Method and system for locating language expressions using context information

A method for requesting for and obtaining language expressions, the method comprising:

• establishing a connection with a server;
• sending to the server an inquiry for language expressions, the inquiry comprising either or both of location information and action information;
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• receiving from the server or a device associated with the server one or more language expressions associated with either or both of the location information and an action information and stored at the server.

A system for providing language expressions in reply to an inquiry, the system comprising:

• a database comprising a plurality of entries of language expression data, each entry comprising a language expression and information indicative of at least one of a location and an action associated with the language expression;
• an input module configured to receive an inquiry from a user requesting for at least one language expression, the inquiry comprising either or both of location information and action information;
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• a processor configured to locate one or more entries comprising information that matches or relates to either or both of the location information and the action information of the inquiry.

A corpus-retrieval language education system having a question/answer function and comprising a subscriber unit and an information provider unit capable of receiving and transmitting data for language learning through a wire-line or wireless network terminal, which includes:

• a language data storing section for storing language data including text data and audio/video data about dialogues for diverse situations and sentences helpful to communicate with native speakers;
• a detector for analyzing request data inputted from the subscriber unit through a network and extracting language data corresponding to the request data;
• a transmission control section for controlling transmission of the language data extracted by the detector to the subscriber unit through the network;
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• a language data control section for receiving the language data through the network and controlling the output of the received language data for learning with various language learning methods and multimedia tools.