KR101099010B1 - Method and apparatus for providing on online dictionary service, and computer-readable recorded medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an online dictionary providing service providing method for easily providing interpretation data for languages of at least two countries published on a web page based on mother tongue information of a client and word index information received through a user terminal. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a device and a program thereof.
To this end, the present invention comprises the steps of receiving and storing the identification information of the client installed in the user terminal, and the mother tongue information set in the client; Receiving a query from the user terminal, the query including word index information corresponding to a word recognized in a web page; Extracting the word index information from the received query; Determining dictionary data corresponding to the extracted word index information and the stored native language information of the client from the dictionary data storage unit for storing at least one dictionary data including interpretation data for the target language for each word of the source language step; Retrieving interpretation data corresponding to the word index information from the determined dictionary data; And transmitting the retrieved analysis data to the user terminal.

Description

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ON ONLINE DICTIONARY SERVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDED MEDIUM}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing an online dictionary service, and to a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon the program. The present invention relates to at least two web pages based on the client's native language information and word index information received through the user terminal. The present invention relates to a method for providing an online dictionary providing service, an apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program to facilitate providing interpretation data of a language of a country.

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, in order to increase the convenience of the Internet users, translation services or dictionary services are provided to break down the language barrier.

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. Use the method of transmission to the terminal.

However, the translation quality of such a translation service is not satisfactory, and it goes through a cumbersome procedure of copying and inputting an original text or a URL.

In the case of a normal 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.

Meanwhile, the prior art provides only an interpretation of a designated first national language (for example, English) to a designated second national language (for example, Korean). It is inconvenient to change the designation of the national language and the second national language.

In particular, when various languages are posted on a web page, it is inconvenient to change the designation of the first and second national languages for each language in order to provide interpretation of the various languages. In other words, if a web page is published in three languages, such as English, Chinese, and Japanese, and the native language is Korean, the first national language is designated as English and the second language is to be provided in Korean. The national language must be specified in Korean, the first national language must be designated in Chinese, and the second national language must be designated in Korean, and the Japanese published in the web page in Korean In order to be provided, the first national language must be designated as Japanese and the second national language must be designated as Korean.

Therefore, there is a need for an environment of an online dictionary service that can easily provide interpretation data even if various languages are displayed on a web page.

An object of the present invention is to provide an online dictionary service that can easily provide interpretation data for languages of at least two countries, which are published on a web page, based on the mother tongue information of the client and the word index information received through the user terminal. A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon the program are provided.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing an online service, the method comprising: receiving and storing identification information of a client installed in a user terminal and native language information set in the client; Receiving a query from the user terminal, the query including word index information corresponding to a word recognized in a web page; Extracting the word index information from the received query; Determining dictionary data corresponding to the extracted word index information and the stored native language information of the client from the dictionary data storage unit for storing at least one dictionary data including interpretation data for the target language for each word of the source language step; Retrieving interpretation data corresponding to the word index information from the determined dictionary data; And transmitting the retrieved analysis data to the user terminal.

In the receiving and storing, it is preferable to receive and store the mother tongue information input according to the mother tongue setting request of the user terminal, or to receive and store mother tongue information automatically set according to the version of the client.

The determining of the dictionary data may include determining dictionary data of an original language according to a language identifier of the word index information, and determining dictionary data of a target language by referring to a mother tongue storage unit in which a native language is stored corresponding to identification information of the client. It is desirable to.

In the searching of the analysis data, the analysis data may be searched according to the word identifier of the word index information from the determined dictionary data.

In the step of transmitting to the user terminal, it is preferable to further transmit a menu for activating the listening of the analysis data.

In addition, the online dictionary service providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of setting the user's native language information through a client installed in the user terminal; Transmitting the set native language information through a network; Extracting a word indicated by a pointing device among words of at least two countries included in the web page loaded on the user terminal; Retrieving index information of the extracted word from a word index storage unit including word indexes having a system distinguished by a language of each country; Generating a query using the retrieved word index information and transmitting the query through the network; And displaying the received analysis data on the user terminal based on the generated query.

