KR20050096352A - The electronic dictionary editing methodology in internet environment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of designing an XML document structure in a form that is portable and compatible with general computer-based electronic dictionaries, and can be used in the next generation Internet environment, and easily edits it on the Internet.

To this end, he claims a standardized electronic dictionary document structure and an Internet-based user interface.

Description

The electronic dictionary editing methodology in internet environment}

Developing electronic dictionaries is a special field of document editing. Until now, the development environment for the development of electronic dictionaries has been designed for the convenience of program developers, but no interface for linguistics specialists or general dictionaries. In addition, the data could not be edited in the Internet or various program environments by configuring the data in the form of a special symbol string in an independent computer environment rather than based on a communication network. This is easy to find even in the case of the standard Korean dictionary, which was developed by the National Institute of Korean Language. The various symbol codes are composed in a separate bitmap font in the database so that the data cannot be edited properly in a general editing environment or the Internet.

Accordingly, in order to construct an electronic dictionary, it was divided into simple workers (computational meals), dictionary compilation, and proofreaders. This resulted in the increase of development cost, difficult data management, and lack of compatibility, which can be seen from the fact that there is no compatibility of Hangul electronic dictionary released in Korea.

Today, XML is becoming a major technology standard, and the present invention has the greatest focus on designing a new XML-based document structure and integrating it into a web interface. This technology consists of a standardized XML document structure for composing an electronic dictionary with compatibility and a user interface supporting editing on the Internet. The XML document structure is described in claim 1 and the user interface is described in claim 2.

1. XML document structure for composing electronic dictionary

All documents of the present invention are described on the basis of Unicode, because Unicode is regarded as the most appropriate countermeasure for expressing multilingual information and storing phonetic symbols.

The information in the electronic dictionary is largely classified as a heading. In the present invention, the minimum storage unit of the dictionary is defined as ENTRY. An ENTRY can store multiple parts-of-speech classifications, so it stores one heading area called TITLE and a classification system called SEP (Separation). ENTRY stores an attribute value called LANG (language) to know which language's heading information is stored by a single heading.

The property value LANG is defined as a three-letter language code. The setting of each code can be added arbitrarily when the number of supported languages increases. The comparison table is as follows.

KOR; ENG: English

FRN: French GER: German

RUS: RussianJPN: Japanese

CHN: Traditional Chinese SCN: Simplified Chinese

SPN: Spanish

One SEP information includes one or more semantic information, which is described as MEAN. SEP information has parts of speech information called CLAS (Class) and phonetic symbol information called PRON (Prononciation) as attributes. MEAN information must be included in one or more SEP elements and may include each of the following information.

EXAM (Example): Example information. Example information may include another GRAM or PHR information. And at least one translation information (TRANS: Translation) is stored.

GRAM (Grammar): Grammar information. Stores one or more translation information. It may contain one or more translation information and another GRAM or EXAM information.

PHR (Phrase): Stores idiom information. It may contain one or more translation information and another GRAM or EXAM information.

In addition, the MEAN information includes various linguistic information as attribute information. When interworking with a semantic-based OWL language in the future, OWL pointer information may be stored in this information.

AB (Abbreviation): Abbreviation information.

Synonym (SY): Synonym Information.

AN (Antonym): Antonym information.

ES (English Syonoym): English synonym information. This provides a foundation for automatically linking with external Ontology environment when interworking with OWL environment in the future.

2. Interface for editing electronic dictionaries on the Internet

As shown in FIG. 1 of the present invention, the interface operates in an Internet environment. The basic idea of this interface is how to quickly and easily edit XML-based electronic dictionary information on the Internet. The structure of well-structured XML document is the same as that of claim 1, and the number of clicks of the mouse is considered in order to easily edit the document by using the same. For this, the following interface points were considered.

■ How can I enter information related to one screen by clicking on a node?

How can I add and remove nodes easily?

In order to solve this problem, the present invention has made five buttons as shown in FIG. 1 to enable or disable the use according to the criteria of XML DTD. Each button is made up of forward, backward, add sibling, and delete buttons. The update button is updated automatically when another node is clicked with a mouse, so the importance is low.

The Add Siblings button takes into account the characteristics of the dictionary that enter many of the same elements. In other words, a lot of example information is entered in the dictionary. If you click on the parent node and enter an element called EXAM as a child node, two mouse clicks are required. If you need to enter a large number of examples, this can be very time consuming.

We don't include the parent and child navigation buttons, which are considered to avoid breaking the integrity of the XML document and its structure.

The delete button is deactivated if it is one or more elements that need to be present. If deleted as the last child node, the user interface is moved to one of its sibling nodes (first node first) or the parent node.

1. Standardized electronic dictionary structure. In the future, it can be used as a source for providing semantic information of web-based ontology information such as OWL (Web Ontology) and RDF (Resource Description Format).

2. You can use the interface to edit various types of XML documents or to edit various namespace environments.

3. Encourage standardization of electronic dictionaries to improve the electronic dictionary compilation environment and promote the establishment of meaningful language libraries.

In order to edit electronic dictionaries on the Internet, XML-based DTDs must be defined in consideration of reusability and various factors. However, when presented to general language experts, it does not generate sophisticated XML documents. The present invention provides an interface that can easily edit the electronic dictionary on the web with the DTD definition. As shown in Figure 1

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Document structure of an electronic dictionary (DTD format) <? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?> <! ELEMENT ENTRY (TITLE, SEP +)> <! ELEMENT SEP (MEAN +)> <! ELEMENT MEAN (#PCDATA, (EXAM | PHR | GRAM) *)> <! ELEMENT EXAM (#PCDATA, TRANS +, (PHR | GRAM) *)> <! ELEMENT PHR (#PCDATA, TRANS +, (EXAM | PHR) *)> <! ELEMENT GRAM (#PCDATA, TRANS +, (EXAM | PHR) *)> <! ELEMENT TRANS (#PCDATA)> <! ATTRIBUTE ENTRY LANG CDATA (KOR | ENG | FRN | DEU | RUS | GRK | JPN | SCN | CHN | SPN) #REQUIRED> <! ATTRIBUTE SEP CLAS CDATA #REQUIRED PRON CDATA> <! ATTRIBUTE MEAN AB CDATA SY CDATA AN CDATA ES CDATA> <! ATTRIBUTE TRANS LANG CDATA (KOR | ENG | FRN | DEU | RUS | GRK | JPN | SCN | CHN | SPN) "KOR" #REQUIRED> Internet-based electronic dictionary editing user interface structure presented in Figure 1 (the description is given in the configuration of the invention)