Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090076798 | Apparatus and method for post-processing dialogue error in speech dialogue system using multilevel verification - Provided are an apparatus and method for post-processing a dialogue error in a speech dialogue system using multilevel verification, in which both of a user's current utterance and a whole dialogue flow are taken into account through the multilevel verification including speech recognition results analysis, linguistic analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis. As a result, various errors that may occur in the speech dialogue system are detected, and error post-processing appropriate to a detected error type is performed, so that speech recognition errors may be reduced. | 03-19-2009 |
20100023549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL TAGGING USING PROPERTY FIELD OF ONTOLOGY OBJECT - A method for social tagging using a property field of an ontology object includes: selecting an object in an ontology database storing therein objects in forms of classes; selecting a property field in a class corresponding to the selected object; and adding a social tag by storing user's input as a value of the selected property field. Classes stored in the ontology database may have property fields defined when instances of the classes are created, and specific values may be stored as values of the property fields also when the instances are created. The property fields defined when the instances are created are classified into data type property fields and object type property field, and the selected property field is a data type property field. | 01-28-2010 |
20100153094 | TOPIC MAP BASED INDEXING AND SEARCHING APPARATUS - A topic map based indexing apparatus analyzes community Q/A lists to acquire Q/A analysis information, removes redundant answers depending on the Q/A analysis information, removes insignificant answers based on the degree of reliability, ranks answer lists, and extracts the highest ranking answer as a best answer, to thereby store, in a community Q/A topic map, index information containing the community Q/A lists and the Q/A analysis information. A topic map based searching apparatus analyzes a user question to acquire question analysis information, searches similar questions from community Q/A lists belonging to a specific topic node of a pre-stored community Q/A topic map, ranks the searched similar questions depending on the question analysis information, removes redundant answers among answers to the ranked similar questions, ranks the answers, and extracts the highest ranking answer as a best answer. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153210 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON CONTENTS SENTIMENT AND INTENTION ANALYSIS - The invention provides an apparatus and method for selecting an online advertisement. An apparatus for selecting an online advertisement based on contents sentiment and intention analysis includes a context analysis unit for analyzing a context of contents, a context matching advertisement recommendation unit for selecting an advertisement matching with the context of the contents from an advertisement database (DB) based on the result of the analyzed context, an sentiment information analysis unit for analyzing an sentiment object and sentiment information variously described in the contents based on the result of the analyzed context, an intention recognition unit for recognizing a writing intention of the contents, and an advertisement selection unit for excluding the selected advertisement for the contents or selecting an alternative advertisement depending on the result of the analyzed context, the result of the analyzed sentiment object and sentiment information and the recognized writing intention. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161416 | METHOD OF PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS - A method of providing targeted advertisements, includes: generating an advertisement search result using a search query based on a user query or a recommended query; generating an advertisement search result on the basis of a user profile; integrating the advertisement search result generated on the basis of the user profile with the advertisement search result generated by using the search query; and presenting a recommended advertisement list on the basis of the integrated advertisement search result and advertisement information exposed to a user. | 06-24-2010 |
20110087656 | APPARATUS FOR QUESTION ANSWERING BASED ON ANSWER TRUSTWORTHINESS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provides is an apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness including: an answer indexer that indexes documents of which document trustworthiness satisfying a threshold value among documents included in a document collection and stores it in a knowledge Bases; an answer candidate extractor that extracts answer candidate documents for a user's question from the knowledge Bases; an answer source trustworthiness measurement unit; an answer extraction strategy trustworthiness measurement unit; and a trustworthiness integrator that generates an answer candidate trustworthiness list by ranking the answer candidate documents on the basis of the document trustworthiness, the source trustworthiness, and the extraction strategy trustworthiness of the answer candidate documents. | 04-14-2011 |
20110145251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING NAMED ENTITY DICTIONARY - A system and method for constructing a named entity dictionary are disclosed. The method includes analyzing a structure of collected Web text, extracting tabulated or listed information from the Web text, extracting a named entity from the tabulated or listed information, categorizing the extracted named entity, and registering the categorized named entity in a named entity dictionary. | 06-16-2011 |
