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Query Understanding concerns about inferring the precise intent of search by the user with his formulated query, which is challenging because the queries are often very short and ambiguous. The report discusses the various kind of queries…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Abhay Prakash , Dhaval Patel

Estimating click-through rate (CTR) accurately has an essential impact on improving user experience and revenue in sponsored search. For CTR prediction model, it is necessary to make out user real-time search intention. Most of the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Feng Li , Zhenrui Chen , Pengjie Wang , Yi Ren , Di Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhu

Online shopping platforms, such as Amazon, offer services to billions of people worldwide. Unlike web search or other search engines, product search engines have their unique characteristics, primarily featuring short queries which are…

Search query specificity is broadly divided into two categories - Exploratory or Lookup. If a query specificity can be identified at the run time, it can be used to significantly improve the search results as well as quality of suggestions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Manoj K. Agarwal , Tezan Sahu

Online groups have become increasingly prevalent, providing users with space to share experiences and explore interests. Therefore, user-centric group discovery task, i.e., recommending groups to users can help both users' online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Jiawei Zhang

Query understanding plays a key role in exploring users' search intents and facilitating users to locate their most desired information. However, it is inherently challenging since it needs to capture semantic information from short and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juanhui Li , Yao Ma , Wei Zeng , Suqi Cheng , Jiliang Tang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Query Understanding is a semantic search method that can classify tokens in a customer's search query to entities such as Product, Brand, etc. This method can overcome the limitations of bag-of-words methods but requires an ontology. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Aliasgar Kutiyanawala , Prateek Verma , Zheng , Yan

It has become increasingly clear that recommender systems that overly focus on short-term engagement prevents users from exploring diverse interests, ultimately hurting long-term user experience. To tackle this challenge, numerous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuyan Wang , Cheenar Banerjee , Samer Chucri , Fabio Soldo , Sriraj Badam , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

People usually have different intents for choosing items, while their preferences under the same intent may also different. In traditional collaborative filtering approaches, both intent and preference factors are usually entangled in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chao Wang , Hengshu Zhu , Dazhong Shen , Wei wu , Hui Xiong

Understanding human intent is a complex, high-level task for large language models (LLMs), requiring analytical reasoning, contextual interpretation, dynamic information aggregation, and decision-making under uncertainty. Real-world public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaozhe Li , TianYi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yuxi Gong , Yizhao Yang , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu

As information retrieval systems continue to evolve, accurate evaluation and benchmarking of these systems become pivotal. Web search datasets, such as MS MARCO, primarily provide short keyword queries without accompanying intent or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Abhijit Anand , Jurek Leonhardt , V Venktesh , Avishek Anand

Given the recent interest in arguably accurate yet non-interpretable neural models, even with textual features, for document ranking we try to answer questions relating to how to interpret rankings. In this paper we take first steps towards…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Jaspreet Singh , Avishek Anand

Intent detection and identification from multi-turn dialogue has become a widely explored technique in conversational agents, for example, voice assistants and intelligent customer services. The conventional approaches typically cast the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zengguang Hao , Jie Zhang , Binxia Xu , Yafang Wang , Gerard de Melo , Xiaolong Li

Intent classification and slot filling are two critical tasks for natural language understanding. Traditionally the two tasks have been deemed to proceed independently. However, more recently, joint models for intent classification and slot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 H. Weld , X. Huang , S. Long , J. Poon , S. C. Han

Intent modeling has attracted widespread attention in recommender systems. As the core motivation behind user selection of items, intent is crucial for elucidating recommendation results. The current mainstream modeling method is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yi Zhang , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

Intent detection with semantically similar fine-grained intents is a challenging task. To address it, we reformulate intent detection as a question-answering retrieval task by treating utterances and intent names as questions and answers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Asaf Yehudai , Matan Vetzler , Yosi Mass , Koren Lazar , Doron Cohen , Boaz Carmeli

Personalized product search aims to retrieve and rank items that match users' preferences and search intent. Despite their effectiveness, existing approaches typically assume that users' query fully captures their real motivation. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Weicong Qin , Yi Xu , Weijie Yu , Chenglei Shen , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

The semantic understanding of natural dialogues composes of several parts. Some of them, like intent classification and entity detection, have a crucial role in deciding the next steps in handling user input. Handling each task as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Petr Lorenc

The goal of session-based recommendation in E-commerce is to predict the next item that an anonymous user will purchase based on the browsing and purchase history. However, constructing global or local transition graphs to supplement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xin Liu , Zheng Li , Yifan Gao , Jingfeng Yang , Tianyu Cao , Zhengyang Wang , Bing Yin , Yangqiu Song

Understanding human intent is a high-level cognitive challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), requiring sophisticated reasoning over noisy, conflicting, and non-linear discourse. While LLMs excel at following individual instructions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaozhe Li , Tianyi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yizhao Yang , Yuxi Gong , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu