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Traditional recommendation systems estimate user preference on items from past interaction history, thus suffering from the limitations of obtaining fine-grained and dynamic user preference. Conversational recommendation system (CRS) brings…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Wenqiang Lei , Gangyi Zhang , Xiangnan He , Yisong Miao , Xiang Wang , Liang Chen , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) capture user preference through textual information in dialogues. However, they suffer from data sparsity on two fronts: the dialogue space is vast and linguistically diverse, while the item space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long , Wei Yuan , Hongxu Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) often utilize external knowledge graphs (KGs) to introduce rich semantic information and recommend relevant items through natural language dialogues. However, original KGs employed in existing CRSs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Xiaoyu Zhang , Xin Xin , Dongdong Li , Wenxuan Liu , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren

Recent advances in research have demonstrated the effectiveness of knowledge graphs (KG) in providing valuable external knowledge to improve recommendation systems (RS). A knowledge graph is capable of encoding high-order relations that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yang Gao , Yi-Fan Li , Yu Lin , Hang Gao , Latifur Khan

Social recommendation task aims to predict users' preferences over items with the incorporation of social connections among users, so as to alleviate the sparse issue of collaborative filtering. While many recent efforts show the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Chao Huang , Huance Xu , Yong Xu , Peng Dai , Lianghao Xia , Mengyin Lu , Liefeng Bo , Hao Xing , Xiaoping Lai , Yanfang Ye

State-of-the-art methods on conversational recommender systems (CRS) leverage external knowledge to enhance both items' and contextual words' representations to achieve high quality recommendations and responses generation. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Huy Dao , Dung D. Le , Cuong Chu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to proactively capture user preferences through natural language dialogue and recommend high-quality items. To achieve this, CRS gathers user preferences via a dialog module and builds user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhenye Yang , Jinpeng Chen , Huan Li , Xiongnan Jin , Xuanyang Li , Junwei Zhang , Hongbo Gao , Kaimin Wei , Senzhang Wang

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 (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

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of the emerging topic of Graph Learning based Recommender Systems (GLRS). GLRS employ advanced graph learning approaches to model users' preferences and intentions as well as items'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shoujin Wang , Liang Hu , Yan Wang , Xiangnan He , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet A. Orgun , Longbing Cao , Francesco Ricci , Philip S. Yu

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have become vitally important in modern recommender systems, effectively improving performance and interpretability. Fundamentally, recommender systems aim to identify user interests based on historical interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zezhong Xu , Yincen Qu , Wen Zhang , Lei Liang , Huajun Chen

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations by capturing user preferences through interactive dialogues. Explainability in CRSs is crucial as it enables users to understand the reasoning behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangchi Qiu , Linhao Luo , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) predict users' next interacted items based on their historical activities. While most SBRSs capture purchasing intentions locally within each session, capturing items' global information across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Amin Javari , Janani Balaji , Walid Shalaby , Tyler Derr , Xiquan Cui

Knowledge Graph (KG), as a side-information, tends to be utilized to supplement the collaborative filtering (CF) based recommendation model. By mapping items with the entities in KGs, prior studies mostly extract the knowledge information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang , Liqiang Nie , Shaoyu Li , Dingxian Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through interactive conversations. To develop an effective CRS, the support of high-quality datasets is essential. Existing CRS datasets mainly focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kun Zhou , Yuanhang Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Xiaoke Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

To provide more accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendation, it is compulsory to go beyond modeling user-item interactions and take side information into account. Traditional methods like factorization machine (FM) cast it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao , Meng Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) provide personalized services through multi-turn interactions, yet most existing methods overlook users' heterogeneous decision-making styles and knowledge levels, which constrains both accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yaying Luo , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun

Recent advances in graph-based learning approaches have demonstrated their effectiveness in modelling users' preferences and items' characteristics for Recommender Systems (RSS). Most of the data in RSS can be organized into graphs where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Lemei Zhang , Peng Liu , Jon Atle Gulla

Conversational recommender system (CRS) interacts with users through multi-turn dialogues in natural language, which aims to provide high-quality recommendations for user's instant information need. Although great efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenzhan Shang , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Jing Zhang

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to employ natural language conversations to suggest suitable products to users. Understanding user preferences for prospective items and learning efficient item representations are crucial for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Dongding Lin , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li