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The paper underscores the significance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reshaping recommender systems, attributing their value to unique reasoning abilities absent in traditional recommenders. Unlike conventional systems lacking direct…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Arpita Vats , Vinija Jain , Rahul Raja , Aman Chadha

In conversational search systems, a key component is to determine and clarify the intent behind complex queries. We view intent clarification in light of the exploratory search paradigm, where users, through an iterative, evolving process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maik Larooij

Current language model-driven agents often lack mechanisms for effective user participation, which is crucial given the vagueness commonly found in user instructions. Although adept at devising strategies and performing tasks, these agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Cheng Qian , Bingxiang He , Zhong Zhuang , Jia Deng , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Zhong Zhang , Jie Zhou , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

User Behavior Modeling (UBM) plays a critical role in user interest learning, which has been extensively used in recommender systems. Crucial interactive patterns between users and items have been exploited, which brings compelling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zhicheng He , Weiwen Liu , Wei Guo , Jiarui Qin , Yingxue Zhang , Yaochen Hu , Ruiming Tang

In human-in-the-loop machine learning, the user provides information beyond that in the training data. Many algorithms and user interfaces have been designed to optimize and facilitate this human--machine interaction; however, fewer studies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Pedram Daee , Tomi Peltola , Aki Vehtari , Samuel Kaski

Recommendation algorithms have been pivotal in handling the overwhelming volume of online content. However, these algorithms seldom consider direct user input, resulting in superficial interaction between them. Efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Kyle Dylan Spurlock , Cagla Acun , Esin Saka , Olfa Nasraoui

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their capabilities across various tasks, from language translation to complex reasoning. Understanding and predicting human behavior and biases are crucial for artificial intelligence (AI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Thuy Ngoc Nguyen , Kasturi Jamale , Cleotilde Gonzalez

Robots are becoming increasingly omnipresent in our daily lives, supporting us and carrying out autonomous tasks. In Human-Robot Interaction, human actors benefit from understanding the robot's motion intent to avoid task failures and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Max Pascher , Uwe Gruenefeld , Stefan Schneegass , Jens Gerken

Conversational grounding is a collaborative mechanism for establishing mutual knowledge among participants engaged in a dialogue. This experimental study analyzes information-seeking conversations to investigate the capabilities of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Kristiina Jokinen , Phillip Schneider , Taiga Mori

Today, intelligent user interfaces on the web often come in form of recommendation services tailoring content to individual users. Recommendation of web content such as news articles often requires a certain amount of explicit ratings to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Mirjam Augstein , Johannes Schönböck , Christina Lettner , Josef Altmann

In this paper, we present empirical studies on conversational recommendation tasks using representative large language models in a zero-shot setting with three primary contributions. (1) Data: To gain insights into model behavior in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhankui He , Zhouhang Xie , Rahul Jha , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Yesu Feng , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Nathan Kallus , Julian McAuley

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in conversational AI, enabling open-domain responses in chat-bots, as well as advanced processing of conversations like summarization, intent classification, and insights…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Reem Gody , Mohamed Abdelghaffar , Mohammed Jabreel , Ahmed Tawfik

We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can generate effective, user-facing explanations from a mathematically interpretable recommendation model. The model is based on constrained matrix factorization, where user types are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Maxime Manderlier , Fabian Lecron , Olivier Vu Thanh , Nicolas Gillis

Task oriented Dialogue Systems generally employ intent detection systems in order to map user queries to a set of pre-defined intents. However, user queries appearing in natural language can be easily ambiguous and hence such a direct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaustubh D. Dhole

Natural language prompts often suffer from intent transmission loss: the gap between what users actually need and what they communicate to AI systems. We evaluate PPS (Prompt Protocol Specification), a 5W3H-based framework for structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Peng Gang

The use of relevant metrics of software systems could improve various software engineering tasks, but identifying relationships among metrics is not simple and can be very time consuming. Recommender systems can help with this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Maral Azizi , Hyunsook Do

Interactive systems have taken over the web and mobile space with increasing participation from users. Applications across every marketing domain can now be accessed through mobile or web where users can directly perform certain actions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rakshit Agrawal , Anwar Habeeb , Chih-Hsin Hsueh

Information extraction and user intention identification are central topics in modern query understanding and recommendation systems. In this paper, we propose DeepProbe, a generic information-directed interaction framework which is built…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-02 Zi Yin , Keng-hao Chang , Ruofei Zhang