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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2014
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Namrata PramodKumar Tholiya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhishek Gattani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
WAL-MART STORES, INC., Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Queries are analyzed to identify start-side sub-queries that include a starting word of the query and one or more contiguous words and end-side sub-queries that include an ending word of the query and one or more contiguous words. A start-side count is determined for a sub-query indicating a number of times it occurs among the queries as a start-side query. An end-side count is also computed for each sub-query indicating the number of times it occurs as an end-side sub-query. A score is computed for each sub-query that decreases with the start-side count and increases with the end-side count. A search is performed for a received query with some of the phrases (e.g. noun phrases) thereof weighted according to the scores. Noun phrases may be identified as the longest n-gram for which an entry in a reference dictionary exists.