Concept-based autosuggest based on previously identified items

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a data processing system, causes the data processing system to implement an automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism for automatically tailoring autosuggestions in a search engine to particular medical concepts being searched without having to have user establish a priori a dictionary of autosuggest patterns, and further causes the data processing system to:

• responsive to the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism determining one or more of whether the user has provided an input specifying an initial concept, whether the user has provided input identifying a selected corpus, or results returned from a previous search implemented by the user during a current session, identify, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, a concept-based text pattern dictionary data structure associated with one or more of the initial concept, the selected corpus, or the results from the previous search identified by the user;
• dynamically match, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, a set of text patterns in the concept-based text pattern dictionary data structure with a portion of text being dynamically entered by the user into a field of the user interface;
• generate, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, a user selectable output in the user interface specifying the matching set of text patterns from the concept-based text pattern dictionary data structure;
• and
• automatically populate, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, the field of the user interface with a selected text pattern from the set of matching text patterns in response to user selection of the selectable text patter in the user selectable output in the user interface.

A data processing system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to implement an automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism for automatically tailoring autosuggestions in a search engine to particular medical concepts being searched without having to have a user establish a priori a dictionary of autosuggest patterns, and further cause the at least one processor to:
• responsive to the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism determining one or more of whether the user has provided an input specifying an initial concept, whether the user has provided input identifying a selected corpus, or results returned from a previous search implemented by the user during a current session, identify, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, a concept-based text pattern dictionary data structure associated with one or more of the initial concept, the selected corpus, or the results from the previous search identified by the user;
• dynamically match, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, a set of text patterns in the concept-based text pattern dictionary data structure with a portion of text being dynamically entered by the user into a field of the user interface;
• generate, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, a user selectable output in the user interface specifying the matching set of text patterns from the concept-based text pattern dictionary data structure;
• and
• automatically populate, by the automated concept-based autosuggest mechanism, the field of the user interface with a selected text pattern from the set of matching text patterns in response to user selection of the selectable text patter in the user selectable output in the user interface.