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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Kedar Dhamdhere, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Strohmann, Fremont, CA (US);
P. Pandurang Nayak, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Spalek, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collecting query term substitution data based on one or more identified concepts. According to one implementation, a method includes receiving a query that includes at least three sequential query terms; determining that the sequential query terms represent a concept; and in response to determining that the sequential query terms represent a concept, collecting query term substitution data for one or more query terms that occur in queries that include the concept.