US9239888B1
patent
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer pro grams encoded on a computer storage medium, for determin ing word boundary likelihoods in potentially incomplete text. In one aspect, a method includes selecting query sequences from the query, each query sequence being at least a portion ofa word n-gram, the word n-gram being a Subsequence of up to n words selected from the second sequence of words of the query, and for each query sequence: determining one or more query sequence keys for the query sequence; determining at least one of a word boundary count and a non-word boundary count for each query sequence key, each word-boundary count and non-word boundary count being dependent on the context of the query sequence; and associating, in a data storage device, the at least one word boundary count and non-word boundary counts with each query sequence key. 20 Claims, 6 Drawing Sheets
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