoding language information of the loaded web page and the search term information included in the web page from the user terminal A dictionary data storage unit including at least one dictionary data including interpretation data of a target language of words of a source language, and selecting the dictionary data based on the user native language information and web page encoding language information. It provides a pre-selection unit, a search unit for searching the analysis data corresponding to the search word information from the selected dictionary data and a search result transmission unit for transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal.

Online dictionaries, tooltips

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ONLINE DICTIONARY SERVICE}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing an online dictionary service.

Recently, due to the increase in the number of Internet users and the activation of information retrieval through the Internet, not only web pages written in the native language but also web pages written in languages of other countries have been executed. To decipher a web page written in another language, you need to be proficient in that language, but only a few users are able to speak these languages. Therefore, for the purpose of increasing the convenience of the Internet user, a translation service or a dictionary service for solving the language barrier is provided.

In the case of a normal translation service, if a text included in a web page or a URL of a web page to be translated is copied and input into a translation service providing web page, the input original text is delivered to a translation server, and the user translates the original text into a translation result. A method of transmitting to the terminal is used. However, the translation quality of these translation services is not satisfactory and goes through a cumbersome process of copying and entering the original text or URL.

In addition, in a conventional dictionary service, when a word to be searched is instructed by a pointing device such as a mouse, the word is transmitted to a web server, and an analysis result thereof is displayed. That is, interpretation is provided on a word-by-word basis.

1 is a diagram for explaining an online dictionary service that is typically provided.

For example, portal sites such as Naver (www.naver.com) or Daum (www.daum.net) provide a toolbar service that includes several simple applications. An online dictionary service is provided as one service included in the toolbar service. As shown, when the indicator 10 of a pointing device such as a mouse over an English word indicates a word included in a web page, the interpretation 20 of the word is in the form of a tooltip. Is provided. In this case, although the indicator 10 is shown as being positioned around the word, in an alternative embodiment, it is located directly above the word.

On the other hand, the prior art only provides the interpretation of the designated first national language (eg, English) to the designated second national language (eg, Korean), and does not dynamically provide interpretation of other national languages. I can't. Therefore, there is a need to provide an online dictionary service that meets the needs of various users.

Some embodiments of the present invention provide an online dictionary service providing apparatus and method capable of dynamically providing a native language interpretation for various kinds of languages.

As a technical means for achieving the above-described technical problem, a first aspect of the present invention is to receive a query including the user native language information, the encoding language information of the loaded web page and the search term information included in the web page from the user terminal A query analyzer extracting the user native language information, encoding language information of the web page, and search term information; a dictionary data storage unit including at least one dictionary data including interpretation data of target words for words of a source language; A pre-selection unit for selecting the dictionary data based on the user native language information and web page encoding language information, a search unit for searching the analysis data corresponding to the search word information from the selected dictionary data, and the analysis data at the user terminal; Search result transmission to send to It provides an online dictionary service device.

In addition, a second aspect of the present invention is to receive a query including a user native language information, encoding language information of the loaded web page and the search term information included in the web page from the user terminal, the user native language information from the query, Extracting encoding language information and search term information of a web page, from at least one dictionary data including interpretation data by target language for words of a source language, based on the user native language information and web page encoding language information Selecting dictionary data, searching for the analysis data corresponding to the search word information from the selected dictionary data and transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal provides an online dictionary service providing method.

In addition, the third aspect of the present invention is to identify the user's native language information from the user terminal, the step of confirming the encoding language information of the web page loaded on the user terminal, words pointing through the pointing device on the web page Extracting and generating search term information, generating a query including the user native language information, encoding language information of the web page, and the search term information, and receiving a search result of a dictionary server based on the query to the user terminal. It provides an online dictionary service providing method comprising the step of displaying.

A fourth aspect of the present invention also provides a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the steps described in the online dictionary service providing method.

According to the problem solving means of the present invention described above, it is possible to automatically provide an analysis service for the languages of various countries displayed on the web page according to the user's native language. In particular, since the analysis service is provided based on the user's native language, the service optimized for the user can be provided. In addition, since the user's native language is automatically checked based on the setting of the user terminal, convenience is further increased.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is "connected" to another part, this includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another element in between. . In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

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

2 is a diagram illustrating an online dictionary service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The online dictionary service providing apparatus 100 includes a client 200 and a dictionary server 300. The client 200 is installed in the user terminal and collects various types of information and transmits it to the dictionary server 300 through the network. The network may be any wired network, such as a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), or value added network (VAN), or a mobile radio communication network, or a satellite communication network. It can be implemented as a kind of wireless network.

