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AssigneeAmazon.Com Holdings, Inc.
InventorsRuben Ernesto Ortega, Dwayne Edward Bowman
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A search engine process is disclosed for predicting the correct spelling of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes a non-matching term and at least one matching term, a table is accessed to look up a set of terms that are “related” to the matching term or terms. A spelling comparison function is then used to determine whether any of these related terms is sufficiently similar in spelling to the non-matching term to be deemed a candidate correctly-spelled replacement. A candidate replacement term may automatically be substituted for the non-matching term, or may be suggested to the user as a replacement. The invention also includes a process for identifying terms that are related to each other based on the relatively high frequencies with which they co-occur within search queries of users, database records, and/or specific database fields.
A computer-implemented method of predicting a correct spelling of a non-matching term in a multiple-term search query, the method comprising:
A computer-implemented method of predicting a correct spelling of a misspelled term in a multiple-term search query, the method comprising:
A computer-implemented method of predicting a correct spelling of a non-matching term within a multiple-term search query, comprising:
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