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Any organization needs to improve their products, services, and processes. In this context, engaging with customers and understanding their journey is essential. Organizations have leveraged various techniques and technologies to support…

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This paper presents a deployed, production-grade system designed to enhance and scale search query datasets for intent-based recommendation systems in digital banking. In real-world environments, the growing volume and complexity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Aaron Rodrigues , Mahmood Hegazy , Azzam Naeem

While infographics have become a powerful medium for communicating data-driven stories, authoring them from scratch remains challenging, especially for novice users. Retrieving relevant exemplars from a large corpus can provide design…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jing Xu , Jiarui Hu , Zhihao Shuai , Yiyun Chen , Weikai Yang

Intent identification serves as the foundation for generating appropriate responses in personalized question answering (PQA). However, existing benchmarks evaluate only response quality or retrieval performance without directly measuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jieyong Kim , Maryam Amirizaniani , Soojin Yoon , Dongha Lee

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

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

Detecting and identifying user intent from text, both written and spoken, plays an important role in modelling and understand dialogs. Existing research for intent discovery model it as a classification task with a predefined set of known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Nikhita Vedula , Nedim Lipka , Pranav Maneriker , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

If 100 people issue the same search query, they may have 100 different goals. While existing work on user-centric AI evaluation highlights the importance of aligning systems with fine-grained user intents, current search evaluation methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yoonseo Choi , Eunhye Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Donghyun Park , Honggu Lee , Jinyoung Kim , Juho Kim

User intent classification is an important task in information retrieval. In this work, we introduce a revised taxonomy of user intent. We take the widely used differentiation between navigational, transactional and informational queries as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Daria Alexander , Wojciech Kusa , Arjen P. de Vries

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

Voice Assistants aim to fulfill user requests by choosing the best intent from multiple options generated by its Automated Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding sub-systems. However, voice assistants do not always produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Raviteja Anantha , Srinivas Chappidi , William Dawoodi

In the area of customer support, understanding customers' intents is a crucial step. Machine learning plays a vital role in this type of intent classification. In reality, it is typical to collect confirmation from customer support…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Li Dong , Matthew C. Spencer , Amir Biagi

Understanding latent user needs beneath shopping behaviors is critical to e-commercial applications. Without a proper definition of user needs in e-commerce, most industry solutions are not driven directly by user needs at current stage,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Xusheng Luo , Yonghua Yang , Kenny Q. Zhu , Yu Gong , Keping Yang

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

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

Intent learning, which aims to learn users' intents for user understanding and item recommendation, has become a hot research spot in recent years. However, existing methods suffer from complex and cumbersome alternating optimization,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yue Liu , Shihao Zhu , Jun Xia , Yingwei Ma , Jian Ma , Xinwang Liu , Shengju Yu , Kejun Zhang , Wenliang Zhong

We address the problem of constructing a knowledge base of entity-oriented search intents. Search intents are defined on the level of entity types, each comprising of a high-level intent category (property, website, service, or other),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Darío Garigliotti , Krisztian Balog

In this work, we aim to learn multi-level user intents from the co-interacted patterns of items, so as to obtain high-quality representations of users and items and further enhance the recommendation performance. Towards this end, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wei Yinwei , Wang Xiang , He Xiangnan , Nie Liqiang , Rui Yong , Chua Tat-Seng

Web search is among the most frequent online activities. Whereas traditional information retrieval techniques focus on the information need behind a user query, previous work has shown that user behaviour and interaction can provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ran Yu , Limock , Stefan Dietze

In recent years, chat-bot has become a new type of intelligent terminal to guide users to consume services. However, it is criticized most that the services it provides are not what users expect or most expect. This defect mostly dues to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Junrui Tian , Zhiying Tu , Zhongjie Wang , Xiaofei Xu , Min Liu