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Search-based recommendation is one of the most critical application scenarios in e-commerce platforms. Users' complex search contexts--such as spatiotemporal factors, historical interactions, and current query's information--constitute an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhiding Liu , Ben Chen , Mingyue Cheng , Enhong Chen , Li Li , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou , Han Li , Kun Gai

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) engage users in interactive dialogues to gather preferences and provide personalized recommendations. While existing studies have advanced conversational strategies, they often rely on predefined…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Haibo Sun , Naoki Otani , Hannah Kim , Dan Zhang , Nikita Bhutani

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Conversational recommender systems aim to interactively support online users in their information search and decision-making processes in an intuitive way. With the latest advances in voice-controlled devices, natural language processing,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Dietmar Jannach

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) dynamically obtain the user preferences via multi-turn questions and answers. The existing CRS solutions are widely dominated by deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, deep reinforcement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque , Hongning Wang

Integrated interpretability without sacrificing the prediction accuracy of decision making algorithms has the potential of greatly improving their value to the user. Instead of assigning a label to an image directly, we propose to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Stephan Alaniz , Diego Marcos , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Recent advances in natural language processing and deep learning have accelerated the development of digital assistants. In conversational commerce, these assistants help customers find suitable products in online shops through natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kevin Schott , Andrea Papenmeier , Daniel Hienert , Dagmar Kern

Neural collaborative filtering is the state of art field in the recommender systems area; it provides some models that obtain accurate predictions and recommendations. These models are regression-based, and they just return rating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jesús Bobadilla , Abraham Gutiérrez , Santiago Alonso , Ángel González-Prieto

Recurrent neural networks for session-based recommendation have attracted a lot of attention recently because of their promising performance. repeat consumption is a common phenomenon in many recommendation scenarios (e.g., e-commerce,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jing Li , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke

In this paper we propose a neural conversation model for conducting dialogues. We demonstrate the use of this model to generate help desk responses, where users are asking questions about PC applications. Our model is distinguished by two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Kaisheng Yao , Baolin Peng , Geoffrey Zweig , Kam-Fai Wong

The goal of recommendation is to show users items that they will like. Though usually framed as a prediction, the spirit of recommendation is to answer an interventional question---for each user and movie, what would the rating be if we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yixin Wang , Dawen Liang , Laurent Charlin , David M. Blei

Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent of the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Biswarup Bhattacharya , Iftikhar Burhanuddin , Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Satya

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

Given e-commerce scenarios that user profiles are invisible, session-based recommendation is proposed to generate recommendation results from short sessions. Previous work only considers the user's sequential behavior in the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Jing Li , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma

Recent advances in path-based explainable recommendation systems have attracted increasing attention thanks to the rich information provided by knowledge graphs. Most existing explainable recommendations only utilize static knowledge graphs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yicong Li , Hongxu Chen , Yile Li , Lin Li , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

News recommendation for anonymous readers is a useful but challenging task for many news portals, where interactions between readers and articles are limited within a temporary login session. Previous works tend to formulate session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shansan Gong , Kenny Q. Zhu

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

Traditional recommender systems (RecSys) primarily infer user preferences from implicit signals (such as clicks, watches, and purchases), often neglecting the rich explicit contextual feedback users provide through verbal text, like…

One of the key benefits of voice-based personal assistants is the potential to proactively recommend relevant and interesting information. One of the most valuable sources of such information is the News. However, in order for the user to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Harshita Sahijwani , Jason Ingyu Choi , Eugene Agichtein

The ideal conversational recommender system (CRS) acts like a savvy salesperson, adapting its language and suggestions to each user's level of expertise. However, most current systems treat all users as experts, leading to frustrating and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ivica Kostric , Ujwal Gadiraju , Krisztian Balog