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US 2006/0190447 A1Published application
Query spelling correction method and system
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJustin Harmon, Kyle Peltonen, Shajan Dasan
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJustin Harmon, Kyle Peltonen, Shajan Dasan
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A method and system for providing to a user a set of alternative query suggestions is disclosed. The method, system and computer readable medium product in accordance with embodiments of the invention includes generating an index of all words in a corpus of documents available to the application, generating a popularity table for the index having a popularity value for each word in the index based on occurrences of the word in the corpus, comparing each entry in the popularity table to suggestions from a word generator, compiling a lexicon of word generator suggestion words that are found in the popularity table, submitting each word in the search query to the word generator to determine suggestion words, and displaying to the user one or more of the suggestion words from the lexicon that are more popular than the query word.
A method of providing alternative query suggestions to a user making a search query in a software application comprising:
A system for providing alternative query suggestions to a user comprising:
A computer readable medium encoding a computer program of instructions for executing a computer process for providing alternative suggestions to a user query to a user, said computer process comprising:
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