Program Synthesis, which is the task of discovering programs that realize user intent, can be useful in several scenarios: enabling people with no programming background to develo...
Clickthrough on search results have been successfully used to infer user interest and preferences, but are often noisy and potentially ambiguous. We explore the potential of a com...
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...
The terms that are used by users during tagging have been found to be different from the terms that are used when searching for resources, which represents a fundamental problem f...
Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink