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It is often noted that single query-item pair relevance training in search does not capture the customer intent. User intent can be better deduced from a series of engagements (Clicks, ATCs, Orders) in a given search session. We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Navid Mehrdad , Vishal Rathi , Sravanthi Rajanala

E-commerce click-stream data and product catalogs offer critical user behavior insights and product knowledge. This paper propose a multi-modal transformer termed as PINCER, that leverages the above data sources to transform initial user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Srivatsa Mallapragada , Ying Xie , Varsha Rani Chawan , Zeyad Hailat , Yuanbo Wang

Distributed representation plays an important role in deep learning based natural language processing. However, the representation of a sentence often varies in different tasks, which is usually learned from scratch and suffers from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Renjie Zheng , Junkun Chen , Xipeng Qiu

Search is a prominent channel for discovering products on an e-commerce platform. Ranking products retrieved from search becomes crucial to address customer's need and optimize for business metrics. While learning to Rank (LETOR) models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Siddhartha Devapujula , Sagar Arora , Sumit Borar

Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

Modern sequential recommender systems commonly use transformer-based models for next-item prediction. While these models demonstrate a strong balance between efficiency and quality, integrating interleaving features - such as the query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Andrii Dzhoha , Alisa Mironenko , Evgeny Labzin , Vladimir Vlasov , Maarten Versteegh , Marjan Celikik

The state of the art on many NLP tasks is currently achieved by large pre-trained language models, which require a considerable amount of computation. We explore a setting where many different predictions are made on a single piece of text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Jingfei Du , Myle Ott , Haoran Li , Xing Zhou , Veselin Stoyanov

Asking clarifying questions in response to ambiguous or faceted queries has been recognized as a useful technique for various information retrieval systems, especially conversational search systems with limited bandwidth interfaces.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Helia Hashemi , Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

Users try to articulate their complex information needs during search sessions by reformulating their queries. To make this process more effective, search engines provide related queries to help users in specifying the information need in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa Dehghani , Sascha Rothe , Enrique Alfonseca , Pascal Fleury

Users may strive to formulate an adequate textual query for their information need. Search engines assist the users by presenting query suggestions. To preserve the original search intent, suggestions should be context-aware and account for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Alessandro Sordoni , Yoshua Bengio , Hossein Vahabi , Christina Lioma , Jakob G. Simonsen , Jian-Yun Nie

Understanding user intents from UI interaction trajectories remains a challenging, yet crucial, frontier in intelligent agent development. While massive, datacenter-based, multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) possess greater capacity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Danielle Cohen , Yoni Halpern , Noam Kahlon , Joel Oren , Omri Berkovitch , Sapir Caduri , Ido Dagan , Anatoly Efros

The experience and adoption of conversational search is tied to the accuracy and completeness of users' mental models -- their internal frameworks for understanding and predicting system behaviour. Thus, understanding these models can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chadha Degachi , Samuel Kernan Freire , Evangelos Niforatos , Gerd Kortuem

Designers rely on visual search to explore and develop ideas in early design stages. However, designers can struggle to identify suitable text queries to initiate a search or to discover images for similarity-based search that can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Kihoon Son , DaEun Choi , Tae Soo Kim , Young-Ho Kim , Juho Kim

Question-answering systems and voice assistants are becoming major part of client service departments of many organizations, helping them to reduce the labor costs of staff. In many such systems, there is always natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Aleksandr Perevalov , Daniil Kurushin , Rustam Faizrakhmanov , Farida Khabibrakhmanova

BERT-style models pre-trained on the general corpus (e.g., Wikipedia) and fine-tuned on specific task corpus, have recently emerged as breakthrough techniques in many NLP tasks: question answering, text classification, sequence labeling and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yiming Qiu , Chenyu Zhao , Han Zhang , Jingwei Zhuo , Tianhao Li , Xiaowei Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

Context: User intent modeling is a crucial process in Natural Language Processing that aims to identify the underlying purpose behind a user's request, enabling personalized responses. With a vast array of approaches introduced in the…

Despite the extensive success of pretrained language models as encoders for building NLP systems, they haven't seen prominence as decoders for sequence generation tasks. We explore the question of whether these models can be adapted to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Nishant Subramani , Nivedita Suresh

There is a growing concern about typically opaque decision-making with high-performance machine learning algorithms. Providing an explanation of the reasoning process in domain-specific terms can be crucial for adoption in risk-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Aditya Chattopadhyay , Stewart Slocum , Benjamin D. Haeffele , Rene Vidal , Donald Geman

Representation learning is an essential problem in a wide range of applications and it is important for performing downstream tasks successfully. In this paper, we propose a new model that learns coupled representations of domains, intents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-18 JIhwan Lee , Dongchan Kim , Ruhi Sarikaya , Young-Bum Kim

With the attention mechanism, transformers achieve significant empirical successes. Despite the intuitive understanding that transformers perform relational inference over long sequences to produce desirable representations, we lack a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yufeng Zhang , Boyi Liu , Qi Cai , Lingxiao Wang , Zhaoran Wang