The client 200 generates a query including the user's native language information, the encoding language information of the web page, and the search word information and transmits the query to the dictionary server 300. The client 200 may include a user native language confirmation unit 210, a web page language confirmation unit 220, a search term generator 230, a query generator 240, a search result display unit 250, and an environment setting unit 260. Include.

The client 200 is downloaded through a network and installed in a user terminal such as a computer or a portable terminal. Here, the computer includes, for example, a laptop, desktop, laptop, etc., which is equipped with a web browser, and the portable terminal is, for example, a wireless communication device that ensures portability and mobility. , Personal Communication System (PCS), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) -2000, Code CDMA Division type multiple access (WDM) -2000, W-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Wireless Broadband Internet (WBRO) terminal, and the like can include all types of handheld based wireless communication devices.

The user native language confirmation unit 210 confirms the user's native language from the setting state of the user terminal. For example, the user's native language is identified from information of an operating system (OS) or an application program installed in a computer or a portable terminal. A commonly used operating system (OS) is Microsoft's Windows series products. In the case of the Windows OS, products other than English may be classified into products that display the national language of each country as the main language. For example, a Windows OS using Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc. as a main language is installed in a user terminal. Therefore, the user's native language can be determined based on the OS installed in the user terminal. That is, when the main language of the operating system installed in the user terminal is English, it is determined that the native language of the user is English.

In addition, the mother tongue of the user may be confirmed from information of various application programs in addition to the operating system (OS) of the user terminal. The application may include various software such as an office program or a web browser. Like the operating system, such application programs may be classified into products that display the national language of each country as the main language. Therefore, the user's native language can be checked based on the main language of the application program installed in the user terminal.

On the other hand, in the case of a large number of user terminals, since the main language of the operating system and the main language of the application program match, it is possible to check the user's native language using only one of the two criteria. If the main language of the operating system and the main language of the application program are different, the mother tongue of the user is determined based on the main language of the operating system, or the mother tongue of the user is determined based on the main language of the application program.

The web page language confirmation unit 220 checks the encoding language of the web page loaded in the web browser of the user terminal. A typical web page is written as an HTML language, and the header area of the programming document of the web page stores information about which language the web page is encoded based on.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a header including encoding information of a web page.

The encoding information of the web page is determined by the setting of 'charset'. As shown in the figure, when 'charset' is set to 'euc-kr', the web page is determined to be encoded according to the 'euc-kr' code. The 'euc-kr' code is based on Korean, so the web page is determined to be based on Korean.

Such encoding methods are classified into various types according to the type of language included, the subject of development, and the like. Japanese-based encoding methods include Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP, and Chinese-based encoding methods include GB 2312, GBK, GB 18030, and Big5. Encoding methods are EUC-KR and ISO-2022-KR. In addition, several encoding methods are known based on each language such as Arabic, Baltic, Central European, Greek, Hebrew, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Western European.

Therefore, by checking the encoding information of each web page, it is possible to confirm in which language the language described in the web page is written.

The web page language checking unit 220 may check encoding information by extracting a value set in 'charset' of a header portion of a programming document of each web page. Alternatively, you can check the encoding information of the web page using the Browser Helper Objects (BHO) module.

The search term generator 230 extracts a word at a position indicated by a pointing device such as a mouse to generate search term information. A detailed configuration will be described with reference to the drawings.

4 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of a search word generator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The search word generator 230 includes a word recognizer 232, a trimming processor 234, a word index searcher 236, and a word index storage 238.

The word recognizer 232 detects an event in which the indicator of the pointing device is positioned on the word, recognizes a word at a point where the event occurs, and transmits the word to the trimming processor 234. In this case, the pointing device may be various types of input devices such as a mouse, a tablet, a touch pad, or a touch screen. In the case of a touch screen, the movement of the indicator may be controlled by a finger in addition to a separate device.

The word recognition unit 232 continuously detects whether the pointing device is moved, and recognizes a word at a point where the indicator is located when the indicator is longer than a reference value. In this case, the sensitivity of word recognition may be adjusted by adjusting the reference value according to a user's setting. That is, if the indicator increases the reference value of time over the word, the sensitivity of word recognition will be reduced. Conversely, decreasing the reference value of the time the indicator is positioned over a word will increase the sensitivity of word recognition.

