Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20130226559 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERNETDOCUMENTS BASED ON SUBJECT OF INTEREST TO USER - The present invention provides an apparatus for providing Internet documents based on a subject of interest to a user, including an subject reception unit configured to receive information on a subject from a user terminal; a relevant document collection unit configured to collect relevant documents related to the information on the subject of interest using search engines; a similar sentence classification unit configured to extract a core sentence from the relevant documents, calculate similarity of sentences peripheral to the core sentence, and classify sentences similar to the core sentence into similar sentence sets based on the calculated similarity; and a similar sentence providing unit configured to provide the core sentence and the similar sentence sets to the user terminal. | 08-29-2013 |