Contextual-based high precision search for mail systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10831801-B2
Application number	US-201715593706-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2017
Priority date	May 12, 2017
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

A method, computer system, and computer program product for contextually searching an electronic mail system is provided. The embodiment may include generating a contextual language set based on a language tag assigned to each electronic mail message within an electronic mailbox, whereby the generated contextual language set includes a first language and a second language. The embodiment may also include receiving a search term. The embodiment may further include identifying the received search term is drafted in the first language. The embodiment may also include generating a root character string of the identified search term. The embodiment may further include executing a search query of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the first language using the generated root character string. The embodiment may also include executing a search query of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the second language using the identified search term.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processor-implemented method for contextually searching an electronic mail system, the method comprising:
generating, by a processor, a contextual language set based on a language tag assigned to each electronic mail message within an electronic mailbox, wherein the generated contextual language set comprises a first language and a second language, and wherein a name of the contextual language set is recorded as an abbreviation of the first language and the second language;
indexing the received plurality of electronic mail messages in a global inverted index table, wherein each word or phrase within each electronic mail message and a corresponding location of each word or phrase is isolated and logged in the global inverted index table;
receiving a search term;
identifying the received search term is drafted in the first language;
generating a root character string of the identified search term;
executing a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the first language using the generated root character string; and
executing, simultaneously to the search query of the plurality of electronic mail messages in the first language, a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the second language using the identified search term.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a plurality of electronic mail messages in the electronic mail system addressed to a user; and
assigning a language tag to each electronic mail message within the plurality of received electronic mail messages based on a language used to draft each electronic mail message.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein assigning the language tag to an electronic mail message within the plurality of electronic mail messages further comprises:
detecting the language using a language detector and a plurality of natural language processing techniques; and
adding a language field to a plurality of metadata associated with the electronic mail message.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
monitoring the electronic mailbox for at least one modification to a plurality of search parameters.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
indexing the received plurality of electronic mail messages in a global inverted index table.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein further comprising:
receiving a plurality of search results for each executed search query; and
generating a complete search query result set based on merging each received plurality of search results.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of search parameters is selected from a group consisting of a mailbox folder, a date range, and a message addressee.

8. A computer system for contextually searching an electronic mail system, the computer system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
generating a contextual language set based on a language tag assigned to each electronic mail message within an electronic mailbox, wherein the generated contextual language set comprises a first language and a second language, and wherein a name of the contextual language set is recorded as an abbreviation of the first language and the second language;
indexing the received plurality of electronic mail messages in a global inverted index table, wherein each word or phrase within each electronic mail message and a corresponding location of each word or phrase is isolated and logged in the global inverted index table;
receiving a search term;
identifying the received search term is drafted in the first language;
generating a root character string of the identified search term;
executing a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the first language using the generated root character string; and
executing, simultaneously to the search query of the plurality of electronic mail messages in the first language, a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the second language using the identified search term.

9. The computer system of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving a plurality of electronic mail messages in the electronic mail system addressed to a user; and
assigning a language tag to each electronic mail message within the plurality of received electronic mail messages based on a language used to draft each electronic mail message.

10. The computer system of claim 9 , wherein assigning the language tag to an electronic mail message within the plurality of electronic mail messages further comprises:
detecting the language using a language detector and a plurality of natural language processing techniques; and
adding a language field to a plurality of metadata associated with the electronic mail message.

11. The computer system of claim 8 , further comprising:
monitoring the electronic mailbox for at least one modification to a plurality of search parameters.

12. The computer system of claim 8 , further comprising:
indexing the received plurality of electronic mail messages in a global inverted index table.

13. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein further comprising:
receiving a plurality of search results for each executed search query; and
generating a complete search query result set based on merging each received plurality of search results.

14. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the plurality of search parameters is selected from a group consisting of a mailbox folder, a date range, and a message addressee.

15. A computer program product for contextually searching an electronic mail system, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to generate a contextual language set based on a language tag assigned to each electronic mail message within an electronic mailbox, wherein the generated contextual language set comprises a first language and a second language, and wherein a name of the contextual language set is recorded as an abbreviation of the first language and the second language;
program instructions to index the received plurality of electronic mail messages in a global inverted index table, wherein each word or phrase within each electronic mail message and a corresponding location of each word or phrase is isolated and logged in the global inverted index table;
program instructions to receive a search term;
program instructions to identify the received search term is drafted in the first language;
program instructions to generate a root character string of the identified search term;
program instructions to execute a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the first language using the generated root character string; and
program instructions to execute, simultaneously to the search query of the plurality of electronic mail messages in the first language, a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the el

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Sun Pei
• Li Shu Qiang
• Pei Na
• Lu wei guo

Classifications

• H04L51/42

  Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes · CPC title

• G06F16/3344

  using natural language analysis · CPC title

• G06F40/263

  Language identification · CPC title

• G06F16/334 Primary

  Query execution (filtering based on additional data G06F16/335) · CPC title

• G06Q10/107

  Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing] · CPC title