Patent ID: 9400838
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A search system for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query, comprising: a processor; a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user, said search query having at least two original search query terms; a query processing module that analyzes at least one original search query term of the at least two original search query terms to identify candidate synonym words for said at least one original search query term, and determines which of said candidate synonym words are equivalent terms to said at least one original search query term, wherein equivalent terms are candidate synonym words that are used in a same sense as said at least one original search query term is used in said search query; wherein said query processing module substitutes at least one of said candidate synonym words into said search query in place of said at least one original query search term to generate a modified search query, and a search engine executes a search using said modified search query, and wherein said query processing module determines which of said candidate synonym words are equivalent terms to said at least one original search query term based at least partially on which of said candidate synonym words are located together with at least one of the other at least two original search query terms in semantically continuous segments retrieved by said search engine using said modified search query.