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The conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have received extensive attention in recent years. However, most of the existing works focus on various deep learning models, which are largely limited by the requirement of large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jun Quan , Ze Wei , Qiang Gan , Jingqi Yao , Jingyi Lu , Yuchen Dong , Yiming Liu , Yi Zeng , Chao Zhang , Yongzhi Li , Huang Hu , Yingying He , Yang Yang , Daxin Jiang

Many modern online services feature personalized recommendations. A central challenge when providing such recommendations is that the reason why an individual user accesses the service may change from visit to visit or even during an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Dietmar Jannach , Markus Zanker

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their significant potential to be applied for addressing various application tasks. However, traditional recommender systems continue to face great challenges such as poor interactivity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yunfan Gao , Tao Sheng , Youlin Xiang , Yun Xiong , Haofen Wang , Jiawei Zhang

Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily based on natural language dialogue, while they may include other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Hamed Zamani , Johanne R. Trippas , Jeff Dalton , Filip Radlinski

We introduce CRS Arena, a research platform for scalable benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) based on human feedback. The platform displays pairwise battles between anonymous conversational recommender systems, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Nolwenn Bernard , Hideaki Joko , Faegheh Hasibi , Krisztian Balog

Conversational recommenders are emerging as a powerful tool to personalize a user's recommendation experience. Through a back-and-forth dialogue, users can quickly hone in on just the right items. Many approaches to conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Allen Lin , Ziwei Zhu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

The conversational recommendation system (CRS) has been criticized regarding its user experience in real-world scenarios, despite recent significant progress achieved in academia. Existing evaluation protocols for CRS may prioritize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chen Huang , Peixin Qin , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) integrate both recommendation and dialogue tasks, making their evaluation uniquely challenging. Existing approaches primarily assess CRS performance by separately evaluating item recommendation and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nuo Chen , Quanyu Dai , Xiaoyu Dong , Piaohong Wang , Qinglin Jia , Zhaocheng Du , Zhenhua Dong , Xiao-Ming Wu

Existing recommendation systems have focused on two paradigms: 1- historical user-item interaction-based recommendations and 2- conversational recommendations. Conversational recommendation systems facilitate natural language dialogues…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Srijata Maji , Moghis Fereidouni , Vinaik Chhetri , Umar Farooq , A. B. Siddique

This paper identifies the factors that have an impact on mobile recommender systems. Recommender systems have become a technology that has been widely used by various online applications in situations where there is an information overload…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Elias Pimenidis , Nikolaos Polatidis , Haralambos Mouratidis

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has shown great potential to develop more powerful conversational recommender systems (CRSs), which rely on natural language conversations to satisfy user needs. In this paper, we embark on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaolei Wang , Xinyu Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jingyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Recommender systems shape how people discover information, form opinions, and connect with society. Yet, as their influence grows, traditional metrics, e.g., accuracy, clicks, and engagement, no longer capture what truly matters to humans.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kaike Zhang , Jiakai Tang , Du Su , Shuchang Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao , Qi Cao , Yue Feng , Fei Sun

A personalized conversational sales agent could have much commercial potential. E-commerce companies such as Amazon, eBay, JD, Alibaba etc. are piloting such kind of agents with their users. However, the research on this topic is very…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang

Recommender Systems (RS) aim to provide personalized suggestions of items for users against consumer over-choice. Although extensive research has been conducted to address different aspects and challenges of RS, there still exists a gap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Peiyan Zhang , Sunghun Kim

In conversational recommender systems (CRSs), conversations usually involve a set of items and item-related entities or attributes, e.g., director is a related entity of a movie. These items and item-related entities are often mentioned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jie Zou , Aixin Sun , Cheng Long , Evangelos Kanoulas

Recommender systems can be characterized as software solutions that provide users convenient access to relevant content. Traditionally, recommender systems research predominantly focuses on developing machine learning algorithms that aim to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dietmar Jannach

Recommender systems have become an essential tool to help resolve the information overload problem in recent decades. Traditional recommender systems, however, suffer from data sparsity and cold start problems. To address these issues, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zhu Sun , Qing Guo , Jie Yang , Hui Fang , Guibing Guo , Jie Zhang , Robin Burke

Following recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based chatbots have transformed customer support by automating interactions and providing consistent, scalable service. While LLM-based conversational recommender systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Omri Haller , Yair Meidan , Dudu Mimran , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

E-commerce pre-sales dialogue aims to understand and elicit user needs and preferences for the items they are seeking so as to provide appropriate recommendations. Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) learn user representation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yuanxing Liu , Wei-Nan Zhang , Yifan Chen , Yuchi Zhang , Haopeng Bai , Fan Feng , Hengbin Cui , Yongbin Li , Wanxiang Che

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