System and Method for the Relevance-Based Categorizing and Near-Time Learning of Words

摘要

A system and a method for timely learning of words and word units is provided, wherein annotations for the words and word units are offered and displayed in exact page synchronism with the source medium and the annotations can be selected by the user when reading the source medium. An author module provides a marking editor, which makes it possible to mark words and word units as annotations in synchronism with the display of the source medium and an annotation editor, which makes it possible to specify word basic data and meta data for the annotations. A database stores an annotation master data record for each annotation comprising word basic data and meta data. When reading a selected medium, a reading module displays a preset number of annotations in exact page synchronism with the display of the medium and allows the user-specific marking of an annotation, wherein the marked annotation is stored in a user-specific annotation data record of the database. This allows a reader, when reading and marking words to be learned, to instantly retrieve them for specific intensive training

主权项

1. A computer-implemented system for learning words and word units, wherein annotations for said words and word units are offered and displayed in exact page synchronism with the source medium and said annotations can be selected by the user when reading said source medium and can be synchronously relevance-categorized for timely learning, said system comprising:
an author module comprising software-implemented means adapted to load a source medium in a converted manner, to provide a marking editor (308) enabling annotation of words and word units in synchronism with the display of said converted source medium and further to provide an annotation editor enabling specification of multimedia word basic data and meta data for said annotations in parallel to the display of said converted source medium; one or more databases which based on the entries in said marking and annotation editor for each annotation store an annotation master data record comprising said word basic data and meta data; and a reading module comprising software-implemented means being adapted to select one or more media for the display, to display a preset number of annotations in exact page synchronism with said display of said medium when reading of one of said selected media, and further being adapted to provide functionalities for user-specific categorization for determining the relevance of said annotations, where said marked annotation is stored in a user-specific annotation data record in said database.