User Query
User query processing focuses on understanding and responding effectively to user requests, whether in natural language or other modalities, across diverse applications. Current research emphasizes improving the accuracy and robustness of query understanding and response generation, particularly for complex, multi-step queries and those involving diverse data sources (e.g., structured and unstructured data, images). This involves developing advanced models, including transformer-based architectures and reinforcement learning techniques, and creating large-scale benchmark datasets to evaluate performance and identify limitations in handling real-world scenarios. The resulting advancements have significant implications for improving search engines, question-answering systems, and human-computer interaction in various fields, including healthcare and finance.