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Predicting a user's next search query from recent interaction behaviors is a critical problem in modern e-commerce systems, particularly in scenarios where user intent evolves rapidly. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer strong semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Bin Zhang , Weipeng Huang , Dimin Wang , Jialin Zhu , Yuning Jiang , Zhaode Wang , Chengfei Lv , Jian Wang , Qichao Ma , Li Chen , Junqing Wu , Yipeng Yu

Intent understanding plays an important role in dialog systems, and is typically formulated as a supervised learning problem. However, it is challenging and time-consuming to design the intents for a new domain from scratch, which usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengfei Liu , Youzhang Ning , King Keung Wu , Kun Li , Helen Meng

This paper proposes a chat-driven network management framework that integrates natural language processing (NLP) with optimization-based virtual network allocation, enabling intuitive and reliable reconfiguration of virtual network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yuya Miyaoka , Masaki Inoue , Kengo Urata , Shigeaki Harada

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

Deep Research (DR) agents extend Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond parametric knowledge by autonomously retrieving and synthesizing evidence from large web corpora into long-form reports, enabling a long-horizon agentic paradigm. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haohao Luo , Zexi Li , Yuexiang Xie , Wenhao Zhang , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Personal assistant systems, such as Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana, are becoming ever more widely used. Understanding user intent such as clarification questions, potential answers and user feedback in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Liu Yang , Minghui Qiu , Chen Qu , Cen Chen , Jiafeng Guo , Yongfeng Zhang , W. Bruce Croft , Haiqing Chen

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

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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Llama have become prevalent in real-world applications, exhibiting impressive text generation performance. LLMs are fundamentally developed from a scenario where the input data remains static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Cheng'an Wei , Yue Zhao , Yujia Gong , Kai Chen , Lu Xiang , Shenchen Zhu

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, exhibit advanced capabilities in generating text, images, and videos. However, their effective use remains constrained by challenges in prompt formulation, personalization, and opaque…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Si Thu , A. Baki Kocaballi

Most often, chat-bots are built to solve the purpose of a search engine or a human assistant: Their primary goal is to provide information to the user or help them complete a task. However, these chat-bots are incapable of responding to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Parag Agrawal , Anshuman Suri , Tulasi Menon

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

Proactively predicting a users next utterance in human-machine dialogue can streamline interaction and improve user experience. Existing commercial API-based solutions are subject to privacy concerns while deploying general-purpose LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jinqiang Wang , Huansheng Ning , Jianguo Ding , Tao Zhu , Liming Chen , Chris Nugent

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

Click-through data has proven to be a valuable resource for improving search-ranking quality. Search engines can easily collect click data, but biases introduced in the data can make it difficult to use the data effectively. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yingcheng Sun , Richard Kolacinski , Kenneth Loparo

Understanding and characterizing how people interact in information-seeking conversations is crucial in developing conversational search systems. In this paper, we introduce a new dataset designed for this purpose and use it to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Chen Qu , Liu Yang , W. Bruce Croft , Johanne R. Trippas , Yongfeng Zhang , Minghui Qiu

Technological advances continue to redefine the dynamics of human-machine interactions, particularly in task execution. This proposal responds to the advancements in Generative AI by outlining a research plan that probes intent-AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zijian Ding

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming personalized search, recommendations, and customer interaction in e-commerce. Customers increasingly shop across multiple devices, from voice-only assistants to multimodal displays, each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mariya Hendriksen , Svitlana Vakulenko , Jordan Massiah , Gabriella Kazai , Emine Yilmaz

Over the years customers' expectation of getting information instantaneously has given rise to the increased usage of channels like virtual assistants. Typically, customers try to get their questions answered by low-touch channels like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Ankush Chopra , Prateek Nagwanshi , Sohom Ghosh