System and method for language sensitive contextual searching
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsSimon BYERS, David KORMANN
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Abstract
A method, system and computer-readable media for searching a database and returning relevant results are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a user query in one language, searching a database based on the user query to obtain one or more results, processing the results according to a local linguistic context association with the user query, and presenting to the user the results with an identifier for each result in which a local linguistic context around a location of the user query is in a second language.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- identifying a local language associated with a current location of a user device;
- and
- when a first language of a user query is distinct from the local language:
- querying a database based on the user query, to yield search results, wherein the search results comprise (1) a first result having a first word in the first language and a second word in the local language and (2) a second result predominantly in the first language;
- and
- presenting the search results with an indication associated with the second result identifying that the second result is predominantly in the first language.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a local language associated with a current location of a user device;
- and
- when a first language of a user query is distinct from the local language:
- querying a database based on the user query, to yield search results, wherein the search results comprise (1) a first result having a first word in the first language and a second word in the local language and (2) a second result predominantly in the first language;
- and
- presenting the search results with an indication associated with the second result identifying that the second result is predominantly in the first language.
A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a local language associated with a current location of a user device;
- and
- when a first language of a user query is distinct from the local language:
- querying a database based on the user query, to yield search results, wherein the search results comprise (1) a first result having a first word in the first language and a second word in the local language and (2) a second result predominantly in the first language;
- and
- presenting the search results with an indication associated with the second result identifying that the second result is predominantly in the first language.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.