Towards User Intent Based Searching

According to user´s intent, Broder classified Web queries into three classes: navigational, informational and transactional. However, current search engines do not provide relevant search results based on the user´s intent. In this paper, we propose a user intent based searching mechanism (UIBS for short) in order to enable precise discovery of a Web site (for navigational searching) as well as aggregating of their information (for informational searching) and performing further activities (for transactional searching). We first propose a Web site capability description interface for the explicit description of a Web site´s capability and a search interface that enables explicit description of user´s search intents, preferences, and query on the information. And then we describe the process of the query engine which provides relevant search results based on the user´s intent, preferences, and requirements. Finally, a test example is given to show the availability of the proposed UIBS mechanism.