The trimming processor 234 removes noise characters from the words recognized by the word recognizer 232. Noise characters include various characters or various special characters that are unrelated to word interpretation. In other words, various punctuation marks such as single quotation marks (''), double quotation marks (“”), exclamation marks (!), And question marks (?) Located in front of, behind, and the middle of the recognized word are included in the noise character. The processor 234 performs a trimming operation to remove such noise characters.

The word index search unit 236 may convert the index of the word recognized by the word recognizer 232 or the word recognized by the word recognizer 232 and trimmed by the trimming processor 234 into a word index storage unit ( 238). In addition, the searched word index is set as search word information and transmitted to the query generator 240. If there is no search word index, it is determined that there is no interpretation for the word in the dictionary server 300, so that a query for the word is not generated.

The word index storage unit 238 designates and stores a unique index of words registered in the dictionary server 300. Among words recognized by the word recognizer 232 may be words not registered in the dictionary server 300. If such words are included in the query, the dictionary server 300 may not return a search value for the word, thereby causing an unnecessary operation. Thus, in the present invention, the index information of the words registered in the dictionary server 300 is stored in the client 200, and the query is generated only for the words registered in the dictionary server 300.

Meanwhile, the word index storage 238 may have an index table distinguished for each language. That is, different index tables may be included for various languages such as Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese.

Referring back to FIG. 2, the query generator 240 generates a query including user native language information, web page encoding language information, and search term information. The user native language information is received from the user native language confirmation unit 210, the web page encoding language information is received from the web page language confirmation unit 220, and the search term information is received by the search word generator 230. In this case, the search word information may be in the form of a word index output from the search word generator 230. This is sent to the dictionary server 300, the dictionary server 300 selects the appropriate dictionary data from the user native language information and the web page encoding language information included in the query, and retrieves the interpretation data corresponding to the search term information from the selected dictionary data Done. In this case, the query generator 240 generates the query only when the word identified by the search word information is registered in the dictionary data. That is, a query is not generated for words for which an index is not registered in the word index storage unit 238.

The search result display unit 250 displays the analysis data received from the dictionary server on various display means of the user terminal. Preferably, the tool is displayed in the form of a tooltip at a position adjacent to the search target word indicated by the pointing device.

The environment setting unit 260 receives and stores setting items selected by the user so that the online dictionary service is provided accordingly. As described above, the criterion for identifying the user native language may be fixed to one of an operating system or an application program of the user terminal, or the user may directly set the user native language. In addition, the word recognition unit 232 of the search word generator 230 allows the user to directly set the reference value of the time that the indicator of the pointing device is located on the word.

Now, the configuration of the dictionary server 300 will be described.

The dictionary server 300 receives a query from the client 200 to select the optimal dictionary data based on the user's native language information and the encoding language of the web page, and retrieves the interpretation of the search target word from the selected dictionary data. Send to 200. The dictionary server 300 includes a query analyzer 310, a dictionary selector 320, a searcher 330, a search result transmitter 340, and a dictionary data storage 350.

The query analyzing unit 310 of the dictionary server 300 analyzes the query received from the client 200 and extracts user native language information, web page encoding language information, and search term information. In addition, the user mother language information and the web page encoding language information are transmitted to the pre-selection unit 320, and the search word information is transmitted to the search unit 330.

The dictionary selector 320 selects the optimal dictionary data from the dictionary data storage 350 based on the user mother tongue information and the web page encoding language information.

First, the dictionary data storage 350 will be described. The dictionary data storage 350 includes a plurality of dictionary data 352, 354, and 356. Dictionary data includes interpretation of words in the source language into the target language. In this case, the original language means a language type of a word requiring interpretation. In addition, the target language means a language for performing the interpretation. That is, words of the source language are translated using the target language. In this case, the source language and the target language may be the same language. For example, a total of 16 dictionary data may be considered in which the language of any one of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English is the source language, and the language of any one of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English is the target language. That is, dictionary data for interpreting English words in English, dictionary data for interpreting English words in Chinese, dictionary data for interpreting English words in Japanese, dictionary data for interpreting English words in Korean, and dictionary for interpreting Chinese words in English. Data, dictionary data for interpreting Chinese words in Chinese, dictionary data for interpreting Chinese words in Japanese, dictionary data for interpreting Chinese words in Korean, dictionary data for interpreting Japanese words in English, dictionary to interpret Japanese words in Chinese Data, dictionary data for interpreting Japanese words in Japanese, dictionary data for interpreting Japanese words in Korean, dictionary data for interpreting Korean words in English, dictionary data for interpreting Korean words in Chinese, dictionary to interpret Korean words in Japanese Having a dictionary to translate data or Korean words into Korean Data may be considered.

