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Understanding and classifying query intents can improve retrieval effectiveness by helping align search results with the motivations behind user queries. However, existing intent taxonomies are typically derived from system log data and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Melanie A. Kilian , David Elsweiler

For machines to effectively assist humans in challenging visual search tasks, they must differentiate whether a human is simply glancing into a scene (navigational intent) or searching for a target object (informational intent). Previous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mansi Sharma , Shuang Chen , Philipp Müller , Maurice Rekrut , Antonio Krüger

Multi-behavioral recommendation optimizes user experiences by providing users with more accurate choices based on their diverse behaviors, such as view, add to cart, and purchase. Current studies on multi-behavioral recommendation mainly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Shunpan Liang , Junjie Zhao , Chen Li , Yu Lei

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

Improving the effectiveness of human-robot interaction requires social robots to accurately infer human goals through robust intention understanding. This challenge is particularly critical in multimodal settings, where agents must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hamed Rahimi , Clemence Grislain , Adrien Jacquet Cretides , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

Recent work has highlighted the potential of modelling interactive behaviour analogously to natural language. We propose interactive behaviour summarisation as a novel computational task and demonstrate its usefulness for automatically…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Guanhua Zhang , Mohamed Ahmed , Zhiming Hu , Andreas Bulling

Product ranking is a crucial component for many e-commerce services. One of the major challenges in product search is the vocabulary mismatch between query and products, which may be a larger vocabulary gap problem compared to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuyang Wu , Alessandro Magnani , Suthee Chaidaroon , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Ciya Liao , Yi Fang

This paper proposes an intent-aware multi-agent planning framework as well as a learning algorithm. Under this framework, an agent plans in the goal space to maximize the expected utility. The planning process takes the belief of other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Siyuan Qi , Song-Chun Zhu

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

Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

Semantic communication focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo

Interactive systems have taken over the web and mobile space with increasing participation from users. Applications across every marketing domain can now be accessed through mobile or web where users can directly perform certain actions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rakshit Agrawal , Anwar Habeeb , Chih-Hsin Hsueh

This paper presents GEneric iNtent Encoder (GEN Encoder) which learns a distributed representation space for user intent in search. Leveraging large scale user clicks from Bing search logs as weak supervision of user intent, GEN Encoder…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Hongfei Zhang , Xia Song , Chenyan Xiong , Corby Rosset , Paul N. Bennett , Nick Craswell , Saurabh Tiwary

In this paper, we introduce Auto-Intent, a method to adapt a pre-trained large language model (LLM) as an agent for a target domain without direct fine-tuning, where we empirically focus on web navigation tasks. Our approach first discovers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jaekyeom Kim , Dong-Ki Kim , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Sungryull Sohn , Honglak Lee

We study the problem of safe and intention-aware robot navigation in dense and interactive crowds. Most previous reinforcement learning (RL) based methods fail to consider different types of interactions among all agents or ignore the…

With this work, we describe the concept of intent-based query rewriting and present a first viable solution. The aim is to allow rewrites to alter the structure and syntactic outcome of an original query while keeping the obtainable…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Gianna Lisa Nicolai , Patrick Hansert , Sebastian Michel

Accurately understanding the intent behind speech, conversation, and writing is crucial to the development of helpful Large Language Model (LLM) assistants. This paper introduces IntentGrasp, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuwei Yin , Chuyuan Li , Giuseppe Carenini

Predicting user behaviour on a website is a difficult task, which requires the integration of multiple sources of information, such as geo-location, user profile or web surfing history. In this paper we tackle the problem of predicting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Mihai Cristian Pîrvu , Alexandra Anghel , Ciprian Borodescu , Alexandru Constantin

With the development of dialog techniques, conversational search has attracted more and more attention as it enables users to interact with the search engine in a natural and efficient manner. However, comparing with the natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Yunlun Yang , Yu Gong , Xi Chen

Understanding user intentions is challenging for online platforms. Recent work on intention knowledge graphs addresses this but often lacks focus on connecting intentions, which is crucial for modeling user behavior and predicting future…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiaxin Bai , Zhaobo Wang , Junfei Cheng , Dan Yu , Zerui Huang , Weiqi Wang , Xin Liu , Chen Luo , Yanming Zhu , Bo Li , Yangqiu Song