Patents Assigned to GOOGLE INC., a Delaware corporation
  • Publication number: 20090287698
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for linking to an intra-document portion of a target document includes receiving an address for a target document identified by a search engine in response to a query, the target document including query-relevant text that identifies an intra-document portion of the target document, the intra-document portion including the query relevant text. An artificial anchor is generated, the artificial anchor corresponding to the intra-document portion. The artificial anchor is appended the address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC., a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: David P. Marmaros, Benedict A. Gomes, Krishna Bharat
  • Publication number: 20050289463
    Abstract: Systems and methods to process and correct spelling errors for non-Roman based words such as in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages using a rule-based classifier and a hidden Markov model are disclosed. The method generally includes converting an input entry in a first language such as Chinese to at least one intermediate entry in an intermediate representation, such as pinyin, different from the first language, converting the intermediate entry to at least one possible alternative spelling or form of the input in the first language, and determining that the input entry is either a correct or questionable input entry when a match between the input entry and all possible alternative spellings to the input entry is or is not located, respectively. The questionable input entry may be classified using, for example, a transformation rule based classifier based on transformation rules generated by a transformation rules generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Applicant: Google Inc., A DELAWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Hongjun Zhu, Huican Zhu, Wei-Hwa Huang, Chiu-Ki Chan
  • Publication number: 20050209844
    Abstract: Systems and methods to process and translate pinyin to Chinese characters and words are disclosed. A Chinese language model is trained by extracting unknown character strings from Chinese inputs, e.g., documents and/or user inputs/queries, determining valid words from the unknown character strings, and generating a transition matrix based on the Chinese inputs for predicting a word string given the context. A method for translating a pinyin input generally includes generating a set of Chinese character strings from the pinyin input using a Chinese dictionary including words derived from the Chinese inputs and a language model trained based on the Chinese inputs, each character string having a weight indicating the likelihood that the character string corresponds to the pinyin input. An ambiguous user input may be classified as non-pinyin or pinyin by identifying an ambiguous pinyin/non-pinyin ASCII word in the user input and analyzing the context to classify the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: Google Inc., A DELAWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Huican Zhu, Hongjun Zhu
  • Publication number: 20050149576
    Abstract: Systems and methods for direct navigation to and/or highlighting a specific portion of a target document such as query-relevant portion of the document are disclosed. The method may include generating a search result link to a search result document and generating an instruction to a client document browser to navigate directly to an intra-document portion related to the query within the search result document. The search result may include a snippet extracted from the search result document such that the instruction causes navigation directly to at least a portion of the snippet. The instruction may be an artificial anchor undefined in the search result document, e.g., designated by a preassigned artificial anchor designator. The client browser may have an artificial anchor module installed to execute the instruction to navigate directly to and optionally highlight the intra-document portion within the target document in response to the document link being selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: Google Inc. A DELAWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Marmaros, Benedict Gomes, Krishna Bharat
  • Publication number: 20050149499
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for improving search quality. Search queries are expanded using a variety of linguistic techniques. For example, the words in a query can be supplemented with related words obtained from a database of compound words, inflectional forms, and/or orthographic variations. The expanded queries can be used to perform searches for responsive documents. A document index can be expanded using similar techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: Google Inc., A DELAWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Franz, Monika Henzinger
  • Publication number: 20040261021
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. Queries can be expressed using character sets and/or languages that are different from the character set and/or language of at least some of the data that is to be searched. A translation between these character sets and/or languages can be performed by examining the use of terms in aligned text. Probabilities can be associated with each possible translation. Refinements can be made to these probabilities by examining user interactions with the search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: Google Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Inventors: Vibhu Mittal, Jay M. Ponte, Mehran Sahami, Sanjay Ghemawat, John A. Bauer