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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsASHWIN SATYANARAYANA, TABREEZ GOVANI, SAMIR SHIRAZ PRADHAN, GIRIDHAR KUMARAN, XIN FU, FENG PAN, NITIN AGRAWAL
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Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices method of facilitating presentation of alternative query suggestions. The method includes referencing an initial query having a plurality of terms. A term(s) to remove from the initial query is identified, for example, based at least on a number of times the term(s) occur in previous queries. The initial query is modified by removing the term(s) from the initial query. Thereafter, the modified query is used to identify an alternative query suggestion(s) that includes at least one term that matches at least one term of the modified query.
One or more computer-readable storage media having embodied thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor in a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method of facilitating presentation of alternative query suggestions, the method comprising:
A graphical user interface embodied on one or more computer-readable media and executable on a computer, the graphical user interface comprising:
One or more computer-readable storage media having embodied thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor in a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method of facilitating presentation of alternative query suggestions, the method comprising:
The media of claim 17, wherein the first term and the second term are identified to be removed when the corresponding specificity scores do not exceed the specificity predetermined threshold.
The media of claim 17, wherein the second term is identified to be retained when the corresponding ngram score exceeds the ngram predetermined threshold.
The media of claim 17 further comprising searching the query log to identify one or more previously submitted search queries having one or more terms that correspond with the one or more terms of the modified query.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.