Translating Natural Language Utterances to Keyword Search Queries
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1. A method for providing natural language query translation, the method comprising:
- training a statistical model according to a plurality of query click log data;
receiving a natural language query;
translating the natural language query into a search query according to the statistical model;
performing the search query; and
providing at least one result associated with performing the search query.
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Abstract
Natural language query translation may be provided. A statistical model may be trained to detect domains according to a plurality of query click log data. Upon receiving a natural language query, the statistical model may be used to translate the natural language query into an action. The action may then be performed and at least one result associated with performing the action may be provided.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for providing natural language query translation, the method comprising:
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training a statistical model according to a plurality of query click log data; receiving a natural language query; translating the natural language query into a search query according to the statistical model; performing the search query; and providing at least one result associated with performing the search query. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for providing natural language query translation, the system comprising:
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a memory storage; and a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operable to; receive a query from a user, determine whether the query comprises a natural language query, and in response to determining that the query comprises the natural language query; map the natural language query into a keyword-based query; perform a search according to a query pair comprising the natural language query and the keyword-based query; and provide a plurality of results associated with the search to the user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer-readable medium which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for providing natural language query translation, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
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training a statistical machine translation model according to a plurality of mined query pairs, wherein training the statistical machine translation model comprises; identifying a plurality of domain independent salient phrases (DISPs), identifying a plurality of previous natural language queries according to the plurality of DISPs, associating each of the plurality of previous natural language queries with a previous keyword-based query into a mined query pair of the plurality of mined query pairs according to a uniform resource locator (URL) click graph, wherein the URL click graph comprises a weighted distribution of URLs selected in response to the a previous natural language queries and previous keyword-based queries, and extracting a plurality of common features for each of the mined query pairs; receiving a new query from a user, determining whether the new query comprises a new natural language query, in response to determining that the query comprises the natural language query, mapping the new natural language query into a keyword-based query according to the trained statistical machine translation model; performing a search according to the new query; and providing a plurality of results associated with the search to the user.
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