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 |
20100138712 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING TRAINING DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING - An apparatus for verifying training data using machine learning includes: a training data separation unit for separating provided initial training data into N training data and N verification data, where N is a natural number; a machine learning unit for performing machine learning on the separated training data to generate a training model; an automatic tagging unit for automatically tagging an original text of the verification data using the generated training model to provide automatic tagging results; and an error determination unit for comparing the verification data to the automatic tagging results to determine error candidates of the training data. | 06-03-2010 |
20100145922 | PERSONALIZED SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - A personalized search apparatus includes: a model generating unit for generating a user favorites analysis model based on directory grouping information about directories stored in a user terminal and user behavior information; and a user favorites analysis model DB for storing the generated user favorites analysis model. Further, the personalized search apparatus includes a search engine for searching for a file relevant to an input query using an information search engine installed in the user terminal to generate search results; and a personalized search engine for re-ranking the search results generated by the search engine based on the user favorites analysis model to generate personalized search results. | 06-10-2010 |
20100145952 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An electronic document processing apparatus includes: a document set storage unit storing hash tables including hash values of documents to be processed; a content extraction unit for extracting body contents from a newly input electronic document; and a sentence separation unit for separating sentences from the extracted body contents. The apparatus further includes a duplicate document determination unit for converting the separated sentences into unique hash values by a hash algorithm, determining each of the separated checking if there is a duplicate sentence depending on whether or not there is a collision between the converted hash values and the hash values in the hash tables of the document set storage unit, and determining if the electronic document is a duplicate document based on the ratio of duplicate sentences to all of the sentences in the electronic document. | 06-10-2010 |
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 |
20110137919 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE GRAPH STABILIZATION - A method for stabilizing a knowledge graph includes: generating a knowledge graph in which same entities in a semantic relation list between entities provided as an input are represented as a single node based on names and types of the entities; computing, on the knowledge graph, semantic similarities between all potential entity pairs of same entity types by comparing, for each potential entity pair, a type of relation associated with an entity in the entity pair and an opponent entity to the entity; and selecting, based on the semantic similarities, a representative entity from each of semantically similar entity pairs on the knowledge graph and integrating an opponent entity to the representative entity into the representative entity. The method further includes computing relation weighted values between the entities by using a graph analysis and statistic information, and adding the weighted values to the knowledge graph. | 06-09-2011 |
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 |
20110145264 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING ALLOMORPHS - A method of automatically creating allomorphs of a keyword, includes creating allomorph candidates of a search keyword using a user log and/or user session information when the search keyword is input; and extracting a related word for verification from a web document using a related word patter from to verify the allomorph candidates. Further, the method of automatically creating allomorphs of a keyword includes removing over-created and/or erroneous candidates from the allomorph candidates using the extracted related word for verification and creating allomorphs of the search keyword. | 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 |
20120089584 | METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING PERSONALIZED SEARCH - Provided are a method and mobile terminal for performing a personalized search, capable of providing search results optimized for a user in consideration of location and user preference. The method includes acquiring a question keyword from a user and information about the location of a mobile terminal, making a local search on the basis of the question keyword and the location information to generate local search results, displaying the local search results and storing a use record of the user of the mobile terminal corresponding to the displayed local search results, generating a user preference analysis model using the location information and the use record, then applying the generated user preference analysis model to the local search results, and deducing personalized final local search results from the local search results. Thus, it is possible to provide the local search results optimized for the user. | 04-12-2012 |
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 |
20120101807 | QUESTION TYPE AND DOMAIN IDENTIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A question type and domain identifying apparatus includes: a question type identifier for recognizing the number of words of a user's question to identify whether the user's question is a query for performing information searching or a question for performing a question and answer (Q&A); a question domain distributor for distributing one of plural preset domain specialized Q&A engines, as a Q&A engine of the user's question based on the recognized word number; and a Q&A engine block, including the domain specialized Q&A engines, for selectively performing information searching or a Q&A with respect to the user's question in response to the distribution of the question domain distributor. | 04-26-2012 |
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 |
20130054553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTING INFORMATION OF PRODUCTS - A method for automatically extracting information of products, includes searching documents based on product names; and extracting sentences including advantages and disadvantages for products having the product names from the searched documents. Further, the method for automatically extracting the information of the products includes classifying the sentences by similar contents among the extracted sentences; selecting representative sentences among the classified sentences; and calculating each weight of the selected representative sentences. | 02-28-2013 |
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 |
20140101293 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ISSUE RECORD, AND GENERATING ISSUE RECORD - Disclosed is a technology for extracting issue information having high interests to users by recognizing contents of a sentence within media (including news, Tweet, and a blog), and automatically detecting and presenting an issue subject related to the issue information. A method of providing issue information according to the present invention includes: extracting an issue by extracting issue information according to a predetermined condition or a condition received from the outside by using data expressed with a text on media or meta data defining additional information on the data; and displaying an issue history or hotness of the extracted issue information which has been issued in the media to a user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140136527 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR POWER USER IN SOCIAL MEDIA - Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for searching for a power user in social media. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive a keyword corresponding to an interested object from a user; a communication unit configured to transmit a search request message including the received keyword and receive a search response message corresponding to the transmitted search request message; a controller configured to, when receiving the search response message, extract a search list in which power users related to the keyword are arranged according to a preset power ranking from the received search response message; a display unit configured to sequentially display the power users related to the keyword received from the user according to the preset power ranking based on the extracted search list; and a storage unit configured to store the extracted search list. | 05-15-2014 |
20140297639 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING COMPLEX ISSUES BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS - Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention. A system for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention includes: a unit issue detecting unit configured to receive a keyword from a user terminal, and to detect per-type unit issues associated with the received keyword; a complex issue detecting unit configured to detect per-type complex issues from the detected per-type unit issues; a complex issue ranking unit configured to analyze the detected per-type complex issues, and to rank the per-type complex issues based on the analysis result; and a complex issue configuring unit configured to configure the ranked per-type complex issues in a predetermined form that enable users to induce a micro trend, and to provide the configured form to a user. | 10-02-2014 |