20110258223 | VOICE-BASED MOBILE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates generally to a voice-based mobile search apparatus and method, and, more particularly, to a voice-based mobile search apparatus and method, which can present optimized search results suitable for a mobile status while allowing a user to conveniently use a search service in a mobile environment. The voice-based mobile search apparatus according to the present invention includes a voice recognition unit for recognizing a user's voice transferred through a mobile terminal and then receiving a query. A status information collection unit collects status information of the mobile terminal and profile information of the user. An answer search unit searches a knowledge base based on the query, and extracts short answers matching the query. An answer provision unit processes the short answers in conformity with the status information of the mobile terminal and the profile information of the user, and provides the processed short answers. | 10-20-2011 |
20120089634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method for providing multimedia services in a communication system, a request message for requesting contract information on users' multimedia services are received from a terminal according to service requests of the multimedia services to be received by the users. A query message for searching for the contract information in a database is generated corresponding to the request message, and the query message is transmitted to the database. The contract information is searched in the database through a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) query format protocol based on the query message, and a query result message containing the contract information is received from the database in response to the query message. The contract information is acknowledged in the query result message, and a response message containing the contract information is generated. Then, the response message is transmitted to the terminal. | 04-12-2012 |
20120101903 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE INTELLIGENT ADVERTIZING SERVICE BASED ON MOBILE USER CONTEXTUAL MATCHING - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for mobile intelligent advertizing service based on mobile user contextual matching. An apparatus for mobile intelligent advertizing service based on mobile user contexts includes: a contextual information collecting unit collecting user contextual information under a mobile environment; a contextual information analyzing unit analyzing the collected contextual information and classifying and storing the analyzed contextual information for each category; a contextual information modeling unit comparing and mapping the analyzed contextual information with a previously built-up contextual information database to formalize the compared and mapped contextual information and generalizing the formalized contextual information by using a wired/wireless communication network; a user action analyzing unit analyzing a user's action on the basis of the modeled contextual information and predicting the user's next action; and an advertisement contents recommending unit recommending advertisement contents suitable for the predicted user's next action. | 04-26-2012 |
20120124136 | CONTEXT INFORMATION SHARING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT SERVICE BY SHARING CONTEXT INFORMATION BETWEEN ONE OR MORE TERMINALS - Provided are a context information sharing apparatus and method for providing an intelligent service by sharing context information between one or more terminals. The method includes collecting, at one or more terminals, user behavior-based preference information including user log information about each terminal and sensor-based context information, storing, at the one or more terminals, the collected preference information and context information in each terminal as a database, receiving, at a first terminal, a context information collection request for a target user group and identifying the target user group, collecting, at the first terminal, context information about at least one terminal included in the identified target user group, and providing, at the first terminal, preference information about the target user group extracted on the basis of the collected context information about the target user group to a user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120167153 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE - Disclosed are a system for providing a broadcast service and a method for providing a broadcast service. An example of the method for providing a broadcast service includes receiving a broadcast signal including broadcast contents and side information to provide the broadcast contents; reading out at least one of objects from question data that is input regarding the broadcast contents and primarily analyzing the read-out object to read out a subject of the question data; searching a social media site and collecting social media data relating to the subject from the searched social media site; secondarily analyzing the social media data and the side information in the broadcast signal on the basis of the subject; and configuring answer data corresponding to the subject using the analysis result and providing the answer data, and provides information which is extended and varied in real time. | 06-28-2012 |
20130197898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATION - Disclosed is an apparatus for providing an accurate automatic language translation service. A user terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display unit to display a translation option setting menu for a user with respect to a source sentence of which a category is designated and to be translated; a user input unit to receive, from the user, an input on setting of a translation option; a communication unit to transmit the translation option to a translation server, and to receive a translation result from the translation server; and a control unit to control operations of the display unit, the user input unit, and the communication unit. According to the present invention, a translation service for multilingual multimedia through a natural styled highly precise automatic translation is enabled. | 08-01-2013 |