[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in conversational recommender systems: A survey

C Gao, W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - AI open, 2021 - Elsevier
Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been
heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation …

A survey on conversational recommender systems

D Jannach, A Manzoor, W Cai, L Chen - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Large language models as zero-shot conversational recommenders

Z He, Z Xie, R Jha, H Steck, D Liang, Y Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present empirical studies on conversational recommendation tasks using
representative large language models in a zero-shot setting with three primary …

Leveraging large language models in conversational recommender systems

L Friedman, S Ahuja, D Allen, Z Tan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …

Towards topic-guided conversational recommender system

K Zhou, Y Zhou, WX Zhao, X Wang, JR Wen - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
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 …

Towards conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs

Z Liu, H Wang, ZY Niu, H Wu, W Che, T Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We propose a new task of conversational recommendation over multi-type dialogs, where
the bots can proactively and naturally lead a conversation from a non-recommendation …

Inspired: Toward sociable recommendation dialog systems

SA Hayati, D Kang, Q Zhu, W Shi, Z Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14306, 2020 - arxiv.org
In recommendation dialogs, humans commonly disclose their preference and make
recommendations in a friendly manner. However, this is a challenge when developing a …

A unified multi-task learning framework for multi-goal conversational recommender systems

Y Deng, W Zhang, W Xu, W Lei, TS Chua… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years witnessed several advances in developing multi-goal conversational
recommender systems (MG-CRS) that can proactively attract users' interests and naturally …

Towards teachable reasoning systems: Using a dynamic memory of user feedback for continual system improvement

B Dalvi, O Tafjord, P Clark - … of the 2022 conference on empirical …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Our goal is a teachable reasoning system for question-answering (QA), where a user can
interact with faithful answer explanations, and correct its errors so that the system improves …

A comprehensive survey on trustworthy recommender systems

W Fan, X Zhao, X Chen, J Su, J Gao, L Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As one of the most successful AI-powered applications, recommender systems aim to help
people make appropriate decisions in an effective and efficient way, by providing …