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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

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

Actively inferring user preferences, for example by asking good questions, is important for any human-facing decision-making system. Active inference allows such systems to adapt and personalize themselves to nuanced individual preferences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wasu Top Piriyakulkij , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Kevin Ellis

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

People judge interactions with large language models (LLMs) as successful when outputs match what they want, not what they type. Yet LLMs are trained to predict the next token solely from text input, not underlying intent. Because written…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Nadav Kunievsky , James A. Evans

Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions. However, most focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bufang Yang , Lilin Xu , Liekang Zeng , Yunqi Guo , Siyang Jiang , Wenrui Lu , Kaiwei Liu , Yixuan Li , Xiaofan Jiang , Guoliang Xing , Zhenyu Yan

Large Language Models are rapidly emerging as web-native interfaces to social platforms. On the social web, users frequently have ambiguous and dynamic goals, making complex intent understanding-rather than single-turn execution-the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zenghua Liao , Jinzhi Liao , Xiang Zhao

Intent, a critical cognitive notion and mental state, is ubiquitous in human communication and problem-solving. Accurately understanding the underlying intent behind questions is imperative to reasoning towards correct answers. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuwei Yin , Giuseppe Carenini

Recognizing customer intent accurately with language models based on customer-agent conversational data is essential in today's digital customer service marketplace, but it is often hindered by the lack of sufficient labeled data. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyu Luo , Peng Liu , Stefan Esping

The pursuit of improved accuracy in recommender systems has led to the incorporation of user context. Context-aware recommender systems typically handle large amounts of data which must be uploaded and stored on the cloud, putting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Benu Madhab Changmai , Divija Nagaraju , Debi Prasanna Mohanty , Kriti Singh , Kunal Bansal , Sukumar Moharana

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

Since Searle's work deconstructing intent and intentionality in the realm of philosophy, the practical meaning of intent has received little attention in science and technology. Intentionality and context are both central to the scope of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mark Burgess

User prompts to large language models (LLMs) are often ambiguous or under-specified, and subtle contextual cues shaped by user intentions, prior knowledge, and risk factors strongly influence what constitutes an appropriate response.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Minseon Kim , Lucas Caccia , Zhengyan Shi , Matheus Pereira , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Xingdi Yuan , Alessandro Sordoni

Current language model-driven agents often lack mechanisms for effective user participation, which is crucial given the vagueness commonly found in user instructions. Although adept at devising strategies and performing tasks, these agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Cheng Qian , Bingxiang He , Zhong Zhuang , Jia Deng , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Zhong Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

To handle ambiguous and open-ended requests, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly trained to interact with users to surface intents they have not yet expressed (e.g., ask clarification questions). However, users are often ambiguous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tae Soo Kim , Yoonjoo Lee , Jaesang Yu , John Joon Young Chung , Juho Kim

In-Car Conversational Question Answering (ConvQA) systems significantly enhance user experience by enabling seamless voice interactions. However, assessing their accuracy and reliability remains a challenge. This paper explores the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Philipp Habicht , Lev Sorokin , Abdullah Saydemir , Ken E. Friedl , Andrea Stocco

Proactive agents that anticipate user intentions without explicit prompts represent a significant evolution in human-AI interaction, promising to reduce cognitive load and streamline workflows. However, existing datasets suffer from two…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuanbo Tang , Huaze Tang , Tingyu Cao , Lam Nguyen , Anping Zhang , Xinwen Cao , Chunkang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Yang Li

Most existing bundle generation approaches fall short in generating fixed-size bundles. Furthermore, they often neglect the underlying user intents reflected by the bundles in the generation process, resulting in less intelligible bundles.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Zhu Sun , Kaidong Feng , Jie Yang , Xinghua Qu , Hui Fang , Yew-Soon Ong , Wenyuan Liu

Conversational systems have a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module. In this module, there is a task known as an intent classification that aims at identifying what a user is attempting to achieve from an utterance. Previous works use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jeanfranco D. Farfan-Escobedo , Julio C. Dos Reis

How do we update AI memory of user intent as intent changes? We consider how an AI interface may assist the integration of new information into a repository of natural language data. Inspired by software engineering concepts like impact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Priyan Vaithilingam , Munyeong Kim , Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau , Daniel Lee , Amine Mhedhbi , Elena L. Glassman , Ian Arawjo