TRANSLATING A SEARCH QUERY INTO MULTIPLE LANGUAGES

• US 20110137926A1
• Filed: 02/10/2011
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chen, Johnny
• Granted Patent: US 9,164,987 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

A computer-implemented method can include translating a search query from a first language to a second language, comparing the translated query with content in the second language, and identifying content in the second language relevant to the translated query based on the comparing. Also, a computer-implemented method can include translating content in a second language at one or more network locations into a first language, comparing the translated content with a search query written in the first language, and identifying, from the translated content, content relevant to the query based on the comparing.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium storing software instructions executable by data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a search query including content in a first spoken language;

determining a second spoken language into which the content included in the search query is to be translated, based on the content included in the search query, the second spoken language being different from the first spoken language;

translating the content included in the search query to translated content in the second spoken language to obtain a translated search query;

comparing the translated content in the translated search query with content included in a plurality of network locations, the content included in the plurality of network locations being in the second language, the content included in the plurality of network locations including content in the second spoken language that satisfies the received search query;

identifying content in the second spoken language that satisfies the translated search query from the content included in the plurality of network locations based on the comparing;

translating the identified content in the second spoken language that satisfies the translated search query into the first spoken language of the content included in the received search query; and

providing the translated identified content in the first spoken language in response to the received search query.

2. The medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

comparing the content included in the received search query in the first spoken language with content in the first spoken language in another plurality of network locations;

identifying content in the first spoken language in one or more of the other plurality of network locations, the identified content in the first spoken language satisfying the received search query based on the comparing; and

providing the identified content in the first spoken language with the translated identified content in the first spoken language in response to the received search query.

3. The medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

translating the content included in the search query into content in an intermediate spoken language that is different from the first spoken language; and

translating the content included in the search query in the intermediate spoken language into the translated content in the second spoken language.

4. The medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising receiving the received search query from a first network location of a plurality of network locations.

5. The medium of claim 4, the operations further comprising obtaining content from one or more network locations of the plurality of network locations.

6. The medium of claim 4 wherein the identified content in the first spoken language is included in at least a portion of a second network location of the plurality of network locations.

7. The medium of claim 6 wherein the second network location is identified by a second identifier.

8. The medium of claim 7, the operations further comprising presenting the second identifier to a user at the first network location.

9. The medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising ranking the translated identified content in the second spoken language based on an order of relevance of the translated identified content to the received search query.

10. A computer-readable medium storing software instructions executable by data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a search query including content in a first spoken language;

translating content included in one or more network locations in a second spoken language different from the first spoken language into translated content in the first spoken language, wherein the content included in the one or more network locations in the second spoken language includes content that satisfies the search query in the second spoken language;

comparing the translated content in the first spoken language with the content included in the search query in the first spoken language, wherein the translated content in the first spoken language includes translated content that satisfies the search query, the translated content that satisfies the search query being a translation of the content that satisfies the search query in the second language into the first spoken language;

identifying from the translated content in the first spoken language, the translated content that satisfies the query based on the comparing; and

providing the translated content that satisfies the search query in response to receiving the search query.

11. The medium of claim 10 wherein the search query is received from a first network location of a plurality of network locations.

12. The medium of claim 11 wherein the translated content that satisfies the search query is included in at least a portion of a second network location of the one or more network locations.

13. The medium of claim 12 wherein the second network location is identified by a second identifier.

14. The medium of claim 13, the operations further comprising presenting the second identifier to a user at the first network location.

15. The medium of claim 10, the operations further comprising comparing the content included in the search query with content in the first spoken language included in one or more network locations.

16. The medium of claim 15 further comprising identifying content in the first spoken language that satisfies the search query based on the comparing.

17. The medium of claim 16 wherein the content in the first spoken language that satisfies the search query is located at a third network location.

18. The medium of claim 17 wherein the third network location is identified by a third identifier.

19. The medium of claim 18, the operations further comprising presenting the third identifier to a user at the first network location.

20. The medium of claim 10 wherein the first spoken language is chosen based on user input.

21. The medium of claim 10 wherein the content included in the search query includes a plurality of characters, and wherein the first spoken language is chosen based on a character type of the plurality of characters included in the search query.

22. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by data processing apparatus, a search query including content in a first spoken language;

translating, by the data processing apparatus, the content included in the search query to translated content in a second spoken language that is determined based on the content included in the search query, wherein the second spoken language is different from the first spoken language;

identifying, by the data processing apparatus, content in the second spoken language that satisfies the translated search query from content included in one or more of a plurality of network locations that include content in the second spoken language;

identifying, by the data processing apparatus, content in the first spoken language that satisfies the search query from content included in one or more of another plurality of network locations that include content in the first spoken language;

translating, by the data processing apparatus, the identified content in the second spoken language into the first spoken language; and

providing, by the data processing apparatus, the translated identified content in the first spoken language and the identified content in the first spoken language in response to receiving the search query.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein each of the one or more of the plurality of network locations is represented by a corresponding first identifier and each of the one or more of the other plurality of network locations is represented by a corresponding second identifier, and

wherein providing the translated identified content in the first spoken language and the identified content in the first spoken language in response to receiving the search query comprises:

providing one or more first identifiers that represent the one or more of the other plurality of network locations from which the content in the first spoken language has been identified; and

providing one or more second identifiers that represent the one or more of the plurality of network locations from which the content in the second spoken language has been identified.

24. A computer-readable medium storing software instructions executable by data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving a search query including content in a first spoken language;

translating the content included in the search query to translated content in a second spoken language that is determined based on the content included in the search query, wherein the second spoken language is different from the first spoken language;

identifying content in the second spoken language that satisfies the translated search query from content included in one or more of a plurality of network locations that include content in the second spoken language;

identifying content in the first spoken language that satisfies the search query from content included in one or more of another plurality of network locations that include content in the first spoken language;

translating the identified content in the second spoken language into the first spoken language; and

providing the translated identified content in the first spoken language and the identified content in the first spoken language in response to receiving the search query.

25. The medium of claim 24, wherein each of the one or more of the plurality of network locations is represented by a corresponding first identifier and each of the one or more of the other plurality of network locations is represented by a corresponding second identifier, and

wherein providing the translated identified content in the first spoken language and the identified content in the first spoken language in response to receiving the search query comprises:

providing one or more first identifiers that represent the one or more of the other plurality of network locations from which the content in the first spoken language has been identified; and

providing one or more second identifiers that represent the one or more of the plurality of network locations from which the content in the second spoken language has been identified.

26. A system comprising:

data processing apparatus; and

a computer-readable medium storing software instructions executable by the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

receiving a search query including content in a first spoken language;

translating the content included in the search query to translated content in a second spoken language that is determined based on the content included in the search query, wherein the second spoken language is different from the first spoken language;

identifying content in the second spoken language that satisfies the translated search query from content included in one or more of a plurality of network locations that include content in the second spoken language;

identifying content in the first spoken language that satisfies the search query from content included in one or more of another plurality of network locations that include content in the first spoken language;

translating the identified content in the second spoken language into the first spoken language; and

providing the translated identified content in the first spoken language and the identified content in the first spoken language in response to receiving the search query.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein each of the one or more of the plurality of network locations is represented by a corresponding first identifier and each of the one or more of the other plurality of network locations is represented by a corresponding second identifier, and

wherein providing the translated identified content in the first spoken language and the identified content in the first spoken language in response to receiving the search query comprises:

providing one or more first identifiers that represent the one or more of the other plurality of network locations from which the content in the first spoken language has been identified; and

providing one or more second identifiers that represent the one or more of the plurality of network locations from which the content in the second spoken language has been identified.