Techniques for providing visual translation cards including contextually relevant definitions and examples

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• receiving, at a server having one or more processors and from a computing device via a network, a selected word in a source language, the computing device being associated with a user;
• obtaining, by the server, parts-of-speech for the selected word;
• for each of the parts-of-speech for the selected word:
• (i) obtaining, by the server, candidate translations of the selected word to a different target language, each candidate translation corresponding to a particular semantic meaning of a plurality of semantic meanings of the selected word;
• and
• (ii) for each particular semantic meaning of the selected word:
• (a) obtaining, by the server, an image corresponding to the particular semantic meaning of the selected word by utilizing a machine-trained database of images associated with various semantic meanings,
• (b) obtaining an example sentence in the source language that includes a form of the selected word and is descriptive of a context of the corresponding image,
• (c) compiling, by the server, translation information including (i) the particular semantic meaning, (ii) a corresponding part-of-speech, (iii) the image, (iv) the example sentence, and (v) at least one corresponding candidate translation, and
• (d) generating, by the server, a translation card or an instruction to generate the translation card, the translation card comprising the translation information;
• and
• outputting, by the server and to the computing device via the network, the plurality of translation cards or the plurality of instructions, wherein receipt of the plurality of translation cards or the plurality of instructions causes the computing device to:
• render at least one of a first set of the plurality of translation cards on a display of the computing device, the first set of the plurality of translation cards including at least one translation card for a first part-of-speech of the parts-of-speech, each translation card of the first set of the plurality of translation cards corresponding to a different semantic meaning of the selected word;
• and
• render a first selectable icon on the display, the first selectable icon being configured to, upon its selection, render at least one of a different second set of the plurality of translation cards on the display, the second set of the plurality of translation cards including at least one translation card for a second part-of-speech of the parts-of-speech.