The step of extracting the word indicated by the pointing device may include: recognizing the word when the indicator of the pointing device is positioned on the word of the web page for a time equal to or greater than a reference value; And trimming noise characters including special characters from the recognized words.

In the transmitting of the set native language information through a network, it is preferable to further transmit identification information of a client installed in the user terminal.

After the step of transmitting the interpretation data to the user terminal, the online dictionary service providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention if the words of the second country, not the words of the first country included in the web page is extracted Preferably, the method further includes generating and transmitting a query including the extracted word index information of the second country, and receiving and displaying interpretation data about the transmitted query.

After the displaying, the online dictionary service providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention preferably further includes the step of outputting the pronunciation of the interpretation data when a menu provided for listening to the interpretation data is selected.

Further, another online dictionary service providing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a mother tongue storage unit for storing identification information of a client installed in a user terminal and mother tongue information set in the client; A query analyzer extracting word index information by receiving a query from the user terminal; A dictionary data storage unit for storing at least one dictionary data including interpretation data by target language for words of a source language; A dictionary data determination unit configured to determine the extracted word index information and dictionary data corresponding to mother language information of a client stored in the native language storage unit with reference to the dictionary data storage unit, respectively; A search unit for searching for interpretation data corresponding to the word index information from the determined dictionary data; And a search result transmitter for transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal.

The native language storage unit may be configured to receive and store a native language input according to a native language setting request of a user terminal, or to receive and store mother language information automatically set according to a version of the client.

The online dictionary service providing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention preferably further includes a menu providing unit that provides a menu for activating the listening of the analysis data.

The dictionary data determination unit may determine dictionary data of an original language according to a language identifier of the word index information, and determine dictionary data of a target language by referring to a native language storage unit in which a native language is stored corresponding to identification information of the client. Do.

The search unit may search for the analysis data corresponding to the word identifier of the word index information from the determined dictionary data.

The query is generated by a client set as the user terminal, and the client comprises: a mother tongue setting unit configured to set mother tongue information of the user; A word extracting unit for extracting a word indicated by a pointing device among words of a web page loaded in the user terminal; A word index storage unit for storing word indexes having a system distinguishing each language; A word index search unit for searching the index of the extracted word from the word index storage unit; A query generator for generating a query including the retrieved word index information; And a search result display unit for displaying the analysis data on the user terminal.

The client preferably further includes a pronunciation output unit for outputting the pronunciation of the analysis data.

The word extracting unit may include a word recognizing unit recognizing a corresponding word when an indicator of the pointing device is positioned over a word of the web page for a time greater than or equal to a reference value; And a trimming processing unit for removing noise characters including special characters from the words recognized by the word recognition unit.

When the client extracts a word of a second country, which is not a word of a first country included in the web page, the client generates and transmits a query including word index information of the extracted second country, and sends the query. It is desirable to receive and display the interpretation data for.

In addition to this, there is further provided a computer readable recording medium for recording another method, apparatus and a computer program for executing the methods.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to easily provide interpretation data for languages of at least two countries published on a web page based on the mother tongue information of the client and the word index information received through the user terminal. In particular, since an analysis service is provided based on the mother tongue of the client, an optimized service can be provided to the user.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by storing the mother language information in the dictionary server, it is also possible to receive only the word index information extracted through the user terminal to quickly receive the interpretation data interpreted in the mother language. That is, since the mother tongue information is stored in the dictionary server, when at least two languages are displayed on the web page, the pointing device selects a desired word among at least two languages on the web page without setting the mother tongue. Since the user can reduce the number of selections, the analysis data can be provided quickly.

Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by providing a menu for activating the listening of the analysis data, the user can also immediately hear the pronunciation of the analysis data as the menu is selected.

