Terminal device and method for providing additional information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10977450-B2
Application number	US-201716081240-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 24, 2017
Priority date	Apr 27, 2016
Publication date	Apr 13, 2021
Grant date	Apr 13, 2021

Abstract

Disclosed are a terminal device and a method for providing additional information. A method for providing additional information of a terminal device comprises the steps of: obtaining a translation of a second language by translating an original text of a first language; extracting keywords from the translation of the second language; retrieving a text of the second language on the basis of a proportion including the extracted keywords; classifying the retrieved text on a sentence basis and determining a related sample sentence on the basis of the proportion including the extracted keywords on the sentence basis; and displaying the determined related sample sentence.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing additional information of a terminal device, the method comprising:
controlling a translation processor module for translating a first text written in a first language into a second text written in a second language, wherein the first text includes a first sentence written in the first language and the second text includes a second sentence, wherein the second sentence comprises a translation of the first sentence into the second language;
controlling an extraction processor module for extracting a plurality of keywords from the second text written in the second language, wherein a keyword is a word included in the second text for at least a preset number of times;
controlling a retrieve processor module for retrieving a third text including the plurality of keywords, wherein the third text comprises a plurality of sentences including the plurality of keywords;
controlling a determination processor module for identifying a third sentence of the plurality of sentences included in the third text, wherein the third sentence is identified based on a plurality of keywords included in the second sentence; and
controlling a display for displaying the third sentence with the first sentence and the second sentence.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying of the third sentence with the first sentence and the second sentence comprises:
matching a sentence included in at least one of the first text or the second text with the third sentence by using the extracted plurality of keywords; and
displaying a sentence included in the first text and the second text with the matched third sentence in parallel.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the retrieving of the third text comprises:
retrieving the third text of the second language when the third text satisfies one of:
a relative proportion of the third text in the sentence including the extracted plurality of keywords is higher than other texts, or
an absolute proportion of the third text in the sentence including the extracted plurality of keywords is higher than a preset proportion.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying of the third sentence comprises identifying that a sentence is the third sentence related with the second sentence when the sentence satisfies one of:
an absolute proportion of the third sentence in the third text including the extracted plurality of keywords is higher than a preset proportion, or
a relative proportion of the third sentence in the third text including the extracted plurality of keywords is higher than the other sentences.

5. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the identifying of the third sentence comprises identifying a plurality of third sentences based on a proportion of the third text in the sentence including the extracted plurality of keywords, and
wherein the displaying the third sentence comprises sequentially displaying a plurality of identified third sentences according to a user input.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
classifying third texts by types; and
displaying the third sentence in the third text corresponding to a type selected according to a user command.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the types of the third texts comprise at least one of news, research paper, dictionary, web document, magazine, or book.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the retrieving a of the third text comprises using different search engines according to a type of the second language.

9. A terminal device, comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
control a translation module to translate a first text written in a first language into a second text written in a second language, wherein the first text includes a first sentence written in the first language and the second text includes a second sentence, wherein the second sentence comprises a translation of the first sentence into the second language,
control an extraction processor module to extract a plurality of keywords from the second text written in the second language, wherein a keyword is a word included in the second text for at least a preset number of times,
control a retrieve processor module to retrieve a third text including the plurality of keywords, wherein the third text comprises a plurality of sentences including the plurality of keywords, and
control a determination processor module to identify a third sentence of the plurality of sentences included in the third text, wherein the third sentence is identified based on a plurality of keywords included in the second sentence; and

a display configured to display the third sentence with the first sentence and the second sentence.

10. The terminal device of claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
use the extracted keywords to match a sentence included in at least one of the first text or the second text with the identified third sentence, and
display the matched third sentence together with a sentence included in the first text or the second text in parallel.

11. The terminal device of claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to retrieve the third text of the second language related with the first text, when the third text satisfies one of:
an absolute proportion of the third text in the sentence including the extracted plurality of keywords is higher than a preset proportion, or
a relative proportion of the third text in the sentence including the extracted plurality of keywords is higher than the other texts.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lim Haeng-Sun
• Park Eun-Ji

Classifications

• G06F40/44 Primary

  Statistical methods, e.g. probability models · CPC title

• G06F40/58 Primary

  Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation · CPC title

• G06F40/51

  Translation evaluation · CPC title

• G06F40/216

  using statistical methods · CPC title