Search Query Transliteration for Language-Specific Character Simplification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Search engines face challenges in handling language uncertainty and character variations in search queries, leading to inconveniences for users who cannot easily produce preferred characters, resulting in inaccurate search results due to removal of accents and special characters.
Innovation Solution
The system determines the query language, applies language-dependent mappings to simplify query terms, and uses a synonyms map to identify and augment search queries with appropriate variants, ensuring accurate retrieval of desired results while maintaining language specificity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If accents and special characters are removed from indexed content to simplify processing, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates because information is lost and specific accented instances cannot be retrieved
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different processing treatments to different parts of the search process: the index is built with simplified characters for ease of storage and retrieval, while the query processing applies language-specific transliteration rules to preserve accuracy. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction between ease of operation and retrieval precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary transliteration layer that converts user queries into the appropriate script or character set before searching the index. This intermediary process preserves the semantic meaning and language-specific conventions while enabling accurate retrieval from the simplified index.
2Device complexity
If a standard character set is used for all languages to simplify indexing, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability deteriorates because language-specific conventions and user expectations are not respected
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts the character processing approach based on the detected query language. Different transliteration rules and mappings are applied depending on the source language, allowing the system to maintain simplicity while being highly adaptable to language-specific conventions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameters of character processing based on the detected language. By adjusting the transliteration rules, mapping tables, and processing depth according to the specific language parameters, the system achieves both simplicity and adaptability.
3Ease of operation
If language-agnostic processing is applied to remove accents uniformly, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates because user expectations shaped by language conventions are not met
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary language detection and selects the appropriate transliteration strategy before processing the query. This preliminary action ensures that the subsequent character processing is both simple and accurate to the user's language expectations.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, operable to perform operations including receiving from a user a search query; and receiving an indication of a user preference to apply transliteration in simplifying the query terms of the search query. Alternatively, the operations include receiving from a user a search query of query terms; applying transliteration in simplifying the query terms; and using the simplified query terms to identify synonyms to use in augmenting the search query. Alternatively, the operations include receiving from a user a search query; identifying the user interface language as a small language or not a small language; simplifying each query term to a simplified form; and if the user interface language is a small language, for each original query term that has a simplified form different from the original term, using the original query term as-is and not providing any synonyms for the query term.