1 is a diagram for explaining an online dictionary service that is typically provided.
2 is a view for explaining the environment of the online dictionary service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view for explaining the word extraction unit shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a language-based index system of the word index storage unit illustrated in FIG. 2.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an online dictionary service providing method of a dictionary server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating an online dictionary service providing method of a client according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an internal block diagram of a general purpose computer device that may be employed to perform a method for providing an online dictionary service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and similar parts are denoted by similar two-sided symbols.

In an embodiment of the present invention, when a part is "connected" with another part, it is not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another element in between. Also includes. 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, an online dictionary service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an environment of an online dictionary service providing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a word extracting unit shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a word illustrated in FIG. 2. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an index system of each index storage unit.

2, an online dictionary service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a client 200 and a dictionary server 300. The client 200 is installed in the user terminal and collects various information and transmits the collected information to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100. The network 100 supports communication between the client 200 and the dictionary server 300 shown in FIG. 2, and the configuration of the underlying communication technology constituting the network 100 does not have a substantial influence on the implementation of the present invention. .

In addition, the network 100 may be configured regardless of its communication mode such as wired and wireless. The network 100 may be configured based on any kind of communication technology that enables information exchange between the client 200 and the dictionary server 300. In addition, various known techniques for reliability and security of the information exchange process may be applied to the network 100.

The client 200 may include a mother tongue setting unit 210, a native language transmitter 220, a word extractor 230, a word index search unit 240, a word index storage unit 250, a query generator 260, and a search. The result display unit 270, the pronunciation output unit 280, and the environment setting unit 290 may be configured to be included.

The client 200 is downloaded through the network 100 and installed in a user terminal such as a computer or a portable terminal. Here, the user terminal is a digital device including a function that allows the user to communicate after connecting to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100, desktop computer, notebook computer, workstation, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) ), Any digital device having memory means such as a web pad, a mobile phone, etc., and equipped with a microprocessor can be adopted as the user terminal according to the present invention. In addition, the user terminal includes a web browser (not shown) program for receiving content.

The native language setting unit 210 sets the language selected through the client 200 installed in the user terminal as the mother tongue information. That is, the mother tongue setting unit 210 selects a mother language, which is a reference language for analyzing a word of a web page, as one of a plurality of languages, and sets the selected language as mother tongue information.

According to an embodiment, the user may set a native language while the client 200 is installed in the user terminal. For example, when a user selects a specific language from among various languages such as English, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese, the selected language is set as a native language. In addition, the user's native language can be changed according to the user's choice.

In addition, the native language setting unit 210 may automatically set the user's native language as the language version of the client 200. The native language information may be identified based on, for example, an IP address of a user terminal connected to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100.

The mother tongue setting unit according to another embodiment of the present invention may set the mother tongue information by the login information for logging in to the web page.

The native language transmitter 220 transmits the native language information set by the native language setting unit 210 to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100. In this case, the time point for transmitting the native language information may be the time point at which the native language information is set, or a time point for requesting transmission of the native language information from the user, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The word extracting unit 230 recognizes and extracts a word at a position indicated by a pointing device such as a mouse.

Referring further to FIG. 3, the word extractor 230 includes a word recognizer 231, a trimming processor 232, and the like.

The word recognizer 231 detects an event in which the indicator of the pointing device is located on the word, recognizes a word at the time when the event occurs, and transmits the word to the trimming processor 232. 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 231 continuously detects whether the pointing device is moved, and recognizes a word at the time when the indicator is located when the indicator is located above the word. In this case, the sensitivity of the word recognition may be adjusted by adjusting the reference value according to the user's setting. In other words, if the indicator increases the reference value of the time located on the word, the sensitivity of the word recognition will be reduced, and conversely, if the indicator decreases the reference value of the time located on the word, the sensitivity of the word recognition will increase.

The trimming processor 232 performs a trimming operation to remove noise characters from the words recognized by the word recognition unit 231. Noise characters include various characters or various special characters that are unrelated to word interpretation. That is, the noise character includes various character symbols such as single quotes, double quotes, exclamation marks, question marks, and the like located in front of, behind, and the middle of the recognized word.

