Cross-lingual query suggestion
US8051061B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 19, 2008 |
| Grant date | Nov 1, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 10, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/3337
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Cross-lingual query suggestion (CLQS) aims to suggest relevant queries in a target language for a given query in a source language. The cross-lingual query suggestion is improved by exploiting the query logs in the target language. CLQS provides a method for learning and determining a similarity measure between two queries in different languages. The similarity measure is based on both translation information and monolingual similarity information, and in one embodiment uses both the query log itself and click-through information associated therewith. Monolingual and cross-lingual information such as word translation relations and word co-occurrence statistics may be used to estimate the cross-lingual query similarity with a discriminative model.
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