[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 …

Interactive path reasoning on graph for conversational recommendation

W Lei, G Zhang, X He, Y Miao, X Wang… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Traditional recommendation systems estimate user preference on items from past interaction
history, thus suffering from the limitations of obtaining fine-grained and dynamic user …

Estimation-action-reflection: Towards deep interaction between conversational and recommender systems

W Lei, X He, Y Miao, Q Wu, R Hong, MY Kan… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are embracing conversational technologies to obtain user
preferences dynamically, and to overcome inherent limitations of their static models. A …

Multi-armed bandits in recommendation systems: A survey of the state-of-the-art and future directions

N Silva, H Werneck, T Silva, ACM Pereira… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Recommender Systems (RSs) have assumed a crucial role in several digital
companies by directly affecting their key performance indicators. Nowadays, in this era of big …

A review of modern fashion recommender systems

Y Deldjoo, F Nazary, A Ramisa, J Mcauley… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The textile and apparel industries have grown tremendously over the past few years.
Customers no longer have to visit many stores, stand in long queues, or try on garments in …

Adapting user preference to online feedback in multi-round conversational recommendation

K Xu, J Yang, J Xu, S Gao, J Guo, JR Wen - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper concerns user preference estimation in multi-round conversational recommender
systems (CRS), which interacts with users by asking questions about attributes and …

Seamlessly unifying attributes and items: Conversational recommendation for cold-start users

S Li, W Lei, Q Wu, X He, P Jiang, TS Chua - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Static recommendation methods like collaborative filtering suffer from the inherent limitation
of performing real-time personalization for cold-start users. Online recommendation, eg …

Towards question-based recommender systems

J Zou, Y Chen, E Kanoulas - Proceedings of the 43rd international ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing
attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control …

Conversational recommendation: Formulation, methods, and evaluation

W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - … of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have demonstrated great success in information seeking. However,
traditional recommender systems work in a static way, estimating user preferences on items …