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This paper proposes a user semantic intent modeling algorithm based on Capsule Networks to address the problem of insufficient accuracy in intent recognition for human-computer interaction. The method represents semantic features in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shixiao Wang , Yifan Zhuang , Runsheng Zhang , Zhijun Song

Conversational search systems can improve user experience in digital libraries by facilitating a natural and intuitive way to interact with library content. However, most conversational search systems are limited to performing simple tasks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Souvick Ghosh , Satanu Ghosh , Chirag Shah

Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to modern Human-AI collaboration workflows, where accurately understanding user intent serves as a crucial step for generating satisfactory responses. Context-aware intent understanding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Guanming Liu , Meng Wu , Peng Zhang , Yu Zhang , Yubo Shu , Xianliang Huang , Kainan Tu , Ning Gu , Liuxin Zhang , Qianying Wang , Tun Lu

The rapid evolution of LLMs represents an impactful paradigm shift in digital interaction and content engagement. While they encode vast amounts of human-generated knowledge and excel in processing diverse data types, they often face the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Anna Bodonhelyi , Efe Bozkir , Shuo Yang , Enkelejda Kasneci , Gjergji Kasneci

Chat-oriented dialogue systems designed to provide tangible benefits, such as sharing the latest news or preventing frailty in senior citizens, often require Proactive acquisition of specific user Information via chats on user-faVOred…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Shiki Sato , Jun Baba , Asahi Hentona , Shinji Iwata , Akifumi Yoshimoto , Koichiro Yoshino

Recommender systems are software applications that help users find items of interest in situations of information overload in a personalized way, using knowledge about the needs and preferences of individual users. In conversational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Tommaso Di Noia , Francesco Donini , Dietmar Jannach , Fedelucio Narducci , Claudio Pomo

The query suggestion or auto-completion mechanisms help users to type less while interacting with a search engine. A basic approach that ranks suggestions according to their frequency in the query logs is suboptimal. Firstly, many candidate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Eugene Kharitonov , Craig Macdonald , Pavel Serdyukov , Iadh Ounis

A key challenge of dialog systems research is to effectively and efficiently adapt to new domains. A scalable paradigm for adaptation necessitates the development of generalizable models that perform well in few-shot settings. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Shikib Mehri , Mihail Eric

In today's digitally driven world, dialogue systems play a pivotal role in enhancing user interactions, from customer service to virtual assistants. In these dialogues, it is important to identify user's goals automatically to resolve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Juan A. Rodriguez , Nicholas Botzer , David Vazquez , Christopher Pal , Marco Pedersoli , Issam Laradji

Web search is frequently used by people to acquire new knowledge and to satisfy learning-related objectives. In this context, informational search missions with an intention to obtain knowledge pertaining to a topic are prominent. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Ran Yu , Ujwal Gadiraju , Peter Holtz , Markus Rokicki , Philipp Kemkes , Stefan Dietze

Customer service chatbots are conversational systems aimed at addressing customer queries, often by directing them to automated workflows. A crucial aspect of this process is the classification of the customer's intent. Presently, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Subhadip Nandi , Neeraj Agrawal , Anshika Singh , Priyanka Bhatt

In conversational search systems, a key component is to determine and clarify the intent behind complex queries. We view intent clarification in light of the exploratory search paradigm, where users, through an iterative, evolving process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maik Larooij

In the era of conversational AI, generating accurate and contextually appropriate service responses remains a critical challenge. A central question remains: Is explicit intent recognition a prerequisite for generating high-quality service…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Inbal Bolshinsky , Shani Kupiec , Almog Sasson , Yehudit Aperstein , Alexander Apartsin

Predicting the next action that a human is most likely to perform is key to human-AI collaboration and has consequently attracted increasing research interests in recent years. An important factor for next action prediction are human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lei Shi , Paul-Christian Bürkner , Andreas Bulling

Conversational search is a relatively young area of research that aims at automating an information-seeking dialogue. In this paper we help to position it with respect to other research areas within conversational Artificial Intelligence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Svitlana Vakulenko , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals with common words and phrases that describe software…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-19 David Heckerman , Eric J. Horvitz

Recent research has shown that mixed-initiative conversational search, based on the interaction between users and computers to clarify and improve a query, provides enormous advantages. Nonetheless, incorporating additional information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Oleg Borisov , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

In this paper, we introduce the use of Semantic Hashing as embedding for the task of Intent Classification and achieve state-of-the-art performance on three frequently used benchmarks. Intent Classification on a small dataset is a…

A target-guided proactive dialogue system aims to steer conversations proactively toward pre-defined targets, such as designated keywords or specific topics. During guided conversations, dynamically modeling conversational scenarios and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maodong Li , Yancui Li , Fang Kong

Ranking ensemble is a critical component in real recommender systems. When a user visits a platform, the system will prepare several item lists, each of which is generally from a single behavior objective recommendation model. As multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jiayu Li , Peijie Sun , Zhefan Wang , Weizhi Ma , Yangkun Li , Min Zhang , Zhoutian Feng , Daiyue Xue