Query spelling correction method and system
First Claim
1. A method of providing alternative query suggestions to a user making a search query in a software application comprising:
- generating a popularity table for words in a corpus of documents having a popularity value for each word in the corpus based on occurrences of the word in the corpus;
comparing each entry in the popularity table to suggestions from a word generator;
generating a lexicon of word generator suggestion words that are found in the popularity table; and
submitting each word in the search query to the word generator to determine suggestion words; and
producing one or more of the suggestion words from the lexicon that are more popular than the query word.
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Abstract
A method and system for providing to a user a set of alternative query suggestions is disclosed. The method, system and computer readable medium product in accordance with embodiments of the invention includes generating an index of all words in a corpus of documents available to the application, generating a popularity table for the index having a popularity value for each word in the index based on occurrences of the word in the corpus, comparing each entry in the popularity table to suggestions from a word generator, compiling a lexicon of word generator suggestion words that are found in the popularity table, submitting each word in the search query to the word generator to determine suggestion words, and displaying to the user one or more of the suggestion words from the lexicon that are more popular than the query word.
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17 Claims
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1. A method of providing alternative query suggestions to a user making a search query in a software application comprising:
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generating a popularity table for words in a corpus of documents having a popularity value for each word in the corpus based on occurrences of the word in the corpus;
comparing each entry in the popularity table to suggestions from a word generator;
generating a lexicon of word generator suggestion words that are found in the popularity table; and
submitting each word in the search query to the word generator to determine suggestion words; and
producing one or more of the suggestion words from the lexicon that are more popular than the query word. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system for providing alternative query suggestions to a user comprising:
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a processor; and
a memory coupled with and readable by the processor and containing a series of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;
analyze each word in a query with a word generator to determine suggestion words;
compare each suggestion word obtained from the word generator to entries in a popularity table of words to determine popular suggestion words; and
providing one or more of the suggestion words that are more popular than the query word. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer readable medium encoding a computer program of instructions for executing a computer process for providing alternative suggestions to a user query to a user, said computer process comprising:
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analyzing each word in the user query with a word generator to determine suggestion words;
comparing each suggestion word obtained from the word generator to entries in a popularity table of words to determine popular suggestion words; and
providing one or more of the suggestion words that are more popular than the query word. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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