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Product review generation is an important task in recommender systems, which could provide explanation and persuasiveness for the recommendation. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs, e.g., ChatGPT) have shown superior text modeling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu , Hongyan Xu , Qing Yang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

This paper studied generating natural languages at particular contexts or situations. We proposed two novel approaches which encode the contexts into a continuous semantic representation and then decode the semantic representation into text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Jian Tang , Yifan Yang , Sam Carton , Ming Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei

Recent advancements in explainable recommendation have greatly bolstered user experience by elucidating the decision-making rationale. However, the existing methods actually fail to provide effective feedback signals for potentially better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jiakai Tang , Jingsen Zhang , Zihang Tian , Xueyang Feng , Lei Wang , Xu Chen

In the rapidly evolving field of Explainable Natural Language Processing (NLP), textual explanations, i.e., human-like rationales, are pivotal for explaining model predictions and enriching datasets with interpretable labels. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mahdi Dhaini , Juraj Vladika , Ege Erdogan , Zineb Attaoui , Gjergji Kasneci

Despite the maturity already achieved by recommender systems algorithms, little is known about how to obtain and provide users with a proper rationale for a recommendation. Transparency and effectiveness of recommender systems may be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-14 D. C. Hernandez-Bocanegra , J. Ziegler

Modern recommender systems utilize users' historical behaviors to generate personalized recommendations. However, these systems often lack user controllability, leading to diminished user satisfaction and trust in the systems. Acknowledging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Juntao Tan , Yingqiang Ge , Yan Zhu , Yinglong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Jianchao Ji , Yongfeng Zhang

Using reviews to learn user and item representations is important for recommender system. Current review based methods can be divided into two categories: (1) the Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based models that extract n-gram features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hansi Zeng , Qingyao Ai

With the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence in Natural Language Processing, concerns have been raised regarding the detection of AI-generated text in various domains. This study aims to investigate this issue by proposing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Panagiotis C. Theocharopoulos , Spiros V. Georgakopoulos , Sotiris K. Tasoulis , Vassilis P. Plagianakos

Personality is a psychological factor that reflects people's preferences, which in turn influences their decision-making. We hypothesize that accurate modeling of users' personalities improves recommendation systems' performance. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Xinyuan Lu , Min-Yen Kan

A recommender system's basic task is to estimate how users will respond to unseen items. This is typically modeled in terms of how a user might rate a product, but here we aim to extend such approaches to model how a user would write about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Zachary C. Lipton , Sharad Vikram , Julian McAuley

Providing user-understandable explanations to justify recommendations could help users better understand the recommended items, increase the system's ease of use, and gain users' trust. A typical approach to realize it is natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from the industry and academic communities. It has shown great potential for improving the recommendation persuasiveness, informativeness and user satisfaction. Despite a lot of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Xu Chen , Jingsen Zhang , Lei Wang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Li Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Recommender Systems have been widely used to help users in finding what they are looking for thus tackling the information overload problem. After several years of research and industrial findings looking after better algorithms to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Vito Bellini , Angelo Schiavone , Tommaso Di Noia , Azzurra Ragone , Eugenio Di Sciascio

Machine learning (ML) has significantly advanced text classification by enabling automated understanding and categorization of complex, unstructured textual data. However, accurately capturing nuanced linguistic patterns and contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Peiheng Gao , Chen Yang , Ning Sun , Ričardas Zitikis

We address how to robustly interpret natural language refinements (or critiques) in recommender systems. In particular, in human-human recommendation settings people frequently use soft attributes to express preferences about items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski , Alexandros Karatzoglou

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

E-commerce platforms have a vast catalog of items to cater to their customers' shopping interests. Most of these platforms assist their customers in the shopping process by offering optimized recommendation carousels, designed to help…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shanu Vashishtha , Abhay Kumar , Lalitesh Morishetti , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

Adding explanations to recommender systems is said to have multiple benefits, such as increasing user trust or system transparency. Previous work from other application areas suggests that specific user characteristics impact the users'…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kathrin Wardatzky , Oana Inel , Luca Rossetto , Abraham Bernstein

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in recommender systems, where LLMs can be used to generate personalized recommendations. Here, we examine how different LLM-generated explanations for movie recommendations affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuanjun Feng , Stefan Feuerriegel , Yash Raj Shrestha

This paper introduces a novel dataset REGEN (Reviews Enhanced with GEnerative Narratives), designed to benchmark the conversational capabilities of recommender Large Language Models (LLMs), addressing the limitations of existing datasets…