That is, a total of n * m dictionary data including one language among n languages as a source language and one language among m languages as a target language is included.

Meanwhile, words of the original language of the dictionary data may be stored by matching with a word index. That is, in the case where the search word information received from the client 200 includes the word index, the search is performed based on the word index, and thus the dictionary data is configured to include the word index information.

 On the other hand, the dictionary data of the present invention can include a simple interpretation as compared to the conventional dictionary. In other words, since it provides a tooltip-type interpretation, the dictionary data may be configured to include only representative interpretations of the word to be searched.

Referring back to the dictionary selector 320, the dictionary selector 320 selects dictionary data in which the original language corresponds to encoding language information of a web page and the target language corresponds to user native language information. For example, when the user native language information is English and the web page encoding language information is Japanese, dictionary data in which the source language is Japanese and the target language is English is selected. That is, dictionary data for selecting various Japanese words included in the web page into English is selected. In addition, when the user native language information is Korean and the web page encoding language information is Chinese, dictionary data in which the original language is Korean and the target language is Chinese is selected. That is, dictionary data for selecting various Chinese words included in the web page into Korean is selected.

The search unit 330 searches for analysis data corresponding to search word information from the dictionary data selected by the pre-selection unit 320. At this time, when the search word information is in the form of a word index, the analysis data is searched based on the word index. The searched analysis data is transmitted to the search result transmitter 340.

The search result transmitter 340 transmits the searched analysis data to the client 200 through the network.

For reference, components shown in FIGS. 2 and 4 according to an embodiment of the present invention mean software components or hardware components such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and have a predetermined role. Perform them.

However, 'components' are not meant to be limited to software or hardware, and each component may be configured to be in an addressable storage medium or may be configured to reproduce one or more processors.

Thus, as an example, a component may include components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, and processes, functions, properties, procedures, subroutines. Examples, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.

Components and the functionality provided within those components may be combined into a smaller number of components or further separated into additional components.

Now, the online dictionary service providing method according to the present invention will be described.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing an online dictionary service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the mother tongue information of the user is checked from the setting state of the user terminal (S510). The native language of the user may be checked from the setting language of the operating system of the user terminal or the setting language of the application program.

Next, the encoding language information of the web page loaded in the user terminal is checked (S520). The encoding language of the web page can be checked from the 'charset' setting in the header of the web page.

Next, the word identified through the indicator of the pointing device is extracted from the web page to generate search word information (S530).

In this case, a detailed method of generating search word information is as follows.

First, when an indicator of a pointing device is positioned over a word of the web page for more than a reference value, the word is recognized. Next, the process of trimming the special characters included in the recognized word is performed. Next, searching for the recognized word or the index for the trimmed word from the unique indexes assigned to the words registered in the dictionary server.

Next, a query including the user native language information, the encoding language information of the web page, the search term information is generated (S540), and transmitted to the dictionary server 300. The client 200 installed in the user terminal generates a query, and the query is transmitted through a network means for connecting the user terminal and the dictionary server 300.

The dictionary server 300 analyzes the received query and extracts user native language information, encoding language information of a web page, and search term information (S550). The extracted user native language information and encoding language information of the web page are transmitted to the preselection unit 320, and the search word information is transmitted to the search unit 330.

Next, appropriate dictionary data is selected based on the user native language information and the encoding language information of the web page (S560). At this time, the encoding language information of the web page is used as the source language of the dictionary data, and the user native language information is used as the target language of the dictionary data. That is, dictionary data for selecting the encoding language of the web page as the user native language is selected.

Next, the analysis data corresponding to the search word information is retrieved from the selected dictionary data (S570). According to an embodiment, the corresponding interpretation data is searched by using the word index information included in the search word information.

