Systems and methods for providing feedback for natural language queries

A method for providing for display an indicator of terms proximity for a result set of documents, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a computing device, a natural language search query comprising a plurality of search concepts;
• determining the plurality of search concepts from the natural language query;
• searching a database using the natural language search query to identify the result set of documents, wherein the result set of documents are identified based on the plurality of search concepts;
• calculating a proximity of terms within the result set of documents, wherein the proximity of terms is calculated from a coverage of terms in a subset of relevant excerpts from the result set of documents;
• and
• providing for display, the proximity of terms as a feedback meter element, wherein the feedback meter element provides a visual indication of the proximity of terms within the result set of documents generated from the natural language search query.

A system for providing for display an estimated breadth indicator for a result set of documents, the system comprising:

• a processing device;
• and
• a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium comprising one or more programming instructions thereon that, when executed, cause the processing device to:
• receive a natural language search query comprising a plurality of search concepts;
• determine the plurality of search concepts from the natural language query;
• search a database using the natural language search query to identify the result set of documents, wherein the result set of documents are identified based on the plurality of search concepts;
• calculate a breadth of the result set of documents, wherein the breadth is calculated from an estimated relevance score that is indicative of a degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query;
• and
• provide for display, the breadth as a feedback meter element, wherein the feedback meter element provides a visual indication of the breadth of the natural language search query.