APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HELPING IN THE READING OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE
First Claim
1. An apparatus for helping in a reading of an electronic message exchanged between multiple users, comprising:
- an extraction unit for extracting a word from the electronic message sent to a particular user;
an acquisition unit for acquiring history information on at least one of viewing and usage of the word by the particular user, the word being extracted by the extraction unit; and
a determination unit for determining whether a meaning of the word extracted by the extraction unit needs to be presented to the particular user, according to the history information acquired by the acquisition unit.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for determining whether the meaning of a word included in an electronic message needs to be presented to a user, according to a dynamic determination whether the user currently knows the meaning of the word. In a client, a communication control unit receives a message sent from a user A to a user B, a morphological analysis unit extracts a word from the message, and a history acquisition unit acquires history information on viewing, usage, or the like of the word by the user B. A display determination unit determines whether the meaning of the word needs to be displayed, according to the acquired history information, the language level of the user B stored in a user level storage unit, and the difficulty level of the word stored in a dictionary storage unit. An input/output control unit performs control such that the meaning of the word is presented to the user B according to the determination result.
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus for helping in a reading of an electronic message exchanged between multiple users, comprising:
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an extraction unit for extracting a word from the electronic message sent to a particular user; an acquisition unit for acquiring history information on at least one of viewing and usage of the word by the particular user, the word being extracted by the extraction unit; and a determination unit for determining whether a meaning of the word extracted by the extraction unit needs to be presented to the particular user, according to the history information acquired by the acquisition unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for helping in a reading of an electronic message exchanged between multiple users, the method comprising the steps of:
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extracting a word from the electronic message sent to a particular user; acquiring history information on at least one of viewing and usage of the extracted word by the particular user; and determining whether a meaning of the extracted word needs to be presented to the particular user, according to the acquired history information. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A program product for causing a computer to function as an apparatus for helping in a reading of an electronic message exchanged between multiple users, the program product, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to function as:
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an extraction unit for extracting a word from the electronic message sent to a particular user; an acquisition unit for acquiring history information on at least one of viewing and usage of the word by the particular user, the word being extracted by the extraction unit; and a determination unit for determining whether a meaning of the word extracted by the extraction unit needs to be presented to the particular user, according to the history information acquired by the acquisition unit.
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