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Modern e-commerce platforms offer vast product selections, making it difficult for customers to find items that they like and that are relevant to their current session intent. This is why it is key for e-commerce platforms to have near…

Recommendation systems focus on helping users find items of interest in the situations of information overload, where users' preferences are typically estimated by the past observed behaviors. In contrast, conversational recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Traditional recommendation systems produce static rather than interactive recommendations invariant to a user's specific requests, clarifications, or current mood, and can suffer from the cold-start problem if their tastes are unknown.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Dongyeop Kang , Anusha Balakrishnan , Pararth Shah , Paul Crook , Y-Lan Boureau , Jason Weston

Current conversational AI systems aim to understand a set of pre-designed requests and execute related actions, which limits them to evolve naturally and adapt based on human interactions. Motivated by how children learn their first…

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend relevant items to users by eliciting user preference through natural language conversation. Prior work often utilizes external knowledge graphs for items' semantic information, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Mathieu Ravaut , Hao Zhang , Lu Xu , Aixin Sun , Yong Liu

E-commerce web applications are almost ubiquitous in our day to day life, however as useful as they are, most of them have little to no adaptation to user needs, which in turn can cause both lower conversion rates as well as unsatisfied…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mihai Cristian Pîrvu , Alexandra Anghel

One of the main challenges in recommender systems is data sparsity which leads to high variance. Several attempts have been made to improve the bias-variance trade-off using auxiliary information. In particular, document modeling-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Meysam Varasteh , Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Ahmad Kalhor

An important aspect of developing conversational agents is to give a bot the ability to improve through communicating with humans and to learn from the mistakes that it makes. Most research has focused on learning from fixed training sets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Jiwei Li , Alexander H. Miller , Sumit Chopra , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Jason Weston

In the WWW (World Wide Web), dynamic development and spread of data has resulted a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet, yet user is unable to find relevant information in a short span of time. Consequently, a system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Denis Selimi , Krenare Pireva Nuci

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning technology in practice. Academic research in the field is historically often based on the matrix completion problem formulation, where for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Massimo Quadrana , Paolo Cremonesi , Dietmar Jannach

Interactive conversational recommender systems have gained significant attention for their ability to capture user preferences through natural language interactions. However, existing approaches face substantial challenges in handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bo Ma , Hang Li , ZeHua Hu , XiaoFan Gui , LuYao Liu , Simon Lau

Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Saverio Perugini , Marcos Andre Goncalves , Edward A. Fox

We propose novel AI-empowered chat bots for learning as conversation where a user does not read a passage but gains information and knowledge through conversation with a teacher bot. Our information-acquisition-oriented dialogue system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Pengshan Cai , Hui Wan , Fei Liu , Mo Yu , Hong Yu , Sachindra Joshi

Educational recommender systems have become a necessity in the recent years due to overload of available educational resource which makes it difficult for an individual to manually hunt for the required resource on the internet. E-learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Nethra Viswanathan

There is a growing interest in developing automated agents that can work alongside humans. In addition to completing the assigned task, such an agent will undoubtedly be expected to behave in a manner that is preferred by the human. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Utkarsh Soni , Nupur Thakur , Sarath Sreedharan , Lin Guan , Mudit Verma , Matthew Marquez , Subbarao Kambhampati

The goal of recommender systems is to provide ordered item lists to users that best match their interests. As a critical task in the recommendation pipeline, re-ranking has received increasing attention in recent years. In contrast to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yi Li , Jieming Zhu , Weiwen Liu , Liangcai Su , Guohao Cai , Qi Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xi Xiao , Xiuqiang He

We propose a new task of conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs, where the bots can proactively and naturally lead a conversation from a non-recommendation dialog (e.g., QA) to a recommendation dialog, taking into account…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Zeming Liu , Haifeng Wang , Zheng-Yu Niu , Hua Wu , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) in E-commerce platforms aim to recommend items to users via multiple conversational interactions. Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are commonly used for ranking candidate items. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Chi-Man Wong , Fan Feng , Wen Zhang , Chi-Man Vong , Hui Chen , Yichi Zhang , Peng He , Huan Chen , Kun Zhao , Huajun Chen

The emerging meta- and multi-verse landscape is yet another step towards the more prevalent use of already ubiquitous online markets. In such markets, recommender systems play critical roles by offering items of interest to the users,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ehsan Gholami , Mohammad Motamedi , Ashwin Aravindakshan

Conversational Tree Search (V\"ath et al., 2023) is a recent approach to controllable dialog systems, where domain experts shape the behavior of a Reinforcement Learning agent through a dialog tree. The agent learns to efficiently navigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dirk Väth , Lindsey Vanderlyn , Ngoc Thang Vu