Mapping User Intents in Web Search Queries to Types of Commonsense Knowledge

Commonsense knowledge is a type of knowledge consisting of facts that humans use every day. Humans make queries in search engines with different user intents, and some of them can be answered by knowledge tuples. Different types of knowledge are stored differently in the knowledge bases. Being aware of the types of commonsense knowledge required...

Revisiting Bundle Recommendation: Datasets, Tasks, Challenges and Opportunities for Intent-aware Product Bundling

Product bundling is a commonly-used marketing strategy in both offline retailers and online e-commerce systems. Current research on bundle recommendation is limited by: (1) noisy datasets, where bundles are defined by heuristics, e.g., products co-purchased in the same session; and (2) specific tasks, holding unrealistic assumptions, e.g.,...

Intent-Aware Diverse Social Image Retrieval

Behind each photographic act is a rationale that impacts the visual appearance<br/>of the resulting photo. Better understanding of this rationale has great<br/>potential to support image retrieval systems in serving user needs. However,<br/>at present, surprisingly little is known about the connection between what<br/>a picture shows (the...

User Intent in Online Video Search

Over the recent years, user expectations of the ability of video search engines have significantly risen. Users expect video search engines to be useful as an instrument that facilitates communication, education, entertainment and problem solving and, in relation to this, to satisfy diverse information needs. A user's information need is the...