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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2009
Steven Baker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maureen Heymans, San Francisco, CA (US);
Evan M. Martin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dimitra Papachristou, Mountain View, CA (US);
Trystan G. Upstill, Mountain View, CA (US);
KE Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven Baker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maureen Heymans, San Francisco, CA (US);
Evan M. Martin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dimitra Papachristou, Mountain View, CA (US);
Trystan G. Upstill, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ke Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that considers lexical synonyms for terms while processing a query. During operation, the system receives a query containing one or more terms. Next, the system identifies one or more lexical synonyms for the one or more terms. The system then generates an altered query using the one or more lexical synonyms and processes the altered query to produce search results.