Method and system for searching words in documents written in a source language as transcript of words in an origin language

1. Computer implemented method for searching words in documents written in a source language, words which are not meaningful in said source language, but are transcript of meaningful words in an origin language, the method is comprised of two processes:

a) preparation process executed for each new document, the preparation process is comprised of the following steps:

i) reading the document;

ii) extracting unrecognized words in the source language;

iii) updating search indexes in the corpus for all document words;

iv) for each new unrecognized word in the source language:

1) removing prefixes and suffixes;

2) performing phonetic conversion;

3) checking frequency of unrecognized word spelling in System Hebraized Medical Lexicon (SHML);

4) defining the most frequent spelling of the unrecognized word as the central term and connect it to other allowable and close spellings of that term;

5) updating System Hebraized Medical Lexicon (SHML);

b) search process which is comprised of the following steps:

i) reading the search request and perform auto-complete for terms from the System Hebraized Medical Lexicon (SHML);

ii) generating phonetic conversion for all words in query;

iii) for each word:

1) searching for similar phonetics in the corpus and find central terms;

2) calculating the distance to the found similar words and order them in ascending order; and

3) displaying relevant documents according to the distance.

2. The method according to claim 1 , where the source language is Hebrew, the origin language is either English or Latin.

3. The method according to claim 1 , where the unknown words in the source language are medical terms in the origin language.

4. The method according to claim 1 , where the words in the input query goes through an autocomplete procedure from the System Hebraized Medical Lexicon (SHML).