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Many users struggle with effective online search and critical evaluation, especially in high-stakes domains like health, while often overestimating their digital literacy. Thus, in this demo, we present an interactive search companion that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Markus Bink , Marten Risius , Udo Kruschwitz , David Elsweiler

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems consist of several machine learning components operating together (e.g. intent classification, named entity recognition and resolution). Deep learning models have obtained state of the art results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Akshit Tyagi , Varun Sharma , Rahul Gupta , Lynn Samson , Nan Zhuang , Zihang Wang , Bill Campbell

Despite a surge in robotics research dedicated to inferring and understanding human intent, a universally accepted definition remains elusive since existing works often equate human intention with specific task-related goals. This article…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 J. E. Domínguez-Vidal , Alberto Sanfeliu

Large Language Models (LLMs) and chatbots show significant promise in streamlining the legal intake process. This advancement can greatly reduce the workload and costs for legal aid organizations, improving availability while making legal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Nick Goodson , Rongfei Lu

Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural language can be easily ambiguous and hence such a direct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaustubh D. Dhole

With the increased importance of autonomous navigation systems has come an increasing need to protect the safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) such as pedestrians. Predicting pedestrian intent is one such challenging task, where prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Vaishnavi Khindkar , Vineeth Balasubramanian , Chetan Arora , Anbumani Subramanian , C. V. Jawahar

Chat interfaces for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) enable interactivity and flexibility. However, when students interact with chat interfaces, they expect dialogue-driven navigation from the system and can express frustration and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Ella Cutler , Zachary Levonian , S. Thomas Christie

E-commerce queries are often short and ambiguous. Consequently, query understanding often uses query rewriting to disambiguate user-input queries. While using e-commerce search tools, users tend to enter multiple searches, which we call…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Simiao Zuo , Qingyu Yin , Haoming Jiang , Shaohui Xi , Bing Yin , Chao Zhang , Tuo Zhao

Query optimization remains one of the most important and well-studied problems in database systems. However, traditional query optimizers are complex heuristically-driven systems, requiring large amounts of time to tune for a particular…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Ryan Marcus , Olga Papaemmanouil

Many modern online services feature personalized recommendations. A central challenge when providing such recommendations is that the reason why an individual user accesses the service may change from visit to visit or even during an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Dietmar Jannach , Markus Zanker

Traditional intent classification models are based on a pre-defined intent set and only recognize limited in-domain (IND) intent classes. But users may input out-of-domain (OOD) queries in a practical dialogue system. Such OOD queries can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yutao Mou , Keqing He , Yanan Wu , Pei Wang , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Yi Huang , Junlan Feng , Weiran Xu

Query auto completion (QAC) systems are a standard part of search engines in industry, helping users formulate their query. Such systems update their suggestions after the user types each character, predicting the user's intent using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Nicolas Fiorini , Zhiyong Lu

The ability of human beings to precisely recog- nize others intents is a significant mental activity in reasoning about actions, such as, what other people are doing and what they will do next. Recent research has revealed that human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiang Zhang

The relevance between a query and a document in search can be represented as matching degree between the two objects. Latent space models have been proven to be effective for the task, which are often trained with click-through data. One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Shuxin Wang , Xin Jiang , Hang Li , Jun Xu , Bin Wang

Understanding the intent behind information is crucial. However, news as a medium of public discourse still lacks a structured investigation of perceived news intent and its application. To advance this field, this paper reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhengjia Wang , Danding Wang , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Siyuan Ma , Haonan Cheng

Accurately retrieving relevant bid keywords for user queries is critical in Sponsored Search but remains challenging, particularly for short, ambiguous queries. Existing dense and generative retrieval models often fail to capture nuanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Gururaj K , Gagan Madan , Amit Singh

While numerous studies have been conducted in the literature exploring different types of machine learning approaches for search ranking, most of them are focused on specific pre-defined problems but only a few of them have studied the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhen Liao

The existing information retrieval techniques do not consider the context of the keywords present in the user's queries. Therefore, the search engines sometimes do not provide sufficient information to the users. New methods based on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-28 M. Barathi , S. Valli

Query Processing (QP) is optimized by a Cloud-based cache by storing the frequently accessed data closer to users. Nevertheless, the lack of focus on user intention type in queries affected the efficiency of QP in prevailing works. Thus, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sakshi Mahendru

Many search systems work with large amounts of natural language data, e.g., search queries, user profiles, and documents. Building a successful search system requires a thorough understanding of textual data semantics, where deep learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Weiwei Guo , Xiaowei Liu , Sida Wang , Michaeel Kazi , Zhiwei Wang , Zhoutong Fu , Jun Jia , Liang Zhang , Huiji Gao , Bo Long