METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING A SEARCH REQUEST BY A NON-NATIVE SPEAKER OF A GIVEN LANGUAGE BY CORRECTING HIS SPELLING USING THE PRONUNCIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE

摘要

The invention provides a method and system for transforming a search query before it is sent to a search engine. The search query, written in a language potentially not mastered correctly by its writer, can comprise typos corresponding to the alphabetic representation of a sound in the writer native language. The search query is first interpreted so as to identify a sequence of phonemes corresponding to its pronunciation by the writer in its native language. The sequence of phonemes is then analyzed so as to determine the corresponding words.