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With the rapid growth of AI-generated content (AIGC) across domains such as music, video, and literature, the demand for emotionally aware recommendation systems has become increasingly important. Traditional recommender systems primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zheqi Hu , Xuanjing Chen , Jinlin Hu

The use of user/product information in sentiment analysis is important, especially for cold-start users/products, whose number of reviews are very limited. However, current models do not deal with the cold-start problem which is typical in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Jihyeok Kim , Sua Sung , Seung-won Hwang

User behavior modeling lies at the heart of personalized applications like recommender systems. With LLM-based agents, user preference representation has evolved from latent embeddings to semantic memory. While existing memory mechanisms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuxin Liao , Le Wu , Min Hou , Yu Wang , Han Wu , Meng Wang

This work explores how population-based engagement prediction can address cold-start at scale in large learning resource collections. The paper introduces i) VLE, a novel dataset that consists of content and video based features extracted…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Sahan Bulathwela , Meghana Verma , Maria Perez-Ortiz , Emine Yilmaz , John Shawe-Taylor

Artificial Intelligence is being employed by humans to collaboratively solve complicated tasks for search and rescue, manufacturing, etc. Efficient teamwork can be achieved by understanding user preferences and recommending different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Lakshita Dodeja , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Erin Hedlund-Botti , Matthew Gombolay

Predicting team dynamics from personality traits remains a fundamental challenge for the psychological sciences and team-based organizations. Understanding how team composition generates team processes can significantly advance team-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Lisa R. O'Bryan , Madeline Navarro , Juan Segundo Hevia , Santiago Segarra

We conducted an International AI Negotiation Competition in which participants designed and refined prompts for AI negotiation agents. We then facilitated over 180,000 negotiations between these agents across multiple scenarios with diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Michelle Vaccaro , Michael Caosun , Harang Ju , Sinan Aral , Jared R. Curhan

As conversational agents accumulate experience collaborating with users, adapting to user preferences is essential for fostering long-term relationships and improving collaboration quality over time. We introduce MultiSessionCollab, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuhaib Mehri , Priyanka Kargupta , Tal August , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is able to obtain fine-grained and dynamic user preferences based on interactive dialogue. Previous CRS assumes that the user has a clear target item. However, for many users who resort to CRS,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yiming Zhang , Lingfei Wu , Qi Shen , Yitong Pang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Jian Pei

The technologies used in smart homes have recently improved to learn the user preferences from feedback in order to enhance the user convenience and quality of experience. Most smart homes learn a uniform model to represent the thermal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shashi Suman , Francois Rivest , Ali Etemad

Task-oriented Dialog (ToD) systems have to solve multiple subgoals to accomplish user goals, whereas feedback is often obtained only at the end of the dialog. In this work, we propose SUIT (SUbgoal-aware ITerative Training), an iterative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Magdalena Kaiser , Patrick Ernst , György Szarvas

Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Shixuan Fan , Wei Wei , Xiaofei Wen , Xianling Mao , Jixiong Chen , Dangyang Chen

Game recommendation is an important application of recommender systems. Recommendations are made possible by data sets of historical player and game interactions, and sometimes the data sets include features that describe games or players.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Markus Viljanen , Jukka Vahlo , Aki Koponen , Tapio Pahikkala

Recently, research on open domain dialogue systems have attracted extensive interests of academic and industrial researchers. The goal of an open domain dialogue system is to imitate humans in conversations. Previous works on single turn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Wei-Nan Zhang , Yiming Cui , Kaiyan Zhang , Yifa Wang , Qingfu Zhu , Lingzhi Li , Ting Liu

Conversational recommendation frameworks have gained prominence as a dynamic paradigm for delivering personalized suggestions via interactive dialogues. The incorporation of advanced language understanding techniques has substantially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Guanrong Li , Kuo Tian , Jinnan Qi , Qinghan Fu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Multi-turn response selection is a task designed for developing dialogue agents. The performance on this task has a remarkable improvement with pre-trained language models. However, these models simply concatenate the turns in dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qi Jia , Yizhu Liu , Siyu Ren , Kenny Q. Zhu , Haifeng Tang

While participants in a multi-party multi-turn conversation simultaneously engage in multiple conversation topics, existing response selection methods are developed mainly focusing on a two-party single-conversation scenario. Hence, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Weishi Wang , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi

The recent advances of conversational recommendations provide a promising way to efficiently elicit users' preferences via conversational interactions. To achieve this, the recommender system conducts conversations with users, asking their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jinhang Zuo , Songwen Hu , Tong Yu , Shuai Li , Handong Zhao , Carlee Joe-Wong

User satisfaction with AI assistants is highly personalized: the same response may satisfy one user but disappoint another depending on what each user expects and what they have asked for before. Existing automatic evaluation methods mostly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhefan Wang , Zhiqiang Guo , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Quanjia Yan , Hengliang Luo

Current works in the generation of personalized dialogue primarily contribute to the agent presenting a consistent personality and driving a more informative response. However, we found that the generated responses from most previous models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Itsugun Cho , Dongyang Wang , Ryota Takahashi , Hiroaki Saito