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We study knowledge-grounded dialogue generation with pre-trained language models. To leverage the redundant external knowledge under capacity constraint, we propose equipping response generation defined by a pre-trained language model with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xueliang Zhao , Wei Wu , Can Xu , Chongyang Tao , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control recommendations. Nevertheless, research in the field is still limited,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jie Zou , Yifan Chen , Evangelos Kanoulas

Recent research focuses beyond recommendation accuracy, towards human factors that influence the acceptance of recommendations, such as user satisfaction, trust, transparency and sense of control.We present a generic interactive recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Oznur Alkan , Massimiliano Mattetti , Elizabeth M. Daly , Adi Botea , Inge Vejsbjerg

The knowledge engineering bottleneck is still a major challenge in configurator projects. In this paper we show how recommender systems can support knowledge base development and maintenance processes. We discuss a couple of scenarios for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Alexander Felfernig , Stefan Reiterer , Martin Stettinger , Florian Reinfrank , Michael Jeran , Gerald Ninaus

Conversational recommender systems enable natural language conversations and thus lead to a more engaging and effective recommendation scenario. As the conversations for recommender systems usually contain limited contextual information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jie Zou , Cheng Lin , Weikang Guo , Zheng Wang , Jiwei Wei , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Text response generation for multimodal task-oriented dialog systems, which aims to generate the proper text response given the multimodal context, is an essential yet challenging task. Although existing efforts have achieved compelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaolin Chen , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Jing , Shuo Li , Linmei Hu , Liqiang Nie

In this paper, a novel Generation-Evaluation framework is developed for multi-turn conversations with the objective of letting both participants know more about each other. For the sake of rational knowledge utilization and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Siqi Bao , Huang He , Fan Wang , Rongzhong Lian , Hua Wu

In recent years, deep learning has gained an indisputable success in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. After its rising success on these challenging areas, it has been studied on recommender systems as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Ezgi Yıldırım , Payam Azad , Şule Gündüz Öğüdücü

Recommender systems are crucial for personalizing user experiences but often depend on implicit feedback data, which can be noisy and misleading. Existing denoising studies involve incorporating auxiliary information or learning strategies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shuyao Wang , Zhi Zheng , Yongduo Sui , Hui Xiong

End-to-end neural models for intelligent dialogue systems suffer from the problem of generating uninformative responses. Various methods were proposed to generate more informative responses by leveraging external knowledge. However, few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Rongzhong Lian , Min Xie , Fan Wang , Jinhua Peng , Hua Wu

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) enhance the expressivity and personalization of recommendations through multiple turns of user-system interaction. Critiquing is a well-known paradigm for CRS that allows users to iteratively refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Armin Toroghi , Griffin Floto , Zhenwei Tang , Scott Sanner

In today's digitally-driven world, the demand for personalized and context-aware recommendations has never been greater. Traditional recommender systems have made significant strides in this direction, but they often lack the ability to tap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Piyush Talegaonkar , Siddhant Hole , Shrinesh Kamble , Prashil Gulechha , Deepali Salapurkar

A well-designed recommender system can accurately capture the attributes of users and items, reflecting the unique preferences of individuals. Traditional recommendation techniques usually focus on modeling the singular type of behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Hongrui Xuan , Yi Liu , Bohan Li , Hongzhi Yin

Prerequisites can play a crucial role in users' decision-making yet recommendation systems have not fully utilized such contextual background knowledge. Traditional recommendation systems (RS) mostly enrich user-item interactions where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Hengchang Hu , Liangming Pan , Yiding Ran , Min-Yen Kan

Task-oriented dialogue systems are either modularized with separate dialogue state tracking (DST) and management steps or end-to-end trainable. In either case, the knowledge base (KB) plays an essential role in fulfilling user requests.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Andrea Madotto , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Genta Indra Winata , Yan Xu , Zihan Liu , Zhaojiang Lin , Pascale Fung

Searching for and making decisions about information is becoming increasingly difficult as the amount of information and number of choices increases. Recommendation systems help users find items of interest of a particular type, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-07-04 M. H. Goker , P. Langley , C. A. Thompson

Growing attention has been paid in Conversational Recommendation System (CRS), which works as a conversation-based and recommendation task-oriented tool to provide items of interest and explore user preference. However, existing work in CRS…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Bingbing Wen , Xiaoning Bu , Chirag Shah

Recommendations Systems allow users to identify trending items among a community while being timely and relevant to the user's expectations. When the purpose of various Recommendation Systems differs, the required type of recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Dinuka Ravijaya Piyadigama , Guhanathan Poravi

Recommender systems serve as foundational infrastructure in modern information ecosystems, helping users navigate digital content and discover items aligned with their preferences. At their core, recommender systems address a fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Min Hou , Le Wu , Yuxin Liao , Yonghui Yang , Zhen Zhang , Yu Wang , Changlong Zheng , Han Wu , Richang Hong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in recommender systems due to their contextual learning and generalisation capabilities. Existing LLM-based recommendation approaches typically formulate the recommendation task using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zeyuan Meng , Zixuan Yi , Iadh Ounis