English
Related papers

Related papers: On Mitigating Data Sparsity in Conversational Reco…

200 papers

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through interactive conversations. Although several efforts have been made for CRS, two major issues still remain to be solved. First, the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Shuqing Bian , Yuanhang Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen , Jingsong Yu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) has become an emerging research topic seeking to perform recommendations through interactive conversations, which generally consist of generation and recommendation modules. Prior work on CRS tends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Lingzhi Wang , Shafiq Joty , Wei Gao , Xingshan Zeng , Kam-Fai Wong

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

Conversational recommender system (CRS), which combines the techniques of dialogue system and recommender system, has obtained increasing interest recently. In contrast to traditional recommender system, it learns the user preference better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yunwen Xia , Hui Fang , Jie Zhang , Chong Long

Recommendation systems focus on helping users find items of interest in the situations of information overload, where users' preferences are typically estimated by the past observed behaviors. In contrast, conversational recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Traditional recommender systems estimate user preference on items purely based on historical interaction records, thus failing to capture fine-grained yet dynamic user interests and letting users receive recommendation only passively.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xuhui Ren , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Lizhen Cui , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are able to elicit user preferences through multi-turn dialogues. They typically incorporate external knowledge and pre-trained language models to capture the dialogue context. Most CRS approaches,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaoyu Zhang , Ruobing Xie , Yougang Lyu , Xin Xin , Pengjie Ren , Mingfei Liang , Bo Zhang , Zhanhui Kang , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

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

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) enhance recommendation quality by engaging users in multi-turn dialogues, capturing nuanced preferences through natural language interactions. However, these systems often face the false negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Haozhe Xu , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng

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

In recent years, the emerging topics of recommender systems that take advantage of natural language processing techniques have attracted much attention, and one of their applications is the Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike…

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend relevant items to users by eliciting user preference through natural language conversation. Prior work often utilizes external knowledge graphs for items' semantic information, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Mathieu Ravaut , Hao Zhang , Lu Xu , Aixin Sun , Yong Liu

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

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) engage with users by inferring user preferences from dialog history, providing accurate recommendations, and generating appropriate responses. Previous CRSs use knowledge graph (KG) based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Bowen Yang , Cong Han , Yu Li , Lei Zuo , Zhou Yu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to provide recommendation services via natural language conversations. Although a number of approaches have been proposed for developing capable CRSs, they typically rely on sufficient training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaolei Wang , Kun Zhou , Xinyu Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Fan Pan , Zhao Cao , Ji-Rong Wen

Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction paradigm, where the users' preferences are estimated based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dietmar Jannach , Ahtsham Manzoor , Wanling Cai , Li Chen

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have attracted growing attention for their ability to deliver personalized recommendations through natural language interactions. To more accurately infer user preferences from multi-turn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wei Yuan , Shutong Qiao , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

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

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to elicit user preferences via natural dialogue to provide suitable item recommendations. However, current CRSs often deviate from realistic human interactions by rapidly recommending items in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Manato Tajiri , Michimasa Inaba

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) that are able to interact with users in natural language often utilize recommendation dialogs which were previously collected with the help of paired humans, where one plays the role of a seeker and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›