Crowd-sourced automated vocabulary learning system

摘要

A method and system for providing users with an individual learning dictionary having exact context-based translation of words and phrases. Each user is provided with a personal dictionary containing words and phrases that the user had encountered and translated previously. The phrases and words are automatically added to the user personal dictionary along with their context-based translations chosen by the user. A contextual dictionary allows a user to choose a correct meaning of a word and save it along with the context for future reference.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for crowd-sourced automated learning dictionary, the method comprising:
(a) on a computer system, creating a database of word context-based translations, the translations having assigned use frequency ratings; (b) receiving a first word for translation; (c) determining a word context metadata reflecting at least one word before and at least one word after the first word; (d) querying the database for translations based on the word context metadata; (e) displaying translations to a user ordered by their respective use frequency rating, if the translations are found; (f) saving a first translation selected by the user in the database; (g) receiving a second translation entered by the user and saving it in the database along with a corresponding use frequency rating, if the second translation is not already found in the database; and (h) increasing the use frequency rating for the first or the second translation and saving it in the database, wherein the first or the second translation is displayed in a subsequent translations list according to its current use frequency rating.