Google Inc.

Karoly Csalogany

Behshad Behzadi

Marcin M Nowak-Przygodzki

Evgeny A Cherepanov

Nils Grimsmo

Matthias Heiler

Fredrik Bergenlid

Alessandro Agostini

Aurelien Boffy

Gokhan Hasan Bakir

Oliver Heckmann

Alexander Taboriskiy

Matsvei Zhdanovich

Emmanuel Mogenet

Aurélien Boffy

Methods, systems, and media for processing queries relating to presented media content are provided. In some implementations, a method comprises: receiving a request to associate with a media playback device that is presenting media content to a user of the mobile device, wherein a mobile application executing on the mobile device and a media application executing on the media playback device exchange media playback information; activating a microphone associated with the mobile device to receive ambient sounds in response to associating with the media playback device; converting the received ambient sounds to one or more text inputs; determining whether the text inputs include a trigger term that corresponds to a request to initiate a query relating to the presented media content and the query; in response to determining that the trigger term has been included in the text inputs, determining the media playback information from the media application that includes timing information corresponding to when during the presentation of the media content the query was received and media content identification information; causing a search to be performed that includes the query, the timing information, and the media content identification information; obtaining a search result that is responsive to the query; and presenting at least a portion of the search result to the query on a mobile display associated with the mobile device.

Methods, systems, and media for processing queries relating to presented media content

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining query refinements using search data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query and a second query each comprising one or more n-grams for a user session, determining a first set of query refinements for the first query, determining a second set of query refinements from the first set of query refinements, each query refinement in the second set of query refinements including at least one n-gram that is similar to an n-gram from the first query and at least on n-gram that is similar to an n-gram from the second query, scoring each query refinement in the second set of query refinements, selecting a third query from a group consisting of the second set of query refinements and the second query, and providing the third query as input to a search operation.

Query refinements using search data

Methods, systems, and media for processing queries relating to presented media content are provided. In some implementations, a method comprises: receiving a request to associate with a media playback device that is presenting media content to a user of the mobile device; activating a microphone associated with the mobile device; converting received ambient sounds to text inputs; determining whether the text inputs include a trigger term and the query; determining media playback information from the media application that includes timing information corresponding to when during the presentation of the media content the query was received and media content identification information; causing a search to be performed that includes the query, the timing information, and the media content identification information; obtaining a search result that is responsive to the query; and presenting the search result on a display associated with the mobile device.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for modifying a query based on textual resource content. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query including a plurality of terms; determining an active textual resource displayed in an application environment on the user device; determining to modify the query received from the user device, and in response: determining, based on the textual resource, modification data for the query, generating a set of modified queries based on the query and the modification data, scoring the modified queries according to one or more scoring criteria, selecting one of the modified queries based on the scoring, and providing, to the user device, search results responsive to the selected modified query.

Query modification based on textual resource context

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating query suggestions based on search data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by one or more computers, a first query, determining query refinements based on the first query, generating, from the query refinements, refinement clusters, each refinement cluster corresponding to a particular topic and each refinement cluster including query refinements that are determined to belong to the particular topic to which the refinement cluster corresponds, ranking the refinement clusters, and selecting the refinement cluster that is highest in the ranking relative to other refinement clusters in the ranking as a first search refinement cluster for the first query.

Query suggestions based on search data

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Karoly Csalogany