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Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

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Voice-based systems like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri, along with the growing popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot, serve diverse populations, including visually impaired and low-literacy communities.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal , Falk Scholer , Johanne R. Trippas , Damiano Spina

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations through multi-turn natural language interactions with users. Given the strong interaction and reasoning skills of Large Language Models (LLMs), leveraging…

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Music recommender systems (MRS) have experienced a boom in recent years, thanks to the emergence and success of online streaming services, which nowadays make available almost all music in the world at the user's fingertip. While today's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Markus Schedl , Hamed Zamani , Ching-Wei Chen , Yashar Deldjoo , Mehdi Elahi

A conversational recommender system (CRS) is a practical application for item recommendation through natural language conversation. Such a system estimates user interests for appropriate personalized recommendations. Users sometimes have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yuka Okuda , Katsuhito Sudoh , Seitaro Shinagawa , Satoshi Nakamura

Stakeholders' conversations in requirements elicitation meetings hold valuable insights into system and client needs. However, manually extracting requirements is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors and biases. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Gianmario Voria , Francesco Casillo , Carmine Gravino , Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba

Recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users navigate an overwhelming selection of products and services. On online platforms, users have the opportunity to share feedback in various modes, including numerical ratings, textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Emrul Hasan , Mizanur Rahman , Chen Ding , Jimmy Xiangji Huang , Shaina Raza

Conversational Product Search ( CPS ) systems interact with users via natural language to offer personalized and context-aware product lists. However, most existing research on CPS is limited to simulated conversations, due to the lack of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jie Zou , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Shuxi Han , Heli Ma , Zheng Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) aim to timely and proactively acquire user dynamic preferred attributes through conversations for item recommendation. In each turn of CRS, there naturally have two decision-making processes with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sen Zhao , Wei Wei , Yifan Liu , Ziyang Wang , Wendi Li , Xian-Ling Mao , Shuai Zhu , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen

Conversational recommender systems have demonstrated great success. They can accurately capture a user's current detailed preference -- through a multi-round interaction cycle -- to effectively guide users to a more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Allen Lin , Ziwei Zhu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) in E-commerce platforms aim to recommend items to users via multiple conversational interactions. Click-through rate (CTR) prediction models are commonly used for ranking candidate items. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Chi-Man Wong , Fan Feng , Wen Zhang , Chi-Man Vong , Hui Chen , Yichi Zhang , Peng He , Huan Chen , Kun Zhao , Huajun Chen

This paper aims to efficiently enable large language models (LLMs) to use external knowledge and goal guidance in conversational recommender system (CRS) tasks. Advanced LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT) are limited in domain-specific CRS tasks for 1)…

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Visualization Recommendation Systems (VRSs) are a novel and challenging field of study aiming to help generate insightful visualizations from data and support non-expert users in information discovery. Among the many contributions proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Luca Podo , Bardh Prenkaj , Paola Velardi

Conversational recommender systems aim to provide personalized recommendations via natural language interactions. However, existing approaches either decouple recommendation from dialog generation or rely on retrieval-based pipelines,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long

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

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 voice conversion (VC), an approach showing promising results in the latest voice conversion challenge (VCC) 2020 is to first use an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model to transcribe the source speech into the underlying linguistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Hayashi , Xinjian Li , Shinji Watanabe , Tomoki Toda

Recently, the remarkable success of ChatGPT has sparked a renewed wave of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), and the advancements in visual language models (VLMs) have pushed this enthusiasm to new heights. Differring from previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lijie Tao , Haokui Zhang , Haizhao Jing , Yu Liu , Dawei Yan , Guoting Wei , Xizhe Xue

Conversational recommender systems aim to provide personalized recommendations by analyzing and utilizing contextual information related to dialogue. However, existing methods typically model the dialogue context as a whole, neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Guojia An , Jie Zou , Jiwei Wei , Chaoning Zhang , Fuming Sun , Yang Yang

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…

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