Patent ID: 8386477
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of determining a language intent of a user submitted query, the method comprising: receiving a user query comprising text, wherein the text of the user query corresponds to address data comprising two or more components; identifying an order in which the two or more components are presented in the address data corresponding to the user query, wherein different orders in which two or more components of address data are presented correspond to different geographical regions with different associated languages; determining a location of a user based on the received user query; identifying a language associated with the determined location of the user; identifying at least one language usage signal from the text of the user query based on the order in which the two or more components are presented in the address data corresponding to the user query; determining a strength of the at least one language usage signal based on the received user query and the identified language associated with the determined location of the user by comparing a language corresponding to the at least one language usage signal of the user query to the language associated with the determined location of the user, wherein the language corresponding to the at least one language usage signal of the user query being determined to be a same language as the language associated with the determined location of the user has a weaker language usage signal strength than the language corresponding to the at least one language usage signal of the user query being determined to be a different language from the language associated with the determined location of the user; adjusting, when the strength of the at least one language usage signal is greater than a predetermined threshold, an output language for the query based on the language usage signal; and returning results for the user query according to the output language.