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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Nitin Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Preyas Popat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven D. Baker, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinivasan Venkatachary, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying implicit question queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query in unstructured form, comparing terms of the query to query templates, determining, based on the comparison, a match of the query terms to a first query template, wherein the first query template is not determined to be indicative of a question query, determining, based on the first query template, a second query template, and determining that the query is an implicit question query in response to the second query template being indicative of a question queries.