Patent ID: 9195644
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, performed by a computing device, for identifying the language of a phrase, comprising: receiving, via a communications fabric, a short phrase including one or more words; transmitting, via the communications fabric, the short phrase in a query to a search engine; receiving, via the communications fabric, one or more search results from the search engine in response to the query; parsing, by a processor of the computing device, the one or more search results including identifying one or more longer phrases that include the short phrase, the one or more longer phrases containing at least one more word than the short phrase; transmitting, via the communications fabric, the one or more longer phrases to a language identification engine for identification of the language of the one or more longer phrases; receiving, via the communications fabric, from the language identification engine the language of each of the one or more the longer phrases; and determining, by the processor of the computing device, the most likely language of the short phrase, based at least in part on the language of each of the one or more the longer phrases.