Towards large-scale collaborative planning: Answering high-level search queries using human computation

Edith Law*, Haoqi Zhang

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

20 Scopus citations

Abstract

Behind every search query is a high-level mission that the user wants to accomplish. While current search engines can often provide relevant information in response to well-specified queries, they place the heavy burden of making a plan for achieving a mission on the user. We take the alternative approach of tackling users' high-level missions directly by introducing a human computation system that generates simple plans, by decomposing a mission into goals and retrieving search results tailored to each goal. Results show that our system is able to provide users with diverse, actionable search results and useful roadmaps for accomplishing their missions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAAAI-11 / IAAI-11 - Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
PublisherAI Access Foundation
Pages1210-1215
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781577355090
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-11 / IAAI-11 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: Aug 7 2011Aug 11 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Volume2

Other

Other25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-11 / IAAI-11
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period8/7/118/11/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence

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