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Access to knowledge about user goals represents a critical component for realizing the vision of intelligent agents acting upon user intent on the web. Yet, the manual acquisition of knowledge about user goals is costly and often infeasible. In a departure from existing approaches, this paper proposes Goal Mining as a novel perspective for knowledge acquisition. The research presented in this chapter makes the following contributions: (a) it presents Goal Mining as an emerging field of research and a corresponding automatic method for the acquisition of user goals from web corpora, in the case of this paper search query logs (b) it provides insights into the nature and some characteristics of these goals and (c) it shows that the goals acquired from query logs exhibit traits of a long tail distribution, thereby providing access to a broad range of user goals. Our results suggest that search query logs represent a viable, yet largely untapped resource for acquiring knowledge about explicit user goals.
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Strohmaier, M., Kröll, M., Prettenhofer, P. (2009). Equipping Intelligent Agents with Commonsense Knowledge acquired from Search Query Logs: Results from an Exploratory Story. In: Cao, L. (eds) Data Mining and Multi-agent Integration. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0522-2_11
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