Referring back to FIG. 2, the word index searcher 240 may determine a word recognized by the word recognizer 231 or a word recognized by the word recognizer 231 and trimmed by the trimming processor 232. The index is retrieved from the word index storage 250.

In addition, the word index searcher 240 transmits index information of the searched word to the query generator 260. If there is no index information of the searched word, it is determined that the interpretation of the word does not exist in the dictionary server 300 so that a query for the word is not generated.

Accordingly, when the word recognized by the word recognition unit 231 is not retrieved from the word index storage unit 250, it is regarded as a word not registered in the dictionary server 300.

The word index storage 250 may have an index system that is distinguished for each language. In other words, different languages such as Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese should have different indexing systems.

In addition, the word index storage unit 250 specifies and stores a unique index for the words registered in the dictionary server 300.

Referring to FIG. 4, the word index storage unit 250 assigns a unique index to each word as shown. In addition, the word index storage 250 has an index system that is distinguished from each other by language. For example, EN has a different language identifier for each language such as EN for English, KR for Korean, JP for Japanese, and CN for Chinese. A language identifier and a word identifier (i, j, k, l of FIG. 4) of the corresponding word are combined to form a single word index, and thus an index system of words for each language may be formed. In this case, the embodiment may be changed to have a different index system from the illustrated index system.

The language identifier may be determined from the code pattern of the recognized word. That is, the code of each word may have a specific pattern to identify its nationality. For example, by implementing a specific part of the code as binary data, the language of the word can be determined from the binary data. The code pattern of a word may be stored in the word index storage 250 in the form of a table and referred to by the word index searcher 240.

Accordingly, the word to be searched and the language corresponding to the word can be checked only by the word index. The dictionary determiner 340 of the dictionary server 300 to be described later determines any dictionary data among a plurality of dictionary data based on the language identifier of the word index information. Therefore, if the word index has a distinct system for each language, dictionary data can be more easily determined.

In addition to Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese shown in FIG. 4, language identifiers for various languages such as German, French, Spanish, and Arabic may be additionally stored. In addition, data stored in the word index storage 250 may be added, changed, or deleted at the operator's selection.

2, the query generator 260 generates a query using the word index information searched by the word index searcher 240.

The query generator 260 generates a query only when a word identified based on the word index information is stored in the dictionary data storage 370 of the dictionary server 300. Since the words not retrieved from the word index storage 250 are not registered in the dictionary server 300 and thus do not provide interpretation data, an unnecessary operation may be performed. Accordingly, in the embodiment of the present invention, the index information of the words registered in the dictionary server 300 is stored in the client 200, and a query is generated only for the words registered in the dictionary server 300. Therefore, a query is not generated for words for which an index is not registered in the word index storage 250.

The generated query is transmitted to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100, and the dictionary server 300 determines dictionary data by using word index information included in the query and mother tongue information of the client, The analysis data corresponding to the word index information is retrieved from the determined dictionary data and transmitted to the user terminal through the network 100.

The search result display unit 270 displays the analysis data received from the dictionary server 300 on the client 200. The search result display unit 270 may be displayed in the form of a tooltip at a position adjacent to a word indicated by the pointing device.

The pronunciation output unit 280 may output the pronunciation of the interpretation data displayed in the tooltip form through the speaker or the earphone when a menu capable of activating the listening of the interpretation data displayed in the tooltip form is selected. Therefore, the user can not only directly hear the pronunciation of the analysis data, but can also pronounce the analysis data correctly.

The environment setting unit 290 receives and stores setting items selected by the user so that the online dictionary service is provided accordingly. For example, you can change the native language set by the user. In addition, the environment setting unit 290 allows the user to directly set the reference value of the time at which the indicator of the pointing device is located at the word position in the word recognition unit 231 of the word extractor 230. In addition, the environment setting unit 290 may directly set the time to transmit the mother tongue information set by the mother tongue setting unit 210 to the dictionary server 300.

