In Artificial Intelligence, intention mining or intent mining is the problem of determining a user's intention from logs of his/her behavior in interaction with a computer system, such as in search engines, where there has been research on user intent or query intent prediction since 2002 (see Section 7.2.3 in [1]); and commercial intents expressed in social media posts.
[2] The notion of intention mining has been introduced in the Ph.D. thesis of Dr. Ghazaleh Khodabandelou in 2014.
[3][4][5] This thesis presents a novel approach in Artificial Intelligence to automate the construction of intention models from users' activities.
The proposed model uses Hidden Markov Models to model the relationship between users' activities and the strategies (i.e., the different ways to fulfill the intentions).
The method also includes some specific algorithms and new optimization methods developed to infer users' intentions and construct intentional models as an oriented graph (with different levels of granularity) in order to have a better understanding of the human way of thinking.