Patent Document ID: 20130304468
Application ID: 13569433
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for contextual voice query dilation in a Spoken Web search, the method comprising: determining a context in which a voice query is created; generating a set of multiple voice query terms based on the context and information derived by a speech recognizer component pertaining to the voice query; processing the set of query terms with a set of multiple dilation operators to produce a dilated set of queries associated with each of the multiple dilation operators; searching the dilated set of queries for each of the associated dilation operators against a database to identify one or more documents from the database that are relevant to each query in the dilated set of queries; and generating a ranked list comprising each of the one or more documents identified in the database, wherein said ranked list is generated based on a weight assigned to usage of the set of multiple dilation operators in said processing of the query terms and a weight assigned to the each of the multiple dilation operators corresponding to each document; wherein at least one of the steps is carried out by a computer device.