Next, a search result including the found analysis data is transmitted to the client 200, and the transmitted analysis data is displayed on the user terminal through the client 200 (S580). Preferably, the tool is displayed in the form of a tooltip at a position adjacent to the search target word indicated by the pointing device.

One embodiment of the present invention can also be implemented in the form of a recording medium containing instructions executable by a computer, such as a program module executed by the computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, computer readable media may include all computer storage media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data.

While the methods and systems of the present invention have been described in connection with specific embodiments, some or all of those elements or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general purpose hardware architecture.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the above description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.

1 is a diagram for explaining an online dictionary service that is typically provided.

2 is a diagram illustrating an online dictionary service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a header part including encoding information of a web page.

4 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of a search word generator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing an online dictionary service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the main parts of the drawing

100: online dictionary service providing device

200: client

210: user native language confirmation unit 220: web page language confirmation unit

230: search term generator 240: query generator

250: search result display unit 260: environment setting unit

300: dictionary server

310: query analysis unit 320: preselection unit

330: search unit 340: search result transmission unit

350: dictionary data storage

Claims (17)

An online dictionary service providing apparatus, A query analysis for extracting the user native language information, the encoding language information of the web page and the search term information by receiving a query including the user native language information, the encoding language information of the loaded web page and the search term information included in the web page from the user terminal part, A dictionary data storage unit including at least one dictionary data including interpretation data by a target language for words of a source language, A pre-selection unit which selects the dictionary data based on the user native language information and web page encoding language information; A search unit for searching the analysis data corresponding to the search word information from the selected dictionary data; Search result transmission unit for transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal Including, And the user native language information is checked based on an operating system or an application program installed in the user terminal. delete The method of claim 1, And encoding language information of the web page is confirmed based on a charset included in a header of a programming document of the web page. The method of claim 1, And the search word information includes unique word index information given to words registered in the dictionary data. The method of claim 1, The dictionary data storage unit includes a total of n * m dictionary data including any one of n languages as the source language and one of m languages as the target language. Device. The method of claim 1, And the dictionary data storage unit includes dictionary data for matching and storing words of the original language with word indices. The method of claim 1, And the dictionary selection unit selects dictionary data corresponding to the source language corresponding to encoding language information of the web page, and the target language corresponding to the user native language information. The method of claim 1, The query is generated by a client installed in the user terminal, The client is A user native language confirmation unit for confirming the user native language information based on an operating system or an application program installed in the user terminal; A web page language confirmation unit for checking encoding language information of a web page loaded in the user terminal; A search word generator which extracts a word pointed by a pointing device on the web page to generate search word information; A query generator for generating the query; Search result display unit for receiving the analysis data to display on the user terminal Online dictionary service providing device comprising a. In the online dictionary service providing method, Receiving a query including user native language information, encoding language information of a loaded web page, and search term information included in the web page from a user terminal; Extracting the user native language information, encoding language information of the web page, and search term information from the query; Selecting dictionary data based on the user native language information and web page encoding language information from at least one dictionary data including interpretation data by a target language for words of a source language, Retrieving the analysis data corresponding to the search term information from the selected dictionary data; and Transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal Including, And the user native language information is checked based on an operating system or an application program installed in the user terminal. delete The method of claim 9, Encoding language information of the web page is checked based on a charset included in a header of a programming document of the web page. The method of claim 9, And the search word information includes unique word index information assigned to words registered in the dictionary data. In the online dictionary service providing method, Checking the mother tongue information of the user from the user terminal; Checking encoding language information of a web page loaded on the user terminal; Generating search term information by extracting a word pointed by a pointing device on the web page; Generating a query including the user native language information, encoding language information of the web page, and the search term information; and Receiving a search result of a dictionary server based on the query and displaying the search result on the user terminal; Including, Checking the native language information of the user And checking the user native language information based on an operating system or an application program installed in the user terminal. delete The method of claim 13, Checking the encoding language information of the web page And checking encoding language information of the web page based on a charset included in a header of a programming document of the web page. The method of claim 13, Generating the search term information Recognizing the word when the indicator of the pointing device is positioned over the word of the web page for a time longer than a reference value; Trimming noise characters including special characters from the recognized words; Retrieving the index of the recognized word or the trimmed word from the unique indices assigned to the words registered in the dictionary server; and Setting the searched word index as the search term information Online dictionary service providing method comprising a. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the steps of any one of claims 9, 11, 13, 15, and 16.

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