Identifying Semantically-Meaningful Text Selections

摘要

A text selection module enables a user to quickly designate a semantically-meaningful phrase within a text region of a user interface. The text selection module may further automatically or semi-automatically take an action on the designated phrase, such as visually selecting the phrase, obtaining a definition of the phrase, or the like.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a user interaction with a first word in an ordered set of words displayed in a user interface; forming a set of candidate n-grams, each candidate n-gram being a sequence of up to n adjacent words within the ordered set of words that includes the first word; identifying known n-grams within the set of candidate n-grams; and taking an action on one of the identified known n-grams.