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07/26/2023
Large Language Models are Competitive Near Cold-start Recommenders for Language- and Item-based Preferences
Traditional recommender systems leverage users' item preference history ...
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03/16/2023
Measuring the Impact of Explanation Bias: A Study of Natural Language Justifications for Recommender Systems
Despite the potential impact of explanations on decision making, there i...
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03/13/2023
Beyond Single Items: Exploring User Preferences in Item Sets with the Conversational Playlist Curation Dataset
Users in consumption domains, like music, are often able to more efficie...
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01/27/2023
Generating Synthetic Data for Conversational Music Recommendation Using Random Walks and Language Models
Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) enable users to use natural...
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12/21/2022
Resolving Indirect Referring Expressions for Entity Selection
Recent advances in language modeling have enabled new conversational sys...
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05/19/2022
On Natural Language User Profiles for Transparent and Scrutable Recommendation
Natural interaction with recommendation and personalized search systems ...
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01/21/2022
Conversational Information Seeking
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of...
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11/26/2021
Soliciting User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems via Usage-related Questions
A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over ...
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05/19/2021
On Interpretation and Measurement of Soft Attributes for Recommendation
We address how to robustly interpret natural language refinements (or cr...
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10/07/2020
"I'd rather just go to bed": Understanding Indirect Answers
We revisit a pragmatic inference problem in dialog: understanding indire...
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01/19/2020