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Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are widely used to derive semantic representations from item metadata in recommendation and search. In sequential recommendation, PLMs enhance ID-based embeddings through textual metadata, while in product…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Matteo Attimonelli , Alessandro De Bellis , Claudio Pomo , Dietmar Jannach , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Tommaso Di Noia

Contemporary recommendation systems predominantly rely on ID embedding to capture latent associations among users and items. However, this approach overlooks the wealth of semantic information embedded within textual descriptions of items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jian Jia , Yipei Wang , Yan Li , Honggang Chen , Xuehan Bai , Zhaocheng Liu , Jian Liang , Quan Chen , Han Li , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has enjoyed increased attention in the recent past and recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have highlighted the importance of integrating world knowledge into these systems. Current RAG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Joel Barmettler , Abraham Bernstein , Luca Rossetto

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users in a conversational manner to learn their current and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Human conversations contain many types of information, e.g., knowledge, common sense, and language habits. In this paper, we propose a conversational word embedding method named PR-Embedding, which utilizes the conversation pairs $…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Wentao Ma , Yiming Cui , Ting Liu , Dong Wang , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

In recent years, efforts have been made to use text information for better user profiling and item characterization in recommendations. However, text information can sometimes be of low quality, hindering its effectiveness for real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yingpeng Du , Ziyan Wang , Zhu Sun , Haoyan Chua , Hongzhi Liu , Zhonghai Wu , Yining Ma , Jie Zhang , Youchen Sun

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) that are able to interact with users in natural language often utilize recommendation dialogs which were previously collected with the help of paired humans, where one plays the role of a seeker and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are composed of structured information about a particular domain in the form of entities and relations. In addition to the structured information KGs help in facilitating interconnectivity and interoperability between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Genet Asefa Gesese , Russa Biswas , Mehwish Alam , Harald Sack

This study deeply explores the application of large language model (LLM) in personalized recommendation system of e-commerce. Aiming at the limitations of traditional recommendation algorithms in processing large-scale and multi-dimensional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Wei Xu , Jue Xiao , Jianlong Chen

A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly leveraged as foundational backbones in the development of advanced recommender systems, offering enhanced capabilities through their extensive knowledge and reasoning. Existing llm-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Minjie Hong , Yan Xia , Zehan Wang , Jieming Zhu , Ye Wang , Sihang Cai , Xiaoda Yang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Zhimeng Zhang , Zhou Zhao

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) represent relationships between entities in a graph structure and have been widely studied as promising tools for realizing recommendations that consider the accurate content information of items. However, traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Keigo Sakurai , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Knowledge graphs (KGs) consist of links that describe relationships between entities. Due to the difficulty of manually enumerating all relationships between entities, automatically completing them is essential for KGs. Knowledge Graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Katsuhiko Hayashi , Taro Watanabe

Recent years have seen a surge of research into conversational recommender systems (CRS). Among existing datasets, ReDial is the most widely used benchmark, cited in hundreds of studies. However, variations in how the dataset is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end framework called KBRD, which stands for Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System. It integrates the recommender system and the dialog generation system. The dialog system can enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Qibin Chen , Junyang Lin , Yichang Zhang , Ming Ding , Yukuo Cen , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently received significant attention for their exceptional capabilities. Despite extensive efforts in developing general-purpose LLMs that can be utilized in various natural language processing (NLP)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Fan Yang , Zheng Chen , Ziyan Jiang , Eunah Cho , Xiaojiang Huang , Yanbin Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for recommendation thanks to their advanced textual understanding ability and context-awareness. Despite the current practice of training and evaluating LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Kibum Kim , Jiwan Kim , Donghyun Kim , Minchul Yang , Kwangjin Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

The recent advances in Large Language Model's generation and reasoning capabilities present an opportunity to develop truly conversational recommendation systems. However, effectively integrating recommender system knowledge into LLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Krishna Sayana , Raghavendra Vasudeva , Yuri Vasilevski , Kun Su , Liam Hebert , James Pine , Hubert Pham , Ambarish Jash , Sukhdeep Sodhi

Consumers often heavily rely on online product reviews, analyzing both quantitative ratings and textual descriptions to assess product quality. However, existing research hasn't adequately addressed how to systematically encourage the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ekta Gujral , Apurva Sinha , Lishi Ji , Bijayani Sanghamitra Mishra

With the rapid development of online services, recommender systems (RS) have become increasingly indispensable for mitigating information overload. Despite remarkable progress, conventional recommendation models (CRM) still have some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jianghao Lin , Xinyi Dai , Yunjia Xi , Weiwen Liu , Bo Chen , Hao Zhang , Yong Liu , Chuhan Wu , Xiangyang Li , Chenxu Zhu , Huifeng Guo , Yong Yu , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang