Moona Kanwal^1,2,*, Najeed A. Khan¹, Aftab A. Khan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2419-2440, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.047223

Abstract The user’s intent to seek online information has been an active area of research in user profiling. User profiling considers user characteristics, behaviors, activities, and preferences to sketch user intentions, interests, and motivations. Determining user characteristics can help capture implicit and explicit preferences and intentions for effective user-centric and customized content presentation. The user’s complete online experience in seeking information is a blend of activities such as searching, verifying, and sharing it on social platforms. However, a combination of multiple behaviors in profiling users has yet to be considered. This research takes a novel approach and explores user intent types… More >

Abdulaziz Al-Besher¹, Kailash Kumar¹, M. Sangeetha^2,*, Tinashe Butsa³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4763-4780, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021033

Abstract Most of the questions from users lack the context needed to thoroughly understand the problem at hand, thus making the questions impossible to answer. Semantic Similarity Estimation is based on relating user’s questions to the context from previous Conversational Search Systems (CSS) to provide answers without requesting the user's context. It imposes constraints on the time needed to produce an answer for the user. The proposed model enables the use of contextual data associated with previous Conversational Searches (CS). While receiving a question in a new conversational search, the model determines the question that refers to more past CS. The… More >