Inferring user search intention based on situation analysis of the physical world

Zhu Wang, Xingshe Zhou, Zhiwen Yu, Yanbin He, Daqing Zhang

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Abstract

Ubiquitous search of the physical world has recently received significant attention. In this paper, we investigate situation analysis based user intention recognition, which can be useful to retrieve information that may perfectly satisfy a user's needs. We first introduce a hierarchical user intention model based on CRFs (Conditional Random Fields). With the model, a BP (Belief Propagation) based inference method is proposed to recognize user search intention based on situation analysis. A variety of sensing mechanisms are adopted to collect context information of the physical world for robust and reliable situation analysis. We developed a prototype in a real home setting and experiments were performed to examine the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiquitous Intelligence and Computing - 7th International Conference, UIC 2010, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages35-51
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)3642163548, 9783642163548
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6406 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • CRFs
  • search intention
  • Situation analysis
  • ubiquitous search

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