Hereinafter, the dictionary server 300 will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

The dictionary server 300 receives the client's identification information and the mother tongue information set in the client from the client 200 through the network 100, and stores the identification information in the mother tongue storage unit 320, and when a query is received from the client 200. The dictionary data of the source language and the dictionary language of the target language are respectively determined based on the word index information of the received query and the mother tongue information of the client, and the interpretation data of words of the word index information of the source language is searched from the determined dictionary data. Send to client 200.

The dictionary server 300 may include a native language receiver 310, a native language storage 320, a query analyzer 330, a dictionary determiner 340, a searcher 350, a search result transmitter 360, and dictionary data. It may be configured to include a storage unit 370 and the like.

The native language receiver 310 receives the mother tongue information set when the client 200 is installed in the user terminal. In addition, the mother tongue receiving unit 310 receives the mother tongue information automatically set according to the language version of the client 200 installed in the user terminal. At this time, when receiving the mother tongue information, it receives the identification information of the installed client.

The native language storage unit 320 stores the mother tongue information received by the native language receiver 310 and identification information of the client 200. The mother tongue storage unit 320 preferably stores mother tongue information for each client 200.

The query analyzer 330 extracts word index information by analyzing a query received from the client 200 through the network 100.

In addition, the query analyzing unit 330 retrieves the identification information of the client 200 that transmits the query from the mother tongue storage unit 320 and extracts the mother language information stored corresponding to the retrieved identification information.

The predetermining unit 340 determines dictionary data based on the language identifier of the extracted word index information and the mother tongue information of the identification information retrieved from the mother tongue storage unit 320.

That is, the dictionary determiner 340 determines the dictionary data of the original language based on the language identifier of the word index information extracted with reference to the dictionary data storage 370, and the mother tongue of the identification information retrieved from the native language storage 320. Based on the information, dictionary data of the target language is determined. The source language is a word extracted by the pointing device as a language extracted based on the query, and the target language is a language to be provided as interpretation data of the word extracted by the pointing device. Since the word index information has a language system divided for each language, the original language can be identified therefrom.

For example, when the mother tongue information is English and the language identifier of the word index information indicates Japanese, dictionary data whose source language is Japanese and whose mother language is English is determined. In other words, dictionary data for selecting various Japanese words posted on a web page in English is selected. In addition, when the native language is Korean and the identifier of the word index information indicates Chinese, dictionary data in which the original language is Chinese and the target language is the native language is respectively determined. That is, dictionary data for selecting various Chinese words included in a web page into Korean is selected.

The dictionary data storage unit 370 includes a plurality of dictionary data. Dictionary data includes interpretation of various words of the source language into the target language. In other words, various words of the original 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 types of dictionary data, which is one of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English, are used as the source language, and the native language is, for example, one of Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English. Can be considered That is, when the mother tongue information is stored in the mother tongue storage unit 320 in English, dictionary data for interpreting Korean words in English, dictionary data for interpreting Japanese words in English, dictionary data for interpreting Chinese words in English, English words in English Dictionary data to be interpreted by the user, and when the native language information is stored in the native language storage unit 320 in Chinese, dictionary data to interpret Korean words in Chinese, dictionary data to interpret Japanese words in Chinese, dictionary to interpret Chinese words in Chinese Data, dictionary data for interpreting English words in Chinese, and native language information stored in the native language storage unit 320 in Japanese, dictionary data for interpreting Korean words in Japanese, dictionary data for interpreting Japanese words in Japanese, Chinese words Dictionary data for parsing English in Japanese, dictionary data for interpreting English words in Japanese, When the language information is stored in the native language storage unit 320 in Korean, dictionary data for interpreting Korean words in Korean, dictionary data for interpreting Japanese words in Korean, dictionary data for interpreting Chinese words in Korean, and English words to Korean Consider interpreting dictionary data.

The dictionary data storage unit 370 includes a total of n * m dictionary data in which one language among n languages is used as a source language and one language among m languages is used as a target language.

Various words of the original language of the dictionary data may be stored in the dictionary data storage unit 370 in the form of a word index. That is, since the search is performed based on the word index information transmitted from the client 200, the dictionary data is configured to include the word index information. The language identifier may be omitted from the index information for each word of the dictionary data.

The photographic data of the present invention can be made to include a brief interpretation as compared to a conventional dictionary. That is, since the interpretation data is provided in the form of a tool tip, the dictionary data may be configured to include only representative interpretations of the word.

The search unit 350 searches for analysis data corresponding to the word index information from the dictionary data determined by the predetermining unit 340. Preferably, the analysis data corresponding to the word identifier of the word index information is searched, and the searched analysis data is transmitted to the search result transmission unit 360.

The search result transmitter 360 transmits the searched analysis data to the client 200 of the user terminal through the network 100.

For reference, components shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 according to an embodiment of the present invention may refer to software or hardware components such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

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 embodiment of the present invention, a component may include components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, processes, functions, properties, procedures, and the like. , Subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables.

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

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

Referring to FIG. 5, the client 200 is downloaded through the network 100 and installed in the user terminal (S201).

Next, the mother tongue setting unit 210 receives the mother tongue information through the mother tongue setting window provided according to the mother tongue setting request (S203). In the present exemplary embodiment, the mother tongue information is directly set by the user, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the mother tongue information may be automatically set according to the language version of the client 200.

Next, the native language transmitter 220 transmits native language information to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100 (S205). The native language transmitter 220 may transmit identification information of the client together with the native language information. The dictionary server 300 stores the mother tongue information received through the network 100 in the mother tongue storage unit 320. The native language storage unit 320 may store identification information of the client installed in the user terminal that transmits the native language information in correspondence with the native language information.

Next, the word extracting unit 230 extracts the recognized word through the indicator of the word pointing device posted on the web page (S207). That is, the word extractor 230 recognizes the corresponding word when the indicator of the pointing device is positioned over the word of the web page for more than the reference value. If necessary, trimming the special characters included in the recognized word may be further performed.

Next, the word index searcher 240 searches for the index information of the word extracted by the word extractor 230 with reference to the word index storage 250 (S209). The index information of a word includes a language identifier and a word identifier of the corresponding language.

Next, the query generator 260 generates a query using the word index information searched by the word index searcher 240 (S211). The generated query is transmitted to the dictionary server 300 through the network 100 connecting the user terminal and the dictionary server 300.

Thereafter, the search result display unit 270 receives the analysis data for the query from the dictionary server 300 through the network 100, and displays the received analysis data (S213).

Next, the word extracting unit 230 determines whether a word of another country posted in the web page is recognized (S215).

As a result of the determination in step S215, when a word of another country displayed in the web page is not recognized, that is, when a language of a different language from that recognized in the above-described step S207 is not recognized, the waiting state is maintained for a predetermined time. Terminate the process according to the termination request.

As a result of the determination in step S215, when a word of another country displayed in the web page is recognized, the word extracting unit 230 shifts the process to the above-described step S207 for extracting the recognized word to display the other word displayed in the web page. The step of displaying interpretation data for words of the country may be performed.

Accordingly, even if the languages of at least two countries are displayed in the web page, the interpretation data for the recognized words can be easily provided through the indicator of the pointing device. The reason is that in the state where the mother tongue information is pre-stored in the dictionary server 300, the user only needs to specify a word that is the original language without setting the mother tongue language.

After the above-described step S213, if the menu for activating the listening of the interpretation data is selected, the pronunciation output unit 280 may further perform the step of outputting the pronunciation of the interpretation data through the speaker or the earphone.

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

The native language receiving unit 310 receives native language information through the network 100 (S301).

Next, the mother tongue storage unit 320 stores the mother tongue information received by the mother tongue receiver 310 (S303). In this case, the mother tongue information may be stored in the mother tongue storage unit 320 in correspondence with the client identification information installed in the user terminal transmitting the mother tongue information.

