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Using video clips as dictionary usage examples

US12197868B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 4, 2019
Grant dateJan 14, 2025
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Expiry dateJun 16, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/20
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Implementations are provided for automatically mining corpus(es) of electronic video files for video clips that contain spoken utterances that are suitable usage examples to accompany or compliment dictionary definitions. These video clips may then be associated with target n-grams in a searchable database, such as a database underlying an online dictionary. In various implementations, a set of candidate video clips in which a target n-gram is uttered in a target context may be identified from a corpus of electronic video files. For each candidate video clip of the set, pre-existing manual subtitles associated with the candidate video clip may be compared to text generated based on speech recognition processing of an audio portion of the candidate video clip. Based at least in part on the comparing, a measure of suitability as a dictionary usage example may be calculated for the candidate video clip.

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