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Understanding human intent is a complex, high-level task for large language models (LLMs), requiring analytical reasoning, contextual interpretation, dynamic information aggregation, and decision-making under uncertainty. Real-world public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaozhe Li , TianYi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yuxi Gong , Yizhao Yang , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) engage with users by inferring user preferences from dialog history, providing accurate recommendations, and generating appropriate responses. Previous CRSs use knowledge graph (KG) based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Bowen Yang , Cong Han , Yu Li , Lei Zuo , Zhou Yu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have become crucial emerging research topics in the field of RSs, thanks to their natural advantages of explicitly acquiring user preferences via interactive conversations and revealing the reasons…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xinghua Qu , Hongyang Liu , Zhu Sun , Xiang Yin , Yew Soon Ong , Lu Lu , Zejun Ma

Conversational recommender systems have attracted immense attention recently. The most recent approaches rely on neural models trained on recorded dialogs between humans, implementing an end-to-end learning process. These systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

Recent advances in deep neural networks, language modeling and language generation have introduced new ideas to the field of conversational agents. As a result, deep neural models such as sequence-to-sequence, Memory Networks, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations by interacting with users through conversations. Most existing studies of CRS focus on extracting user preferences from conversational contexts. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yibiao Wei , Jie Zou , Weikang Guo , Guoqing Wang , Xing Xu , Yang Yang

Conversational Assistants (CA) are increasingly supporting human workers in knowledge management. Traditionally, CAs respond in specific ways to predefined user intents and conversation patterns. However, this rigidness does not handle the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Samuel Kernan Freire , Chaofan Wang , Evangelos Niforatos

Large Language Models (LLMs) and chatbots show significant promise in streamlining the legal intake process. This advancement can greatly reduce the workload and costs for legal aid organizations, improving availability while making legal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Nick Goodson , Rongfei Lu

Conversational systems are of primary interest in the AI community. Chatbots are increasingly being deployed to provide round-the-clock support and to increase customer engagement. Many of the commercial bot building frameworks follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ajay Chatterjee , Shubhashis Sengupta

We present ChatR1, a reasoning framework based on reinforcement learning (RL) for conversational question answering (CQA). Reasoning plays an important role in CQA, where user intent evolves across dialogue turns, and utterances are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Simon Lupart , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Evangelos Kanoulas

In the era of conversational AI, generating accurate and contextually appropriate service responses remains a critical challenge. A central question remains: Is explicit intent recognition a prerequisite for generating high-quality service…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Inbal Bolshinsky , Shani Kupiec , Almog Sasson , Yehudit Aperstein , Alexander Apartsin

The rapid evolution of LLMs represents an impactful paradigm shift in digital interaction and content engagement. While they encode vast amounts of human-generated knowledge and excel in processing diverse data types, they often face the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Anna Bodonhelyi , Efe Bozkir , Shuo Yang , Enkelejda Kasneci , Gjergji Kasneci

Precisely understanding users' contextual search intent has been an important challenge for conversational search. As conversational search sessions are much more diverse and long-tailed, existing methods trained on limited data still show…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Kelong Mao , Zhicheng Dou , Fengran Mo , Jiewen Hou , Haonan Chen , Hongjin Qian

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

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) are interactive agents that support their users in recommendation-related goals through multi-turn conversations. Generally, a CRS can be evaluated in various dimensions. Today's CRS mainly rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar jannach

Goal-oriented conversational interfaces are designed to accomplish specific tasks and typically have interactions that tend to span multiple turns adhering to a pre-defined structure and a goal. However, conventional neural language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ashish Shenoy , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

Intent detection and identification from multi-turn dialogue has become a widely explored technique in conversational agents, for example, voice assistants and intelligent customer services. The conventional approaches typically cast the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zengguang Hao , Jie Zhang , Binxia Xu , Yafang Wang , Gerard de Melo , Xiaolong Li

Conversational systems have a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module. In this module, there is a task known as an intent classification that aims at identifying what a user is attempting to achieve from an utterance. Previous works use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jeanfranco D. Farfan-Escobedo , Julio C. Dos Reis

Intent-based recommender systems have garnered significant attention for uncovering latent fine-grained preferences. Intents, as underlying factors of interactions, are crucial for improving recommendation interpretability. Most methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Wang , Lei Sang , Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

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