Next, the query analyzer 330 receives the query through the network 100 and analyzes the received query to extract word index information (S305). The extracted word index information is transmitted to the predetermining unit 340 and the searching unit 350.

Next, the predetermining unit 340 determines the dictionary data of the original language according to the language identifier of the extracted word index information, and refers to the client installed in the user terminal transmitting the query with reference to the mother tongue information stored in the mother tongue storage unit 320. The dictionary data of the target language is determined according to the mother tongue information corresponding to the identification information (S307).

Next, the search unit 350 searches for analysis data corresponding to the word identifier of the extracted word index information (S309).

Next, the search result transmitter 360 transmits the search result including the searched analysis data to the client 200 (S311), and the transmitted analysis data is displayed on the user terminal through the client 200.

In this case, the search result transmitter 360 may include a menu for activating listening to the analysis data in the search result including the analysis data.

Embodiments of the present invention include computer readable media including program instructions for performing various computer implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, local data files, local data structures, or the like, alone or in combination. The media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as < RTI ID = 0.0 > The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a local data structure, or the like.

Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

7 is an internal block diagram of a general purpose computer device that may be employed to perform a method for providing an online dictionary service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Computer device 400 includes one or more processors 410 coupled with a main memory device including random access memory (RAM) 420 and read only memory (ROM) 430. The processor 410 is also called a central processing unit (CPU). As is well known in the art, the ROM 430 serves to transfer local data and instructions to the CPU unidirectionally, and the RAM 420 typically transmits local data and instructions bidirectionally. Used to send to. RAM 420 and ROM 430 may include any suitable form of computer readable media. Mass storage 440 is bi-directionally coupled to processor 410 to provide additional local data storage capabilities, and may be any of the computer readable recording media described above. The mass storage device 440 is used to store programs, local data, and the like, and is a secondary memory device such as a hard disk which is generally slower than the main memory device. Certain mass storage devices such as CD ROM 460 may be used. The processor 410 may include one or more input / output interfaces, such as a video monitor, trackball, mouse, keyboard, microphone, touchscreen display, card reader, magnetic or paper tape reader, voice or handwriting reader, joystick, or other known computer input / output device. Connected with 450. Finally, the processor 410 may be connected to a wired or wireless communication network through the network interface 470. Through this network connection, the procedure of the method described above can be performed. The apparatus and tools described above are well known to those skilled in the computer hardware and software arts.

The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims and the claims.

100: network 200: client
210: native language setting unit 220: native language transmission unit
230: word extraction unit 240: word index search unit
250: word index storage unit 260: query generation unit
270: search result display unit 280: pronunciation output unit
290: environment setting unit 300: dictionary server
310: native language receiver 320: native language storage unit
330: query analysis unit 340: predetermining unit
350: search unit 360: search result transmission unit
370: dictionary data storage

Claims (20)

