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Method And Means For Data Searching And Language Translation

Pending Publication Date: 2012-06-07
VAANANEN MIKKO
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[0021]In the invention no search results are lost by a deficient contextual decision that performs a wrong decision on an isolated search term. This is a significant advantage of the invention.
[0022]Another embodiment of the invention deploys the same aforementioned inventive technique in translating documents from one language to the next. A word to be translated into another language is analogous to a search term in some embodiments of the invention. Let us assume the sentences to be translated into English are for example in Finnish: “Matti Oath kayda kylassa. Saavuttuaan Liisa tarjosi kahvit tuvassa.” Synonym expanded translations may be of the following type:
[0023]1) “Matti decided to visit. On arrival Liisa offered coffee in the living room”
[0024]2) “Matti decided to drop by. On arrival Liisa offered coffee in the house.”
[0025]3) “Matti decided to visit a village. On arrival Liisa offered coffee in the living room”
[0026]4) “Matti determined to drop by in a village. On arrival Liisa treated to coffee in a house”

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The prior art has serious disadvantages.
The prior art methods for searching and translating data are deficient at least in the perspective that they can make an incorrect isolated decision in the synonym expansion that leads to wrong results in the overall search execution, as the search cannot recover to the desired search results.

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[0113]FIG. 2 shows an exemplary arrangement for conducting inventive searches. The embodiment 20 refers more particularly to Internet searches, but the invention can of course be used with any data searches from any number of documents or databases. The user will use the computer 210 with the keyboard 220 and / or a peripheral like a mouse 200 and read and look at results from the screen 230. If the search query is directed to at least one database or document on the computer 210 the inventive search method can be operated “off-line” i.e. internally in the computer and the search results are shown on the screen 230. In some embodiments the search software needed to carry out the searches with the inventive method resides on the server 240 only and the documents on computer 210 need to be searched with the inventive search method. In this embodiment the server 240 searches the hard drives, memory, files or databases on computer 210.

[0114]In many embodiments part of the inventive system...

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[0148]FIG. 4 displays the search-translation embodiment 40 in accordance with the invention, which is better suited to different categories of input. In phase 400 a user speaks at least one word in a baseline language, which typically is his preferred language, native language or the language he knows best. In fact, the baseline language can be any language in accordance with the invention. In phase 410 speech recognition identifies the spoken words and converts them to text. In some embodiments speech can be supplemented and / or replaced by image data, from which (image data) text is extracted by pattern and / or character recognition. In some embodiments image and speech data can be also recognised in combination, for example a video camera will record both voice and images, and speech and / or sound recognition can be used to identify words from the audio and pattern recognition and / or character recognition can be used to recognise text in image format, words that have image equivalen...

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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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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30
CPCG06F17/30672G06F16/9537G06F16/3338G06F16/24522G06F16/24578
Inventor VAANANEN, MIKKO
Owner VAANANEN MIKKO
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