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A Conversational Recommender System (CRS) offers increased transparency and control to users by enabling them to engage with the system through a real-time multi-turn dialogue. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited an…

Due to strong capabilities in conducting fluent, multi-turn conversations with users, Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to further improve the performance of Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike the aimless…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jiabao Fang , Shen Gao , Pengjie Ren , Xiuying Chen , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) are receiving growing research attention across domains, yet their user experience (UX) evaluation remains limited. Existing reviews largely overlook empirical UX studies, particularly in adaptive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Raj Mahmud , Yufeng Wu , Abdullah Bin Sawad , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mukesh Prasad , A. Baki Kocaballi

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yuanxing Liu , Wei-Nan Zhang , Yifan Chen , Yuchi Zhang , Haopeng Bai , Fan Feng , Hengbin Cui , Yongbin Li , Wanxiang Che

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have garnered attention as a novel approach to delivering personalized recommendations through multi-turn dialogues. This review developed a taxonomy framework to systematically categorize relevant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Haoran Zhang , Xin Zhao , Jinze Chen , Junpeng Guo

Conversational Recommender System (CRS) leverages real-time feedback from users to dynamically model their preferences, thereby enhancing the system's ability to provide personalized recommendations and improving the overall user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Lixi Zhu , Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through a dialogue interface. It usually contains multiple sub-tasks, such as user preference elicitation, recommendation, explanation, and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yue Feng , Shuchang Liu , Zhenghai Xue , Qingpeng Cai , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Fei Sun

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) engage users in multi-turn interactions to deliver personalized recommendations. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) further enhances these systems by enabling more natural and dynamic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Xiaoyan Zhao , Yang Deng , Wenjie Wang , Hongzhan lin , Hong Cheng , Rui Zhang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational Recommender System (CRS) interacts with users through natural language to understand their preferences and provide personalized recommendations in real-time. CRS has demonstrated significant potential, prompting researchers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lixi Zhu , Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang

Large language models (LLMs) present an enormous evolution in the strategic potential of conversational recommender systems (CRS). Yet to date, research has predominantly focused upon technical frameworks to implement LLM-driven CRS, rather…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hannes Kunstmann , Joseph Ollier , Joel Persson , Florian von Wangenheim

The conversational recommendation system (CRS) has been criticized regarding its user experience in real-world scenarios, despite recent significant progress achieved in academia. Existing evaluation protocols for CRS may prioritize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chen Huang , Peixin Qin , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Jiancheng Lv , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to capture user's current intentions and provide recommendations through real-time multi-turn conversational interactions. As a human-machine interactive system, it is essential for CRS to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shuokai Li , Yongchun Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Zhenwei Tang , Zhao Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He , Hui Xiong

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

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

Research and development on conversational recommender systems (CRSs) critically depends on sound and reliable evaluation methodologies. However, the interactive nature of these systems poses significant challenges for automatic evaluation.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

We tackle the challenge of integrating large language models (LLMs) with external recommender systems to enhance domain expertise in conversational recommendation (CRS). Current LLM-based CRS approaches primarily rely on zero/few-shot…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chuang Li , Weida Liang , Hengchang Hu , See-Kiong Ng , Min-Yen Kan , Haizhou Li , Yang Deng

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) deliver personalised recommendations through multi-turn natural language dialogue and increasingly support both task-oriented and exploratory interactions. Yet, the factors shaping user interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Raj Mahmud , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mukesh Prasad , A. Baki Kocaballi

In this paper, we present a systematic effort to design, evaluate, and implement a realistic conversational recommender system (CRS). The objective of our system is to allow users to input free-form text to request recommendations, and then…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Se-eun Yoon , Xiaokai Wei , Yexi Jiang , Rachit Pareek , Frank Ong , Kevin Gao , Julian McAuley , Michelle Gong

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

User-centric evaluation has become a key paradigm for assessing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS), aiming to capture subjective qualities such as satisfaction, trust, and rapport. To enable scalable evaluation, recent work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Michael Müller , Amir Reza Mohammadi , Andreas Peintner , Beatriz Barroso Gstrein , Günther Specht , Eva Zangerle
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