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No. the most trivial search strategy just tokenizes the input and looks up those token in the index. A poorly formed sentence, is not a detriment to finding out the intend, as long as key words are there. It doesn't require complex NLP to achieve this end result.


Ironically, "What day this week will be snow?" doesn't give me great results on Google, but Bing actually shows a weekly weather graph.


"snow this week" will return the weather forecast for my location on google


Yeah, but that's grammatically valid. It's not a question, but it's a valid sentence.


I don't think it's a valid sentence, unless you interpret it as commanding someone/something to snow sometime this week.


So will "this snow week when"




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