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Query spelling correction method and system

  • US 20060190447A1
  • Filed: 02/22/2005
  • Published: 08/24/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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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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