2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining search hypotheses for a search query comprises: parsing the query to select n-grams from the query; and for each selected n-gram, determining a search hypothesis based on a semantic relevance of the n-gram to the search type of the search hypothesis.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein determining search hypotheses for a search query further comprises determine at least one default hypothesis defining a general web corpus search type.