Method And Means For Data Searching And Language Translation

Abstract

The invention relates to data searching and translation. In particular, the invention relates to searching documents from the Internet or databases. Even further, the invention also relates to translating words in documents, WebPages, images or speech from one language to the next. A computer implemented method including at least one computer in accordance with the invention is characterised by the following steps:receiving a search query including at least one search term, deriving at least one synonym for at least one search term, expanding the received search query with the at least one synonym, searching at least one document using the expanded search query, retrieving the search results obtained with the expanded query, ranking the search results based on context of occurrence of at least one search term. The best mode of the invention is considered to be an Internet search engine that delivers better search results.

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TECHNICAL FIELD OF INVENTION

[0001] The invention relates to data searching and language translation. In particular, the invention relates to searching documents from the Internet or databases. Even further, the invention also relates to translating words in documents, WebPages, images or speech from one language to the next.BACKGROUND

[0002] Searching from the Internet which spans the globe is a common experience for most office workers of today. Quite often though the search experience is frustrating, you either cannot find the documents you were looking for, or the documents that might be relevant are in a language you cannot understand. This greatly hinders the productivity of the world economy.

[0003] Internet search engines are known in the prior art, as well as machine translation software. One document that describes the situation in the prior art is WO 2009 / 002864 A2, which is cited here as reference. In this prior art a search query is inputted to a computer, for example of the ...

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