US Patent 10191991 System and method for detecting a search intent

A method and system for detecting a search intent of a user. The method includes tokenizing the search query into at least one tokenized query; sending, to a plurality of engines, the at least one tokenized query, wherein each engine is configured with at least one entity, wherein each entity represents a topic of interest; receiving, from each engine, the at least one entity of the engine and at least one certainty score, wherein each certainty score indicates a probability that a tokenized query of the at least one tokenized query is mapped to the at least one entity of the engine; and determining, based on the received entities and certainty scores, the search intent of the user.