An online dictionary service providing method of an online dictionary service providing device that provides interpretation data for at least two languages included in a web page through a network.
Receiving and storing identification information of a client installed in a user terminal and mother tongue information set in the client;
Receiving a query from the user terminal, the query including word index information corresponding to a word recognized in the web page;
Extracting the word index information from the received query;
Determining dictionary data corresponding to the extracted word index information and the stored native language information of the client from the dictionary data storage unit for storing at least one dictionary data including interpretation data for the target language for each word of the source language step;
Retrieving interpretation data corresponding to the word index information from the determined dictionary data; And
Transmitting the retrieved analysis data to the user terminal,
Determining the dictionary data,
The dictionary data of the source language is determined according to the language identifier of the word index information, and the dictionary data of the target language is determined by referring to the mother language storage unit in which the mother language is stored corresponding to the identification information of the client. Way. The method according to claim 1,
The receiving and storing step,
And receiving and storing the input mother tongue information according to the mother tongue setting request of the user terminal, or receiving and storing the mother tongue information automatically set according to the version of the client. delete The method according to claim 1,
Searching the analysis data,
And analyzing data from the determined dictionary data according to a word identifier of the word index information. The method according to claim 1,
The step of transmitting to the user terminal,
And further transmitting a menu for activating the listening of the analysis data. An online dictionary service providing method of an online dictionary service providing device that provides interpretation data for at least two languages included in a web page through a network.
Setting the mother tongue information of the user through a client installed in the user terminal;
Transmitting the set native language information through a network;
Extracting a word indicated by a pointing device among words of at least two countries included in the web page loaded on the user terminal;
Retrieving index information of the extracted word from a word index storage unit including word indexes having a system distinguished by a language of each country;
Generating a query using the retrieved word index information and transmitting the query through the network; And
Displaying the received analysis data on the user terminal based on the generated query,
Extracting the word indicated by the pointing device,
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; And
And trimming noise characters including special characters from the recognized words. delete The method of claim 6,
The transmitting of the set native language information through a network may include:
On-line dictionary service providing method characterized in that further transmitting the identification information of the client installed in the user terminal. The method of claim 6,
After transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal,
When a word of a second country, which is not a word of a first country included in the webpage, is extracted, a query including the word index information of the extracted second country is generated and transmitted, and interpretation data of the transmitted query is generated. And receiving and displaying the online dictionary service. The method of claim 6,
After the displaying step,
And outputting a pronunciation of the analysis data when a menu provided for listening to the analysis data is selected. An online dictionary service providing apparatus for providing interpretation data for languages of at least two countries included in a web page through a network,
A mother tongue storage unit for storing identification information of the client installed in the user terminal and mother tongue information set in the client;
A query analyzer extracting word index information by receiving a query from the user terminal;
A dictionary data storage unit for storing at least one dictionary data including interpretation data by target language for words of a source language;
A dictionary data determination unit configured to determine the extracted word index information and dictionary data corresponding to mother language information of a client stored in the native language storage unit with reference to the dictionary data storage unit, respectively;
A search unit for searching for interpretation data corresponding to the word index information from the determined dictionary data; And
A search result transmission unit for transmitting the analysis data to the user terminal,
The dictionary data determination unit,
The dictionary data of the source language is determined according to the language identifier of the word index information, and the dictionary data of the target language is determined by referring to the mother language storage unit in which the mother language is stored corresponding to the identification information of the client. Device. The method of claim 11,
The native language storage unit,
And receiving and storing the input mother language according to the mother language setting request of the user terminal, or receiving and storing mother language information automatically set according to the version of the client. The method of claim 11,
And a menu providing unit for providing a menu for activating the listening of the analysis data. delete The method of claim 11,
The search unit,
And an analysis data corresponding to a word identifier of the word index information is searched from the determined dictionary data. The method of claim 11,
The query is generated by a client set as the user terminal,
The client,
A mother tongue setting unit for setting the mother tongue information of the user;
A word extracting unit for extracting a word indicated by a pointing device among words of a web page loaded in the user terminal;
A word index storage unit for storing word indexes having a system distinguishing each language;
A word index search unit for searching the index of the extracted word from the word index storage unit;
A query generator for generating a query including the retrieved word index information; And
And a search result display unit for displaying the analysis data on the user terminal. The method according to claim 16,
The client,
And a pronunciation output unit for outputting a pronunciation of the analysis data. The method of claim 11,
The word extraction unit,
A word recognition unit that recognizes a word when the indicator of the pointing device is positioned over a word of the web page for a time greater than or equal to a reference value; And
And a trimming processing unit which removes noise characters including special characters from the words recognized by the word recognition unit. The method according to claim 16,
The client,
When a word of a second country, which is not a word of a first country included in the webpage, is extracted, a query including the word index information of the extracted second country is generated and transmitted, and interpretation data of the transmitted query is generated. An online dictionary service providing apparatus, characterized in that for receiving and displaying. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the steps of any one of claims 1, 2, 4-6, 8-8.

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