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Novel intent discovery automates the process of grouping similar messages (questions) to identify previously unknown intents. However, current research focuses on publicly available datasets which have only the question field and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Aleksandra Chrabrowa , Tsimur Hadeliya , Dariusz Kajtoch , Robert Mroczkowski , Piotr Rybak

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Search-based recommendation is one of the most critical application scenarios in e-commerce platforms. Users' complex search contexts--such as spatiotemporal factors, historical interactions, and current query's information--constitute an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhiding Liu , Ben Chen , Mingyue Cheng , Enhong Chen , Li Li , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou , Han Li , Kun Gai

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

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. One critical challenge in today's e-commerce search is the semantic matching problem where the relevant items may not contain the exact terms in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Yiming Qiu , Kang Zhang , Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

Information extraction and user intention identification are central topics in modern query understanding and recommendation systems. In this paper, we propose DeepProbe, a generic information-directed interaction framework which is built…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 Zi Yin , Keng-hao Chang , Ruofei Zhang

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

To cater to users' desire for an immersive browsing experience, numerous e-commerce platforms provide various recommendation scenarios, with a focus on Trigger-Induced Recommendation (TIR) tasks. However, the majority of current TIR methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Jianxing Ma , Zhibo Xiao , Luwei Yang , Hansheng Xue , Xuanzhou Liu , Wen Jiang , Wei Ning , Guannan Zhang

Proactive intent prediction is a critical capability in modern e-commerce chatbots, enabling "zero-query" recommendations by anticipating user needs from behavioral and contextual signals. However, existing industrial systems face two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Junhua Liu , Yang Jihao , Cheng Chang , Kunrong LI , Bin Fu , Kwan Hui Lim

Typical e-commerce platforms contain millions of products in the catalog. Users visit these platforms and enter search queries to retrieve their desired products. Therefore, showing the relevant products at the top is essential for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Lakshya Kumar , Sagnik Sarkar

Building a shopping product collection has been primarily a human job. With the manual efforts of craftsmanship, experts collect related but diverse products with common shopping intent that are effective when displayed together, e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hiun Kim , Jisu Jeong , Kyung-Min Kim , Dongjun Lee , Hyun Dong Lee , Dongpil Seo , Jeeseung Han , Dong Wook Park , Ji Ae Heo , Rak Yeong Kim

Mining the latent intentions from large volumes of natural language inputs is a key step to help data analysts design and refine Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) for customer service and sales support. We created a flexible and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Xinyu Chen , Ian Beaver

This paper proposes a user semantic intent modeling algorithm based on Capsule Networks to address the problem of insufficient accuracy in intent recognition for human-computer interaction. The method represents semantic features in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Shixiao Wang , Yifan Zhuang , Runsheng Zhang , Zhijun Song

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

In mapping enterprise applications, data mapping remains a fundamental part of integration development, but its time consuming. An increasing number of applications lack naming standards, and nested field structures further add complexity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Nischal Ashok Kumar , Nitin Gupta , Shanmukha Guttula , Hima Patel

Effective personalized question answering (PQA) in language models requires grounding responses in the user's underlying intent, where intent refers to the implicit ``why'' behind a query beyond its explicit wording. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Maryam Amirizaniani , Benjamin Charles Germain Lee , Jevin West , Nicholas Weber

Web search engines are frequently used to access information about products. This has increased in recent times with the rising popularity of e-commerce. However, there is limited understanding of what users search for and their intents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Nikitha Rao , Chetan Bansal , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Chandra Maddila

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

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 research on intent-enhanced sequential recommendation algorithms focuses on how to better mine dynamic user intent based on user behavior data for sequential recommendation tasks. Various data augmentation methods are widely applied in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shuai Chen , Zhoujun Li