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Query translation using bilingual search refinements

  • US 8,577,909 B1
  • Filed: 06/09/2009
  • Issued: 11/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • receiving, at a server, a first query comprising one or more query terms in a first language;

    after receiving the first query, receiving a set of queries at the server, each query in the set of queries being received within a predetermined threshold of receiving the first query, wherein each query in the set of queries comprises one or more query terms;

    for each query in the set of queries,translating, at the server, the one or more query terms into the first language; and

    comparing, at the server, the translation of the one or more query terms with the one or more query terms of the first query in the first language;

    determining, at the server, that one or more query terms of a selected query from the set of queries are a translation of the one or more query terms of the first query into a second language;

    storing, by the server, the one or more query terms of the selected query as a bilingual refinement of the first query into the second language;

    receiving, at the server, a second query in the first language;

    augmenting, at the server, the second query with the one or more query terms from the selected query; and

    obtaining, at the server, search results responsive to both the second query in the first language and the selected query in the second language.

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