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Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 16, 2006
Applicants:

Elliott K. Olds, Seattle, WA (US);

Gregory N. Hullender, Bellevue, WA (US);

Haoyong Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);

Janine R. Crumb, Seattle, WA (US);

Jianfeng Gao, Kirkland, WA (US);

Ming Zhou, Bejing, CN;

Mu LI, Bejing, CN;

Yajuan LV, Bejing, CN;

Inventors:

Elliott K. Olds, Seattle, WA (US);

Gregory N. Hullender, Bellevue, WA (US);

Haoyong Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);

Janine R. Crumb, Seattle, WA (US);

Jianfeng Gao, Kirkland, WA (US);

Ming Zhou, Bejing, CN;

Mu Li, Bejing, CN;

Yajuan Lv, Bejing, CN;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Candidate suggestions for correcting misspelled query terms input into a search application are automatically generated. A score for each candidate suggestion can be generated using a first decoding pass and paths through the suggestions can be ranked in a second decoding pass. Candidate suggestions can be generated based on typographical errors, phonetic mistakes and/or compounding mistakes. Furthermore, a ranking model can be developed to rank candidate suggestions to be presented to a user.


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