Patent Document ID: 20100161642
Application ID: 12342098
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of generating a query translation pair comprising: establishing a plurality of seed query pairs, each of the plurality of seed query pairs comprising a source language query and a target language query wherein the source language query and the target language query have the same meaning but are in different languages and wherein the source language query is different for each of the plurality of seed query pairs; finding a plurality of URL pairs from click-through data, the plurality of URL pairs based on the seed query pair; extracting URL pair patterns from ones of the plurality of URL pairs having a similarity score above a particular threshold; extracting from the click-through data bilingual URL pairs identified by the URL pair patterns; identifying in the click-through data candidate query pairs corresponding to the bilingual URL pairs; and filtering the candidate query pairs based on a confidence score resulting in a query translation pair wherein queries of the query translation pair are translations of each other.