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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

Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation models are difficult to answer two important questions well due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Chongming Gao , Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Maarten de Rijke , 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

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

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 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 (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

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

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

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have revolutionized the conventional recommendation paradigm by embracing dialogue agents to dynamically capture the fine-grained user preference. In a typical conversational recommendation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xuhui Ren , Hongzhi Yin , Tong Chen , Hao Wang , Zi Huang , Kai Zheng

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 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 engage users in dialogue to provide tailored recommendations. While traditional CRSs focus on eliciting preferences and retrieving items, real-world e-commerce interactions involve more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Tongyoung Kim , Jeongeun Lee , Soojin Yoon , Sunghwan Kim , Dongha Lee

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users in a conversational manner to learn their current and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

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

A conversational recommender system (CRS) is a practical application for item recommendation through natural language conversation. Such a system estimates user interests for appropriate personalized recommendations. Users sometimes have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yuka Okuda , Katsuhito Sudoh , Seitaro Shinagawa , Satoshi Nakamura

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to proactively elicit user preference and recommend high-quality items through natural language conversations. Typically, a CRS consists of a recommendation module to predict preferred items for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaolei Wang , Kun Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen , Wayne Xin Zhao

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

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) dynamically obtain the user preferences via multi-turn questions and answers. The existing CRS solutions are widely dominated by deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, deep reinforcement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque , Hongning Wang

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
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